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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1917
Page
6
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The Baraca Class of the English Lutheran church of Fairfield Ia. led a 72 member outing by car to Birmingham Stockport Hillsboro Denmark and Fort Madison then to Keokuk for dinner at 12 20 pm and a 1 15 pm auto tour. Rev Anspach J A Huglin praised the trip for social educational and religious value and the group praised the planning and teamwork.
A large 17 member F. H. S. class held a baccalaureate at the auditorium with Dr. H. A. Mosser directing. Revivals, prayers, an anthem, and solos by Robert Israel and Margaret White highlighted the service honoring graduates and the four deceased members in naval or army service.
A string of brief city notes reports visits and business trips from residents including Mr and Mrs C B Mendenhall of Vermont Ill A S Heaton in Birmingham Otto Hood and Merle Hood of Batavia Edwin Linder to start work at First National Bank June 1 Mrs I A Johnson Des Moines visiting daughter Mrs S S Stewart Merle Banta Chicago visit Ralph Peebler Libertyville Don L Teal Birmingham visits Mrs Clyde Frederick Albia visiting parents C D Greeson J A Beck Batavia Ernest Rohrer Ottumwa Carrie Beardsley Birmingham Marian Patterson M L Campbell Chicago Sheriff Shan Campbell Grant Enlow Birmingham O L Coen Mt Pleasant Frank Lawson family Robert Gumm Ed Young Birmingham Philip Pickett injury from broken sidewalk no Decoration Day school closure
Mrs. John Gossick learned that her father T. F. Teeter died Saturday evening in Kansas City Missouri. The brother will bring the body tonight for funeral services Tuesday at 2 30 PM at the Baptist church with Rev Toothacre and Rev Polly officiating. Burial will follow at Evergreen cemetery.
Word reached today of the death of Mrs Floyd Halferty at a Wisconsin hospital from heart leakage. She was about twenty one and a cousin of Mrs Ford Wray. The couple had recently moved to Wisconsin. The body will be brought to Ottumwa for a funeral at Daggett Undertaking Parlors tomorrow at ten o'clock.
Thomas Lee Saturday sustained a fracture of a bone in the left ankle from a fall. The report notes a special communication of Clinton Lodge No 15 A F and A M at 7 30 this evening with work in the second degree.
County authorities probe a field discovery by boys in Gillespie of body parts wrapped in newspaper dated April 20. The case remains unsolved as investigators search for clues and motive.
Springfield Ill May 28 Possible legal defects may cause Governor Lowden to veto the bill abolishing capital punishment for murder The bill was sent to the attorney general for an opinion on constitutionality and form Attorneys who studied the measure say it is loosely drawn and flawed The attorney general is expected to respond in two or three days Requests have been made for a veto regardless of validity No word on the governor stance another bill awaiting his signature would prohibit fraternities in high schools.
A terrifile explosion at 1 20 am shattered windows across Muskogee Oklahoma and in nearby Wagoner and Joyntan. Police say the blast occurred at the powder magazine of the Muskogee Vitrified Brick Plant on city outskirts, where 1000 pounds of dynamite were stored.
Walter Gaffney thirty shoots wife and mother in law then shoots himself on the porch after a quarrel. Mrs Gaffney and her mother are wounded. Gaffney dies, wife and mother-in-law expected to recover. Mrs Gaffney had left him in Chicago two weeks earlier.
The boys express deep gratitude to the owners of the tars, the orchestra, and all who helped, calling the trip one of the most pleasant and enjoyable experiences and extending heartfelt thanks.
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