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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1917
Page
3
Brighton and Libertyville visitors are spotted in the city today. Chicago banker Victor J. O'Brien arrives for a two week vacation from National City Bank. Numerous locals from Ottumwa Batavia Keokuk and Davenport are in town visiting relatives and friends.
Parsons Juniors presented their play Blossoming of Mary Anne in the Libertyville opera house on a rainy night to a packed audience. The cast led by Katherine Shelby and others delivered strong performances with notable praise for Nellie Scovel and Paul Ferrel, while the Junior class reports clearing its deficit and ending financially in the black.
The Primary and Junior Sunday School classes present a Children’s Day program at 7:30 pm Sunday. The program includes the Sunday School Orchestra, a Children’s Day Choir, multiple songs and solos, a duet, a class exercise, flower girls, drills, and the offering for the Children’s Fund, with titles such as Crown of June and They Are All for You, and featuring participants Dale Harper James Campbell Elizabeth Chandler and Portia Harper.
Don Teal Eli Blough and J E Bowermaster traveled to Batavia on business. Mervyn Laughlin of Batavia visits the city. Registration card copying proceeds with about fourteen hundred cards to finish in five days. J B Gilchrist of Moscow Idaho stays with T F McNew on East Adams Street. Dr Virgil Martha Gilchrist of Chicago arrives tonight for a visit at the McNew home. Mrs Clara Wilde and her daughter Irene of Detroit arrive and will visit Dr and Mrs H A Mosser. Wilde known for past singing. Mr and Mrs B L Stephenson leave for Des Moines to attend the Yeoman lodge national conclave next week.
Frances Hutchinson announces piano lessons at her home located at 301 South Sixth Street after June 16. The notice appears with a stray older ad urging starch use and care for collars.
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