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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1917
Page
6
W. H. Herschell writes of a boy leaving school for military service. The piece honors family pride and patriotic duty as the child joins the armed forces and becomes a man under Old Glory. The narrative links generations from grandad to the new recruit.
The India a pa Harbor railway has taken over the operation of the New York Central lines roundhouse, locomotive shops and storehouse at Gibson. The crew at the general offices will increase by fifteen to twenty clerks under auditor Osborn to handle work previously done at Cleveland offices.
Prague telegram reports martial law proclaimed across Bohemia. All Bohemian newspapers suspend publication as government order takes effect, Geneva exchange telegraph confirms.
In Madison the proposed referendum bill for statewide woman suffrage in 1920 was defeated in the assembly by 44 to 41. The vote ends the immediate push for a state wide ballot on women’s suffrage.
In Benton Illinois on May 7 a free for all fight left John Harris fatally shot. Ed Wright and Thomas Hendren are held on charges connected to the crime.
New York May 1 Herbert Hoover reported the German Uboat threat has worsened the Belgian and northern French food situation. He said mortality among adults in industrial districts tripled in March and April and that he would go to Washington to lead the government's food control program.
Reports from Guatemala indicate aircraft flying over Guatemalan territory from the Mexican border are of German type. Mexican officials deny German operations in Mexico, while Guatemalan authorities acknowledge the rumors.
The Vossische Zeitung reports Emperor William granted an audience at the great headquarters to Johann von Bernstorff, the former German ambassador to the United States. He is said to be poised for appointment as minister to a neutral country.
Fairfield residents urged to attend a mass meeting at the High School auditorium this evening to organize a local Red Cross society. Speakers include Mrs. J. J. Seerley of Burlington. Unkrich's Boys band to provide music as the meeting begins at eight.
Petrograd reports pacifist movements crushed and renewed fighting in Volhynia and on the Roumanian front. Russians claim victory in both theaters as Russian artillery bombards Fovursk station east of Kovel, causing major destruction. German forces on the Roumanian front initiate an attack but are driven back by heavy shelling.
The Burlington District Conference of the Methodist church meets in Fairfield for two days with public sessions at the local church. Highlights include a Tuesday 2:00 class meeting, an auto tour of Fairfield, an 8:00 sermon by E A Schell, and a Wednesday evening address by Bishop Homer E Stuntz of Omaha.
D G Higley a longtime Fairfield business man died at his East Burlington home at 11:30 AM after weeks of illness. Born July 10 1843 in Polo Illinois he moved to Iowa as a youth and later entered the drug business in Fairfield. He married Hannah Ambler September 29 1868 and had one daughter Mrs James F Wilson. He survived by three brothers T F of Bolton GA Marshall of Chattanooga TN and Simeon of Oregon. Higley was the first American Express agent in Fairfield and a former director of Fairfield National Bank. He belonged to Clinton Lodge A F and A M and the Eastern Star. Funeral plans not announced.
Richmond Indiana reports increasing enlistments from Quaker families. The latest recruit is Robert J. Davis, enlisted for the army engineering corps, reflecting favorable views of local Friends toward army service.
Delegations from cities across Illinois attended the dedication of a new Moose home in Decatur. the $50,000 project drew participants from Chicago Springfield Bloomington Champaign Mattoon Morrisonville Pana Ottawa Joliet Aurora Elgin Monticello Rockford Clinton and other towns.
Rio de Janeiro May 5 Nilo Pecanha a former Brazilian president has been appointed foreign minister succeeding Dr Lauro Muller who resigned to ban ege coyoted the portfolio.
Three men with faces blackened held up the First National Bank of Witzmiller Maryland cashier V Inskeep and secured about $10,000 in cash in a Cumberland Maryland bank holdup report dated May 5.
Regular army recruiting nears an average of 3,000 men a day. Thursday saw 2,786 accepted, bringing total enlistments since April 1 to 48,326. Illinois again led in numbers.
Washington on May 5 reports Sir George Foster Canadian minister of trade and commerce stating that price fixing plans for wheat across North America depend on American food control measures from pending congressional bills. The British mission here pushes for closer U S Canada economic cooperation in the war against Germany.
Herbert C Hoover, head of the American commission for relief in Belgium, said there is only one danger to Germans starving a bad crop and that current consumption on a scientific basis would leave enough food for two years even if intake rose. He prepared to report on European food conditions to President Wilson.
Nationa Crop Improvement Service frames a public query urging support for farmers facing limits on money labor power or seeds. It stresses immediate action to help farmers plant their maximum acreage.
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