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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1917
Page
2
Prominent lawyers send regrets for missing the 40th anniversary banquet honoring Leggett and McKenney. Letters praise the firm’s talent, integrity, and high ethics, with quotes from C M McElroy, C J Wilson, J J Seerley, and others.
Letter dated April 28 1917 from Raymond E Wilson stationed near Portsmouth New Hampshire describes training on an island camp ships seen submarines and a battleship his plans to serve on patrol boats and his aim to be in the upper class he notes meals better than the army and asks his grandmother to tell everyone he is well Also a brief satirical note about Russian revolutionaries ordering razors from the United States and dismissing czars whiskers as useless.
The Fairfield High School junior class raised about 128 dollars from a two act play titled Whiskers. Proceeds fund the Fairfield Red Cross Society as war enthusiasm grows. The program featured operatic numbers and a comedy sketch with a lively wedding theme.
Washington May 6 Herbert Hoover chairman of the food committee of the council of national defense arrives to present a comprehensive report on conditions in allied countries for guiding American food shipments. The note cites serious shortages in England and Italy and coal needs in France. The piece also mentions music by the Imperial Sextet.
Fairfield patriotism shines as residents subscribe to the Liberty Loan. O F Fryer of the Iowa State Bank lists early subscribers including William Louden Hiram Heaton Co J Fulton J P Starr Frank Rieksher O F Fryer C A Herring Gaines Bros Lewis Bros M W Roth Geo W Ball J S Nehemey C D Leggett C W Green W L Hague Geo Banfield C W Wade and C P Hague urging others to join at once.
In Petrograd on May 6 the council of workers and soldiers delegates passed a vote of confidence in the government by 2,500 delegates with a slim majority. The radicals grow louder demanding concessions that threaten organized rule as Germany pulls troops from the eastern front, replaced by landstrum and landwehr divisions.
William Despain lies critically ill at his West Jefferson Street home with hourly death expected. All children have been summoned to his bedside.
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