Local Briefs Highlight City Visitation and Travels
Mrs. David Oliver of Packwood and Rev. Heller of Pleasant Plain visited in the city. Several Batavia residents Miss Breda Typret and Mr. and Mrs. Ross Parrett were seen in the city, while Miss Katherine Lamson left for Lake Okoboji for the summer. Numerous others including Miss Marian Swayzee, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Moss, and families from Monmouth and Detroit spent time with relatives here and in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Oliver
Packwood
Ross Parrett
Batavia
The
City
Albert McCabe
New London
For Sale Classified notices and items
A column lists multiple for sale offers including organs pianos furniture lamps a Jersey cow calves cattle cattle and calves a Studebaker seven passenger Ford model 1915 car seven room houses and contact details with phone numbers and addresses for quick sale listings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. T. Kilroy
Farrow
Montgomery Green House
Durham Bull
Studebaker
W. R.” Care Journal
Ford Auto
Jefferson Street
W. L. Long
Funeral of Mrs P J Hurley Held
Mrs Hurley died in an auto accident nine miles south of Mt Pleasant when the seven passenger touring car overturned on a steep hill. Her daughter Alice was injured but the rest of the family escaped with minor bruises. The funeral is to be held Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Pleasant
Hurley
P. J. Hurley
Lyons Hill
Alice
Marguerite
Florence
Edwin
Cornelius
Agnes
Keokuk Dam
Chalmers
Fort Madison
Keokuk
Art Lyons Place
Webster Road
Mrs Hurley
Recruiting for Officers' Second Training Camp in Fairfield
Special notice states a second officer training camp recruits in Fairfield until July 15 1917 at Fort Riley Kansas. For application blanks see Rollin J Wilson at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
Fort Riley
Kansas
Capsule Lottery Draws 2,649,938 Nationwide Draft Numbers
Washington reports a forthcoming draft lottery using gelatin capsules in a glass globe. Paper squares numbered serially will indicate each registrant’s draft number across more than four thousand counties and cities. The method, approved by Wilsons advisory board, may delay this week due to local board resignations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Army
America
Baker
Wilson
War Department
Local Women's Groups Plan Meetings and Socials
The Ladies' Improvement association schedules a Thursday 8 o'clock meeting in the Agassiz room at the Library. White Rose Club hosts a social tomorrow at Mrs Clyde Duvall's South Fifth street home. W R C members host a social at Dr W Fordyce's East Broadway home Thursday evening for Mrs Orpha R Turner and Mrs J S Gantz. Wesleyan Bible Class picnic at Mrs Wm Miller's South Main street Thursday at noon with park meetings at 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Ladies’ Improvement Association
Agassiz
O’clck
White Rose Club
Clyde Duvall
Albert Martin
South Fifth Street
South Park Addition
Wesleyan Bible Class
Methodist Church
Wm. Miller
South Main Street
Born a Slave James J. Jones Works Daily in Terre Haute
James J. Jones, a 97 year old Black man born a slave in Kentucky, registered for the Terre Haute city election and remains able to work daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
James J. Jones
Kentucky
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rev. Heller
Pleasant Plain
Miss Breda Typret
N.S S. Miller Home
Thomas Taylor
Monmouth
Ill
Francis Edmunds
Des Moines
Katherine Lamson
Lake Okobeji
J. R. McKain of
Independence
J. M. McKain
South Third Street
John Sessler
Detroit, Mich
G. W. Gaumer
Anne and
Lucy Miller
Alice Smith
Wm. Coop
Perlee
Forrest Braden
Flint, Mich
Marian Swayzee
Homd
Burlington
Blanche Banta
F.l Westerfield
Skunk River
Oakland Mills
C. C. Moss
Earl Bickle
Agency
F. D. Kerrick
Helen Myers
Oskaloosa
Marie Anderson
John Booth
Qttumwa
C. Ham*mond
John W. Ross
Fred Bowermaster
Ames
Davenport
Bueher
Long Pine
Neb
Ralph Rigby
J. M. Glass
Edna
Ilinois
D. L. Glass
Thelma
May Edmunds
Anna Clark
Harriet Edmunds
Miss Edmunds
People’s Column
M. Etta Miser
Logan School House
M. Cable
South Second Street
Wilson’s
South Side Square
Russell Smith
Etta Miser
Logan Settec House
Moss David
East Burlington Street
Thoma & Thoma
Burlington Street
Journal Office
Washington School
the Square
Fairfield National
ICG
C. G. Taylor
Care Journal Office
Second Street
Monroe Street
Pease
Conklin
Oxford
Frank D. Kerrick
Embalmer & Funeral Director
Iowa State Savings Bank
Gaumer Bros
Charles Lyon
Palm Beach
Fairfield Steam
Pure Life Insurance
National Life Assn
W. B. Parrett
James F. Wilson Jr
Agts
Fairfield Pure Ice Company
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