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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1917
Page
2
Dean Taylor and A W Taylor, managers, mail matter of second class, Weirfeld Iowa, request prompt reports of irregularities in carrier service and provide telephone contact 23 for the post office report line.
The Baraca class of English Lutheran Church Fairfield Ia took a 72 member outing by car train to Fort Madison Keokuk with a stop at Birmingham Stockton Hillsboro and Danville. They visited the Fort Madison penitentiary church service toured the prison and toured Keokuk parks and sights ending with dinner and a 1 15 pm tour returning with strengthened social educational and religious ties led by Anspach Swan Edwards and Huglin.
The class of 1917 at F H S held a large baccalaureate service in the auditorium with Rev. W R Keesey delivering the address. The program included solos by Robert Israel and Miss Margaret White, a violin solo by Robert Israel, and readings by Rev. E G McKibben. Four members already enlisted were honored with vacant seats draped in national colors.
Word arrived today of the death of Mrs Floyd Halferty at a Wisconsin hospital from heart leakage. She was about twenty one, a cousin of Mrs Ford Wray. The body will be brought to Ottumwa and funeral services are set for tomorrow at Daggett Undertaking Parlors at ten in the morning.
Springfield Ill May 28 Possible legal defects may cause Governor Lowden to veto the bill abolishing capital punishment for murder. The bill is in the attorney general for an opinion on constitutionality and form. Attorneys say it is loosely drawn and warn of legal flaws. An opinion is expected in two to three days. Requests urge a veto regardless of validity. Another bill awaiting signature would prohibit fraternities in high schools.
A string of local visits and movements lists Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Mendenhall in Vermont, Heaton on Birmingham business, Edwin Linder joining First National Bank, Miss Beardsley in Birmingham with Marian Patterson, and multiple city visitors from Batavia Ottumwa Libertyville Des Moines and Albia. A Dec oration Day school schedule note and a sidewalk injury on South Fifth Street are also recorded.
Mrs. John Gossick learns her father T. F. Teeter died Saturday evening in Kansas City Missouri. His remains will be brought home by his brother tonight for funeral services Tuesday at 2 30 PM at the Baptist church with Rev Toothacre and Rev Polly officiating. Interment follows at Evergreen cemetery.
A special communication of Clinton Lodge No. 15 A F and A M will be held at 7:30 tonight with work in the second degree. Thomas Lee Saturday suffered a fracture of a bone in the left ankle from a fall.
County authorities probe the discovery by boys in a field near Gillespie of parts of a human body wrapped in a newspaper dated April 20. The case hinges on the fragmentary find and seeks to identify the missing person and the source of the remains.
An explosion at 1 20 am rocked Muskogee Oklahoma injuring no one reported, destroying windows city wide. Police say the blast came from the powder magazine at the Muskogee Vitrified Brick Plant on the city outskirts where 1000 pounds of dynamite were stored.
Walter Gaffney, thirty, shot his wife and her mother after a family quarrel in Hammond. He wounded his wife on the porch and killed himself with a breast wound. The mother-in-law, who came to the doorway, received a scalp wound but is reported to recover. The wife had left him for Chicago two weeks earlier.
The boys express indebtedness to the owners of the stars and to the orchestra and all who helped make the trip one of the most pleasant and enjoyable. They extend heartfelt thanks to these supporters and participants.
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