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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1918
Page
2
A wartime propaganda passage urges citizens to buy Liberty Bonds. The speaker prompts Mr. Business Man to consider risk and sacrifice, asking how many bonds he has purchased and linking financial giving to liberty.
Lieut John Philip Sonsa released a fourth Liberty loan song with lyrics by Guy F Lee a Chicago newspaper man The piece titled Pushing On features lines praising Allied forces and Pershing urging support until victory The chorus proclaims Pershing pushing on and the American troops advancing as the war continues
A careful official hides the yearly stipend in a routine financial shuffle. The action centers on a named administrator and the handling of public funds. No dates or places are specified in the readable fragment.
A wartime appeal urges readers to fund the Fourth Liberty Loan to support Pershing’s troops. It stresses the impact on soldiers who desperately want victory and will hear if the loan is fully subscribed. The message questions whether the home front will let the boys down.
A wounded officer with a shattered arm, awarded seven wound stripes, insists on returning to duty after hearing the offensive resumes against the Germanoons. His father warns him to rest but the officer notes a plaster cast and resolves to rejoin his company. The message ends urging Americans to buy Liberty bonds.
Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Russell of Libertyville report their son William Lee Russell died October 6 aboard ship from pneumonia. Born January 14, 1897, he was 21 years nine months and 21 days old. The body will arrive Tuesday, with funeral at the Park in Fairfield and burial in Evergreen Cemetery. date and time to be announced.
A telegram reports Loren Goddard wounded for the third time with undetermined severity. The first wound came March 9, the second July 28, and the third September 12. Government details are scarce as relatives await overseas news.
City Hall on Oct 11 1918 declares all public gatherings including churches schools theaters and public buildings closed from noon Oct 11 until further notice by the Local Board of Health. Contagious disease concerns prompt action. Paul Coleson clerk of board of health.
By action of the Board of Health with City Council approval all public gatherings are prohibited. Special permission cannot be granted. Attendees do so at their own risk. Children must not meet in groups and must stay at home. By Order of Board of Health J. W. Bean Health Officer.
Mary Leedham died Wednesday morning at age about eighteen after a short illness with Spanish Influenza. She was daughter of Frank and (late) Mrs. Leedham and lived in this city until her father’s death, then with brother Oscar in Peoria. Survived by three brothers Oscar HL Carl and Howard. funeral held yesterday at Mt Pleasant.
Des Moines report states selective servicemen slated for the October 21 movement will move from Camp McClellan Alabama to Camp Greenleaf Lytle Georgia due to Spanish influenza prevalence at the Alabama post.
Charles L. Angstead leaves tonight for Great Lakes Training Station after a ten day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs Robert Angstead. Mr and Mrs H V Downs and Mr and Mrs Walter Bean and child return home from a several weeks auto trip to Bellefontaine and other points in Ohio. Fred Messer of Pleasant Plain was in the city on business today. Dr R C Sayers leaves tonight for a several weeks visit with his mother in Edison Ohio. Miss Jane Steele is in Burlington as delegate from the Women's Foreign Missionary Society to the Iowa Lutheran Synod.
Amboy Indiana October 12 The Am boy State Bank was closed by state banking examiner Robert Tress after an inquiry found former cashier John Kendall had disappeared about a week earlier. Bank directors say the condition appears between 50 and 60 thousand dollars. Receivership is expected to be appointed.
Cambridge Mass Harvard University releases statistics showing 130 Harvard men killed in action and 200 of 1700 living alumni in the armed forces, with thousands more serving in the army or navy during the war. The figures reflect the college’s wartime casualties and deployment among graduates.
A woman, accused of espionage as a Serbian spy, faced Austrian authorities in what appears to be a southern Hungary district case. She was sentenced to death, with a mother and son previously implicated, and she proclaimed her own guilt by declaring I am Serbian.
Italian troops pushed northward in Albania as they entered El Bassan on Monday afternoon, breaking Austro Hungarian resistance. The war office announced continued advance along the front.
Captain H. R. Cone of the American naval "after ship service" was aboard the steamer Leinster when sunk by a German sub. He is reported to have a broken leg and is among the injured passengers.
The Jefferson County Liberty Loan Committee expresses thanks to residents and all committees including drafted workers for their patriotic response to the Fourth Liberty Loan. It notes 90 percent of valuation card holders voted on Sept 28 for bonds totaling about 855000 dollars and urges the remaining 10 percent to join soon.
The War Department announced Fort Sheridan in Illinois will be converted into a general hospital to care for wounded from the French front and service members at home. Fort Sheridan will become United States General Hospital No 28 with about 4099 beds.
Private Sigurd Arnvig recalls Chateau Thierry as a young volunteer in the US forces. He urges Americans to push the Fourth Liberty Loan with unwavering effort, arguing against hesitation and insisting on striking the objective with full commitment.
French forces operating in Serbia advance toward the Montenegrin frontier per the Centre News agency. Serbian lines near Nish show a retreat as troops pull back from 16 to 18 miles south of the city.
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