Parsons College Hosts Southeast Iowa High School Tournament
The Parsons College Letter Club plans the Southeast Iowa district basketball tourney in Trustee Gymnasium for two days. Eighteen area high schools may send teams, with about one hundred people to be housed. Games begin Friday afternoon with preliminaries, semi finals Saturday, and a championship night. Tickets available at the college, high school, or Sobble & Heer's.
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Parsons College Letter Club
Trustee Gymnasium
Letter Club
Wreachners
Parsons
Iowa
Fairfield
Parsons College
Sobble & Heer's
Personal notes and visits amid wartime enlistments
Mrs J C Byron of Burlington spent Sunday with sister Mrs Frank Droz. Prof V Vartanian of Parsons College spoke at the Christian church. Arlie Perry and Earl Lynn of Pleasant Plain were sent to Jefferson Barracks St Louis in the Engineer's division. Red Cross provided socks and sweaters. Various locals, visits, and a group of thirteen youths recruited at Ottumwa left for St Louis.
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J.C. Byron
Burlington
Frank Droz
V. Vartanian
Bible
Parsons College
Christian Church
Arlie Perry
Earl Lynn
Pleasant Plain
Jefferson Barracks
St. Louis
Army
Red Cross
William King
W. F
Estate of Ernesto Reyes Final Report for Hearing
In Jefferson County Iowa April Term 1918 the Final Report of B F Black as administrator of Ernesto Reyes deceased is on file in the Clerk of the District Court. The report is set for hearing on April 8 1918 at Fairfield Iowa. Starr and Jordan attorneys represent the estate.
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District Court
Jefferson County
Iowa
Ernesto Reyes
Fairfield Jefferson County
Jefferson County Teachers Club to Meet March 16 With Reading Contests
The Jefferson County Teachers' club will hold a meeting Saturday March 16 at the Court house. Miss Anderson of Cedar Falls will discuss Things That Have Been Most Helpful to Me in My School Work. In the afternoon at 1 15 o'clock Reading and Arithmetic contests will be held with many contestants named from various centers and schools.
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Jefferson County Teachers’ Club
Court House
Anderson
Cedar Falls
Billie Burke Returns to Childhood in The Land of Promise
Film star Billie Burke discusses The Land of Promise saying it portrays Nora Marsh with heart and worries. She describes Western Canada locations, the Canadian Rockies, yellow wheat fields, and a farm setting, and notes W. Somerset Maugham adapted it for the screen. Burke promotes a showing at the Orpheum theater on Tuesday, March 65th.
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Paramount
Billy Burke
Nora Marsh
Canada
Canadian Rockies
Yellow Wheat Fields
W. Somerset Maughan
Billy Turke
Orpheum Theater
For Rent Row: Six Room House on E Adams Street
Classified rental brief lists three listings including a six room house on E Adams Street near the square via T. S. Waters phone 1580. Also a residence at West Hempstead and North Third Street via J. F. Dearduff phone 693 or first door west. A six room house at Corner 9th and Hempstead via C. G. Taylor phone 85.
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E. Adams Street
T. S. Waters
West Hempstead
North Third Street
J. F. Dearduff
9Th and
Hempstead
C. G. Taylor
For Sale Items from Oak Library Tables to Homes
A list of various For Sale notices includes an oak library table with two rockers, a black mare and four year old horse with hay, home grown seed potatoes, eggs for hatching, an Excelsior Motorcycle, a new bungalow, Rhode Island eggs, Reed's Yellow Dent seed corn, and a Holiday car plus a Ford touring car. Also offered is a rental of a modern residence with seven rooms after April 1st. Names include FE. A. Young, Thompson's Greenhouse Mt. Pleasant IA, Walter Duncan, H. E. Wisecarver, W. H. Pence, and Dr. J. S. Gaumer.
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Ohio
Thompson
Mt. Pleasant
Walter Duncan
South Sixth Street
Excelsior
Burlington St
H. E. Wisecarver
Rhode Island
Reed
B. Atchinson
Kan
Journal
A. W. Fannen
Shannon
W. H. Pence
Fifth
Grimes Streets
J. S. Gaumer
Wanted items and help offers in a local classifieds page
Classified notices show requests for a light second hand survey and buggy, a five or six room rental, old barns to tear down, bundle washings and lace curtains, a modern small house for rent, a part time helper paid up to $50 monthly, a typewriter for hire, kitchen and dining room work at local eateries, and a boy and girl to work evenings at Purity and West Side restaurant.
