Local notices list anniversaries, weddings, and club events
Society notes announce the tenth anniversary of the Wesleyan Bible Class at First Methodist, a Presbyterian Women meeting, and a Sumatra Montana wedding reported by the Sumatra Record. Also listed are Hawkeye Rebekah Club banquet, P E Q society meeting, Thursday Embroidery Club, Rosary Society gathering, Fairfield High School Alumni reception for 1917 class, and a Junior Class reception for seniors at Fairfield High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesleyan iBble
First Methodist Church
Sumatra
Billings
Sleet Wood Hotel
Hawkeye Rebekah Club
North Side
Fairfield High School
Local Briefs Include Re enlistments and Visits
Local items note Margaret Jeavens of Cleveland visiting Miss Lea Buckles. Re enlisted Co M veterans Charlie McCampbell and Charles Maxwell join the company at Ottumwa. R B Louden Sr. and wife travel to St. Louis to visit daughter Roberta, a student there. Memorial services honor G A R and W R C members with a flag presented to Miss Nannie Barker’s Sunday School.
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Mss
Margaret Jeavens
Cleveland
Ohio
Lea Buckles
Charlie McCampbell
Charles Maxwell
Co. M
Conmipany
Ottumwa
R. B. Louden
St. Louis
Roberta Louden
Chester Fordyce
Burlington
Bert Spiers
Agnes Hall
Union
Iowa
Nannie Barker
W. Fordyce
Arthur Jordan
Geo. M. Ball
E. M. Blough
Mt. Pleasant
Sk. R. Hull
Newton Freshwater
L Kuhns
New Chicago
Maggie Summers
George Strong Corps No
Misston Sunday School
Chicago and Kansas City Livestock Markets Report The Markets
Chicago and Kansas City live stock quotes show hog receipts around 18 000 and 9 000 respectively with bids ranging light to heavy packers. Cattle receipts about 2 500 in Chicago and 14 000 in Kansas City with steers and cows priced to market conditions. Prices for wheat corn oats and produce included with varied ranges across regions. East Buffalo notes heavy cattle and lower hog prices with limited lamb and sheep quotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Kansas City
East Buffalo
Dunnine and Stevens
Livestock Commission
Buffalo
N. Y
Unicode Misprint Fails to Name Hungarian Prime Minister
A garbled OCR snippet reports on ZiCHyY and Tisva speculation around a Hungarian prime ministership. Text uncertainty leaves names and dates unclear while hinting at political leadership changes.
Latins Press On Trieste Front as Russia Helps
Italian forces under Cadorna drive on Trieste with hammer blows on the Isonzo as Austria-Hungary shifts troops from the Russian front. Reports claim 60,000 Austrian losses to date and renewed Russian artillery activity signals a widening war effort. The Vienna bulletin asserts Austrian defenses hold while Italians tally captives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Hapsburg
Cadorna
Trieste
Lloyd George
France
Austria-Hungary
Isonzo
Vienna
Austria
Wanted and For Sale Classified Snippet
Wanted furnished rooms for light housekeeping. Address xX care Journal. 785 Wanted two laundry women for Okoboji. Leave name and address at Journal office. 779 Wanted clerical position by a young man who is a good typist bookkeeper and penman. Can furnish references. Address S care Box 28 Fairfield Iowa. 755 For sale ladies bicycle in good repair. Phone B745. 790 For sale canopy top car riage. Phone 2699. 782 For sale one 6x9 Fibre Bug one Reed baby buggy also a sulky. Cheap. Enquire at 705 West Washington street. 784 td er ket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Care Journal
Okoboji
Fairfield
Iowa
West
Washington Street
Explosions Injure Workers On U S Steamer Lackawanna
Three blasts rocked the Lackawanna in Havana harbor during coal unloading. Two Cuban and one Spanish workers were injured, with the Cubans seriously hurt. Captain Johnson says bombs planted by spies in Norfolk caused the explosions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Lackawanna
Johnson
Norfolk
Milling groups pledge support for Hoover on food bill
Washington May 29 representatives of the nation s milling associations assured Herbert Hoover of their support for a government food administration. They promised to back food legislation in congress but urged changes in its phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Herbert C. Hoover
Congress
Rockefeller Takes $5,000,000 More Liberty Bonds
John D. Rockefeller bought another five million dollars in liberty loan bonds, increasing his total holdings to fifteen million dollars. The purchase was reported from New York on May 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockefeller
New York
John JD. Rockefeller
Schmidt Heads Grain Board In Illinois Appointment
Governor Lowden appoints Walter Schmidt Republican from Chicago as chief grain inspector, succeeding the late I. D. Vincent of Ottawa. Salary set at 7000 dollars. John E. K. Quinn of Chicago removed for incompetency and neglect of duty after a request to resign drew no reply. Other two discharged Dunne members, J. P. Brown and Rudolph Paterson, have expired terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. D. Vincent
Springfield
Ill
Walter Schmidt
Eighth Ward
Chicago
Lowden
Ottawa
John EK. Quinn
State Livestock Commission
Quinn
Blue Laws Enforced in Burlington Iowa
In Burlington Iowa on May 29 only four arrests were made for blue law violations. Proprietors of two moving picture theaters and two confectionaries who refused to close when ordered by the attorney general were notified by police to report to the police court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Burlington
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Woman’s Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church
P. FE. Q. Society
Chas. Herring
West Broadway
O. BE. Kirby
West Briges Street
Rosary Society
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
R. J. Buchanan
J. ©. Droz
X. Nady
Brikfs
Cash Grain
Zichyy
As Uringarian
Prem.ier
Russia
Hapsburg Empire
American Presa Association
Studebaker
Ray Allender
Crail & Brown’s
Journal
U. S
Havana Harbor
Schmidt Heads Grain Board
David
Burling
Thoma & Thoma
C. G. Taylor
John T. Davies
Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
L. E
Pure Life Insurance
National Life Assn
Des Moines
W. B. Parrett
James F. Wilson Jr
Agts
H. P. McLaughlin Co
Fairfield’s Big Furniture Store
Embalmer & Funeral Director
E First Ts North
Iowa State Vings Bank
Fairfield Pure Ice Company
Rock Island Lines
Rocky Mountain Limited
Denver
Colorado Springs
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