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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1917
Page
2
The notice lists subscription options and prices including by carrier and by mail. It specifies three and four month periods with advance payment and notes mail subscriptions must be in advance. It also shows the paper’s editor and manager and that the entry is filed at the Falfeld Iowa post office as second class mail matter.
Prompt notice asks to report any irregularity in the carrier service identified as Tele phone No. 23. The item emphasizes quick reporting to ensure service quality and accountability.
A department of agriculture report shows 34.97 thousand farm tractors are in use across the United States. Illinois leads with 3,202 tractors, followed by Kansas 2,287 Texas 2,235 Iowa 2,223 North Dakota 2,137 Indiana 1,852 Nebraska 1,773 Minnesota 1,575 South Dakota 1,527 California 1,358 and Ohio 1,305.
Gary Indiana July 9 The Gary superior court grand jury returned nine indictments affecting 130 persons and filed a report faulting cabarets and Cedar Lake resorts. Warrant service is expected against bar owners gaming house keepers and hotel operators tied to unlawful activity. The body also cited a $250000 sewer scandal and urged banning under twenty one from cabarets.
General Brusiloff pledged to Sen ator Root that the new Russian republic would join the attack on German forces. He set July 1 as the launch date and the operation began on schedule, following last year’s gains in Galicia.
Wm Heising a 23 year old Ft Madison youth is jailed in Jefferson County charged with murder in the Bates death near Libertyville. Preliminary hearing set for Wednesday. Heising admits a recent Ottumwa trip but denies involvement. The coroner's jury found Bates died in a collision with an unknown driver.
United Chemical company of Hammond says it does not plan to import negro labor to the Calumet region. General Manager Pennet asserts the claim is false as the firm recently bought the largest hotel in Hammond to house its employees and has no intention of bringing in workers from the south.
Evansville Indiana July 9 Edward Carlisle Pepper known as Pep visits the marine recruiting station to enlist. He vows to “put a little pep” in Uncle Sam’s battlers and asks which way to Berlin. He adds he can shoot and march and hopes to live up to his nickname.
Shortages in ages in accounts and inventories, mutilated records, and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent without contract are noted in the Missouri state penitentiary audit for 1915-1916. State Auditor Hackman released the findings.
Paris July 9 Americans troops start work on the first section of a vast aviation training camp. The project will eventually accommodate several thousand soldiers and pilots.
Tickets for the motion picture play Joan the Woman go on sale at Jericho Easton's for performances next Friday and Saturday evening July 14 and 15 at the Cahautauqua auditorium. The Fairfield Chautauqua association hosts the event with part of the gross proceeds benefiting the Red Cross. Two oil paintings of Geraldine Farrar as Joan the Woman are shown in local shop windows.
Harvey W. Johnston of Fairfield, a member of Co M, was seriously injured while en route to a guard duty post near the four mile bridge. He was found at dawn beside the road, rushed to Ottumwa hospital, and an investigation by Capt. Smuth began without determining how the accident occurred.
San Antonio July 9 Brigadier General James Parker named commander of the southern department by the secretary of war. General Parker had been acting department commander since General Pershing was called to Washington.
Yesterday afternoon at about five o'clock on a road south of Salem, Mrs. P. J. Hurley a Mt. Pleasant real estate man’s wife, was killed when the car rolled over after engine failure. Mr. Hurley uninjured, three children hurt, one seriously.
Coree Zillman at Great Lakes Navy camp spent Sunday with his parents in the city. Miss Hattie Monfort of Ottumwa visited relatives here. Miss Florence Peck of Ottumwa visits Aunt D L Glass. Mrs. Margaret Stewart of Missouri visits her parents. Mrs Kate McClain and Miss May return from Lancaster Wisconsin. Helen King home from Burlington. Berta Hoagland takes three week vacation from Fair store millinery. Wilbur and Margaret Clinkenbeard visit Burlington. Mrs. Harrison Hougland confined by a sprained ankle. Bernie and Mar Clinkenbeard visit W E Carter near Libertyville. Nell Benson to teach in Chenowith Wisconsin schools. Charles McMurray of Company M visits Ottumwa.
Premier Lloyd George announced in the commons that July 25 has been set as the date for the Irish home rule convention to be held in Dublin.
London July 7 General William Holmes was killed and W A Holmes premier of New South Wales was bruised and severely shocked by splinters from a German shell bursts near them on the west front last Monday.
Monthly union meetings run on the second and last Fridays for general trades and labor assemblies. Federal unions hold weekly Wednesday sessions. Barbers Local 368 meets on the third Monday, Carpenters Local 1804 on the first and third Tuesdays, and Cigar Makers Local 490 on the first Monday.
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