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Glen Shafer
Worhies Dept
Omaha
Nebr
L. C. Smith
Underwood
West Side
Lost items notice with rewards and contact details
Lost Sunday evening between West Broadway and South Depot street a string of red beads. Finder please phone T B Allender and receive reward. Lost between post office and the Dexter Co an envelope with 300 three cent stamps. Call the Dexter Co phone 149 78 96.
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West Broadway
South Depot Street
T. B. Allender
Post Office
Dexter Co
Horse Sale at Gilbert Feed Barn on March 6
A horse sale is scheduled for Wednesday March 6 at Gilbert Feed Barn. A. C. Wisecarver advertises many buyers for farm goods and equipment.
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Gilbert Feed Barn
A. C. Wisecarver
Main Street
Gilbert
Piano Tuning in Fairfield February 25 to March 6
Piano tuner E. J. Eisenhart will be in Fairfield from February 25 to March 6. Leave orders at the Leggett House or Scheffel's Music Store. Contact details not provided.
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Fairfield
Leggett House
Scheffel’s
E. J. Eisenhart
Chicago
Scheffel’s Music House
James Hughes
George Walsh in The Pride of New York at the Orpheum
George Walsh stars in The Pride of New York at the Orpheum on Monday. The show headlines a program of vaudeville entertainment and theatrical acts.
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Orpheum
George Walsh
New York
THE
Porter to recover as insanity plea planned
Mt. Pleasant March 4 The Evanston hospital says Paul Porter who killed an Evanston policeman last Tuesday and was shot three times will recover. His hearing is set for March 13 and relatives secured top legal talent to try for an insanity plea. George Walsh performs a dangerous aerial act at The Orpheum Monday.
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Mt. Pleasant
Evanston Hospital
Paul Porter
Evanston
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J. E. Prince
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Mrs. O. A Banta
City
Gail Whistler
Louis White
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F. A. Wilkins
St. Joe, Mo
3. D. Wilkins
Marion Young
Davenport
George W. Young
Washington Street
Leo Kilfoy
Melrose
Mrs
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Jacob Glotfelty
Libertyville
B. F. Black
Starr & Jordan, Attorneys
Rkke
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May Green
Mildred Tracy
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Florence Supalla
Ferol van Doren
Grace Murphy
Ruth Gavin
Ralph Coleson
Marion Patterson
Taylor Hartman
Buchanan
Edith Flinspach
Gertrude Gavin
Mertie Sears
Verl Baker
Blackhawk
June Gere
Maurice Copeland
Batavia
Ivy Galliher
Edith Larson
Lockridge
Valera Johnson
Glen Pearson
Des Moines
Anna Petzinger
Irven Kance
Centr
McMican
Clarence Henry
Penn
Be Treen
Violet Messer
Round Prairie
Myrtle Morris
Wilda Ogden
Effie Johnson
Olah du Vall
Dorothy Wiggins
Lela McCleary
Hilda Bradfield
Brookville
Lucile Pequignot
Harold Aronson
Robert Alexander
Katheryn Millane
Bernice Blough
Cedar
Mildred McCormick
William Looney
Margaret McGaw
Raymond Coffin
June Gire
Florence Armstrong
Margaret Clark
Ruth Hollander
Valeda Johnson
Harlan Dobras
Walnut
Frances Millane
Mary Davisson
Emma Lewis
Howard Zihlman
Emma Roth
Marie Spayde
Gladys McCleary
Elsie Ferrer
Es Moines
Marie Wilson
Abingdon
Esther Baird
Louise Culbertson
C. F. Mican
George Henry
Hazel Treon
Billie Burke
People’s
FE. A. Young
John Buchanan, W. A. Elder
W. H. Pence Mach. CO
Battery Department
Hl. A. Bell D. V. M
Dence
Jewell’s
William Fox
Jewell
Fairfield Iowa Band
Adolph Zukor
Quality Picture Corp
Francis X. Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Metro Picture Corp
Viola Dana
Blue Jeans Metro
W. A. Elder
J. Engel
Porter
Willard
Fairfield Battery CO
North Court Street
Fairfield Steam Laundry
Down Town
Jericho
Easton
C. F. Long
Goeke’s
J. M. McKain
Pension Claim Agent
South Third Street
Artcraft Pictures Corp
Elsie Ferguson
Jennie
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