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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1918
Page
3
Burlington society items list visitors and hosts from multiple towns including Claredon and Danville. Births are noted at Jefferson County Hospital and several residents travel or host relatives. Government shipbuilding recruiters visit, with calls to report to the post office for potential enlistment or employment opportunities.
Students at the high school and older grade schools conducted a tag sale yesterday for the Junior Red Cross. The event was a decided success with notable participation and value raised.
R W Lamson salutes Chester Campbell and Kenneth Bailey for organizing a local viewing of Allied War Exposition trophies. Bailey explains relics from World War I including a German Lusitania medal, battle gear, and a safety cord used in the Alps. Commodore Perry lineage noted, Bailey praised as keeper of the Official Souvenir Program. The event underscores public cooperation with government war exhibits.
After talks with allied diplomatic and military chiefs the Tschaikovsky provisional government was reseated and will direct northern affairs with allied advice.
Washington reports the German owned Orenstein-Koppel plant of Koppel Pennsylvania, taken over by Alien Property Custodian, will be offered at public auction to fund liberty bonds. Only American citizens may bid, per official statement.
Across Illinois McCormick leads with about 50 000 plurality overall driven by downstate gains while Chicago shows Thompson ahead in incomplete returns. Foss trails in Chicago and downstate, Hamilton Lewis secures renomination amid light voter turnout.
London reports a list of 87 people executed in Moscow, including former cabinet ministers from Nicholas II’s era. Names such as Alexei Khostoff and H. Prepopovl appear. many other officials and gendarmes are listed as executed or missing.
Dallas reports Lieut. Parker Bruce of Chicago an instructor and Lieut Anthony A Sego of Kentland Ind a flying cadet were instantly killed when their airplane fell one and a half miles north of Love field. The crash occurred Sept 18.
A German aircraft downed near Sergy on August 28 by Lieut. Miller Thompson is said to have been piloted by a woman. The report notes Germans are employing women aviators and mentions the pilot's sex as determined by burial observers.
Twenty four special trains loaded with war relics will tour the country during the Liberty Loan campaign from September 28 to October 19. They will stop briefly in smaller towns and spend a day or two in large cities. American and allied soldiers will accompany the exhibits and give lectures.
Provost Marshal General Crowder issues a call for 2000 white selective men to serve as stenographers and typists. They will be mobilized September 28 and assigned to various camps and forts, with every state except Arkansas supplying personnel.
Washington reports fuel administration figures show a large gasoline deficit in the United States and suggest further curtailment orders may be expected as a result of Senate action prompted by Senator Lodge.
John Vogal is listed as a practical piano tuner with contact phone 24 85 13 for service inquiries and appointments.
A Detly Express dispatch reports about one thousand British subjects imprisoned in Petrograd amid postwar upheaval. London confirms the count and notes the diplomatic strain as representatives seek access and consular protection.
Stockholders of the Fairfield Chaukhauqua Association will hold a meeting at 1 30 p m on Friday October 4 1918 in the community rooms at the Armory Fairfield for election of directors and other business as may properly be considered J A Huglin President Dean Taylor Secretary
L. P. Quinn owns a seven room modern home and ten tons of coal to be sold by auction with cash terms. The sale includes a brass bed piano dining set chairs rugs sofa sewing machine and more at 2:00 PM Saturday at 05 West Briggs Street. Phone 1790 for details and right to refuse any bid.
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