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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1919
Page
8
A compact listing of church services across denominations. Epworth League, Sunday school, and sermon times are provided for Episco pal, Christian, English Lutheran, New Chicago Mission, Free Methodist, and Bethel A M E churches with prayer meetings and special topics noted.
The Illinois Supreme Court directed the Chicago board of election commissioners to place the local option question on Grok county ballots for April 1. The ruling upholds the Dry Chicago Federation petitions after election officials had rejected them last year.
Melbourne reports that Australia will not admit labeled undesirables from America. Federal ministers have already tightened passport regulations to prevent their entry into the country.
Washington reports eight German steamships including the Imperator have been allocated to the United States for transporting troops from France. They will provide accommodations for 50,000 to 60,000 additional troops monthly.
Prime Minister David Lloyd George received an urgent summons and will start for Paris today after meeting delegates of the miners' conference in London. The move signals continued government attention to the miners' dispute and postwar settlement.
A church sermon urges dedicating Sunday evening to worship and service, promising spiritual returns that accrue beyond the present life as steady dividends of faith. The message frames devotion as a lasting investment in God.
Paris Feb 22 The peace conference commission on international labor legislation met under Samuel Gompers and continued discussion of the British plan for an international labor organization. Ratification provisions and bills adopted by the conference were studied.
Washington February 22 The wheat guaranty bill giving the president authority to appoint agencies for buying 1918 wheat at 2.26 a bushel and selling it at market price was taken up by the house with five hours of general debate agreed.
Montreal February 22 eight persons perished when a fire destroyed a small hotel at St. Jovite in the Laurentian mountains.
Paris reports an official communique stating the United States will obtain some top German merchant ships for transporting American troops homeward. The vessels include the Imperator and several other giants like Vaterland Leviathan Graf Waldersee and Pretoria. The Imperator cannot exit Hamburg until the channel is dredged after wartime blockages.
New York Feb 22 William L Hutcheson president of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners announced a sympathetic strike of painters and paper hangers employed by the Building Trades Employers association ahead of talks with labor leaders to settle the nation-wide building trades walkout.
Tokyo reports Premier Hara told the Diet there is no reason for China to demand the return of Tsingtao. In reply to another interpellation he said the race problem would receive the government's closest attention.
Berlin reports the state's commission has selected black red and gold as Germany’s national flag. The colors echo the republic’s historic scheme and were chosen in a Weimar dispatch.
The Matin reports German communist Lindmann was arrested in Weimar where he had shown notable activity. The incident occurred as authorities move against agitators.
The class of 19 at Parsons College stages Miss Hobbs on February 25 at the High School Auditorium. A society lady who cannot be married, she is tutored in life by a worldly man whose methods show timeless traits of women and society. Mrs Allen Booker directs, with senior gifts to follow.
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