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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1918
Page
2
The notice lists subscription terms for carrier and mail delivery in Fairfield Iowa with rates for weekly, monthly, and quarterly plans paid in advance. It notes post office mailing as periodical matter and identifies the editor manager as Taylor A. W. Taylor.
Government warns taxpayers of penalties for late or false returns under the War Revenue Act. Officials will visit counties January to March to assist with forms and calculations. unmarried individuals with net income of 1000 or more and married or head of family with 2000 or more must file by March 1. Penalties include fines and percentage of tax due. many farmers urged to cooperate with experts to determine net income.
James O Salts died yesterday morning at Jefferson County hospital after a week with pneumonia. Funeral services are set for ten o'clock tomorrow from his West Depot street home, Rev. Kuhns presiding, with burial at Gantz Cemetery in Brookville. He was born July 26 1866 in Warren County Indiana and moved from Richland to Fairfield after living in Brookville and Moline Illinois. He is survived by wife Ella Holmes Salts and children Pearl Tompkins Canton Russell Moline Ralph in France Bryan Earl Everett Forrest Stanley Clifford all at home, plus two sisters and two brothers.
Parsons College will start its basketball season next Friday at Trustee gymnasium against the veteran Cee team. The following night Monmouth College visits for another strong test. The schedule also hints at three more games next week against Penn Fairfield Coe Cedar Falls.
Eastern Star holds 7 20 pm meeting at Masonic Temple with initiation and officer installation. Pythian Sisters Kensington plan Red Cross work at Gauze Shop and Elks rooms, others sew at Masonic. Ladies Aid at St Marys and Methodist church host gatherings with calendar money talks. Girls Club of Lutheran to meet at Miss Hulda Brights. Wedding announced as Miss Geneva Belle Allen to Howard Wood at Methodist parsonage with home to follow.
The remains of Earl C. Humphrey from Co. M 1338th U S Infantry died January 4 after measles and pneumonia were brought to Hillsboro with his father James Humphrey. Funeral held yesterday at 11 with Rev. Miller and interment occurred four miles south of Glasgow. His sister Miss Anna Humphrey attended.
Grieved to learn of the death of Mrs Mary Wilson Blair who died in Chicago after a several weeks illness. A longtime Fairfield resident she wintered with daughters Minnie Junkin Alice B Booker and KE R Smith in Chicago. Funeral Friday at 10 30 AM. She was sister of the late Senator James Wilson and leaves a brother David B Wilson of this city.
J F Deems Iowa Food Administrator and W T McIlroy Ottumwa Assistant seized a carload of potatoes at Ottumwa from Rosecreek Minnesota. Frost destroyed almost half. frozen stock will go to hog feed and good potatoes sold to consumers to save food and release the 38 day in transit car.
The text outlines allowed deductions for farm operations including depreciation of property and machinery, and reductions for losses by fire storm or theft if uninsured. It clarifies that living expenses, household costs, and groceries obtained through farm produce are not deductible as farm expenses.
President Montgomery comes back from a western state trip to support the college financial drive. Donald Strickler has returned from Northfield Massachusetts after attending the National Missionary Conference with Professor Vartanian. Vartanian is not yet back but expected tomorrow. A regular chapel service is planned tomorrow despite coal shortages. Wednesday remains set for M and W meetings, though both associations did not meet this morning.
Official aviation report states British aviators dropped bombs on Retoeguies Chin Air drome in Belgium and near Metz Lorraine. Explosions and fires occurred at Con fins and Courcelles stations with hits reported. In Joliet Illinois a woman learns her brother William B. Hard of Parrettions was killed in France while with Pershing's army. he had trained as an aviator at Fort Sure Houston and was 26. Paris notes John Stark of Athol Moss, a American student at a French school, was killed when his machine plunged to the ground while at a height of 200 yards.
British aviators on the northern Tulian front during the last week destroyed eight Austro German machines and forced two more to the ground, the British war office announced. The British in the aerial engagements lost only one air plane.
There will be no meeting this evening of McCord Chapter R A M as was previously announced.
The crews of four steamers, Key West, Shou, Ger van, and an unidentified vessel, face death by starvation after more than a month trapped by ice in the St Lawrence River.
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