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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1917
Page
3
Mrs Hattie Gudgell visited Pleasant Plain for the funeral of her grandfather James Dickinson. Various residents travel, visit relatives, or relocate including Roy Wagoner moving to Centralia Missouri and A L Anderson visiting kin in Lonoke Arkansas. The list also notes hospital stay for James Taylor, and the funeral for Earl Loomis near Abingdon.
Notices restrict traffic noise near the hospital as the council acts on Dr. W. H. Conner's request. Community events include a Wagoner birthday farewell at East Adams, and several lodge and club meetings with anniversaries, dinners, and social programs scheduled through the week.
Des Moines reports show Democrats statewide pressing Governor Harding to appoint a Democrat to replace Judge H E Deemer. Potential candidates include Judge William Theophilus of Davenport, Judge W G Sears of Sioux City, and Judge Hubert Utterback of Des Moines with others named such as Charles G Saunders and Charles W Vermilion.
Dick Goggin of Junction City Kansas keeps a hive of bees that found a home under his weather boarding years ago. The swarm takes honey from a knothole over the door and now provides more than enough for the family morning meals.
Miss Mayme Peetz of Louisville Kentucky will recover her diamond engagement ring after it was found by Jerome Hayes a Sutter County ranchman when he bit into a plug of tobacco. The note to the postmaster led to the finding and the return.
The Ladies' Improvement Association to meet Friday afternoon March 2 at three o'clock in the library. Important business and good attendance are desired.
Mrs Frances Sears and family express heartfelt thanks to friends for kindness during the loss of their husband and father.
A notice states that credit business will cease after March 1 and mentions 316 Broadway Garage.
The text notes that ladies were invited guests and, at six o'clock, an elegantly appointed dinner was served in the dining room.
Classified notice offering sale of a house west of the Ledger Office now occupied by Fairfield Dry Cleaning Works. Must be removed from the lot before April 1. Contact W. H. Parker at phone 331. SCY
A letter recounts how Foley Kidney Pills relieved lumbago after a neighbor shared a half bottle. The writer says two or three bottles fully cured pain and boosted energy and sleep, urging others with kidney trouble to use Foley Kidney Pills.
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