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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1918
Page
3
A string of brief mentions lists Ottumwa residents and visitors including Tom Cochran Jack Wisecarver C E Nieukirk Nancy Frost M Mollie Liblin M Chilcott Walter Prouty and Gilbert Mumper plus others in surrounding areas. Also noted are suspensions of Fairfield Rebekah Lodge meetings and a Board of Supervisors adjourned session with mentions of public officials and travel.
The Washington County Press, founded in 1854 as the Argus, is merged into the Washington Journal. The Journal buys the Press plant and equipment and will suspend the Press with its next issue. The move follows a national trend of newspaper consolidations to conserve print materials and cut overhead.
The war office announced British cavalry and armored cars occupied Aleppo with slight opposition. It marks another Allenby victory as his advance moves eastward and northward through Palestine and Syria. Aleppo lies 185 miles north of Damascus and 70 miles east of the Mediterranean. Turkish defenders, numbering about 12 000, withdrew to the north.
Professor Lammasch was asked to form an Austrian cabinet and would accept only if Austria Hungary made a separate peace with the Allies. Emperor Charles reportedly refused, saying he gave his word to the German emperor not to seek a separate peace.
A man identified by a draft registration card as Charles Robert Turner of Springfield shot himself after fatally wounding a police officer and a civilian and strangling a 13 year old girl. He had terrorized a Lima residence district before escaping capture as civilians and police cornered him. A Springfield message says the card was stolen from George Robert Turner of that city.
A dispatch from Basle reports that Croat infantry affiliated with the Austro Hungarian army revolted and seized the city of Fiume, a key Adriatic port with about 48 000 residents and historic commercial activity.
Margaret Ann Miller daughter of Harvey and Jessie Miller was born in Eldon Iowa March 22 1914 and died October 23 1928 at her grandparents home in Eldon aged four years seven months and one day after a short illness She leaves her mother one sister Mary Gienn and many relatives who mourn her loss Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at Eldon Cemetery beside her father.
At the bride’s parents home on North Main Street Ada Barbara Easton married Albert Clarence Nelson in a ring ceremony led by Rev. C. L. Tennant. The couple will reside on North Fourth Street.
Rental notice for a cottage listed as 284 for rent. Contact Samuel Culler for details.
A found auto license number is reported with a request for the owner to call the Journiag office at 238. The notice seeks the owner to identify and reclaim the vehicle, with no other details provided.
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