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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1917
Page
7
Local notices report job openings at Rock Island arsenals with wages from 2.50 to 4.75 daily. The April district court term adjourned and Fairfield prepares to form a local Red Cross society at a high school meeting chaired by citizens.
Local congregations announce tomorrow Sabbath services at Barhydt Chapel and multiple churches. Activities include evening vesper services, Sunday school at 9:30, B Y P U at 6:30, and revival meetings with daily cottage prayers led by various pastors and organizers.
A brief notice states visitors are welcome, describing welcoming rooms and general openness to guests. The line emphasizes hospitality and accessibility without naming individuals or places.
Marion population 106000 has sent forty men into army and navy service in three weeks. Enlistees span infantry cavalry coast artillery field artillery signal corps and marines. Three doctors and two dentists plan to depart as four recruits join officers training camp.
Lucian B. Jones and family arrive in Seattle on furlough from Aligarh India and plan to stay with his daughter’s home before moving on to Fairfield for Parsons Commencement week. Harold Randall and Paul Gossick are enroute home from Des Moines after enlisting in the navy with a likely two month wait before deployment to Chicago. Mrs. J S Gantz and Mrs Clay Breneman visit Otumna friends. Cort Carter family to Chariton to visit relatives. C H Lloyd and Loren Goddard of Co M visit Ottumwa before returning tonight.
Pearl McGill offers cleaning and pressing while a shoeshine and clothing purchase service is advertised at the New Chicago Pantatorium. A reader notes an all-purpose tailoring and shine shop in the city.
Notice to holders of special sewer assessment bonds No 35 36 37 and 38 of Fairfield City to present for payment at once as interest stops from May 4 1917 city clerk Paul Coleson signs the notice.
Hon. John T. Clarkson, attorney for the Miner's Union of Iowa, will address Fairfield workers at 2:30 PM on Sunday May Sixth at the Fairfield Theater. The event invites all working men to learn what a union is and its purpose.
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