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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1917
Page
6
Notice lists four months mail subscriptions offered as advance payment. Indicates entry at Firfield Post Office as second class mail matter. Requests prompt reporting of any irregularities in carrier service and provides telephone contact.
Iowa lawyers urge immediate re codification of the Iowa statutes and shorter appeal time to the supreme court from six to two months. They also seek equity actions to be tried at the first term. The State Bar association plans further reforms at its Council Bluffs meeting.
Fairfield displays strong community ideals with rail connections, sanitation, a county hospital, growing industry and prohibition history. Parsons College anchors local progress, with seven new buildings post fire and almost 200 percent enrollment rise. Dr Montgomery leads ambitious plans to hasten growth and strengthen Fairfield and Jefferson County.
L Cc Edginton returns to Iowa City for school work after a brief city visit. Quartermaster Sergeant Park Russell visits from Des Moines to see his parents. Harry King heads to Emmetsburg for summer as a traveling book salesman. George Zillman comes from Great Lakes Illinois for a family visit. Armour Wilson at Great Lakes naval training school visits friends here. County clerk’s office closed today for fumigation to prevent disease. Mrs Ward B Rice and children of Ottumwa visit her mother Mrs S A Myers. Frank Swisher of Brighton donates two cocker spaniel pups as mascots for Co M Brighton. Dr N W Labagh of Mystic spends Sunday with relatives here. Karl Davenport attends the state Eagles convention in Davenport as a local aerie delegate.
Special notice announces a second training camp for officers at Fort Riley Kansas with recruitment in Fairfield until July 15 1917. Applicants should promptly obtain the blanks from Rollin J Wilson Branch Chairman.
The L. T. L. Girls will meet tomorrow afternoon with Mrs. Emma Dowd on West Briggs Street. This is the last meeting before members attend the state convention in Oskaloosa next Tuesday through Thursday. Mrs. M. Chilcott, Portia Harper, Maude Murdock and Lucile Harris attend the convention. Invitations have been issued to the marriage of Miss Carrie N. to Mr. Tracy N. Fenner of Moline Illinois at the bride's Brighton county home on Wednesday, June 27. Watch for further word in a future issue.
Fairfield Iowa band presents March Colonel Miner Rosenkrans Overture Bridal Rose Lavallee request numbers When You and I Were Young Somewhere On Broadway Moris Se ic Kes Butterfield Silver Threads Among the Os Danks Concert Waltz Bleue Margis Come Out of the Kitchen Ma Kendis Remick ry Ann Selection The Defender Sousa A G Lazenby of Keosauqua visiting relatives in the city.
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