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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1918
Page
2
A clipped newspaper subscription notice from Fairfield Iowa shows terms for carriers and mail subscriptions. Rates list one month four weeks and longer terms with amounts in dollars and cents. The notice notes advance payment and mailing details under the editor manager label.
Burlington January 10. J F Deems and A S Food Distributor urge consumers to avoid hoarding flour. Penalties include four years in prison or $10,000 fine, with retailers facing fines and imprisonment for aiding hoarding. New limits cap sale to one eighth to one half barrel per customer depending on location, effective immediately. Widespread cooperation urged to ensure fair distribution amid war needs.
The Daily Journal presents names of men within conscription age with present classifications. Class One includes Chester Webber and others. Class Two through Five list numerous individuals with assigned numbers. Volunteered service places all in Class Five, indicating certainty they will not be called to the new National Army.
Retail sugar distribution is restricted to specific amounts to prevent shortages. Dealers must sell two to five pounds in towns and cities and five to ten pounds in rural areas. No consumer may buy more than five pounds in towns or ten pounds in rural areas. Dealers are urged to prevent hoarding and duplication of sales.
Delegations from Kuselan and the central powers met in Amsterdam to discuss peace procedure notes from Brest-Litovsk. Attending were Leon Trotsky for the Bolsheviks and foreign ministers von Kiebkowen Czernin and Talaat Bey with other officials. Later central power representatives met Ukrainian delegates.
In Ainsworth news the union of James C Bean and Irene Shannon was performed yesterday at the Methodist parsonage in Washington by Rev J A Glen. The couple, both of Ainsworth origin, will reside on a farm near Ainsworth. Bean is the son of Mr and Mrs F B Bean of Ainsworth and Shannon is the daughter of Mr and Mrs J C Shannon of Kansas City.
Miss Aberta Gibbons of Mediapolis Illinois has been elected science teacher at the High school following RE P De Voe's resignation. Miss Marjorie Gist of Cedar Falls is chosen kindergarten teacher at Logan school to replace Ethel Ehlers who resigned.
Miss Elizabeth Stewart of Omaha reports to her parents that U S troops in France have only one hymnal and eight old songs for recreation after firing lines. She urges a regular drive to send sheet music and song books, noting that college song books and light operatic melodies are welcome. Stewart will receive packages at Y M C A headquarters in Paris and suggests four pound bundles to keep costs down.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Wilson Blair who died Tuesday afternoon in Chicago will be held tomorrow at 10 30 from the home of her daughter Mrs. Alice B Booker on East Burlington street. Rev Keesey will officiate and burial will follow at Evergreen Cemetery.
Federal officials disclosed a plot to auction off arms and military stores valued at 285000 dollars stored in the U S federal building to fund a revolution in Mexico. An undercover buyer viewed the arsenal including ten machine guns. Three men Nicholas Sean Zogeg Joseph Collins and N A Myles were arrested and two federal officials were named by intelligence officers.
Julius Krutschoitz of the Southern Pacific told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that American railroads will be good soldiers under President Wilson's control. He supported the action and promised continued royal cooperation, saying his appearance was not a criticism and that he remains a leading spokesman for railroads.
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