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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
3
A short item announces Maple Oxford shoes described as new and dressy. The note emphasizes style and availability in the week, highlighting men’s dress footwear with a focus on quality and fit.
Ottumwa residents report visits and travel notes including Mrs. L. E. Kuhns returning from Ot tumwa and Mrs. Ella Gibbons arriving home after a relatives visit. Attendees include Rev. A. R. Toothacre at Decoration Day services and Clyde Greet’s recent graduation from USC Dental School with Ralph Greet passing the State Pharmacy Board. Simeon Sackett suffers a paralysis stroke at a relative’s home north of the city.
Pupils of Prof. James P. Moorhead perform a program in Barhydt chapel at 2:30 PM Friday with pieces by MacDowell Saint Saens Chopin Gronow Schumann and Mendelssohn among others. Public invited to attend the recital featuring Elizabeth Brock Elizabeth Turney Catherine Cassel and others.
Logan patrons hosted a farewell for six Logan school teachers dismissed by the School Board. The event featured a program titled Our Golden Chassis and remarks urging the board to justify removals with clear reasons. Citizens questioned legal standards and demanded reasons satisfactory to patrons.
Piano tuner EB Eisenhart will be in Fairfield from May 28 to June 6. Leave orders at Leggett House of Music. Contact EB Eisenhart at 754.
Miss Gertrude King Fowler longtime London Machinery Co stenographer dies after weeks in Jefferson County Hospital. Survived by two sisters Kate Fowler Omaha and Mrs J C Hampson Denver. A Congregational church member she lived in Pittsburg, funeral tomorrow at 3 from West Burlington residence, Rev Polly officiating, Evergreen cemetery interment.
Members of Fairfield Lodge 629 I O O F convene tonight to elect lodge officers and vote for Grand Lodge officers and a representative. A good attendance is requested.
Bert Copes residing on the Alex Easton farm three miles east of the city killed ninety six rats and fifteen skunks on Wednesday. Two of the skunks were old, thirteen were young.
Beginning June 1 I will resume my piano teaching at my residence 801 South Second Street. Telephone numbers 246 or 1268 to arrange a time. Leland R. Holgate.
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