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Notices urge willing individuals to plow gardens and contact Bruce Gobble immediately as many ready workers cannot find someone to do the work.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1918
Page
2
Farmers Union speech urges higher farm prices and organization
State President O. E. Wilson spoke at the Jefferson County court room urging farmers to organize to gain better prices. He said eggs should be a dollar a dozen and butter a dollar a pound, meat at least 25 cents a pound, and criticized tenant farming while noting stores undersell via middlemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson County Court Room
Farmers’ Union
0. E. Wilson
Winfield
Wilson
Nonpartisan League
Local News Bricks and Births Highlight South Court Street
Mrs E Lamberson is ill at her South Court home. E A Young leaves for Des Moines for several days. A daughter was born March 47 to Mr and Mrs Oakes A Worl of Akron Ohio. Various Brigh ton residents and visitors are listed, with hospital and military mentions. Alva Talmadee from this city is drafted for Jefferson Barracks Missouri to join the coast artillery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Lamberson
South Court Street
E. A. Young
Des Moines
Oakes A. Worl
Akron
Ohio
L. C. Graber
J. FE. Johnson
Davenport
Verne Fravey
Murphy
Lockridge
Mt. Pleasant News
Alva Talmadee
Army
Jefferson Barracks
Coast Artillery
W. E R C Members to Meet at Masonic Temple Rooms
All members of the W. E R C. are asked to gather at the Red Cross rooms in the Masonic Temple tomorrow after Boon 10 work for the scheduled meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. ER. C
Red Cross
Masonic Temple
Car Load Of Sheep Poisoned En Route To City
Federal agents investigate the death of nearly eighty sheep owned by John B. Stever. A car of 155 head shipped from St. Paul via Milwaukee and Burlington routes arrived Sunday morning. Fifteen died on unloading, then about fifty more perished or were dying before antidotes and veterinary aid could stop the loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
John B. Stever
Stever
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Burlington
Gamrath
New Iowa Minnesota Recruits Impress at Camp Dodge Regimental Review
March 18 at Camp Dodge. New men form quickly and show rapid progress in drill and weapon handling. More than 2,000 recruits participated in the first regimental demonstration by Col. Harrison Price and the 250th Infantry, with notable improvement in military bearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Minnesota
Harrison Price
250Th Infantry
Society Notes and Club Meetings Reported
Mrs. W. H. Mohr and Mrs. W. M. Hufstedier host Pythian Kensington club at Ms Mohr home Wednesday afternoon. My America Club hosted St Patrick s party for husbands at Miss Mable Gants Brookville home with games music and refreshments. Methodist church society to hold Kensington at Mrs W Fordee 260 West Broadway Wednesday afternoon. WLR C to meet tomorrow evening with all members urged to attend and refreshments served. W T U will meet at 2730 tomorrow afternoon with Mrs Louis Maston for Neal Down program prayer meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. H. Mohr
W. M. Hufstedier
Miss Mohr
Pythian Kensington Club
Ms Mohr
My America Club
Mable Gants
Brookville
Society of the Methodist Church
Wil
Kepsington
WLRC
Louis Maston
North Main Street
Neal Down
German Spy Poses as Soldier in Fairfield City
A German spy posing as a US soldier appeared in Fairfield claiming government business and led to concerns about links to an attempted assault on a young woman and poisonings of a sheep convoy. The man Zeppenfield, tall and lanky with a narrow forehead, showed a forged check and claimed to be from Fort Leavenworth, prompting suspicions of a wider espionage and desertion plot across Burlington and Mt. Pleasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield
France
John Stever
Moose Lodge
Alva Talmadge
Mt. Pleasant
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Zeppenfield
Phillip Sauer
Campbell
Shan
Town
Bie
Soule
Army National Bank
Fort Leavenworth
Texas
George P. Zeppenfield
United States Military Police
Burlington
Cedar Township Man Pleads Guilty in Assault Case
J. D. Whitson faced assault and battery charges after an altercation with Charles Henness. Henness pleaded guilty before Squire D. B. Wilson and was fined five dollars plus costs. Both parties reside in Cedar township.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. D. Whitson
Charles Henness
Squire D. B. Wilson
Cedar Township
Baseball gear shipped to Company M at Camp Cody New Mexico
The Co M baseball equipment was sent to Camp Cody this afternoon. Miss Genevieve Maddox raised 100 for the project. Equipment included thirteen pairs of shoes three and a half dozen National League balls eight bats catcher’s unit chest protector and eight balls donated by President Charles Comiskey. Express prepaid, the total matched the subscription.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. M
Camp Cody
Genevieve Maddox
Charles Comiskey
White Sox
Carlyle Blackwell Shines In The Town For Nothing at Fairfield
Carlyle Blackwell the famed movie star appears in The Town For Nothing at Fairfield Theater. He plays Jacs a carefree man with a swanky smile in a story noted as humorous with an ending that pleases. Muriel Ostriche and Evelyn Greeley co star Mrs FE B Tyrol and daughter Ruth of Oxford Junction visit relatives in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlyle Blackwell
Futer
Fairfield Theater
Todago
Jacs
Muriel Ostriche
Evelyn Greeley
FE. B. Tyrol
Ruth
Oxford Junction
The
City
Phillips & Co. Vaudeville at Fairfield Theater
Vaudeville act Phillips and Co. bring musical comedy to the Fairfield Theater for Tuesday and Wednesday performances. Don’t miss them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield Theater
Phillips & Co
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