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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1917
Page
7
Miss Nina Peck travels to Chicago on business. Mrs Frank White of Clarinda visits homeward from Rochester Minn. Libertyville school opens with Miss Sco vell Mc Connell and Miss McGaw as instructors. Several residents travel, visit relatives, or resume work in Chicago Burlington and Osceola areas.
A string of sale notices including real estate on South Main and South Second Iowa Ave parcels, two lots and half interest in others, with contact through J D Loof burrow or Princeton Club New York. Also listed are furniture, livestock, firearms, high school books, a Kurtzman piano, a Dozen household items, a five room house for sale by Reddick & Russell, and varied notes from I N Biddle.
Miss Mary McGaw takes a two week vacation from Loudon Machinery Co. Anthony Turner returns to Chicago work after visiting his parents on South Fifth. Miss Marion Patterson starts the fall term south of the city. Willard Whitaker returns from business trips via Lincoln and Denver. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Anderson and daughter visit C. E. Anderson. Mrs. C. C. Davis and daughter return to Tulsa after weeks in the city. A. Morton of Perlee city visitor. Frank Baker ill with typhoid at Jefferson County Hospital shows slight improvement. Fern Young spent Sunday in Burlington resuming choir duties. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cox Sr. and family visit Mt. Pleasant. George Cox of Seymour visits Cox grandparents. J. A. Huglin travels to North and South Dakota and Manitoba on business. cordial invitation extended. Miss Anna Pauline Streeby and H. W. Anderson unite in marriage at the Christian parsonage. They will live in Ottumwa where Mr. Anderson works at Hub clothing store.
A Knight of Pythias notice urges all to attend a special meeting and smoker tonight. Classified ads list sale items including a cup board stove and furniture and a seven room modern house near the high school with possession October 1.
Multiple rental notices listed including a modern six or seven room house on South Second Street with J Hall contact in Birmingham Iowa. 4 rooms and bath plus a small house at 1% block offered at $15 monthly. furnished rooms at 107 West Hempstead Street with phone 1214. two furnished rooms for housekeeping at 403 East Madison Street with phone 2691. modern furnished room three blocks from square for Mrs Louis White with phone 4409. three houses listed near South Fourth Street and East Burlington Street with inquiries at Frank Berard's. furnished room two blocks from square via Journal office.
The Fairfield Township Sunday School Association, defunct for years, is revived by County Secretary Stephenson. A convention will be held next Sunday at the Presbyterian church to reorganize the association and present a program led by Prof. A. H. Speer of Iowa State Normal College Cedar Falls. All Sunday School workers and scholars are urged to attend.
Short classified notice seeking a good second-hand bicycle and family washings. Call at Lon Israel's Tire Repair Shop. Phone 1704.
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