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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1918
Page
7
A compilation of short items notes residents visiting or traveling to and from Burlington, including Miss Wilma Parsons ill with measles, Mrs. Arthur Nelson visiting family in Birmingham, and various locals at basketball games or returning home. It also mentions job moves, a school teaching appointment, and upcoming meetings of the Royal Neighbor lodge and R N A.
Dr E L House of Portland Oregon draws large crowds in Fairfield Iowa at the Methodist church for a week of lectures with no admission charged a ministerial commendation from OsKaloosa praises his high intellect spiritual depth and Bible loyalty. He explains the mind as a three room bungalow conscious sub conscious and super conscious noting healing potential through mental action and the immortal super mind central to his talk titled The Power of the Mind.
Fairfield voters head to the polls at the courthouse to elect two school board members. Incumbents Sanford Zeigler and W. W. White face possible challenger Lew Israel as voting runs until 7 p.m.
Rev R H Polly relays commendation from Rev C H De Voe of the Church of Christ in Oskaloosa praising Dr House. The note notes a Fairfield visit next week for a series of lectures and marks his second week in town urging all residents to hear him.
Auction note announces a sale at Buchanan Feed Barn on March 16 1918 at 2:00 PM. Items include horses cattle machinery household goods and harness with T B Allender as auctioneer.
Thoma & Thoma advertise available loans secured by improved city property. They offer options with flexible terms and prompt approval to local lenders seeking mortgage funding in the urban area.
Des Moines and Cedar Rapids report many locals among the latest casualty list from France. Capt Harrison Cummins McHenry of Des Moines is named as killed and is a nephew of Senator Albert B Cummins. Wounded include Corporals Diets Dunn Simmons Bracelin Classon Miller and soldiers from Waterloo Des Moines Lanesboro Charter Oak Norwalk Cedar Rapids. Jerry Schulz of Cedar Rapids is listed as fallen in France after enlisting a year ago.
Ex-Senator Jonathan T. L. Bourne of Oregon wed Karol B. Spery of Mobile in a private ceremony. Spery, formerly of Portland, has overseen Bourne's plantation near Mobile. wedding attended by a few close friends.
The Illinois state council of defense backs a revolving fund of 2 million dollars to buy up to 400000 bushels of seed corn as shortages threaten the corn belt. W G Eckhardt, state seed corn administrator, urges farmers to declare their seed needs now to avert widespread abandonment of acreage and potential crop losses.
A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, proposes selling German owned property in the United States to highest bidders. He testifies before the senate on March 9 outlining legislation to auction assets of the Kaiser family former Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg and German government. The aim is to dismantle German cultural outposts in America while preserving only minor individual properties.
Martha Rasmusson an elderly Libertyville resident died Sunday at 5 45 pm at the home of her daughter Mrs Andrew Thompson after a long illness She would have been eighty six on March 28 She is survived by a daughter a son in Denmark and eleven grandchildren Funeral services are set at the Thompson home then Glasgow Methodist Church with burial in Glasgow cemetery Also note church revival meetings led by Evangelist Mr Mover and his wife inviting broad church attendance.
We express gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy after the death of Frank Duke and for the floral offerings. Signed by Mrs. B. F. Cox, Mae Duke, B. A. Snook and Family.
This evening at 7 30 there will be a regular meeting of McCord Chapter for hem stitching. Contact Miss Hagedorn at 130 or phone 1370 for details.
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