Editor Manager Entered at the Post Office in Fair Geld Iowa
The article notes an editor manager was entered at the Fair Geld Iowa post office as mail matter of the second class.
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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1917
Page
2
The article notes an editor manager was entered at the Fair Geld Iowa post office as mail matter of the second class.
Fairfield High meets Milton on Alumni Field in the third game of the schedule. Fairfield holds a 7 to 0 lead after the first quarter as Milton, though light, shows speed.
Ralph Stever sustained a badly sprained right foot yesterday afternoon while helping to fill a silo on his farm one and a half miles west of the city. He was taken to Jefferson County hospital where X rays showed no bone fracture.
Automobilists stop in Fairfield at noon as a constitutional prohibition meeting convenes. Rev. Ashby of Friends church Richland gives the address and Hon. George W. Ball speaks briefly urging a yes vote next Monday.
Washington October 12 The navy department directs recruiting officers to enlist all apprentice seamen and firemen who apply for service. The order follows active service calls at training camps and aims to support a recruiting push to man merchant ships built by the Shipping Board.
Parsons College overwhelms Simpson College 39 to 0 at Indianola. Parsons backs score on forward passes and runs with a dominant line and strong defense led by Flinspach Page and Keesey. Simpson fights to score but is shut out as punts and passes are repeatedly blocked.
Mr and Mrs L B Whitney motored to Burlington this afternoon to visit friends Verle Lundquist visited County Line on a business trip Eunice Green returned home from Parsons College for Sunday Miss Eunice Green home from college several local visits noted Mrs Charles Whitfield and Mrs Leslie Whitfield of Millington HL visiting Des Moines will visit Mr and Mrs Ted Kocher later. Marriage licenses issued October 12 to Golden Amos and Hazel Derby Ottumwa.
Substitutions listed for Simpson Pennington Whitmore Wesley Stover Hart and other names. A rummage and mattress sale promoted by the Parsons College Auxiliary with dates and location to be announced and officials named as Stewart Thom and Neucamp.
In Paris Maurice Long the minister of provisions told the Chamber of Deputies that he hopes and believes the sequestration of German shipping in Brazil could be raised and that the tonnage would be at the disposal of the allies for use in carrying food.
London reports another air raid over Belgium with naval aircraft dropping many bombs on the Sparappelhoek airdrome. Despite heavy weather, all our machines returned.
Miss Winnetka Hansen entertained sixteen young ladies at her West Kirkwood street home in an old fashioned taffy party for Florence Loehr and la Collins who depart tonight for California. The guests enjoyed candy making and the hospitable hospitality of the host. Mr and Mrs C M Graham hosted Hub store staff for a six o'clock dinner at the Ktozy and then attended the play A Kiss for Susie at the Orpham.
The Louden Machinery Company completed a detailed $500 miniature general purpose barn model designed by H. H. Neiman. The five by eight foot by three foot model, scaled at one sixteenth inch to an inch, includes a full cow and horse setup, granary, twin silos, litter carrier, covered manure pit, ventilation system, lighting, and a green grass landscape with scaled dandeli ons, destined for the International Dairy Show in Columbus Ohio.
Atlantic Port notes that Pleasant A. Stovall United States minister to Switzerland arrived on an American steamship. He plans a brief visit to consult officials about shipments to Switzerland and discuss other war phases.
Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen received notice that men recruited under the selective service law who are now in federal service may vote in the November elections of their states. Battle Creek reports Camp Custer soldiers have subscribed $296,050 to the Liberty Loan.
Soldiers in the training camp at Plattsburg subscribed $201,000 to the Liberty Loan drive as of October 13. The pledge reflects strong wartime support from the camp and local community.
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