Local notes on visits and movements across Iowa towns
Local brief listing visits and travel across New London Centerville Cedar Rapids Des Moines Boston and other places. Residents and relatives are mentioned with movements to Burlington Memphis Pleasant Plain Keota Salem Rome Davenport Princeton Ill and Allerton. War service remarks note Mrs Mason’s Washington trip and three sons in service.
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Methodist Church
Mason
J. F. Stanford
Washington, D
Meeting notices and engagements in local society
Homesteaders Lodge in Moose Hall will hold a meeting on Tuesday evening September 13 with a Supreme Lodge representative addressing the group and refreshments served. Evergreen Lodge plans a social Friday November 23 with invited guests. Lydia Pelle Kuehnle of Denison Iowa announces engagement to Eugene Addison Howard Jr. of Chicago area, with Howard at Fort Sheridan.
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G Homesteaders Lodge
Moose Hall
Supreme Lodge
Evergreen Lodge
Degree of
Chicago Tribune
Eugene Howard
City
Carl F. Kuehnie
Denison
Iowa
Lydia Pelle
Eugene Addison Howard, Jr
E. A. Howard
Barry Avenue
Howard
Fort Sheridan
Iowa Nine Debating League Formed By Nine High Schools
Principal O F Nixon organized a new Debating and Declaiming League named The Iowa Nine with nine schools Fairfield Oskaloosa Ottumwa Grinnell Cedar Rapids Iowa City Clinton Muscatine Davenport. Meetings in Des Moines and Davenport planned declamatory contests girls and boys extempore speaking and a three triangle debating format culminating in a league final on the railroads question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. F. Nixon
Iowa City
Fairfield
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Grinnell
Cedar Rapids
Clinton
Muscatine
Davenport
Iowa Nine
Des Moines
State Teachers’ Association
Grant Club
United States
Nixon Belives
Fairfield High School
Public job exams in Fairfield seek 18 plus applicants
Fairfield notices invite men and women 18 and over to qualify for examinations for Meat Inspectors Prison Guards clerks carriers and other government posts. C E Burbridge will interview at Leggett Hotel on Wednesday November 14 between 10 am and 9 pm with permanent positions offered. Minor accompaniment required for those under age. Also a local factory proposition is being explored by Fairfield businessmen with a committee appointed to investigate. G A Merich represents John Sexton Co Grocers in Chicago and can be contacted at 204 S Main or by phone 553. 579. A call for Japan authority from Col McClure closes the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good -N'Ames
Burbridge
G. A. Merich
John Sexton Co
Chicago
S. Main Street
Fairfield Defeats Centerville High in Slow 7-0 Showdown
Fairfield High beat Centerville High 7-0 on Saturday in a defensive bout. Fairfield's White starred with a pivotal pass to Cuddy, while Centerville’s fullback stood out despite the loss. Yount scored for Fairfield on a 25 yard run through broken field after a White pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairfield High School
Centerville High
Fairfield High
White
Cuddy
Yount
Fairfield
S McClure to Lecture on Japan at Fairfield
S McClure magazine editor and keen political observer will lecture on Japan at Parsons College Tuesday evening. Fresh from a tour in Japan, he plans to share inside facts as Japan seems poised for greater world war involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. McClure
Parsons College
Col. McClure
Japan
New York
Fairfield
McClure
Exhibition of Nose Billiards At Welday & Allison Parlor
An unusual billiards exhibition by Prof. Lewis of New York will take place tonight from 7:30 to 8:00 at Welday and Allison. He will play a 50 point game to four players 25 with his nose and perform shots with nose and fingers, aiming for a 300 point run in ten minutes. Admission is free and enthusiasts are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welday & Allison
Lewis
New York
J Engel Piano Tuner Now in Fairfield
J Engel piano tuner of Chicago now located in Fairfield offers seventeen years in business and six years practical factory experience. Leave orders at Scheffels Music House or James Hughes phone 1691.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fairfield
Scheffel’s
Music House
James Hughes
Mrs Margaret Wells Dies in Colorado Springs
Word arrived that Mrs Margaret Wells of Colorado Springs Colorado died on Sunday. Interment will be in Fairfield Evergreen Cemetery on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. with brief services to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Wells
Colorado Springs
Colorado
Fairfield Evergreen Cemetery
Classified Ad Seeks Sweetheart in Memphis Missouri Note
A Memphis Missouri newspaper re prints a diary style classifieds note found in gloves from Fairfield Glove and Mitten Co. It seeks a six foot tall sweetheart with black curly hair dark brown eyes and a winning personality. The ad notes the advertiser is young and domesticated and not a quitter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Memphis Clothing Co
Fairfield Glove and Mitten Co
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Harry Lovell
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Laverne Lawson
Nate Nicholson
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Salem
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Camp Dodge
Geo. H. Frasher
Julia Roth
Wellesley College
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J. E. Roth
Charles Myers
Rome
Clara M. Bone
Orpheum
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Wm. Neibert
Bethel Starr Tweedy
Princeton, Ill
C. L. Starr
L. C. Graber
Hame
J. B. Johnson
Elmer Carlson
Philathea Bible Class
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H. M. Truesdale
North Main Street
Hazel Stever
Bradshaw
L. O. Gaines
R. D. Hunt
J. Engel
Anderson’s
Spirit of Christmas
Browning
Emerson Records
Pathe Record
Winter
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Brunswick
Georgette
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Jay Russell
George Workmen
Ezra Williams
J. H. Stull
S. A. Jones
Pitt Johnson
Greer McKee
Universa
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Pearl Diver
Captain Nemo
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