Thanksgiving Week Local Briefs Highlight Community Notes
No Journal issue tomorrow due to Thanksgiving. Local brief mentions lodge meeting in the evening, travel plans of Leo O Neill and Bert West, visits and illnesses, marriage licenses for Spees Layman and Morgan Hinkle, and various Thanksgiving plans. First Church of Christ Scientist to hold 11:00 am service in Agassiz Room.
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Clinton Lodge No. 15
A. F
A. M
Leo O'Neil
Shelbina
Bert West
Ralph McPherson
Emreson
C. M. Graham
Arthur Wesley
Knoxville
Geo. M. Ball
Thos. Spees
Birmingham
Olive Layman
Libertyville
Wm. McKinley Morgan
Vera Blanche Hinkle
Brighton
E.R. Smith
Chicago
Edward Roth
Tulsa
Okla
J. E. Roth
P. E. Black
Burlington
First Church of Christ Scientist
Agassiz
Fairfield Oratorio Society Home Concert Delights Town
Fairfield Oratorio Society held its annual home concert at the Methodist church with 21 entries across 18 contests. The event showcased Miss Margaret White, Miss Marjorie Haight, Mr. W. B. Newton, Mr. Casset, Mrs. Helen George, Mr. Gallaher, Mr. Gates, Mr. Robert Israel, and others in choirs, quartets, and solo numbers ahead of Albia Eisteddfod competition. The program included prize opportunities and a $200 Hallelujah Chorus prize, concluding with The Sword of Ferrara and a strong town backing to win in Albia.
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Fairfield Oratorio Society
Margaret White
Messrs Newton
Casset
Marjorie Haight
Love’s
Margaret
Charlotte White
Newton
Helen George
Gallaher
Mildred Stewart
Gates
Robert Israel
Israel
Mount of Olives
Clyde T. Reed
Hybras
Ferrara
Albia
Fairfield
Orpheum Presents Strong Bill With Bushman and Bayne
Francis X. Bushman and Beverly Bayne top a western themed Metro feature Their Compact at the Orpheum tonight with a notable supporting cast including Harry S Northrup and Henry Mortimer. Dorothy Phillips appears at Fairfield Theatre with Triumph a Blue Bird photoplay from Samuel Hopkins Adams.
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Francis X. Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Metro
Orpheum
Charles A. Logue
Dorothy Phillips
Fairfield Theatre
Triumph
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Red Cross Dressing Department Closed For Thanksgiving
The surgical dressing department of the Red Cross will close tomorrow for Thanksgiving and reopen Friday at the usual home on the following day.
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The
Red Cross
Turkey Dinner at the Kozy Tomorrow
A turkey dinner is scheduled at the Kozy tomorrow from 12:00 to 1:30 pm. The event is listed with a location code 673.
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the Kozy
Bethesda Church Chicken Supper and Country Store Announcement
A church notice invites everyone to a chicken supper at Bethesda church on Thursday evening from 6 00 to 9 00 o'clock. Supper 25c and a country store will accompany the event. Also requests parties with work left with A R Burkit to report at the shop on Thursday or Friday. 675 Mrs G C Dixon.
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A. R. Burkit
G. C. Dixon
Bethesda
Parsons College Team Prepares for Shutout-Optimistic Alumni Field Game
The last football booster meeting was held this morning after chapel. Coach Yount praised past team victories and predicted the forthcoming game would be the best ever seen on Alumni Field. Captain Flinspach spoke of the team’s fight, and Calvin Seavel mourned that tomorrow would be his last Parsons College game. School closed for Thanksgiving with classes resuming Monday.
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Yount
Flinspach
Calvin Seavel
Parsons College
Red Cross Christmas Seal Campaign Underway in Jefferson County
Jefferson county launches the Red Cross Christmas Seal drive with students and businesses displaying seals. Seals cost one cent, with prizes at 25, 100, and 500 seals. Kenneth Leathers leads this week with 2 supported sales and Elizabeth Bock reports 135. Call 342 or apply at Browning's Studio for seals and help.
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Jefferson County
Red Cross
National Association
Monona
Kenneth Leathers
Elizabeth Bock
Mistaken U boat sightings by chase ships
Cleveland sailor Lieut Howard Vickery says many so called U boats are just healthy blackfish en route to dinner. His chaser logged 28000 miles chasing German sea threats and his ship now in dry dock. He notes mines, not U boats, pose greater danger to American sailors.
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Cleveland, O
Howard Vickery
Vickery
Daughters Save His Corn in Ravenna County
Five daughters of William McKenzie aged sixty saved 15 acres of corn by shocking and storing the crop. Their effort relieved the farmer who feared loss due to illness. The women named include Mrs Elsie Shrader Mrs Celie Thorepson Mrs Grace Airs, Miss Clara McKenzie and others.
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Ravenna
William McKenzie
McKenzie
Ceres
Elsie Shrader
Celie Thorepson
Grace
Doath Seiper
Alianee
Clara McKenzie
Jackson
Airplane Attacks Train in Behind Enemy Lines Duel
A French aviator penetrates German lines and targets a heavily loaded troop train. Flying twice as fast as the train, he shoots the engineer and fireman as he glides low, causing the locomotive to derail and crash with heavy loss of life.
Heroic Wireless Operator Vignola Fights for Ship Signal
Survivors recount wireless operator Vignola aboard the Natal during the Mediterranean sinking. Relieved by a petty officer he urged his substitute to flee, yet stayed at his post to send distress calls. He informed the captain and then returned to his cabin to maintain signals until the ship sank with him.
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Vignola
Natal
Mediterranean
Marseilles
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Little Con
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Robert Despain
Leland Holgate
John Cochran
Jack Swan
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Malcolha Walker
Bert Hendershott
Ottumwa
A. J. Parkhurst
Jefferson County Hospital
Wm. Cupp
East Burlington Street
Clarence Roth
Independence
Kansas
Nora Warner
Cli Max
Jessie Miller
Kate Cupp
Drakesville
John Mulenix
Afton
W. B. Ireland
Mt. Union
Elizabeth Ireland
Wallace Gill
Packwood
City
E. Lamberson
Oratorio Society
Simon
Business Men
W. B. Newton
Donald
Orpheum Presents
Horton
Metro’s
Harry S. Northrup
Henry Mortimer
Forrest
John Smiley
Peters
Mildred Adams
Thomas Delmar
Robert Chandler
Jack LeMone
J. Ortega
Browning
Emerson
Pathe Records
Ous Squaer Bres,sevaty
Brunswick Phonographs
West Broadway
J. M. McKain
Iowa
South Third Street
J. Engel
Piano Tuner of
Scheffel’s Music House
James Hughes
Ath
Bluebird
Colliers
Greater Vitagraph
Alice Joyce and
Marc McDermont
T Store
C. FE. Anderson
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