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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1918
Page
2
The notice lists subscription terms by carrier and mail for three and six month periods. It notes payment in advance and mentions the post office in Fairfield Iowa as the service point.
Washington announces the establishment of a clearing house for worn tie workers under Secretary Wilson. Mrs Childa Mulr hauser Richard heads the bureau and directs recruitment of women into the Industrial army wherever military duty takes men away.
Meaux stands near Paris as a pivotal point in World War I history, with German patrols halted and pushed toward a detour that ended in retreat. The article notes the close proximity to Paris and marks Meaux by chalked graves and cross markers, illustrating the immense sacrifice of French and German soldiers. The landscape, fields, and wheat crops frame a memory of the dead, as a local reckoning with the human cost of invasion.
In North Atherton the L757 Young Men's Christian associations report 782 plots and buildings valued at over 100000,000 with total property including real and personal assets. Enrolment figures cite 12,700 members and 82,058 in extension courses. New buildings cost over 80,000,000 with 40 more planned by year end.
Thirteen year old Prune Weeterman saved by two dogs as a black bear named Yeddy attacked. Sixteen year old Carl shot the bear twice and fire from a revolver, then protected his mother. The family planned a big basketball double header at the high school tomorrow night Parsons versus Monmouth and FHS versus Mt. Pleasant for 35 cents.
About 150 attendees including Washington merchants joined Fairfield for a late evening banquet at the Elk's hall. The South Side Bridge club organized the meal to aid the Red Cross, and speakers from the Merchants Association and Washington Ad Club urged local unity, moral guidance, and strong community clubs.
Nick Elmore of Pleasant Plain was bound over to the Grand Jury on a charge of failure to register for military service after a hearing in Ottumwa yesterday afternoon. J A Huglin represented the defendant as further evidence will be collected by both sides.
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