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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
8
Weet Administrator J F Deems urges Iowa housewives to can all garden produce for civilian use. Home preserved foods should not be sold to the army or navy. Government inspectors complicate legal sales, but increased home canning frees commercial canners, saves freight space, and reduces tin shortages. Buy W. S. 8S.
War Finance Corporation officials in Washington weigh loan requests from public utility companies amid doubts they can grant financing without adequate security or rate increases. The column also notes social notices and local visits including Masonry events, births, and church services in Ottumwa and Stockport areas.
Genuine Panama hats for men and boys valued at six to seven dollars are marked five dollars Saturday at Cravenette Co. Drake Clo. Co. also promotes W. S.8 Jack Pickford appearing at The Orpheum Saturday night in His Majesty Bunker Bean.
The Daily Journal announces price and policy changes for readers notes. Cards of Thanks remain fifty cents with space pressures prompting a five cent per line charge for poetry. Classified ads now 25 cents for the first insertion and 15 cents for each following insertion with a minimum five lines or 25 words.
Multiple sale notices list items and properties for sale including a Lawson Frost King gasoline engine in Birmingham Ia, a ground block at Broad way and 10th street in Hedrick, Iowa, first mortgage notes at 6 percent secured on farms near Fairfield, and a store desk and chair from Griffith & Pearson with phone number 357.
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