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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1917
Page
7
A series of short notes lists residents traveling for visits, schooling, or family events. A.V. Coleson heads to Minneapolis to visit his son. Mrs. Glottelty and Mrs. Fennett visit friends. Miss Fulton heads to Cedar Falls for school. Prof. Gobble visits his parents. Carroll Bradshaw travels to Moline. numerous others journey to Des Moines Burlington Palestine Texas Ft. Benjamin Harrison Des Moines and more.
Brief society item notes social engagements and gatherings with minimal details and no sensational content.
Miss Frances McKibben leaves for Clifton Ohio as twenty girls toast her farewell. A dinner hosts Rev and Mrs E G McKibben before their move to Cedarville. Mr and Mrs Ivan Ipsan celebrate naturalization day with neighbors at South E street home. Jean Lea Buckles and Joseph Roth wed at the Court Hotel with Parsons College ties and a planned auto bridal tour. A Lutheran hay rack outing for 76 ends with a campfire feast at the Carlson home. Community notices urge Prohibitory Amendment votes and local ads.
Dr J Fred Clarke is ordered to the Rockefeller Institute in New York City for two weeks of training under Dr Carrel in wound treatment as part of hospital work for the front in France. He will return to Fairfield to instruct Unit A doctors before heading east on September 21 and expects a November call for service.
The Young Ladies’ Sodality of St Mary’s Catholic church will hold a food sale Saturday at Crail and Brown’s meat market starting at nine o’clock. Proceeds support church activities.
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