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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1919
Page
3
A reader notes a line about comfortable serviceable summer garments priced between two and four dollars depending on size. The item emphasizes affordability and practical use, with emphasis on varied sizing and value.
The Philathea class meets this evening at 415 North Court Street for its monthly social. The Wesleyan Bible class gathers Wednesday noon at 51 South Fifth Street with a bring your own dish policy. Mrs J A Huglin hosts a one o'clock luncheon for the Eastern Star at her east of the city home. The Epworth League holds a tomorrow evening meeting at Miss Geraldine Roberts South Third Street. The High School Senior class enjoyed a picnic at Old Settlers Park Saturday with a bountiful dinner.
The annual memorial service was held yesterday afternoon at the South Side Odd Fellows hall with Wm. Phipps as chairman. Atty. J. P. Starr and Atty. J. A. Huglin gave brief addresses. Music featured a piano duet by Helen and Rosalie Higby and a piano solo by Harry Israel, plus vocal duets by Portia Harper and Dorothy Hammons. The group later escorted to the cemetery to decorate graves.
Home grown strawberries for canning offered at 20e per quart. Contact Julius Standart by phone 1593 for orders or pickup. Refer to local farm stand notice.
The World War soldiers meet this evening at eight o'clock to organize a local American Legion chapter at the Court House. J. J. Seerley Jr. of Burlington and T. L. Brookhart of Washington will assist. A charter is assured as fifteen applications are needed. Only those who sign before the meeting may be charter members.
The Jefferson County Abstract And Loan Company advertises 11 acres northeast of Fairfield at 200 dollars per acre with no improvements. 60 acres of black prairie corn land near town offered at 250 per acre with fair improvements. 80 acres with a modern house joining Fairfield priced at 300 per acre. 67 acres near Fairfield with 760d house asking 235 per acre.
The Elk's lodge will host a banquet on Tuesday June 10 at 7 30 PM sharp. Following the banquet there will be initiation and the remainder of the evening will be spent dancing. 401 10
A 268 acre stock and grain farm nine miles southeast of Ottumwa Ta offers 180 acres of good land and remaining pasture, a 7 room house, 40 by 42 barn, orchard, a schoolhouse 3 to 4 miles away, and a never failing spring piped to the house and barn. Watered and productive, terms include small payments and 10 years at five percent.
Special communication of Clinton Lodge No. 15 will be held Tuesday evening. Work in the Third degree. Refreshments will be served. A good attendance is desired. Leroy Williams W M Raymond Charles Sec
City ordinance forbids throwing grass and rubbish in streets or gutters. Those who disregard the rule cause water to back up in gutters. The practice must be discontinued.
A string of farm listings describes 160 acre parcels near Fairfield and Libertyville with rolling prairie, black corn land, pasture, and tiled improvements. Prices range from 210 to 300 per acre, with terms and proximity to towns noted. Several farms are described as well improved or fine blue grass pasture. Two sales confirms: Harry E. Smith farm sold to Fred W. McClain and Henry Rider farm sold to Mrs. Frank Sears.
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