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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1917
Page
6
Three months in advance subscription rates are listed with prices. The notice directs mail subscriptions to be prepaid and notes Fairfield Iowa as mailing point. Readers are asked to report irregular carrier service and a telephone contact is provided.
The Chicago Herald editorial laments the flood of worthy appeals flooding newspapers for Liberty bonds Red Cross recruitment and relief campaigns across Syria France Armenia Russia and Poland. It notes a daily limit to print space and urges readers not to think the paper unsympathetic when some requests are trimmed to fit space.
Continued rain disrupts Parsons College events forcing outdoor performances to move to the High School Auditorium. The week’s schedule includes academy graduation, board meeting, senior class play, Mason Prize Contest, alumni picnic, valedictory, and the 72nd Annual Commencement with Rev. W S Plumer Bryan delivering the address.
Albany reports New York could supply about 570000 men for military service and a similar number for home defense. Based on census data 2450000 males aged eighteen to forty five could be eligible. Acting State Health Commissioner Williams cites the likely fit condition for service.
Registration hours span 7 am to 9 pm and applies to all males age 21 through 31 regardless of status. Most registrants will not be drafted. penalties include arrest for failure to register. Aliens and certain dependents have exemptions. some groups may be exempt from service while others face future selection.
Eastern relatives plan a $1,000 monument for John H. Stowell buried Feb 11, 1901 in Shasta cemetery. Registration rules require residents to vote or register by June 5. exemptions need stated reasons. penalties include imprisonment for refusals. Names must be full. natural born citizens defined. local registration offices listed.
The notice lists Fairfield registration locations by ward with specific offices in each ward. It also states the county will use its usual voting places for registration and related matters.
Washington reports Herbert C. Hoover rejects alarm over sugar supply after Cuban crop estimates. He objects to private conference discussions that magnify concern among consumers, insisting there will be no famine in sugar despite articles citing a 1,250,000 ton shortfall from the 4,000,000 normal.
Mattoon Illinois on June 4 reported the tornado death toll increased to sixty with Charleston at thirty four. Deaths from injuries average two per day through Saturday as many remain in very serious condition.
Washington June 4. Subscriptions to the Liberty loan include $1,000 from William J Bryan former secretary of state and $10,000 from Leslie M Shaw former secretary of the treasury.
London reports the arrest of Grand Duke Nicholas former commander in chief of the Russian armies following royalist riots at Tiflis. Dispatches quote advices from Petrograd via Exchange Telegraph.
W J Norris, a northeast Missouri lumber dealer, is finishing a notable timber harvest on G W Hope’s 160 acre tract near Shelbyville. About 50 000 feet of lumber will be produced from trees averaging forty years in age with the largest showing 152 rings and forty two foot reach to the first limb. Veneering will use the largest logs and bases. remaining logs supply airplane lumber.
The French submarine Circe torpedoed and sank a large enemy submarine as it exited Cattaro. Circe, escorted by a torpedo boat, was attacked by airplanes but returned undamaged to base.
Classified notice seeks three calves two months old with details credited to Art Donovan of TSG.
Indianapolis June 5 Philip A Cooley one of the alleged dynamite conspirators freed from Leavenworth federal penitentiary H 8 Hockin secretary was released Sunday and John Barry will be liberated June 11
In Berlin amid deep snow a circus elephants team pulls heavy 35 000 pound iron boiler wagons through streets. When autos or trains stall the elephants lend a forehead and haul stranded vehicles free, a sight noted as extraordinarily odd by locals.
Explosion at the Du Pont powder mills near Moosic Pennsylvania killed Thomas Thomas and seriously burned Thomas Johnson and George R. Brown all workers in Scranton on June 1.
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