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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1918
Page
3
F D Kerrick and several others visit Salina on business while Ottumwa and Libertyville residents travel for work and visiting relatives. The Newport restaurant sold at auction for 145 dollars. Various residents return from illness, travel for work, or attend local events including a Masonic banquet in the city.
A wartime verse extols Hooverizing food to support soldiers against the Kaiser. It mocks indulgence in bread and meat, praising sugar rationing and mush and cabbage, urging citizens to save nickels and dimes for bonds, hoard resources, and back Unit A and the troops. It condemns slackers and pledges personal sacrifice.
Edwin Walker returns from Davenport after a several day visit. Mrs. Howard Lane, ill for weeks, is able to be out again. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Whitney of Keosauqua relocate to city for their future home. Miss Bertha Murphy of Lockridge visits sister Mrye. Verle Frazey notes most cross roads still drifted with snow yet main state roads open for auto travel.
Frederick L. Woodward, a private in the army quartermaster corps, confessed to starting the fire that damaged the quartermaster storehouse area, destroying $50,000 of food and supplies. He said he previously set a Worcester lodging house blaze in 1916. Elsewhere, Standard Oil listed a 25 point rise in refined petroleum for export to 16.75 cents a gallon.
Paris Jan 21 The Academy of Fine Arts unanimously elected Queen Marie of Roumania a corresponding member of the institute.
The Iowa State Savings Bank announces a supply of farm income tax return blanks for 1917. The forms are not final reports and will not be accepted as such, but are provided to help taxpayers determine the proper return to file.
Mahlon Heston son of Samuel and Lucinda Heston was born August 8, 1848 in Harri son county Ohio and died January 16, 1918 in this city. He married Harriet Stiles April 27, 1868 in Fairfield and they had seven children. He leaves a widow three sons James Luther and Charles and two sisters and three brothers. Funeral services were held Friday at 10:30 from the Christian church and burial in Evergreen cemetery.
The local exemption board continues adjusting classifications for industrial and agricultural exemptions as changes occur. Section 116 requires registrants to report facts altering their classification within five days, with misdemeanor penalties for noncompliance. Section 118 obligates boards and officers to stay informed of changes. The note mentions a Jefferson County youth expecting two dependents in August 1918 and that first physical exam cards have been sent for those in class one, while the government reviews cases of men married since May 18, 1917 to possibly move them out of class two.
The fragment advertises a chiropractor J Vogelge from D C with an address near the Iowa State Savings Bank and mentions the office is the second door north of the bank.
Neighborhood prayer meetings are set for Wednesday at 7 36 PM hosted at multiple homes across town. Geo Stephenson C V Pool Prof Mountain J A Stuckey and others will lead at their hosts homes with a study meeting at the Minister s study for nearby residents.
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