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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1917
Page
3
Long list of jurors drawn for the April term includes Emry Crenshaw Richland and Chris Pohren Lockridge. Community items note visits, illnesses, and society meetings plus a G A R gathering at the Court House.
Local notes report the Bethel Jubilee Singers of the A M E church will perform a benefit concert tomorrow night at First Methodist church for Mt. Pleasant A M E church. Several residents are listed visiting relatives and traveling to nearby towns for weekend stays and homecomings.
Gary Indiana on March 19 framed plans to commandeer motor trucks for food deliveries if a railroad strike occurs. Officials studied restricting automobile pleasure use and noted low food stocks while munitions plants nearby would be heavily guarded if car shortages shut down.
Uncle Joe Cannon may reside in Indiana during the summer. Ernest X. LeSacre, Danville bank president and son in law to Cannon, leased the Rodgers homestead in Warren County with a one year purchase option. The 1821 colonial mansion cost $80,000 and lies three miles NW of Covington and thirteen miles east of Danville.
More than 200 Russian students at Valparaiso University held a demonstration in recital hall celebrating Czar Nicholas's downfall. Professors Hoover and Damron spoke as students voiced plans to return to Russia after studies. A planned street parade was postponed by Professor Kinzey due to wind.
Drys and the Republican machine unite in a fusion campaign after George F. Rearick won the GOP mayoral nomination over John W. Barrer by 500 votes. The wets suffer a twenty year first defeat as Danville, a dry stronghold, braces for April elections with two liquor dealer organizers aiding the effort.
Eugene P. Erckenbrack, assistant manager at the Porter Line Transportation company, is among four held in Seattle as investigators probe the fatal shooting of Marie Howe, a 19 year old maid at the Erckenbrack residence.
Boston March 19 The courthouse bomb mystery deepens with one victim identified as the building janitor while the other corpse remains unidentified.
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