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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1916
Page
2
The notice lists subscription terms for the Daily Journal from The Journal Printing Co and names Dean Taylor and A. W. Taylor as editors/managers. It outlines prices for one week one month and three months in advance.
Republican slate lists Charles E Hughes for president with Charles W Fairbanks as vice president. Congressional nominees include C A Kennedy for Congress and state officials like W L Harding for governor and H M Havner for railroad commissioner.
The Game, Fish and Oyster commissioner in Austin ruled that National Guardsmen from other states must obtain a $15 nonresident hunting license to hunt in Texas during the open duck season. The Brownsville Daily Sentinel notes many guardsmen have asked for guidance on this regulation amid border patrol mobilization.
The Jefferson County Farmers Institute in Lockridge proves successful with the largest corn show yet and top quality exhibits. Miss Sutter spoke on Community Center Work, followed by Prof. Bittenbender on poultry judging. Snow delays calf show and boys corn judging to tomorrow with Hoffman, Don Fish, and Prof. Buchanan involved in the judging efforts.
A Sunday School rally and special program titled Methodist Pioneers will be held at the Methodist church next Sunday. The service combines Sunday School and morning preaching, with a full program of hymns readings anthems and prayers led by local participants and Rev W R Keesey. A candy ad for Peacon Roll accompanies the notice.
A Cummings recalls a blizzard from eighteen years ago this month. He notes that on the twenty-fifth the region had snow all day with depths around five inches, as reported by the Journal.
Six or eight large heating stoves are needed for use in the Tabernacle during November. Anyone having one to lend or willing to sell cheaply should notify Richardson Hardware Co. phone 8, Rodabaugh & Bean 1241, or Gaines Bros. 137.
Jeasie Mel lett age sixty five died of paralysis in Anderson Indiana after a decade long illness with a third stroke. He was a father of Mayor J J Mellet and had been in Tor ten years. The notice also mentions products like pea con roll candy offered at 50c per pound.
Listings advertise modern and partly modern properties priced from 850 to 7000 dollars with down payment options and rent-to-own plans. A 14 acre parcel in Pleasant Plain Iowa features a six room house with cellar and outbuildings, fruit trees, in good repair, priced at 2000 dollars. Redick Russell phone 59.
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