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Newspaper

Fairfield Journal

Location

Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Sep 07, 1917

Page

3

Local Briefs Highlight Visits and Travels Around Galesburg

Local residents and visitors are noted in a string of social items. Families from Keota Warsaw and Batavia visit the city while others travel to Rock Island Chicago Peoria and Davenport for business and family duties. A marriage license is issued to Edith Clingman and I A Graham. The Bethel A M E Jubilee Singers plan a fundraiser concert in Lockridge hall.

James Gantz Lake Okoboji J. S. Gantz J. C. Norris East Burdlington Street Henry Craig Mt. Pleasant Mabel Erickson Iowa City Malinda Erickson West Burlington Street W. D. Carter Liblin Peoria Ill Carter P. Callahan Cutterer Canfield Ohio Freeman Sackett Jack Ireland Chicago Illinois W. R. Keesey Washington Iowa

Rev Toothacre to Speak at Big Baptist Gathering

The Iowa Baptist association marks its seventy fifth anniversary with a statewide gathering at Mt Pleasant First Baptist Iowa. The program includes a Sunday school convention with prayers music and multiple addresses by Mrs Edwin Luckman Mrs W A Dunlavy Rev T Bovell and Rev E V Good among others

Rev. Toothacre BIG Baptist Iowa Baptist Association First Baptist Church Mt. Pleasant Iowa Edwin Luckman W. A. Dunlavy John M. Mercer

Church meeting schedule and Saturday sale notices in Journal

The page lists a church convention with multiple sermons and devotions led by Rev. Bovell, Rev. Toothacre, Rev. Good, and others, plus a Friday to Sunday timetable. It also includes a long sequence of classified sales and rentals, with items such as a seven room house, mandolin, hens, furniture, and tools offered for sale or rent.

Association T. S. Bovell A. R. Toothacre E. V. Good Wade O. E. Kreuger J. P. Matthias W. B. Hutchinson A. W. Miller E. W. Good S. E. Wilcox John Earl R. R. Sadler Young People’s Associational Union Frank R. Sage Commission Iowa C. L. Whitney Ww. R. Shoemaker Evangelism Redick & Russell Washburn Fred Harrison South Main St Rhode Island G. McKibben George Hammon East Burlington Street R. Corey Kurtzman B. H. Elliott O. P. Johnson Oscar Boltz Guernsey Birdie Hugh Smutz South Main Street East Adams Street D. H. Baldwin I. N. Biddle Reddick & Russell FE. G. McKibben Louis White West Burlington Street John H. Frush East Lowe Street South Second St J. Hall Birmingham

L T L Girls Plan North B Street Meeting

The L T L Girls will meet tomorrow afternoon at Katherine Hunters home on North B street. All girls urged to attend and bring their mothers.

Katherine Hunter North B Street

Phonograph Aids French Observation Service

Paris dispatch notes that observation officers in French air service now use registering phonographs fitted to aircraft. Officers speak into an acoustic tube to record positions and details seen through field glasses, ensuring accurate notes for future use.

Paris

Sinkings of British Vessels Rise Slightly in Week

London reports submarines sank twenty three British ships last week, eighteen over 1600 tons, marking a small rise from the prior seven days. Reichmann Denies Pro-German Talk in Washington inquiry. he defends loyalty and readiness to fight Germany amid charges by Mrs. Anderson.

London Reichmann Washington Senate Military Affairs Subcommittee Carl Reichmann Anderson Germany

Beban to Appear at Orpheum September 8

George Beban headlines the Pallas Paramount production A Roadside Impresario at the Orpheum on Saturday September 8 in a seriocomic photodrama. He plays an Italian roaming with a bear performing for children while confronting a mayoral blackmail plot and searching for his daughter after sixteen years. Harrison Ford Fred Huntley Adele Farrington and Julia Faye co star under Donald Crisp direction.

George Keban Orpheum Pallas-Paramount Marcellini Mr. Beban Bruno Beban Harrison Ford Fred Huntley Adele Farrington Julia Faye Pallas Company Donald Crisp

Fairfield Hospital Auxiliary to Hold Urgent Meeting

Fairfield Hospital Auxiliary Board will meet Saturday September 8 at 3:00 PM in the Agassiz Room of the Library for a short urgent business session. Members are urged to respond. All tuitions will be advanced after Saturday noon September 5. 163

Agassiz Fairfield Hospital Auxiliary Board Fairfield Business College Junkin

City to bid for Workmen's Compensation Insurance

The City Council will receive bids on Tuesday evening September 11 at 7 30 for Workmen's Compensation Insurance covering city employees. City Clerk Paul Coleson notes the time and date.

Paul Coleson

Wanted help and services ad prompts in small shop pages

Short classified notices seek a young lady with clerical knowledge for office work or store clerking. Also an ad for a good second hand bicycle at Lon Israel's Tire Repair Shop and a family wash service at 186 106 with phone contact 2763.

Lon Israel

Fair Field Business College Event at Junkin Block

Saturday noon September 8th at the Junkin block, Fair Field Business College hosts an event. Details are sparse but the location and time are noted for attendees.

Found On West Broadway Steel Ring From Automobile Wheel

Item found on West Broadway is a steel retaining ring from an automobile wheel. Owner may claim by paying for advertisement at the journal office.

West Broadway Journal Office

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