Rebekah Lodge Initiates New Chapter in Linby
Hawkeye Rebekah lodge members attend the opening of the new Altered Rebeckah lodge No 65 in Linby Fa The ceremony featured Grand Master Alexander and officers including Dalzell Green Katherine Wilds and Mrs Washburn A class of twelve candidates was initiated and an oyster supper followed Attendees from Fairfield and Sigourney noted the event plus plans for patriotic activities and a wedding announcement at Mt Pleasant Catholic Church The midweek Methodist service will merge with Epworth Leagues Win My Chum meeting with Prof Vartanian of Parsons College speaking
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Hawkeye Rebekah Lodge
Rewneh
Linby
Ijuty Lodge
Alexander
Dalzell Green
Katherine Wilds
Wagoner
Washburn
States Assembly
Mason City
Marshal Wagoner
Sigourney
Fairfield
Lindley Lodge
J. Johnson
Patti Thornberry
W. J. Gilbert
Sam Lewis
Ros, Treland
Fred Johnson
Lizzie Locke
Adolph Pagel
Nellie Griffith
T. J. Griffith
G. K. Dunkel
Ida Wildman
Clay Brenaman
P H. Fisher
B. H. Elliott
Methodist Church
Epworth
Prof. Vartanian
Parsons College
McClure analyzes Japan as maritime ally rather than Prussian menace
Col. S. S. McClure urged Barhydt Chapel listeners to reassess Japan's potential in the present war, noting Japan's limited resources, debt, and lack of modern industry, yet highlighting its strategic alliance with Britain and the United States as its path to strength. He warned Japan cannot match US industrial power and urged maritime cooperation for peace.
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Japan
Europe
America
Prussia of the East
McClure
Barhydt Chapel
Col
United States
Belgium
China
Germany
Tokio
Russia
Great Britain
Mngland
College notes on Y W C A and wartime talks
Miss Grace Applegate led a YWCA meeting on Forbes Robinson life and letters. The Presbyterian minister spoke to the YMCA on Power of Knowledge and lead a discussion on sin and its consequences. Colonel McClure discussed Germanys aims in Europe and war experiences with eye witness accounts of atrocities in Belgium and France. He noted his two sons and ten nephews fighting in France and voiced a wish for their safe return.
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Grace Applegate
Forbes Robinson
Winfield Presbyterian Church
McClure
Europe
Turkey
Russia
India
Egypt
Germany
Belgium
France
German near spies arrested in Fairfield released later
Two well dressed Germans, mending umbrellas, were arrested by Sheriff Campbell in Fairfield this morning. They bore Van Dyke haircuts and a commanding presence but yielded no unusual items in their effects and were released. The men identified themselves as Joe Noise and George Myers.
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Fairfield
van Dyke
Campbell
Joe Noise
George Myers
Referee Sells Ratcliff Estate Property Privately
The referee will privately sell the Ratcliff estate real estate. Included is a house with lot 95 by 132 feet on East Adams Street near the public square and three building lots on Fifth Street near Lowan School House. Wm L Long is the referee.
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Robert F. Ratcliff
Adams Street
Public Square
Fifth Street
Lowan School
Wm. L. Long
Christmas Packets For Soldiers In Jefferson County Red Cross Drive
The Red Cross plans to send $3 value packets for two dollars to soldiers in cantonments ships and fields in France. Donors may give $2 per packet or fund multiple packets and mail to Mrs Clarence Hague Jefferson County Red Cross chairman.
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France
Red Cross
Red Cross Bureau of Supplies
Thicago
Jefferson County
Clarence Hague
Water filtration outage set for three to four days
The City Water will not be filtered for the next three or four days beginning Wednesday morning November 14 due to repairs at the plant. Consumers will be notified when filtration resumes. City of Fairfield, by City Clerk Paul Coleson.
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City of
Fairfield
Paul Coleson
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Iowa
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Pythian Sisters
Kensington
Frank West
Richard Fisher
George Edick
West Home
South Fourth Street
Katherine Melton
Frank Burge
Mt. Plesaant
S. S. McClure
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