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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
4
A Dayton Ohio presentation on March 29 will screen stereoticon and motion pictures showing beautification efforts around the N C R plant. The films recount how a past neighborhood known as Slidertown was transformed when the company trained youths to grow flowers and vegetables, a project later copied by other cities.
Mrs Hannawalt cares for her bed-bound daughter Mrs E W Stodghill. FE Carter improved from pneumonia. Mrs Boley to hold spring millinery opening March 14 at C A Swanson store. Floyd Robertson opens barber shop in new bank building. Lyle Robertson visits from Letts. Mrs Earl Stewart and Mrs Tom Dotts return home after Albia visit. Mrs Mabel Lux and children head to Lusk Wyoming. Several residents travel or visit relatives in Ottumwa Albia Richland Concordia. Rebekah Club hosted by Mrs R B Stephenson March 16.
Rex Parsons declares he will not be responsible for any further accounts contracted by his wife Lucy Margaret Parsons who has left his home. Dated Fairfield Iowa March 12 1917. The notice ends with a general classified ad line about work opportunities.
The Board of Registration will meet March 11 16 and 26 1917 at the four city wards polling places to register voters not registered or changed address since the last election. Residents must be registered to vote in the March 26 city election. Mayor D F Spratt announces.
Ellis M M Olatul presents a satirical column on gender, money, and leisure. The narrator contemplates prefering an old time ready made woman over a modern tailor made type while noting money’s persuasive power and joking about a dollar’s woman.
Food clothing and money are requested for tornado victims in Newcastle Indiana where the disaster destroyed over 1 million dollars in property and caused nineteen deaths. Three people are still missing and twenty five are hospitalized. two children at Home hospital can name themselves and are unclaimed, their parents reportedly killed.
A series of short classifieds seeking accommodations jobs and a vehicle. Listings include a furnished room near the High School by a High School girl, daily house cleaning work, unfurnished rooms or a five room house by a young married couple, board and room in a private family, a week’s work by a cook and housekeeper, and a Ford roadster in good condition for cash. Contact details accompany each ad.
A long list of rental and sale notices including five room houses near a gas factory and Malleable, four and five room flats with prices. various For Sale items like Underwood No 4 typewriter and seven to ten room houses with locations at 1208 Main Street 709 South Fifth Street 905 South Main Street and more. includes contact phone numbers, addresses, and names such as Rus Sell Smith D. W. Moyer A. L. Canterbury Mrs B J Dyer James Bailey and the editor Landology note. Also contains a municipal election notice listing positions, wards and polling places Court House New Chicago City Hall Public Library with polling times 7 am to 7 pm.
Notice to legal voters of Fairfield Jefferson County Iowa that a city election will be held on March 26 1917 to elect a Mayor Treasurer Assessor and Park Commissioner. The notice specifies eligibility and polling dates in the official election order.
A special execution issued by the District Court of Jefferson County Iowa directs the sheriff to sell Lots 9 and 10 in Black 18 Henn Williams & Company Addition Fairfield to satisfy a judgment in favor of First National Bank of Fairfield against G S Ginstead E N Grinstead and Mary B Gilly. The sale is set for Saturday April 7 1917 at 2:00 pm at the courthouse front door in Fairfield. The amount due includes five thousand twenty eight and eighteen one hundredths dollars debt and ninety nine and seventy one hundredths dollars costs plus accruing costs.
Public auction held to the highest cash bidder. Shan Campbell, Sheriff of Jefferson County, announces the sale conducted by Deputy M. Randall.
Will offer at public sale starting 10:30 a.m. on the old Louis Croz farm four miles southeast of Birmingham and six miles southeast of Fairfield. Seven or eight horses and cows with calf, plus two implements and diverse farming gear including a McCormick corn binder and a John Deere planter.
Five tons of baled hay offered under terms of credit nine months, bankable note with six percent interest from date accepted. Small sums payable cash in hand, no removal of property until terms complied. Auctioneers listed as T B Allender with Clerk H C Pattison.
Notice from R. H. Spench as county treasurer urging timely tax payment with delinquency and penalty dates noted. Receipts cannot be written in last days of March.
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