Postal marking for second class mail in Iowa notice
Entered at the Post Office at Mair Beld Iowa as mail matter of the second class.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1917
Page
2
Entered at the Post Office at Mair Beld Iowa as mail matter of the second class.
Prompt notice requests reporting any irregularity in the carrier service associated with Tele phone No. 23. It urges prompt action and clearly identifies the contact handle for concerns.
Local pride and presidential appeal urge Jefferson county youth to enlist in Company M Fairfield to meet June 30 1917 quotas. Adjutant General seeks maximum state strength by the deadline to answer War Department demands.
Hogs receipts 27 000 at Chicago with varied quotes from 15.50 to 15.75 for heavy packers and 15.60 to 15.70 for light shipping. Cattle receipts 15 000 with prices from 8.75 to 15.65 for good to prime, ducks and other odds noted. Kansas City hogs 10 000, prices 13.50 to 15.95. cattle 11 000 with prime fed steers at 13.50 and dressed beef steers 10.00 to 12.25. sheep 6 000 with lambs 18.00 and yearlings 10.00 to 12.25. East Buffalo quotes cattle receipts 10 cars with prime steers 13.50, heifers 8.00 to 11.00, hogs 16.65 to 16.50, sheep lambs 17.00 to 18.50, calves 15.50. Cash grain lists No 2 red wheat 2.35 No 4 red 2.20 No 2 yellow corn 1.68 1.69 No 2 white 1.68 1.69 Oats No 3 white 65 14¢ standard 65 66c. Produce prices show butter and eggs ranges for extras to firsts and seconds.
Announcements report the marriage of Campbell Whitham and Lillian Kirby in Billings Montana with a July 1 home plan in Camp Crook South Dakota. Florence Yount and Owen Wilson wed in Ottumwa, with Marguerite Zeigler and Clairé Robinson present. they plan farming life together.
Tonight at 7 30 readers are invited to a Christian Endeavor Carnival hosted by the Presbyterian church located at 566. The event aims to provide fellowship and activities for members and guests.
Miss Ruth Grove daughter of Mr and Mrs William Grove died at her Stockport home yesterday after about three weeks of typhoid fever. She was known in Fairfield and Jefferson County with many relatives. The funeral will be at the Methodist church Friday at nine thirty. Interment follows at Evergreen Cemetery in this city around eleven thirty.
The Auxiliary Board of the Fairfield Chautauqua association and the Directors meet at 1 30 p m in the Supervisors room at the Courthouse to discuss boosting local Chautauqua and expanding this year's advantages for wider reach. Full attendance anticipated.
A Clover Leaf train wreck in Kirkpatrick Indiana released seven oil cars causing a massive blaze that wiped out much of the town. A mother saved her child as flaming oil ran toward her home and the explosion drew motorists from Lafayette and Crawfordsville. Kirkpatrick has about 400 residents.
Kokomo Indiana June 21 The grand jury indicted Earl Dunkle a city mail carrier for murder in the first degree after he shot Aradath Stroup a Kempton youth following a lovers quarrel authorities report.
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