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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1918
Page
3
Local notes report James Stansberry and other visitors on business, several residents traveling to Des Moines Chicago and Keokuk, purchases and returns, and family visits. Notices include C A Woelhaf restaurant sale, improvements after surgery, and teaching staff trips amid Spanish influenza. County Hospital Mt. Pleasant quarantined for influenza with no current cases.
The weekly report for the week ending October 17 1918 lists committee members Ray Maxwell E C Fligg Kenney ex officio Louis White C W Wade Ey W C Spaulding H C Erickson Walter Burns and notes retail price data with figures 064 07% 145 1.721 2.90 2.45 under Food Administration authorization.
Phelps C. Shores a former well known resident of this city died yesterday in Monmouth Hospital after several days of Spanish influenza and pneumonia. The body will be brought here for interment at Evergreen cemetery. He was about 29, survived by wife Miss Gaila Stansberry of Libertyville, a son Sumner age six, and a daughter Lois age two. The Shores family had lived in this city and Libertyville before moving to Roseville two years ago.
The funeral for Mrs. P. J. Sherlock, who died yesterday at Jefferson County Hospital, will be held tomorrow at 2 PM at the cemetery in Lock Ridge.
The Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Iowa postpones its Davenport gathering set for October 22 to 24 because of quarantine. A new date will be announced later.
Five armed men robbed the Mount Olive Staunton Coal company office near Staunton at 2 45 PM stealing between 15000 and 20000 dollars in payroll. The robbers fled in a car toward St. Louis after the heist.
The Czecho-Slovak national council plans a general strike in Prague on October 16 to protest the export of foodstuffs from Bohemia. The Vienna dispatch to the Frankfort Gazette reports the decision and its aims.
London reports Bonar Law says allied powers should not discuss terms before an armistice. Wilson’s reply demands German autocracy end and seeks guarantees for military balance. Paris audiences react with jubilation as Wilson rejects an armistice without solid guarantees and leaves armistice terms to allied military advisers.
Washington reports rapid local board classification for the new draft registration and plans questionnaires for eighteen year olds and men aged thirty seven to forty five. Influenza conditions lead the general staff to suspend October draft calls, though the next call is expected to be unusually large.
The United States Food Administration and Red Cross call Iowa communities to gather carbon-rich pits and shells for gas mask production. Citizens should collect peach, prune, plum, apricot, olive, date, and other specified shells, dry them, and deliver to Red Cross. schools and merchants should help, and letters warn of possible harm to soldiers if the effort fails.
Jefferson county lawyers form a Lawyers committee on War Service to provide free advice and assistance to soldiers sailors and dependents on relief claims from the government. The group promises just treatment and best service at no charge. Civil service exams in Iowa run November 2 to December 7 seeking 12 000 clerks with salary 1200. no experience needed.
John Vogelsang offers piano tuning services with contact at phone 2412. Also notes vulcanizing by Smith at the tire shop located on West Burlington Street 2051f.
On the E. D. Y. Culbertson farm located 2 miles west of Glasgow 7 miles north of Stockport and 9 miles southeast of Fairfield a public auction will start at ten o clock. Fifty five head include cows with calves at side four two year old heifers and yearling steers. The lot features two young fresh cows and a white faced heifer among others.
Readable portion lists 18 head of cattle including 4 yearling heifers and 6 heifers with steer and bull items. Also notes a wagon with hay rack, rake, plows, planter, hay loader, walking plow and other gear. Terms to be announced on sale date.
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