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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1917
Page
2
A fragment collection presents Cicero, Ovid, Tacitus, Vergil and Lucan on war peace taxes and conquest. The notes emphasize peace as ultimate aim, the role of troops and pay, and the conqueror’s preference for force over negotiation.
Mr and Mrs Lou Gudgel of Burlington visit the Gudgel family in town with relatives H H Kennedy Ottumwa and R J Gudgel improving after illness. Mrs E Lamberson entertained the Pattern Hat Shop staff at an Orpheum Theater Party to see Oliver Twist and later at The Purity.
In Amsterdam on March 2 critics pressed a motion to censure Queen Wilhelmina for skating at Leeuwarden two days after Germany announced submarine warfare. Though unlikely to reach a vote, the issue sparked heavy discussion in lobbies and papers.
Colonel Pujol reports a surprise attack ten miles from Samaruey city. Three rebels were killed, many wounded, and much equipment was captured.
The excise tax bill to place a franchise tax on all corporations doing business in Indiana was killed in the senate by an 18 to 29 vote after passing the house. Governor Goodrich supported the measure and had addressed a joint session of the legislature and appeared before a committee in its behalf.
Lawrence Bowers and Menry Chronicle finally spoke at a local sale this week, despite living within a quarter mile of each other on adjoining Rushville area farms for a decade. Their homes sit on different counties and are divided by a swift creek with no bridge or ford.
A mixed local notice lists items and wants including coke shipment details, a strictly modern five or six room house for rent, a Jersey or Guernsey cow wanted, and a furnished room for rent. Contact numbers 27 Carl Stanford 327 W and 17532 2563 outline the offers and inquiries.
Governor W. L. Harding spoke at Forest City Lodge No. 37 Knights of Pythias forty first anniversary banquet at the Leggett House in Fairfield. Attendees included 109 Pythians with guests as Schmidt's orchestra provided music and J A Huglin served as toastmaster.
The Iowa State Oratorical Contest held at Bardyt t Chapel Parsons College was won by Clarendon Havinghurst of Iowa Wesleyan College. Cyrus Albertson of Morning side took second and Joseph A. Miller of Simpson third in a high order event judged by W. I. Atkinson Lawrence DeGraff Lewis Mull W R Keesey and E G McKibben. A banquet followed in Ballard Hall with a toast program and a closing speech by Havinghurst.
A speech by a state leader extols fraternalism through the Knights of Pythias and church outreach. He cites the organization’s 41 years of service, vows broken and renewed, and the duty to aid the sick and needy as a modern parallel to Christlike charity in Iowa City and across the United States.
Today is the last day for nominating candidates for the city school board. R. B. Louden, J. P. Starr and J. L. Raney have been nominated by petition. No citizens caucus for nominations was called this year.
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