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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1918
Page
6
Local post office in Fair Geld Iowa is under scrutiny as the mail matter of the Sec Class faces administrative review. The incident highlights management concerns at the facility and attention from higher authorities.
The field reports that churches will not hold evening services tomorrow. The Lutheran church will hold no services.
Morning services will be held at the Methodist church tomorrow. The subject of the sermon is Safeguards of the Church.
Services at the Presbyterian church tomorrow include morning call to repentance, Sunday school sessions, Christian Endeavor at 6 30, and preaching at 11 00 a m Rev Roland Kuter of Iowa Falls will preach in the morning with view of pastorate Rev Buter highly recommended and all invited to hear him Bible School at 9 46 Morning subject Temptation Evening subject What Manner I Love Wednesday testimonial meeting at 7 30 Read ing Room over Toe Fair Clothing Store open weekdays 2 30 to 4 30 with Christian Science library Visitors welcome Tomorrow church services on West Monroe street as usual prayer meeting Thursday 7 30 at Will Bailey residence South Fifth Street Morning subject The Assurance of Faith Heb 10 12 You are welcome to all of these
Fairfield endures a severe blizzard and coal famine with temperatures near 20 below zero. Fuel administrators meet to avert crisis as coal dealers run dry and key institutions face fuel shortages. If relief is not found, drastic measures including shutting nonessential buildings may be proposed. Church revival meetings are halted pending relief.
Due to uncertain train service the Fairfield Mt. Pleasant game was canceled this afternoon. The college team will play Monmouth tonight at the college gym instead of the high school as planned. Monmouth arrived in Mt. Pleasant last night and traveled on the single through train.
Sunday School at 2 30 PM and a prayer meeting on Wednesday evening at 7 30 PM announced by the New Chicago mission.
Sunday School at 2 30 p m with a special children service at 3 30 p m followed by regular services at 7 30 p m Mr Wnorowski will speak on Character Building This is his last service and he will address Man or Master Prayer meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 7 30 p m
Storm wrecked rails cripple travel across the middle west with temperatures plunging to 18 below. Rock Island reports drift blockages from El Paso to Washington. No. 29 and a southbound limited are the only through services near Davenport while others stall in Illinois. No Burlington trains reach Chicago as mail and No. 9 fail to run.
E L Allender from Rock Island arsenal planned an over Sunday visit with his mother Mrs Thomas Crawford. Marine Byron Neibert, stationed at Paris Island, arrived for a visit with H B Smith family and friends after a Chicago stopover. Fairfield theater fire department toned down a small blaze near a flue with no damage. Red Cross to receive about 35 dollars from South Side ridge club for a Retail Merchants Banquet. Moncey to Loan on improved City Property. Thoma & Thoma S09.
Former Fairfield figure C. C. Anderson now leads in Cedar Rapids as president and organizer of the Reliance Ring Co which makes three piece oil tight piston rings. His brother E. I. Anderson died by accidental electrocution here and Darrell B. Anderson, son of the deceased, is involved in the Cedar Rapids venture.
Society announces the December wedding of Dr. Russell A Collins of Oskaloosa to Miss Frances Wheeler of Ottumwa. The groom, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Collins, studied at Fairfield High School and the veterinary college at Ames, now practicing in Oskaloosa. After their marriage the couple will reside in Oskaloosa.
Elmer D. Hinkhouse was selected for the Third Officers Training School beginning January 8 for three months. He transferred from Camp Dodge to Camp Pike near Little Rock Arkansas and will be among two men from Old Battery F. He recently recovered from a week in hospital with grippe losing about 30 pounds and now weighs around 160. Miss Lake Emry has joined the Dexter Washing Machine Co. office.
A disheveled man sat in a vacant store window in St Louis as a live advertising stunt by a correspondence school. He wore dirty clothes, had unkempt hair and a greasy deck of cards on the table, with an empty whisky bottle beside him. A large sign in the window declared the man a failure for wasting his spare time.
A father quotes a child objecting to relatives fighting, reading German propaganda as the mother asks why. The exchange ends with the punchline about violence inside families.
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