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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1918
Page
6
Editor and manager outline subscription terms by carrier and mail with advance payment requirements. The notice specifies monthly and multi month prepaid options and indicates in advance payment rules, with post office mailing procedures and local town mail matters.
The article summarizes compulsory and voluntary allotments under the Soldiers and Sailors Act, detailing minimums such as at least $15 monthly to a wife or child, and how totals depend on family size and pay. It notes government support for Class A and B beneficiaries, voluntary adds, and penalties for false claims or fraud.
The Jefferson County Salvation Army Ward Fund campaign nears finish with most districts reporting by week end. Local townships Locust Grove Mound Der Mores and several others have submitted partial totals. unpaid pledges total 325.00, with overall fundraising expected to surpass 4000.
Mrs. Emily Hayden hosted W. R. C. on West Broadway with about thirty five ladies attending and refreshments served. Florence Clapp organized an M S S K. Girls slumber party east of the city with a pleasant evening. Mrs. I A Workman entertained young ladies at South B street for Miss Marie Mewes of Quincy Illinois with games contests and music. winners were Miss Anna Mae Gentry and Miss Pauline Woelhaf. Cross Lanes church ladies plan their monthly social Thursday with Rev Campbell and his choir from Leon providing entertainment and refreshments. The fourth golf picnic will be held at the Golf House next Friday with supper at six thirty by the fourth committee. A farewell surprise for Miss Juliana Smeassart at her West Lowe street home attracted about twenty friends with music and games and light refreshments. she resigns as stenographer at the Engine Works to return home to South Bend Indiana.
A group of 92 men from Fairfield and Jefferson county will depart for Camp Pike Arkansas on Monday July 22 at 1 15 p m. They will travel on a special train carrying men from Knoxville Ottumwa Fairfield and Mt Pleasant. Report time at the Court House is 8 a m Monday. An additional call seeks 800 Iowa boys to Jefferson Barracks Missouri during August with the county quota yet to be set.
Word reached here of the death of Mrs Harriett Campbell at her Carthage Illinois home after a brief illness. She was 81 years old and the mother of Mrs Wer Hammond of this city.
Des Moines reports Guy E. Logan adjutant general of Iowa has been commissioned a major in the adjutant general's department and assigned to Camp Zachary Taylor near Louisville, Kentucky, per a Washington dispatch.
The Libertyville Red Cross will meet Saturday at 2 PM. Elizabeth Whitney and Abigail Heaton travel to Perry Iowa to visit relatives. Prof W A Wirtz has an appointment at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station as educational secretary. J P Manatrey R B Louden Eli Blough and H M Miller attend the State Democratic convention in Des Moines after a Cedar Rapids venue change. Ralph Lamson Geo Banfield and Mallson and Mrs James Wilson attend Mrs Pumphrey’s funeral in Iowa City tomorrow.
The local board has received a special call for 209 Iowa men qualified for limited service only. They will be sent to Syracuse New York in the five day period beginning July 29. No general service inductees are included. Inductees are intended for guard and fire companies at ports of embarkation.
Fairfield and Jefferson county residents are invited to the Batavia Red Cross Auction Sale next Saturday evening. Donations include corn pigs hay oats coal and more with proceeds benefiting the Red Cross. The Fairfield Iowa Band will perform and ice cream will be served by Red Cross ladies on the bank lawn. Soldiers heading for service are welcomed.
General Horvath, proclaimed provisional ruler of Siberia, says a Pekin dispatch to the Times will aid Czecho Slovak troops moving toward the Transbaikal region via the Chinese Eastern railway. The Czechs aim to reach Irkutsk to link with western Siberia forces and seek Chinese permission to cross Manchuria. Some Austrian prisoners in Siberia are eager to join the Czechs.
Report from New York says German agents once considered purchasing 20 U S papers to publish favorable material for the central powers. The plan reportedly involved German money funneled into several publications, with investigations ongoing at federal offices and a grand jury examining Doctor Rumety’s case.
In morning air combats near Dormans the Maine ace P. d. Alersphy shot down a German craft 15 miles north of Dormans and shortly after George Robertson of Kansas City, Missouri destroyed another enemy plane along American lines in the same sector.
Six cylinder Liberty car offered for sale to raise funds for Red Cross Army Y M C A Liberty Bonds and War Savings Stamps. Vehicle in good condition with extra casing two tubes chains and dimmer. Top never folded. Contact County Treasurer office or call numbers 42 or 332 RK 1H SPENCE 806 Pale.
Paris reports Germans appear to hold sixty to seventy divisions in position for the present offensive with around forty already engaged. This implies a potential force near 950,000, including 540,000 in action.
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