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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1910
Page
6
The notice lists assignation for a carrier route weekly duties with month cues and year indicators. It appears as a classified snippet detailing route dates and service instructions for delivery personnel.
The Fairfield Ledger questions statesmanship in public life while attacking Congressmen Hull. Editorials from Des Moines, Iowa City, and Burlington challenge Hull as a postoffice politician who seeks office for pie counter gains, urging voters to reject standpatters like the Ledger.
Mt. Pleasant Free Press reports a miscut Hawkeye half tone showing a Parsons College graduating class photo as a black oblong shape with white specks. M. C. Hall comments the image resembles Halley’s comet passing the earth.
Jefferson County Republican notes Comrade S. J. Chesters piece urging old soldiers to unite and pledge not to vote for current lawmakers. It laments the President's messages to Congress lack advocacy for veterans and suggests collective political influence.
Fairfield's fancy ball team, rising in the Iowa Amateur Association, meets Brighton on Alumni Field tomorrow. Washington county rivals show strong lineups with notable players Carl Turner of Burlington George Owens from Wapello Walter Davis of Muscatine and John Van Hyning from New London. Nahrgang the Davenport pitcher also joined in the mix as both sides bolster their rosters.
William Phipps has been offered a German teacher job at Bloomington High School Illinois with a $1000 nine month salary. A Parsons College graduate this year he travels with fellow students promoting a publication house and awaits official word.
Under ordinance 60 section 47 Fairfield prohibits firing firecrackers or explosives except July 4 on private property with owner consent. Police are ordered to arrest and fine violators for public street or park use on July 4 or any other day. Mayor J. Fred Clarke signing.
Our employer and we will keep July 4th as a legal holiday and close all stores for the day. Names listed include Charles A. Herring Wilson Bros C T Reynolds Maddox and Max well Buchanan and Co White Tea Store H C Davis.
A pair of gold rimmed glasses in a case was lost Monday evening between Fd. Davie’s restaurant and the Masonic Hall. Finder should leave them at the Journal office.
In Marion Indiana on June 21 Cleo Shaffer 14 was instantly killed when an automobile being turned over near the city pitched into a roadside ditch after the steering gear broke. The car was driven by 12 year old Russell Gray whose father owned the machine. seven other children were injured.
Miss Lodonna Russell of Rome visits her grandparents Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Russell on East Kirkwood street for a family visit.
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