Postal notice from Fairfeld Iowa office
A brief post office notice from Fairfield Iowa requests prompt reporting of any irregularities in carrier service and provides telephone contact.
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Fairfeld
Iowa
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1917
Page
6
Libertyville Social and Club Notes Include Red Cross Hemming
Local Big Sisters plan to meet Mrs. H. K. Davis on Saturday November 17 to hem sheets for the Red Cross. The column lists visitors and travelers from Burlington Ottumwa Fairfield and Keosauqua with several aunts uncles and cousins visiting relatives in Libertyville. Rebekah club hosted a Friday afternoon gathering and several residents took weekend trips to Iowa City Ottumwa Stockport and Mt. Pleasant. The piece ends with Army Y M C A appeal for support.
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8. K. Davis
Red Cross
David Haynes
Burlington
J. O. Boyd
R. Black
Salt Lake City
Ella Gibbons
Ottumwa
H. D. Davis
Harry Beatty
Fairfield
CC. L. McGaw
Curt Vaught
Memphis
Ray Loehr
Prof P C Hildreth Dies in Chicago
Dr Philo C Hildreth head of Parsons College History Department died in Chicago after months of illness starting with appendicitis. Survived by wife Persis Ayres Hildreth and son Edward Beloit College. Funeral Wednesday at Graceland cemetery. He joined Parsons in 1910 and supported campus and community activities. He was a Oberlin and Columbia graduate and former businessman in Chicago and Colorado Springs.
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Philo C. Hildreth
Parsons College
Chicago
Persis Ayres Hildreth
Edward
Beloit College
Graceland Cemetery
Chic
Hildreth
Oberlin College
Ohio
Columbia University
Nw York
Parsons
Colorado Springs
Christian College
First Presbyterian Church of
Fairfield
College Notes Dramatic Club Selects Maker of Dreams
The Dramatic Club chose The Maker of Dreams by Oliphant Down to be staged the same evening as The Far Away Princess. First try-outs are announced for Thursday evening. George Leggett, 14, visits before heading to an Aviation training camp. Prof. Charles Carter and Calvin Scovel depart to attend Prof. P. C. Hildreth’s funeral in Chicago with Carter as faculty representative and Scovel as student body representative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maker of
Oliphant Down
Charles Carter
Calvin Scovel
P. C. Hildreth
Chicago
Prof. Carter
Mr. Scovel
Henry Ford to halt pleasure car production for war effort
Henry Ford announces no more pleasure autos until the war ends. Through representative C. H. Wills Ford will dedicate his plant to essential war production including tractors ambulances aircraft engines and shells, discontinuing ordinary touring cars and small commercial trucks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Henry Ford
C. H. Wills
Horse Sale at Holcombbern November 16
Auction notice shows a horse sale scheduled for Thursday November 16 at Holcombbern Ae Visecarver. Readable fragments indicate a regional sale event with listed cattle or horses. Entities include Holcombbern and Ae Visecarver.
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Holcombbern
Ae Visecarver
G A Merich Sales Agent for John Sexton Co
G A Merich agent and salesman for John Sexton Company wholesale grocers in Chicago. contact at 2048 Main Street or by phone 553 579.
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G. A. Merich
John Sexton Co
Chicago
Main Street
District Court clears backlog as trial list grows
The district court opens the term with many cases pending. John Stone sues George F. Stever for damages from a barn collapse in November 1916. A jury is seated including Wim. DuBois and W. R. McVey. Several cases are transferred, continued, settled, or dismissed. administrator Preston Orfield case yields judgment and discharge. Grand jury recalled for Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. S. Ward
Stone
Stever
Lee Wilson
Mary Reno
Wapello County
Watts
Mitchell
McLaughlin
Red Cross Notes Urge Weekly Wool Supplies
The knitting department announces a new wool consignment and aims for weekly shipments to meet a government call for thousands of sweaters. Rooms at the Gauze Shop are open daily 1 30 to 5 90 o clock for learning to knit and for special army knitting instruction. Please turn in finished articles promptly.
20 000 Leagues Under the Sea at the Fairfield
The undersigned referee will sell at private sale the estate of Robert F Ratcliffe including a house with lot on East Adams Street and three building lots on Fifth Street. A motion picture ad announces 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea comes to the airfield Theater for a two day engagement showing both matinee and evening performances.
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Robert F. Ratcliff
Adams Street
Public Square
Fifth Street
Logan School House
Wandering Stranger Taken Into Custody By Authorities
A man calling himself C. O. Donovan was brought to the sheriff's office by Center township residents after wandering the area for two days. Although he did not molest anyone, fears rose among local women and he is held in the county jail for investigation of his story.
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C. O. Donovan
Sheriff’s Office
Center Township
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Floyd Davidson
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Nelson
Geo. Greber
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Wm. L, Long
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Triangle
Dorothy Gish
Gome
S. Anderson
the Men’s Department
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Undertaker
George Q. Loesch
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Frank
Kerrick
Hmbalmer & Funeral Director
Tribune
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