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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1917
Page
2
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The Medical Corps of the National Guard is praised for its service on the border and after mobilization. Officers performed diligently under pressure, with minimal complaints, earning high marks from superiors and the public. The piece urges expanding the Officers' Reserve Corps with these meritorious officers and notes the Corps resists universal military training.
In Doniphan county a motor car appears to grant social status as the only path to dip action, but owning luxury items offers similar exclusivity. Assessors report 506 autos, 508 gold watches, and 551 pianos in the county, illustrating wealth indicators among residents.
Fairfield celebrates the return of Company M and the Fairfield and Washington troops from the Mexican border. Crowds greet the soldiers at Rock Island station with cheering and car horns. The procession moves to the Armory for rifle and blanket drop, a banquet at First Methodist, a public reception, and a dance to honor the men.
The Jefferson County Farmers Institute plans at least five Colt Calf and Corn shows this fall from October 25 to 20 in Lockridge Packwood Batavia Pleasant Plain and Beckwith. A central show will be held October 20 in a town likely Fairfield with first second and third prizes awarded. Gus Castile elected secretary succeeding Charles Clark. A committee aims to secure Prof. Douglas for a two week soil fertility course and crop rotations and seed corn testing. A county tour with lectures will be conducted this summer.
Mrs. Sarah Roundtree hosts Hawkeye Rebekah Club guests at West Washington Street with Mrs. Sam Lewis and Mrs. GG Champe assisting. B A Y Club meets at Yeoman Hall at 8 30 PM. Mrs. Al Harper hosts a daytime shower with friends. Mrs. John A. Glotfelty hosts dinner for eighteen with out of town guests M D Rodabaugh and Elizabeth Glotfelty of Fairfield. invitees to dinner on the 18th. Health Club meets with Mrs D F Spratt on East Burlington Street at 3 PM Wednesday. Miss Nellie Kirkparick hosts Fancy Work Circle at her West Washington home. Misses Florence Roth and Emma Kahl host a six o clock dinner for Miss Margaret McKenney. Mrs John Grimes hosts Neighborhood Club Thursday on East Hempstead Street. Pythian Sisters Kensington to hold annual banquet at 6 30 tonight at the K P hall with a dish and linen contribution required.
The Federal mediation and conciliation board, created by Congress and appointed by President Wilson, began July 15 1913 to settle interstate carrier labor disputes. In forty seven cases it succeeded in thirty nine mediations and eight arbitrations with Cham bers Knapp and Hanger as members.
This afternoon Mrs J C Drez and Mrs Mel Blough riding in a buggy with a Nelson funeral procession near the Henry Pumphrey home were struck by a backing automobile. The horse bolted, throwing both women to the pavement. they were bruised and shaken but not seriously hurt.
In Topeka Kansas a survey shows 281 women running for various offices. About 9 seek state or district posts, around 200 for county positions, with 92 of those aiming for re election.
In New York at the Waldorf Astoria, leaders of the International Stewards' Association ended a three day convention with a dinner and proclaimed independence from foreign terms on menus. K. A. Nies urged an American system and urged hotel press to show they can run hotels without foreign assistance or languages.
Fairfield will create a winter skating venue for youths after Henry Pumphrey donated his Sunny Side park pond. The city will flood the ice from a fire hydrant, with ten inches of ice now forming and plans to flood this afternoon for skating by tomorrow evening.
Four Wisconsin brothers and four sisters linked by marriage within six months. The Blum brothers from Hartford Campbellsport area wed the Rausch sisters from Campbellsport, Marshfield, and Hartford in a sequence culminating with Paul Blum and Marie Ranusch in Waukedan.
Mrs James Barrett reports Reuben Davidson and his wife as Berea College neighbors with eleven children one hundred grandchildren and thirty two great grandchildren making a total of 150 descendants. The family is described as peace lovers with no court records beyond witnessing.
Notice states the Foreman and Cochran grocery share has been sold with all book accounts and liabilities assumed by the new firm. Also advertises a five or six room house for rent after February 1st, with contact by phone 9807 and price $22.
Miss Anna Leavy a 65 year old modiste who dressed gowns for Veiled Prophet queens was found dead in her Kansas City home. Public Administrator Newell uncovered fourteen shares in Shapleigh Hardware par value 100 each a bank book for 492 in Mechanics National Bank 14 in cash and a $1500 note. The discovery suggests poverty contradicting the earlier claim of destitution.
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