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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1919
Page
3
Local notes report guests and travelers visiting Ames. Michigan’s Mrs. P C Hildreth stays with Charles Heer. Clifford Carter returns home from overseas. several families, including the Laggatts, Burnetts, and Lamsons, visit or plan homes here. Military discharge adds to community chatter as residents reunite after travel and service.
Paul M. Hinkhouse, son of Rev J F Hinkhouse, describes conditions in China, Korea, and Japan. He led Yale University’s English department in China for a year and discusses Korean independence movements, Japanese propaganda against missionaries, and student protests on May 7 1915.
Farm Bureau notes in Jefferson County show junior wool bidders and Shorthorn and Percheron breed associations planning classes at the county fair. The piece shifts to China reporting anti Japanese sentiment, student arrests, and a claim Yale in China gains degree authority, plus a translated Japanese article praising the Imperial Family and the League of Nations.
In Spirit Lake on June 28 W C Rathbun and son Fred Rathbun of Ida Grove were arrested for illegal liquor transport from Minnesota to Iowa. Police found 182 quarts during a search. The elder Rathbun is linked to a prior conviction of a social crime involving an Ida Grove girl and is serving life at Fort Madison. They were fined 1354 dollars and the liquor was confiscated.
Notice states all union barber shops will stay open Thursday evening until ten o'clock and be closed all day on the Fourth of July.
The Felgar Coal Co says it is not connected with any local firm and will supply pure coal and coke including Purity lump egg and nut Fulton Co lump Bidwell chunks Solvay coke nut and stove. Wrights Barber Shop advertises convenient hours and baths at 25c under C P Wright, proprietor, in the basement near E R Smith’s office.
Twenty five men and women are wanted to help decorate floats for the Patriotic celebration on July 4. Workers will be paid or can show their colors. Apply at the Community Club Tuesday morning by order of the Parade Committee.
Advertisement offers ice cream cones for the Fourth of July at 1.25 dollars per hundred with discounts for orders of 1000 or more. Contact Chester A. Fulton at 508-1tht or phone 3277 for details.
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