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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1917
Page
4
Mrs. Lamberson announces three week stock closeout and vacating on the south side square. After June first Rodabaugh & Bean will occupy the entire rooms, joining fronts with their china department and using the extra space for a heavy hardware department.
Bloomington May 4 Indiana University may lose about 200 students who take credits for farm work under university offer. The registrar's office crowd looked like a bargain day rush in a department store.
High east front lots in the Pumphrey Addition offered with easy terms or build to suit. J. P. Starr, 646. Also listings for rebuilt typewriters from American Writing Machine Co. and a 1916 Oldsmobile trade. Contact numbers provided.
At the State Dental Society gathering H E Latcham Jefferson was named president C M Kennedy Des Moines vice president Frank Fourt Fairfield treasurer and B E Short Panora treasurer. About 900 dentists pledged to treat one rejected army recruit free of charge to render 00 men fit for service. Dues rose from 6 to 7 dollars annually.
Multiple rental notices list furnished and unfurnished rooms at 301 West Burlington Street, a new modern house by Harry S. Ball contact 411, eleven room modern house at Third and Kirkwood via D. F. Spratt, a good barn at 302 East Burlington contact 3273, thirty-five acres of Blue Grass pasture land contact 7318, and a double house four blocks from the square via White Tea store or phone 184 or 4409.
Entries list several missing belongings including a crochet hook box labeled Anna Brawner, a set of six to eight small office keys, and a pair of eyeglasses between Yeoman Hall and 506 East Burlington Street. Journal office asks finders to return items for reward.
The Young Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church hosts a tea Monday at 6 30 pm at Miss Fern Hewitt’s home 302 West Washington street. Pythian Sisters Kensington Club meets Tuesday with Mrs J A Huglin, weather permitting at Mrs Spratt’s Fast Burlington street. Agnes Brady and Ray Eckerman wed in Ottumwa with a small ceremony at the Christian parsonage.
Berlin reports that a Reichstag constituent committee was formed with Philipp Scheidemann as president and Dr. von Veit as vice president. Separately Yale authorities were denied permission to send the Yale battery to Fort Sill for officer training.
Funeral services for Jacob Ringlespacher who died yesterday morning near the city will be at 2 30 pm Sunday at the English Lutheran church Rev Angpach in charge with burial in Evergreen cemetery He was born in Beveria Germany April 21 1869 and came to America in 1871 He married Emma Schmidt January 31 1894 and leaves a son Harry a sister Mrs Samuel Lewis and his father He was a prominent Lutheran church member and Bible class teacher in the Winners class and was held in high esteem by friends
A bank urges friends and patrons to invest in the United States War Loan as a patriotic duty. It promises to supply bonds without charge or commission once they receive the bonds for purchasers.
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