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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1919
Page
7
Local residents note visits and travels including Sloan resident William McCandless hosted by William Louden and Mrs. S L Machesney visiting Ottumwa. Many townspeople travel to Des Moines Chicago and Des Moines while several veterans and relatives return home from service and hospital rehab.
Ralph Peebler buys the rank Dustin farm and will take possession March 1. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Everett Boggs on Thursday. Mrs. S. H. Watkins spent Thursday in Ottumwa. Mrs. Howard Harshman travels to Iowa City for sister Mrs. Tom Dotts illness. Loren Pratt and children from Burlington visited relatives. Mrs. Joe Wagner shows slight improvement after illness. Fred Martin and son and Roscoe Ferrell of Ottumwa plus Golda Aldrich of Fairfield spent Sunday at the Ferrell home. Charles Allison and children of Fairfield were week-end guests at C. A. Heston’s. Nell Hewitt of Montana visited sister Mrs. Arthur Zuehlke.
Mt. Pleasant Iowa January 28 The use of trusties from Fort Madison at the State Hospital for the Insane ends as thefts are exposed. A convict freed for murder sold hospital property including a sack of brass worth over a hundred dollars and Swift searches reveal a broader series of thefts such as clover seed. All involved are sent back to Fort Madison and farming out convicts likely discontinued.
Des Moines report notes a 751 law set the marriage fee at $2 and cites Mr. Morrow of Van Buren county proposing a new bill to raise the fee to $5. The item is framed as addressing the high cost of living and unifying the HCL stance.
Conrad Bardwell and four others chosen by the government will dump dangerous gas into the Atlantic as part of a spring drive. The gas, said to be 72 times deadlier than any known, will be loaded from Willoughby Ohio to Baltimore for transfer to a steamship. Bardwell is among 80 chemists trusted with the secret process.
Mrs S O Fisher dies at her Fairfield area home after brief illness linked to influenza. Born Martha Watson Gardner March 14 1882 near Iowa Iowa she married Snowden Fisher in 1899 and had two children Mary and Francis. Funeral held at Evergreen cemetery January 23.
The Fisher family 665 S. O. Fisher and daughter express gratitude to neighbors and friends for the beautiful floral offerings sent during their recent sorrow.
The Watson family expresses gratitude to friends for their kindness and the beautiful flowers sent during their recent sorrow.
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