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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1918
Page
4
A good congregation heard Rev. W. R. Keesey discuss the character and person of Jesus at the Methodist church last night with live music. He argued the attitude toward Christ shapes all religion and that Jesus is the final authority in faith. Tonight he continues with The Place of Reason in Religion.
A community patriotic meeting at Cedar No 2 Bradshaw school Friday evening proceeds benefit the school and the Red Cross. Addresses by F. Fryer and William G. Ross. Attendees bring a pie for sale. Mrs. Anna M. Bakow teaches at the school.
British naval aircraft from Dunkirk claim destruction of five German planes from Thiersky to Sunday with five more felled and two observed downed. all British aircraft reportedly returned safely. Additional notes report Australian pilots destroying two German planes and a naval airship incident near Pris. March reports indicate multiple German planes shot down in various locations.
Joseph P Otten chief of the foods administration tent department and EB Ihann Durand under the same direction were notified in Chicago to appear before the senate agriculture committee investigating the food situation. Durand will testify Tuesday and Cotton Wednesday. They will reply to charges about advising packers to hold livestock prices down.
American intelligence reports a possible spy at work inside the American lines northwest of Tuol near Tariy. An officer saw a signal light from a window toward enemy lines, fired, but found no one. Four hours earlier telegraph wires inside the American lines were cut.
Berlin warns Madrid and Bern to inform Washington that Germany will retaliate against American property in kind. The measures mirror U S action on German holdings abroad as Rome reports.
Reports from Tokyo and Petrograd indicate German officers in Siberia form a force of about 40,000 POWs, likely Germans and Austro-Hungarians, while officers in Ukraine move to organize a Ukrainian unit. The activity adds pressure in the far East and southwestern Russia.
This morning the Y M C A and Y W C A elected officers for the coming term. Ballard hall heard Miss Anna B Lawther speak to the Y W C A members. Katherine Shelby travels to Brighton to fill a temporary teaching vacancy. President Montgomery to speak at New London banquet and depart for Chicago tomorrow on college business.
A Des Moines rally of 509 ministers and laymen launched the Disciples emergency drive aiming to raise over 2 million dollars for the United States and Canada. The effort, part of the Men and Millions movement, seeks funds to complete a 6.3 million goal, with a March 7 to April 6 campaign across states, including wartime needs in colleges, missions, and hospitals abroad.
The American ambassador to Russia David Ro man ts, the Japanese ambassador Vis count Ushida, and diplomatic representatives from Britain and France were due to arrive in Seoul today as they travel to Japan.
Advertisement notes firs class trees and small fruit or ornamental stock by W B Campbell in Fairfield last week of March. John Sexton & Co. is represented by G A Unkrich, Grocers of Chicago, with contact 1666 and 204 South Main Street. Garage brush window offers cleanup burn start at $1.08 and up.
Thoma & Thoma offer money to loan on improved city property, located at 809. They advertise available funds for real estate financing and invite inquiries from property owners seeking loans.
The document reproduces an Iowa law penalizing desecration of national and state flags. It defines offenses such as printing or attaching ads or designs to flags, displays on flags, selling or possessing flag related items for such use, and public mutilation or defilement. Penalties include up to a $100 fine or 30 days in jail, plus a $50 per offense civil penalty to fund the county school fund, with suit by the state's attorney general. Exceptions cover printed newspaper items and private stationery.
Local notice lists items for sale including a Ford Touring Car at 705 West Kirkwood, an incubator for 10 dollars, a Jersey cow six years old, a leather couch, and a ten room house for sale on South Third Street. Also advertised are home grown barley seed, several horses and farms, a farm near Fairfield, a drug store in a town of 400, and Canadian wheat lands with parcels and farms in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Yorkton area. Contact details and addresses accompany each listing.
Local listings show multiple wants and rentals including a four or five room house with garden call 3643 182 WANTED middle aged housekeeper for farm home two in family good wages call 151 181 WANTED general washing call 1780 WANTED two modern rooms for light housekeeping no children ask for L J Johnson Leggett Hotel 17% FOR SALE Axminster Rug 10x13 and Axminster Rug 6x9 good bargains call 3715 168 WANTED paper cleaning satisfaction guaranteed price reasonable country work solicited phone 320 Shriner Johnsons Lab WANTED gardens to plow Art Sirdoreus phone 1465 175 WANTED old trusty incubator small size in good condition phone or write C care Journal 179 WANTED At once girl for counter work New Chicago Cafe phone 228 172 FOR RENT five room modern bungalow inquire Wilsons Art Store 168 FOR RENT a modern house seven rooms seven blocks from the square Jacob Scheffel 162 WANTED wall paper to clean satisfaction guaranteed phone 1264 Webber Bros 160 Phillips Co musical comedy at The Fairfield Tuesday and Wednesday hear them
FOR RENT OR SALE After April Sth my residence on Fifth and Grimes street modern 7 rooms fur nace bath laundry room Dr J Gaumer FOR RENT April lst three rooms for light housekeeping furnished or unfurnished Mrs L Spry 506 South Third street phone No 4500 WANTED Woman or girl for general housework Phone 22938 FOR RENT Modern 8 room house near square Two new flats four rooms each bath and free water Stove heat 10 and 15 See E R SMITH 179
A card announces The Military Dance performing at the Orpheum tonight. The entertainment feature highlights a military themed show with schedules and admission details for local patrons.
Jr Engel Piano Tuner of Chicago now permanently located in Fairfield after seventeen years in business and six years practical factory experience. Leave orders at Scheffel's Music or James Hughes, phone 1691.
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