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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1918
Page
7
Community briefs list residents and visitors in Pella Ottumwa Libertyville Washington and surrounding areas. People named include Hugh Bennett Miss Nellie Routson Carl Meyer Ray Hook Isabelle Bishop Anna Segill Jessie Wray Velma McCumber Lara Flindt and many others with brief travel illness and hospital visit mentions plus local property sale and Red Cross event plans.
Mt Pleasant School Board and Y M C A trustees met to review St Paul architect reports for remodeling the Mt Pleasant Y building offered to the district. The gift has no strings aside from potential Seeley Memorial High School naming and two perpetual Seeley scholarships. Plans include domestic science, manual training, commercial, physics and agriculture labs, study rooms, a 750 seat auditorium, modern class rooms, and maintained athletic facilities including the existing bowling alley and swimming. An election will be held to authorize bond funds after petitions and public meetings.
The Kaiser the Beast of Berlin returns for a one day engagement at the Orpheum. Rupert Julian directs and portrays the Kaiser in a film praised for its vivid, historically anchored depictions of Belgium’s invasion and the Kaiser’s private life. Manager Bennett presents the production with high anticipation.
The proposal preserves current locker rooms and gym while adding private entrances and new dressing rooms for girls. An auditorium bleacher area for 400 spectators and rooms for teachers and administration are included. If approved, bids will be sought, contracts could be closed by October 1, with occupancy a year later, avoiding a separate $60,000 Central school build.
Parson College asks for names of all parties desiring student assistance and names of those with rooms to rent for students. Contact the college office at phone number 213 for details.
A six cylinder Liberty car in good condition is offered for sale to raise proceeds for the Red Cross Army Y M C A Liberty Bonds and W S stamps. The owner notes extra casing two tubes chains a dimmer and an unfurled top. Inquiries are to be made in person at the County Treasurer's office or by phone numbers 42 or 322.
The United States Food Administration announces tighter sugar allocations for manufacturers. Household and hotel restaurant quotas stay at three pounds monthly, city consumers at two pounds, country consumers at five pounds, with twenty five pounds for home canning. Ice cream makers face a 25 percent cut, soda fountains and candy makers 50 percent. Officials cite European beet sugar factory losses, wartime shortages, submarine sinkings, and reduced shipping for the reasons.
The U S food administration says binder twine for 1919 will cost farmers about three cents per pound less nationwide, saving grain growers roughly 6 million dollars. A deal with the Yucatan Commission Reguladora will sell 500000 bales of sisal to U S mills at the reduced price, stabilizing fiber supply for the harvest. An exchange of agricultural commissions is proposed to foster better Mexican American sisal relations and pricing.
The J Kully company of Stone Street New York has been given the choice to pay 25000 to the Red Cross or exit business for violations of U S food administration rules. It sold flour at excessive margins and sold flour without proportionate substitutes. Charles Howson of Dewitt New York was required to give the Red Cross 1000 for selling flour without substitutes.
The United States enforces a two pound weekly meat ration while France and England adopt three meatless days weekly. In England Wednesday Thursday and Friday ban meat sales in hotels and shops. Slaughterhouses close from 1 PM Monday to 6 AM Friday, with slaughter limits tied to two thirds of March averages.
Des Moines reports a joint effort by the extension department and the Iowa State Council of National Defense to plant one million acres of winter wheat in Iowa this month. The program mirrors a prior spring wheat push aided by the defense council and includes a planned automobile truck transport system to move workers and supplies.
The note describes sickle grinding and installing new sections with guard plates Pitman boxes and straps rods and oxy welding castings. It mentions general repairs and lining up engines and related tasks.
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