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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1917
Page
6
Parsons football players defeated St Ambrose College of Davenport 7 to 3 in an argu mentative afternoon game.
The Presbyterian church offers evening and morning services with texts on mortality and Christian duties, featuring strong music and invitations to all. Morning topics include Christianity as a remarkable religion and Our Immediate Task, with an evening study titled Calling On the Name of the Lord. Christian Science meets Wednesday at 7:30 with open Reading Room hours and a loan library. lesson subject tomorrow is Doctrine of Atonement.
Services next Sunday include SS at 9 19, class meeting at 12 noon, Junior meeting at 6 15 p m, evening service at 7 p m. Cottage Prayer meeting Tuesday evening at L Mendenhall s. Regular Prayer meeting Thursday at the church. You are welcome to all these services.
Morning and evening services offered with Sunday School at 2 30 p m. Attendance averaged 54 for the year. Bert Burrow is Superintendent. Evening service at 7 30 features an open song service and an old style religion. Subject for the evening is The Life Saving Water. Prayer meeting Tuesday evening. B Fk Wnorowski Field Superintendent.
The first episode titled The Secret Kingdom will screen at Fairfield Theater Monday based on Louis Joseph Vance's novel. In Alania the prime minister provokes tax anger, kills the king and queen, and pursues the Crown Prince as Captain Barreto escapes with the boy to America.
Edward Elder of Chicago returns home today following his sister Dollie Elder’s death in Montana. Mrs. Pilery Raney leaves Chicago for Toronto after visiting her parents here. Charles M. Barnes and his wife return from Des Moines after attending I C O F Grand Lodge and Rebekah Assembly. Seemingly
The ad promotes a Sunday dinner at Kozy with the slogan You will get all you want. The listing includes the venue at 435 and markets its hearty meals.
Jefferson County plans a monster mass meeting at the Armory in Fairfield at 2 PM Wednesday October 24 to boost Second Liberty Loan subscriptions. Most city businesses will close 2 to 4 PM as citizens are urged to attend, with C. F. Fryer and Rollin J. Wilson serving as district leaders.
The annual faculty reception for students was held in the Bible Building yesterday evening. Vesper services will be held in the chapel tomorrow at 4 15. All friends of the college are invited to attend this service. Rev. Covert of Middletown visited with his son Brainard yesterday. He had charge of the morning's chapel. Miss Martha Gearhart went to her home near Libertyville for an over Sunday visit last evening.
The food administration urges all home food handlers to follow Waste Not Want Not and assist food administrator Herbert Hoover. Housewives should study the war diet, join wheat beef pork and dairy conservation, and observe one wheatless day weekly in Fairfield. Substituting corn meal rye or barley flour and non wheat breakfasts aids supply for armies and allies. One active housewife can achieve more than empty talk.
Jefferson county supervisors recount ballots and maintain no new changes beyond yesterday’s Journal. They did not judge ballots, only recounted as local boards did, noting possible different outcomes if they acted as judges. One ballot showed yes where a cross belonged, another bore a triple notary stamp, and one was discarded for unclear reasons due to a watermark. Lockridge township praised for handling results best.
Mrs James Young hosted Neighborhood Club guests at Nest Briggs Street with a luncheon and pleasant afternoon. Out of town guest Mrs Edgar Willis of Burlington attended. PEOs to meet with Mrs Clara Howlett replacing Mrs Chas Heer. Wesleyan Bible Class enjoyed a monthly session at Mrs D A Ricketts with readings by Mrs A I Harper and a vocal by Miss Virginia Champ followed by refreshments.
Classified column lists multiple sale items including a Poland China boar priced and contact by M. B. Humphreys, a four acre truck farm with city lots and 15 lots for sale with terms, a cottage in Pumphrey Addition with payment options, land at 50 to 100 per acre with a list from White and Son, two soft coal heaters in good condition. Local contacts included.
Coach Dice leads a fifteen man Fairfield squad to Albia for a decisive game this afternoon. The team, unchanged except for Huddleston who is out with a fractured rib, trained hard this week and aims to defeat Albia’s strong unit.
A dining notice promotes Sunday dinners at THE KOZY restaurant with an emphasis on an extra goal one. The brief invites patrons to dine and enjoy a special offering described as an added incentive or highlight.
Miss Dollie Hider Elder 19 died yesterday at 11 am at home on East Washington street after a diabetes illness of about forty hours. Born August 10 1898 in Indianola Iowa she is survived by her parents Mr and Mrs W A Elder four brothers Fred Edward William George and four sisters Mrs Hugh Jones Zelpha and Clara all of Fairfield. Funeral Monday at 2 pm from the family home with Rev Polly of the Christian church and burial in Evergreen cemetery.
Classified notice listing multiple help wanted ads including furnished room rental, married man without family, general housework, salesmen positions offering 500 per month, and a large wholesale grocers seeks solicitors for direct consumer sales with no experience required. Companies include Inland Works Co Chicago and John Sexton Co. Chicago.
Thursday a floor collapse occurred in the back room of the Lamson building, formerly D F Spratt hardware, as workmen unloaded. The east brick walls caved in but no injuries were reported.
The $1,000,000 William Fox production A Daughter of the Gods starring Annette Whellermann is set to be shown at the Orpheum theater for two days starting October 0. The piece is billed as a grand, pretentious spectacle and aims to attract large crowds.
Classified notice offering two modern rooms for rent near the square, located three blocks away. Telephone contact 3190 with a response noted as 416 er.
Stray dark red heifer calf about 20 months old with a small white forehead spot. Finder please notify Ed. Hagan, Libertyville, Iowa. Also notice of a parasol accidentally exchanged at Yeoman hall Wednesday evening. return to Journal office, 437.
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