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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1917
Page
8
Mrs Be Lamberson, long time milliner on the south side square, will close her stock and vacate within three weeks. After June first Rodabaugh and Bean will occupy the front and rear rooms, expanding into two joined fronts and connected stock rooms. They plan to use the extra space for a heavy hardware department.
Bloomington May 4 Indiana University may lose about 200 students who will take credits for tilling the soil. The registrar’s office scene resembled a bargain day rush as youths lined up to claim the opportunity.
Classified recruitment notices list multiple job and task openings including farm work general labor house cleaning chauffeur and sales agent positions. Employers seek steady workers strong boys and two girls for a laundry, with contact phones and an address in Wisconsin.
Multiple classified items including Pumphrey Addition east front lots offered on easy terms or build to suit by J P Starr, and a range of used and rebuilt typewriters sold below factory prices by American Writing Machine Co. Also listings for a 1916 Oldsmobile trade, a young Holstein cow, harness sets, a buggy, and a team with wagon with contact numbers.
At the State Dental Society gathering 900 dentists were present and elected officers Dr H E Latcham president Dr C M Kennedy vice president Frank Fourt treasurer and BE Short treasurer to succeed Kennedy The dentists also pledged to treat one rejected from army due to dental issues free of charge and dues rose from six to seven dollars annually.
Multiple rental listings including furnished or unfurnished rooms at 301 West Burlington Street and a new modern house listed by Harry S Ball with phone 411 679. An eleven room modern house at Third and Kirkwood via D F Spratt 666. A good barn available at 302 East Burlington Street phone 3273 649. Thirty five acres Blue grass pasture land phone 7318 649. A double house four blocks from the square enquire White Tea store or phone 184 or 4409 632.
Fairfield area finds include a box with crochet hooks and photos labeled Anna Brawner, a small office key set, and a pair of eyeglasses near Yeoman Hall. Reichstag formed a constituent body in Berlin with Scheidemann as president and von Veit as vice president. Yale battery request for Fort Sill training denied by war department.
The Young Women's Foreign Missionary Society plans a tea at 6 30 PM Monday at Miss Fern Hewitt 302 West Washington street with dues due. Pythian Sisters Kensington Club meets Tuesday with Mrs J A Huglin and hostesses Mrs D F Spratt and Mrs Blough. inclement weather moves to Mrs Spratt's East Burlington home. Miss Agnes Brady and Ray Eckerman wed Thursday in Ottumwa at the Christian parsonage with witnesses Miss Grace Bennett and Sgt Paul Crowthers.
Funeral services for Jacob Ringlespacher who died at his northeast city home will be held Sunday at 2 36 PM from the English Lutheran church Rev Angpach to officiate and burial will be in Evergreen cemetery He was born in Beveria Germany April 21 1869 came to America in 1871 and settled in Jefferson County Iowa He married Emma Schmidt January 31 1894 and is survived by his wife a son Harry father and a sister Mrs Samuel Lewis He was a prominent Lutheran Church member and taught the Winners Bible Class
The bank promotes liberal purchase of United States War Loan bonds calling it a patriotic duty and offers to furnish bonds without charge or commission once in hand. Fairfield National Bank, Southwest Corner Square.
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