Students Recital Tonight at Moorheel Studio
A list of pupils from Parsons College music department perform in the evening with pieces by Gluck Brahms Kulakow Ozzi Leons Diabelli Duet No 2 Czerny Reinecke and others. Performers include Mary Louise Kerrick Elizabeth Turney Wilbur Keesey Lena Webb Elizabeth Moorhead Agnes Lohr and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moorhe*l' Studic
Parsons College Con
Gavette
Gluck-Brahms
Mary Louise Kerrick
Elizabeth Turney
Return from State W C T U Convention
Mrs. Louis Easton and Mrs. M. Chilcott return from the State convention of the W C T U held at Waterloo. A Home Center at Camp Dodge will aid homesick soldiers. A $500 combination talking and moving picture machine will be sent to Camp Dodge then Camp Cody. Next week is Mothers Spread for Soldiers Bread Week with jams and jellies solicited from towns for barrels to be sent this week.
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Louis Easton
M. Chilcott
W. CC
T. U
Waterloo
Camp Dodge
Camp Cody
Iowa
Fairfield Theater Keeps Prices, Adds One Penny War Tax
Fairfield Theater will keep admission unchanged while collecting a one penny war tax for Uncle Sam. Manager thanks patrons for support and notes plans to show top stars like Anita Stewart and Douglas Fairbanks, urging continued attendance to aid the war effort.
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Fairfield Theater
Moving Picture
Fairfield
Anita Stewart
Earl Williams
Alice Joyce
William 8. Hart
Dorothy Phillips
Douglas Fairbanks
Violet Mescareau
Dorothy
Lillian Gish
Karl Richman
Violet Kelly
Clara Kimball
Young
Liberty Loan Support Appreciated by County Committee
Telegrams dated October 29 1917 from national leaders praise Jefferson County Iowa Liberty Loan Committee chair Rollin J Wilson and the Iowa organization for strong Second Liberty Loan subscriptions projected at over eighty five million dollars. Messages from Rollin J Wilson Watkin W Kneath and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago express patriotism and appreciation.
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R. J. Wilson
Jefferson County Liberty Loan Committee
Chicago
Ill
Rollin J. Wilson
Fairfield
Iowa Liberty Loan Organization
Iowa
Watkin W. Kneath
Liberty Loan Committee
Liberty Loan
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Present Needs of the Army Y M C A Work
Ottumwa men visited the city to discuss the urgent needs of the Army Y M C A with local residents. A meeting may be scheduled soon to organize support for the project in the district.
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ARMY
Ottumwa
Army Y. M. C. A
Mrs W N Hewitt Dies in Nebraska
Mrs W N Hewitt known in Fairfield as Miss Nellie McClelland died at her Beaver City Nebraska home last Saturday after strokes in the past year. Funeral services were held at Beaver City Sunday afternoon with interment there. She leaves a husband two sisters Miss Adda McClelland Mrs John B Stever and brother Charles McClelland all of Fairfield.
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W N. Hewitt
Fairfield
Nellie McClelland
Beaver
City
Neb
Beaver City
Hewitt
John B. Stever
Adda McClelland
Charles Mc
Mrs. Minerva J. S. Bennet dies near Packwood
Mrs. Minerva Jane Sears Bennet wife of W. W. Bennet dies Monday night at her home near Packwood October 29 at 8 50 pm. Funeral from the M E church Batavia at 1 pm Thursday November 1 traveling by auto. Burial in Batavia Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minerva Jane Sears Bennet
W. W. Bennet
Packwood
M. EE
Batavia
Batavia Ceme
Germans Evacuate Werder Peninsula on Gulf of Riga
Petrograd reports German forces evacuated the Werder peninsula on the Gulf of Riga after a landing. Werder Manor screened and provisions stolen. No fighting in the Gulf of Finland, but trawlers are active there.
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Petrograd
Werder Peninsula
Gulf of Riga
War Office
Werder Manor
Gulf of Finland
Chicago Engineer Named VP of Emergency Fleet Corp
Charles A. Piez, a Chicago engineer, was appointed vice president of the Shipping Board's Emergency Fleet Corporation in a newly created office. The post reflects reorganized leadership under the board and its VI new executives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Washington
Kaiser Peace Plot Claimed Defeated by Belgian Foreign Minister
Metropole of London notes a German bid for a separate peace with Belgium was rejected. Baron De Broqueville, Belgium's foreign minister, is said to have thwarted the plan, signaling a consolidated Allied stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Belgium
la Metropole
Baron de Broqueville
Germany
Postal Rates Change With New War Time Posts
The Daily Journal notes a new postage structure to take effect Friday November 2 as the nation enters war. Local letters within the district require two cents postage, while other first class mail costs three cents per ounce or fraction. Government postal cards two cents, two cent stamps may accompany one cent cards, and drop letters share two cents per ounce. The piece also outlines new war taxes applying to telegrams and toll calls with local rates under ten cents exempt from extra charges.
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Daily Journal
Governmnt
U. S
Chicago
Des Moines
College Notes Highlight Faiths and Faculty Activities
College notes report President R Ames Montgomery preaching in Fulton and Ben Gallaher at Bethel and Haskins churches. A Musical Appreciation class will meet at 4 15 p m in Ewing Hall led by Prof Mountain. Also noted are mass meeting speaker Vahan Vantainan and Y M C A music by the male quartet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Ames Montgomery
Christian Church
Fulton, Mo
Ben Gallaher
Bethel Church
Washington
Haskins Church
Mountain
The
Conservatory of Music
Ewing Hall
Vahan Vantainan
Presbyterian Church
Germans Driven Out At Verdun Front Fight
Paris reports German attack near Chaume wood on the Verdun front. The war office says they gained a footing in the French positions but the greater part of the ground was retaken in a counter attack.
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Paris
Verdun
Chaume Wood
War Office
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