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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1919
Page
3
Local residents and visitors listed include William Wiggins in Hot Springs Arkansas and Ellery Raney of Toronto visiting Ottumwa. Several travel and visit notes, a July 14 birth in Libertyville, a marriage license in Brighton, and moves to and from Muskogee Seattle Chicago Idaho Springs Denver are noted along with routine health and family updates.
Dr and Mrs R B Stephenson of Libertyville publish a letter from their son Lieut Edwin J Stephenson describing a voyage from Archangel to Brest. He details sailing past Solombola Economia the White Sea and into the Arctic Ocean before threading near Norway Shetland Lerwick Orkneys Islay Skye and Ireland with notes on land and sea conditions and a midnight photo at the North Cape. He laments not seeing Wales and plans to pass closer to the coast.
The public is invited to a piano recital by Prof James P Moorheads students tomorrow at 7 30 o clock sharp in his studio The program includes Mozart life papers Rubinstein life Czerny Czerny works Chopin and MacDowell pieces performed by named students and pianists such as Harry Fred Israel Luella DeKalb Elizabeth Moorhead Susan Fulton Dorothy Tally Hannah Van Nostrana Dorothy.
The Mt. Pleasant News reports Jefferson county protests Henry county’s choice to finish the Blue Grass road east of Mt. Pleasant and the Red Bull route north to the county line rather than finish the Blue Grass route through the entire county. Officials say only these segments will be upgraded at about 53,000 dollars this year, with debate over completing one across the county or starting both. Jefferson county this year spends over 145,000 on the Blue Grass road and wants the Henry county section finished.
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