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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1918
Page
7
Local brief items report James Stansberry and attorney C G Sparks in town on business. Mary Jukin buys Hugh Stevenson property on South Main. Several residents travel or visit relatives in Des Moines Keokuk Des Moines and Buffalo Kansas. A restaurant purchase by David Rickard and a hospital quarantine update anchor the notes.
Authorized by the Food Administration the County Price Interpreting Committee reports week ending October 17 1918. Members listed include J S McKenney ex officio Ray Maxwell Louis White E C Fligg C W Wade W C Spaulding H C Erickson Walter Burns with J H Stuckey and Dean Taylor also noted. Figures show various price indicators such as 04 14 .05 05 34 .06 05%4 .06 and 15 1? 13Y 03 04 15 16 19 associated with the listed officials.
Phelps C Shores former well known Roseville and Libertyville resident died yesterday at Monmouth Illinois Hospital after Spanish influenza and pneumonia. The body will be brought home this afternoon for interment at Evergreen cemetery. He was about twenty nine and survived by wife Gaila Stansberry of Libertyville, a son Sumner age six, and a daughter Lois age two.
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 Lockridge.
The Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of Iowa, scheduled for Davenport October 22 24, is postponed due to quarantine. A new date will be announced later.
Five armed men robbed the Mount Olive Staunton Coal company office south of Staunton NL at 1:45 PM, taking between 15000 and 20000 dollars in payroll money. The thieves fled in an automobile toward St. Louis.
Basel reports the Czecho Slovak national council will call a general strike in Prague in protest against the export of foodstuffs from Bohemia. The Vienna dispatch to the Frankfort Gazette notes the protest action aims to pressure authorities.
London and Paris report President Wilson's reply to Germany as a firm call for an armistice only with allied guarantees. London notes the German autocracy must go and supports leaving armistice terms to military advisers. Paris crowds react with jubilation and favor Wilson’s stance against armistice without guarantees.
Washington reports rapid classification of men by local boards for the new draft registration. Questionnaires will go to youths of eighteen and men aged thirty seven to forty five. Influenza conditions prompt continued suspension of October draft calls, though the next call is expected to be unusually large.
The gas defense division calls for carbon from peach pits prune pits plum pits and other pits and shells to shield soldiers from gas attacks. County food administrators and women's committees are to organize the drive with Red Cross aid and school and merchant participation.
The Jefferson county Lawyers committee on War Service offers free advice to soldiers sailors and dependents on government relief matters. Members of the local bar will provide fair treatment and capable service at no charge. Also listed are contacts for a practical piano tuner and civil service exam notices with details on dates salaries and application steps.
Public auction of cattle announced by E. D. Y. Culbertson farm location stated as 2% miles west of Glasgow 7 miles north of Stockport and 9 miles southeast of airfield. Sale details incomplete due to garbled text.
An auction listing for Thursday October 24 announces 55 head of cattle to be sold starting at ten o clock. The lot includes 3 percent cows with calves at side two black and one red, 4 black 2 year old heifers, 4 black yearling steers, and white face cattle.
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