Local Social Notes Include Guests and Travel
Numerous personal items from Washington detail visits and trips. Names include Sobaski Bechen Stubbs Wilson Jaques Pitman Morrison and many more with moves to Cedar Rapids Madison Ottumwa and Los Angeles. New Year greetings and hospital news accompany routine social updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. P. Sobaski
Rutie Bechen
Platt
South Dakota
P. J. Witkoski
Carrie Stubbs
University At
Madison, Wis
D. P. Stubbs
R. C. Wilson
Cedar Rapids
J. C. Bradshaw
J. B. Wilson
Gas and Electric Franchises To Be Voted On January 30
Fairfield voters face a special election January 30 1917 on two ordinances granting electric light and power and gas franchises to William G Dows Isaac B Smith and John A Reed and their successors. The electric measure covers plant construction lines rates extensions and city protections with a twenty year term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gas and Electric
Fairfield
Jefferson County
Iowa
William G. Dows
Isaac B. Smith
John A. Reed
National Board of Fire
Water and Light Committee
Pepeney
John A.reed
Fairfield Grants Gas Franchise to Dows Smith and Reed
An ordinance grants William G. Dows Isaac B. Smith and John A. Reed a twenty year right to acquire erect and maintain a gas plant in Fairfield Iowa. The measure sets rates meters tests and quality standards and requires investments totaling 20000 within two years to build out the plant with city oversight and non exclusive rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William G. Dows
Isaac B. Smith
John A. Reed
Fairfield
Owa
Iowa
Gas Company
London
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leggins, Artics and
Fonthreeland
A. W. Jaques
West Broadway
E. F. Pitman
Dorothy
Rolla
Keosauqua
Kate Cupp
Mildred Stever
Uopazinado Hospital
E. D. Morrison
Children of
Washington
Geo. Goeke
Lone Collins
Bernhart
J. H. Fleagle
Oskaloosa
James Alfred
Wm. Slattery
Brighton
Gladys McCleary
Libertyville
J. H. Fritz
Los Angeles
Cal
Izora
D.S. Sanders
Albia
F. R. Wright
Perry King
Mildred McCampbell
Muscatine
J. F. Briggs
Gibson City, Jr
J. F. Bogardus
Bernice McCampbell
Wilkin’s
Des Moines
Mertie
Mary Sears
Joseph Burke
Stockport
Mary Woods
H. E. Woods
Birmingham
Andrew Nelson
Lockridge
Helen McCampbell
Muscati
C. W. Ritz
Burlington
Elizabeth Freding
Charles Ireland
Waterloo
Roy Erickson
Kansas City
Harry Ratcliff
Anna Scott
Jefferson County Hospital
Belle Rail
J. F. Stanford
O. H. L. Mason
Norman Reno
Willard Vernon
Martha Maxwell
Samuel Salts
F. H. Stewart
Chicago
L. L. Vernon
Crawfordsville
Wits
W. R. Heflin
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