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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1919
Page
3
Jefferson County citizens are reminded that the May 10 deadline requires the first installment on each Victory Bond. Many have not paid yet, and three days remain. Banks will be rushed to complete sales. those who have paid may buy additional bonds at any bank before Saturday, per the Victory Loan Committee.
S S Crane spends two weeks at Excelsior Springs Missouri. Mrs George Coleson goes to Mt Pleasant for a funeral. Rev E F Gayle and Miss Anna Phelan visit Holbrook. Dr A B Leamer of Des Moines attends Lutheran convention. Dr W H Blanche of Newton attends convention. Mr and Mrs John Harter visit from Glasgow. Mrs Elizabeth Whitney attends librarians convention in Ottumwa. Judge C W Vermillion closes April term and leaves for Bloomfield. Birth: May 3 a girl to Clarence and Mrs Elliott named Marjorie Lideen. Mrs Marion Tracy returns to Brookville after visit. Mrs Alice Harper returns to Batavia after visit with niece. Mrs I A Workman recovering from operation. Mrs Walter Hunt returns from Washington visit. B H Elliott travels to Kellerton after sister Mrs T C Higgins dies. Grandma Charlotte Baggs recovering from hip fracture at Jefferson County Hospital. Mrs Mary Wisecarver to move to Des Moines with sons Gregg and Robert. Gregg Trisecarver receives honorable discharge from overseas.
Pauline Frederick stars in a photoplay written for her by Alicia Ramsey and Rudolph Cordova titled A Daughter of the Old South. Set in an old Louisiana town the Creole heroine rebels against an arranged marriage, loves a northern novelist, and exposes his duplicity in a dramatic love triangle. Shown at the Orpheum today.
Trepassey Newfoundland May 7 conditions at the base for the transatlantic flight returned to normal after a heavy gale. Three grounded ships were anchored in deep water as divers inspected them. The fuel ship Hiskon floated first, followed by freeing destroyers Foote Maddox and Prairie towing. Six more destroyers Ward Palmer Thatcher Crosby and Lawb to join ten already anchored for guard duty.
Former Parsons student John Keesey, recently discharged from the navy, visits his brother Wilbur and friends on campus as Wesleyan comes to Barhydt chapel for an 8:00 p.m. debate led by Brad Shaw. The event invites all to attend and back a decisive victory.
A. J. Larson schedules a sale at 2 30 Saturday May 10 at his home 214 101 E Adams street items include coal and oil stoves a refrigerator dining table two dressers two beds bedding two rugs lace curtains and jelly dishes plus other articles. Residence also offered for sale. Auctioneers T B Allender C W Brawner Clerk.
Washington reports that the Supreme Court granted the Postmaster General Burleson authority to collect higher intrastate telegraph rates in Illinois while appeals proceed. The court kept in place temporary injunctions against state interference and kept Landis' dissolutions of those injunctions temporarily inoperative.
All residents of Fairfield Iowa with dogs must pay a tax at the city clerk office. One dollar for each male dog and three dollars for each female dog, then receive a numbered metal tag to fasten to the collar. The City Marshall may destroy dogs not taxed after June 1 1919 under Ordinance 182. F J L Black.
In Missouri, sheriff Joseph C. Tolbert and deputy John McDonald were found murdered seven miles southeast of Lexington after a confrontation with three motorcar bandits. Deputy James C. Stapleton was wounded while another deputy lay injured. Tolbert and McDonald were killed with their own revolvers before the bandits fled in the sheriff’s car.
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