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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1917
Page
8
The Coburn Players return to the Parsons College campus for two performances on June 4. The matinee and evening will feature The Yellow Jacket, a Chinese love story, and Julius Caesar as the evening show. The outdoor venue at Fairfield is described as one of the most beautiful spots for theatre.
The article argues that by-products from human food manufacture are valuable stock feeds. It urges farmers to combine by-products with silage and other low-cost meals, notes feeding whole grain is wasteful, and explains labeling of feedstuffs with their protein content to assess nutritional value for economical feeding.
Seed barley should be uniform in size and weight to ensure synchronized germination. Remove the very largest and smallest kernels to produce plump, even seed and reduce uneven maturity at harvest.
The article notes barley once common in bread but now mainly a stock feed and incidental kitchen item. It highlights barley’s poor bread qualities, its need to be mixed with wheat, and its limited current uses in soups and breakfast malts.
Libertyville Birthday Club celebrates fourteenth anniversary with a dinner at Mrs. John A. Glotfelty’s home. Letha Odell hosts a birthday party for eighteen guests on West Stone street. Mabel May Buchanan and Ernie Crawford marry at the Methodist parsonage with union attended by relatives. Jennie Katherine Wray and Xavier C. Nady announce their June 4 wedding at St Mary’s Catholic Church. Royal Neighbors lodge plans a meeting in the Fraternal Aid hall with important business noted.
The Illinois State Historical Society plans to buy surrounding dwellings to create a public park to protect the Lincoln homestead at Eighth and Jackson in Springfield. Secretary Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber warns that the home, made of wood, could easily burn if nearby buildings catch fire.
For sale items include a washing machine and wringer in good condition for quick sale. Also empty oak paint barrels with steel hoops offered at fifty cents each while they last. The Louden Machinery Co. lists typewriters rebuilt and sold at substantial discounts with a one year guarantee and five day trial. Catalogue on request from Journal office in Chicago.
Classified listings show several rental notices including three furnished rooms at 601 South Fourth Street with phone 1244, a big corner house with garden, eleven room house on West Kirkwood Street via Mrs D F Spratt phone 4570, three unfurnished upstairs rooms at 400 West Burlington Street with utilities, a modern house for inquiry at Jericho and Easton, a new modern house listed by Harry I Ball phone 411, a double house four blocks from the square via White Tea store or phones 184 or 4409.
The Unkrich Boys' Band plans a Tuesday evening concert in the park at 8 o'clock. The program features marches and overtures by Fred Jewell and R. Schlepegrell, a medley of Remicks Hits, Scottish songs, Oriental Intermezzo, and ends with the Star Spangled Banner. Readable names include K L King, Lampe, and Fred Jewell.
A narrator describes a rough town character who terrifies his family while a cyclone approaches. A wry line notes a man’s value by his chemical components at about $3.48 and a 300 pound hog at over $45. William mocks the crew and wrecks the plans as Woodrow cautions restraint.
A health expert warns on cat handling while a humorous reminiscence recalls liver giveaways by butchers. The tone then hints marriage skepticism toward Doe and questions the value of tying the knot.
The Norwegian steamship Thorum, chartered by the government to ship forage to famine struck northern Norway, has been seized inside Norwegian waters by a German submarine. The action threatens a serious diplomatic dispute between Norway and Germany.
Five men were killed and fifteen injured, several fatally, when a turbine engine exploded at the Republican Iron and Steel company BM plant in Youngstown Ohio. Investigators say no cause has been determined and most victims were American steel workers.
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