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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1917
Page
6
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Rev. Lyn G. J. Kelly was acquitted of the Villisca ax murders charge in a second district court trial at Red Oak Iowa after four hours and twenty five minutes of deliberation on the first ballot.
Six hundred Carranza soldiers and 150 refugees who fled Ojinaga after Villista attack were moved from Martin to Juarez under U S guard. Villa claimed the United States has no right to transfer troops he defeated across Texas. Two hundred horses and arms crossed to Juarez on a later train and will be paid for by the Carranza government.
Washington reports general food prices rose 2 percent from August to September. Pork, beef, and cornmeal led increases while many staples showed gains. From September 1916 to September this year overall prices rose 2 percent. food costs to consumers up 48 percent since 1914.
Havana reports the Cuban government has seized a building in Tucana province under construction to serve as a presidential palace. The project total exceeds 2000000 dollars for construction and furnishing. In Washington, Hoover orders state food admins to identify licensees without federal licenses by November 1 to enable prosecutions.
Archie R. Byrkett was found dead in his home on South Fifth Street Saturday night. Neighbors saw him during Friday and when concern grew, Coroner L. D. James and Sheriff Campbell entered the locked house to find him in night clothes beside the bed. He was about 82 and still worked as a gunsmith. The family was notified by telegraph. Mrs Byrkett had been visiting in Tulsa with their daughter since August. Mrs Dixon and Mr Byrkett’s relatives arrived last evening. Funeral services are planned at the Free Methodist church tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. L. Mannensh officiating. An inquest will be held this evening after Coroner James summoned a jury.
A letter from Corning Iowa reports Iowa men of the Rainbow Division are in France. The Fairfield and Red Oak units form Company M, Third Battalion of the 168th with nurses aboard. The note, mailed Nov 19 from Halifax after a November 16 sailing, says the ship is fast and crew well housed with meals, and all Iowa soldiers are in good health.
IN SOCIETY The WPhilathea Bble Class of the Methodist church will meet this evening with Mrs Albert Blackford and Miss Ruth Larson at the George home on West Broadway. All members are invited to be present. Miss Mildred Shoemaker entertained a company of young folks Saturday evening at her home on North B street. Miss Nettie Tedrow hosted a company of young people yesterday at a six o'clock dinner near Libertyville. Those present from this city were Mrs Leland Holgate Miss Alice Glass Miss Borea Grinstead and the Messrs Ralph Parrett and Carl Danielson. Mrs Nina Beck left Saturday afternoon for Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with relatives. Spring Chickens for sale either live or dressed Phone 218. O54
Grant Galliher longtime rural mail carrier dies at 9 15 this morning at his home northeast of the city after pneumonia and a mastoid operation. Born November 30 1864 he was son of Isaac and Elizabeth Galliher survived by wife and five children J H of Huntington H A of Silver City Royal V Ivy and Mertie of Fairfield one half sister Mrs Elizabeth Caviness of Batavia Funeral Wednesday at 1 30 pm from his residence with Rev Keesey of the Methodist church officiating burial in Union Cemetery eight miles east of town.
The First Methodist church was filled on Sunday as Rev. W. R. Keesey defended pacifist views in a sermon on the Ten Commandments titled Americas Part in the Great War He asserted his pacifist stance with emphasis on the fist and promised to publish more remarks tomorrow.
Readiness for the Methodist church musical program tomorrow evening, featuring a strong male chorus, a dainty Fairy ladies chorus, and multiple ensembles. The program includes Verdi, Gabriel Marie, Balfe, and Beethoven pieces, with Margaret White and Newton Cassat leading performers and various quartets and choirs contributing.
Mrs. Ernest Rohrer visits relatives in the city. C. S. Burkett of Des Moines travels here after his brother Archie Burkett dies. Mrs. Fay V. Fulton is ill at Jefferson County Hospital. George Strong Corps W R C inspects at Court House tomorrow night. Calvin Doughty in Boston ill while studying wireless telegraphy at Harvard. A V Frazey returns from Florida after attending the National Funeral Directors association in Jacksonville. Philip Sauer Jr and wife home from Blakesburg visit. Sergt. Grant Lindsay returns to Camp Dodge after visiting his mother.
A fire at the Lor en White residence on North Court street about 7 am caused several hundred dollars in damage. Firefighters found flames high in the second story and had difficulty reaching them before the blaze was controlled. The cause is believed to be an electrical fault in the roof. Mrs. Frank Ek Whiting of Oradell, New Jersey, visited later that afternoon.
A notice states the speaker will be in Fairfield from November 26 to December 5. Leave orders at the Legrett House or Scheffel's Music Store located at 631 E. Eisenhart.
London reports no official figure on the number of tanks in the stand fleet used in Tuesday’s advance but observers say it was larger than in any prior action. Casualties were inevitable yet described as not serious with some dispatches noting only slight losses.
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