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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1917
Page
4
A new three year preliminary class to study nursing has been entered at Jef Meee County Hospital. Admissions this week include Ethel Castile of Fairfield Neta Trent of Batavia Ruth McKinney of Wayland and Carrie Beardsley of Birmingham.
Orders for the transfer of drafted men from the Highty-Eighth Division to the 34th Division at Deming New Mexico were received at Camp Dodge. Regiments from Iowa Minnesota the Dakotas and Nebraska move to entrain there to reach war strength of 3600 per regiment.
Notice from J. W. Oliver & Son Stuckey-Gossick Milling Co. explains a shift to two daily deliveries starting next Monday September 10. Orders before 8 30 a m are deferred to forenoon while orders after 8 30 a m and before 3 p m are delivered the same day afternoon. Orders after 3 p m are delivered the following forenoon.
The Fairfield Business College will open Monday September 10 for the major fall term with day sessions. Evening time sessions will begin a week later. The notice highlights schedule details and enrollment plans for the new term.
Miss Grace Fresedin of Batavia visited friends in the city last evening. Gola BE Langdoh of Ottumwa visits with Abe Bachman city agent of the Prudential Insurance Co. Dr. F. B. Strickling of Birmingham was a city visitor last evening. Miss Eva Baird of Batavia visited friends in the city last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight McGaughey of Keokuk are here for a week with the latter's parents, J. C. Barnes and wife. Claude Whitmore of Batavia and Prof. J. W. Howard of Modern Business College released a small book titled Our Sammie dedicated to American soldiers of 1917, sent to Co. M members.
Mt Pleasant Iowa September 6 funeral directors of the Sixth District elected J H Harpster Grinnell as president Chris Batcher Dennison as first vice president C C Densmore Fremont as second vice president Roy C Smith Madison as secretary and treasurer The next meeting will be in Grinnell An address by Phillip Rohn ambulance driver from France was featured at the evening session.
Morris Field a Evansville Ind tailor on being drafted made a brown serge uniform but was refused permission to wear it by authorities.
House Peters stars in The Heir of the Ages at the Orpheum tonight. A primitive cave man tale of unselfish love and sacrifice unfolds with Peters as the hero amid a Western mine town backdrop. Supporting cast includes Eugene Pallette, Nina Byron, Henry Barrows and Adele Farrington.
The Bureau of Mines estimates 500 million dollars in coal is wasted yearly and should be saved for the war effort. Calls grow to curb joy riding until war’s end, drawing strong protests from undertakers over economic and public safety concerns.
A suggestion to lower loaf costs proposes shipping loafers to harvest fields to reduce expenses.
Analysis argues that the United States supports an open door in China while maintaining a closed back door stance in Europe, reflecting selective diplomatic openness and restraint across regions.
President Wilson argues party ties are fading as fashion and fiscal policy blur. He jokes that the revenue bill is a tax on the imagination, linking political shifts to clothing and imagination in a satirical assessment.
All former members of Company M are requested to meet at the armory at six o'clock Friday evening. They will organize Company M Home Guards, Fiftieth Iowa.
The grand lodge of the Loyal Sons of Italy met in Cleveland and adopted a resolution pledging to aid in the success of the second Liberty Loan.
The Fairfield Business College announces the fall term for the ninth year begins Monday September 10 for day sessions with evening sessions starting September 17.
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