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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1917
Page
6
Editor manager lists post office mailing details at Fair eid Iowa and asks readers to report any irregularities in carrier service. Includes a telephone contact and rates for mailing and service.
Note says figures were received hastily by telegraph and long distance telephone for Jefferson county and may contain errors. The count is only a fraction of what was requested and reflects urgent reporting.
The A. M. E. squad overturned an early Baptists lead of five tallies to one, then tied the game by the fourth inning and won by a single run in the fifth.
In Edwardsville Illinois the Madison county circuit court delayed ruling in the divorce suit of Mrs. Mary Young against Charles R. Young over a claimed common law marriage from 1900 and property rights. The case involves a Granite City resort owner and possible remarriage by Young. A second Washington section lists draft numbers read over the phone with several digits likely misread.
Major Charles R. Vincent of the first finois field artillery and former Yale full back once named to Walter Camp all American was rejected for service due to failing physical requirements. Army physicians said his heart had been over taxed by athletic games. Misses Genevieve and Howard Ferrer of Libertyville visited friends last evening. Miss Lucile Wisecarver left yesterday for a visit with relatives in Denver.
Mary Willa and Margaret King visit grandmother Mrs. M Duttweiler in Lockridge. Hulda Samuelson from Four Corners visits Hulda Bright. A son named Kenneth Fred born to Fred and wife on East Adams Street. D L Baird and sister Mrs Gee host visitors from Ainsworth. Curt Vaught and son from Libertyville visit relatives. Vera and Lorna Claypool return to Davenport after days of visiting.
Wanted a girl for dining room work. Apply at The Leggett. 971.
Fairfield Iowa July 20 1917 President Ames Montgomery appeals Citizens of Fairfield and Jefferson County to raise 100000 immediately and 200000 by Jan 30 1918 toward a 500000 goal to secure Parsons College future. He frames gifts as patriotism while noting alumni from the county and national leaders urging education.
Indianapolis women sought to entertain West Virginia Ohio Kentucky and Indiana student officers and soldiers at Fort Benjamin Harrison but Brigadier General Edwin F. Glenn ordered them to leave the visitors alone. He urged residents to keep young women away from the camp. Separately Des Moines reports cantonment work resumes with twenty-two carloads of construction material and progress on barracks with ten finished and seventy-five more begun.
Washington lists Iowa postmasters as Burdett Person of Diagonal William W Moore of Ainsworth Orion J Perdue of Altoona Carrie Hi Randall of Epworth Lizzie D McCormick of Letts and William R Minard of Little Rock in the new federal postings July 20.
Two hundred members of the Railroad Laborers union employed at the C E I shops in Danville Illinois walked out on July 20. Reports say the action followed wage and working condition grievances and could affect rail service locally.
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