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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1917
Page
6
Robert C. Winthrop speaks on the enduring obligations of citizens to cherish and enforce the foundational ideals of liberty and law. He ties these to the colonial and Revolutionary Fathers and the enduring unity of the constitution and the Union.
Readers can make inexpensive Fourth of July table favors at home. Children copy a single sample, with reversible goblet ornaments shaped as eagles shields or flags, plus napkin corner designs and paper firecracker decorations in red white and blue.
The Epworth League picnic scheduled for Wednesday, July 4, has been postponed indefinitely. The Hoglish Lutheran church Woman's Missionary Society will meet Friday at 2 PM and go to J A Huglin home east of the city. Mrs. Huglin and Miss Elizabeth Heaton hostesses.
Community hosts a church lawn supper on Saturday evening with proceeds going to the Red Cross. Supper served from 6 to 9 PM. Proceeds support Red Cross relief efforts.
Packwood invites the Jefferson County Red Cross to join the Fourth of July parade. Autos assemble at 1 15 p m from Steigleder lumber yard directed by O F Fryer. A Cable Lumber Co truck will carry the Red Cross Hospital Unit with about twenty Fairfield cars to be decorated.
Reverend E G McKibben of the United Presbyterian Church denounces Sabbath School baseball scenes where adult players face boys as unfair. He argues the sport on Sunday spectacles distract from worship and warns such excursions mirror troubling trends in the times.
At four this afternoon 175 Louden Machinery Co. workers joined the Red Cross Chapter. Officials expect the total membership to exceed 200 once the canvass ends.
A former Fairfield boy, Dr. C. M. Collins, now based in Fremont Iowa, recently bought the Fremont livery barn and transformed it into a full veterinary hospital. He quickly expanded with carpenters, painters, an operating table, and stalls, offering care for diverse animals and earning strong local support.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Van Taassel and daughter Maurine of Keokuk are visiting at the Harrison Hoag homestead. Miss Mabel Frances Pogue of Ottumwa visits her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. I. T. Pogue. Miss Jessie Traxler returns home after a month’s visit with relatives and friends at Mt. Pleasant.
Residents and visitors across Iowa are noted in a social column. Elsie and Anna Bucher visit relatives in Washington and Brighton while W H Pence and family spend Sunday with friends. Numerous trips and visits to Ottumwa Ottumwa Des Moines Topeka Ames and Birmingham are listed along with Yeomen news and Red Cross courses.
Mrs A C Anderson returns from Lusk Wyoming after death of her sister Mrs Jennie B Lawton. A baby girl born last Thursday died. Lawton leaves husband and one daughter LaVerdne, four sisters and five brothers. LaVerdne travels to Mt Pleasant and Des Moines then Omaha to grandmother Mrs C Lawton. Also notes visit by Mrs Paul Clark of Indianapolis to Miss Viva Valentine, Mrs Gertrude Mason ill at West Broadway, and a Kozy Chicken Pie Dinner announced for Wednesday noon.
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