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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1917
Page
6
Editor Manager entered at the Post Office in Fairfield Iowa as second class mail matter. Terms of subscription ten cents for local and one dollar for the year.
The Des Moines Register reports eight year old Hortense Will daughter of Mrs F J Will was instantly killed when her bicycle collided with an automobile truck at the intersection of Thirty seventh Street and Grand Avenue. The truck belonged to the Independent School District and was driven by A Shanks. Police held the driver pending coroner inquiry but found no fault. Dr F J Will, formerly a noted Des Moines physician, died last March in San Antonio. The mother was active in Red Cross duties and was at a Red Cross meeting downtown when the tragedy occurred.
Secretary McAdoo reports 7 740 scouts qualified for the Service Emblem and 23 338 25 dollars in bonds sold to 139 654 people. Edmund Norvel Robert Ricketts Reinhold King and Assistant Scout Master Gobbler listed among honorees. An all scouts program at Methodist church Thursday evening includes a city wide house to house canvass starting October 2025 to support war funding. Citizens urged to attend or contribute if unable to go.
Feirfield boy Arthur G Moss and partner in a blackface act perform at Loew's American Music Hall. Their ballad If You Had All the World and Its Gold draws strong audience applause and is tipped as a summer hit. Also notes Queen Esther Girls host a cafeteria supper at Methodist Church with baked beans brown bread and pumpkin pie Saturday evening.
Early returns show Iowa voting to amend the constitution to ban liquor manufacture and sale with a rural dry majority likely between 10 000 and 15 000 and cities leaning wet. Des Moines and Polk County shift to dry, while Dubuque Davenport Cedar Rapids and Sioux City report strong no votes, leaving initial figures estimate dry margins of 10 000 to 15 000 overall.
Across Burlington and surrounding counties the First District favored wet by a slim margin while larger counties reported heavy dry majorities. Final returns showed a net 600 vote victory for the amendment with county variations. Keokuk and Louisa counties leaned dry.
With 75 of 99 counties counted nearly complete, the constitutional prohibition amendment is seen as carried by a margin of 5 000 to 10 000. Final county results unlikely to alter the outcome. Davenport Scott County vote stood 9 659 to 2 743 against.
Rev C S Early and helpers Mr and Mrs H S Saxton announce gospel meetings at the Christian church starting Sunday Oct 28. They are fresh from a successful Kirksville Mo revival where Saxton’s solos drew strong appeals and growing significance noted by a Kirksville paper.
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