Next Community Club Meeting Date Set
The club announces the next gathering on Thursday May 9 inviting members to attend and participate in the agenda.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1918
Page
3
The club announces the next gathering on Thursday May 9 inviting members to attend and participate in the agenda.
Ottumwa visitors include G B E Langdon and C G Sparks on business. Residents travel to Pleasant Plain Lockridge Montrose and Beckwith for visits and errands. Notables move jobs and families relocate with insurance promotions and hospital care noted. Ward Lam eon funeral attendance. Mrs L Lamberson burial escort. strokes and pneumonia affecting residents.
The Fairfield missionary societies held a profitable fourteenth annual convention at the First Methodist church with officers elected including President Mrs. H A Mitchell and Vice Presidents Mrs. H C Davis and Mrs. Joseph Hickenbottom. Addresses covered Siam and China missions, with notes from Bancock, Siam, and remarks on youth education and Christian influence.
Bernard Stenzel of Waverly Iowa was found guilty of violating the espionage act and sentenced to 18 months in Fort Leavenworth federal penitentiary and fined 300 dollars.
Radium has been added to the export conservation list by the War Trade Board, issued from Washington on May 3, restricting its shipment abroad.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Downard of Stockport announce the marriage of their daughter Twyla Downard to Jay Snyder son of Mr and Mrs Ed Nnyder of Fairfield. Mrs James Turner and Mrs John Facer hosted a post nuptial shower for Mrs Carl Adams at Fast Kirkwood street with refreshments and gifts for the bride.
Auckland May 2 Princess Salome wife of the governor of Haabai has been proclaimed queen of Tonga in succession to the late King George I.
John D. Snyder died early this morning at his Os kaloosa home after months of illness. A former Fairfield grocery businessman, he moved with his family to Os kaloosa about five years ago. He was about 45 and survived by his wife and six children Bernice Arinne Irene Dorothy Cornelia and Jack. Funeral plans not yet set possibly Fairfield and Brookville cemetery interment.
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