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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1916
Page
8
Large banners will be placed on the Peacock revival effort with banners reading This church cooperating in the Peacock evangelistic meet. Churches will decorate to show unity and member participation as communities prepare for the campaign.
The Brotherhood Bible Class meets Saturday at the Methodist Church with services at 9 30 o clock. All members are urged to attend if possible and bring others. Rev. W R Keesey is the teacher.
A busy classified item list shows rental offers at 206 East Adams and 301 West Burling, including furnished rooms and a seven room modern house at 1190 South Fernand Street. It also advertises quick sale of two modern houses, plus six to eleven room homes for sale, and a South Dakota land prospect with several 160 acre tracts offered at various prices. An excursion to South Dakota is offered with round trip fare.
Wanted to buy second-hand war heaters and large wood heaters at Santa's Second Hand Store located at 783. Wanted three or four unfurnished housekeeping rooms for rent and a girl immediately for collecting and general office work, contact Bus. 727.
A series of classified notices in Fairfield seeks household help including general housework for private families with no children and a dining room girl at the Court hotel. Also requests for two furnished rooms for light housekeeping, a sewing service, a live pigeon and guinea pig acquisition, and a farm loan offer from Jefferson County Abstract and Loan Company. Lost keys noted with Friday reward.
General Allen of the Iowa brigade has led three Sundays of Sunday evening services at the Iowa Y M C A with delegations giving short talks on history and military matters. Music, readings, and performances accompany the program. General Parker praised the method. Columbus Day festivities planned by Brownsville Knights of Columbus will host 500 guests for Catholic soldiers in the Valley. The First Illinois Cavalry will depart with about four hundred horses, the rest kept for Virginia and New Hampshire cavalry units en route to Brownsville. The unit may move to Fort Sheridan to avoid Springfield climate concerns. Miss Marie Goddard, visiting Creston, has returned home.
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