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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1918
Page
7
Clyde Hall and Dr. S. A. Spielman visited the city. Miss Edna Thompson and Miss Blanche Banta arrived for visits. Mrs. A. L. King’s nephew Carl Larson arrived overseas. Several locals reported overseas or home returns including Lt. and Mrs. Cassatt and Harry Mullenix. A P. E. O. meeting was postponed pending further notice.
Spanish influenza under local and state quarantine reduced turnout at Jefferson county's first annual livestock and farm products exhibition. The open-air show proceeded under Health Board rules though the public avoided attendance. Evening addresses were canceled and awards will be announced later.
A correspondent in France on July 14 1918 notes a quiet week under a holiday mood with limited work and no major warfront action. He details local life in a temporary lodging, food differences, sighting a red fox and a farm badger report, and comments on officers medicine and commissions amid Allied operations.
Public auction at the E. D. Y. Culbertson farm blocks near Glasgow listing 55 head of cattle including cows with calves two black and one red, various yearlings heifers steers and calves plus farm equipment like a wagon hay rack plows planter and harness. Terms available day of sale with Wm Ackerson Col Chas Bailey acting as auctioneers and Ebenzer Ladies Aid providing lunch.
Copenhagen reports the Tewfik ministry has resigned and Izzet Pasha is named grand vizier and war minister. Enver Pasha had dominated the cabinet and Naby Bey, former Rome ambassador, acts as interim foreign minister. Izzet Pasha favors peace and Tewfik Pasha served as ambassador to Great Britain.
Paris reports that when troops entered St Quentin they found every pillar excavated at ground level for explosives. The unexpected Allied rush prevented the Germans from destroying the church as intended.
Washington reports 6,122 Spanish influenza deaths in 60 cities for the week ended October 12, with 4,400 pneumonia deaths in the same period. Census figures exclude army camps, where reports show notable improvement and officers say the peak among soldiers may be past.
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