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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1918
Page
6
Tomorrow evening the Famous Jackies Band performs at Chautauqua Park. All registered men must be in the parade by 8 p.m.
Mrs J W Stephenson and Mrs Ray Hemmings host Fancy Work Circle after noon at Hemmings home. Fairfield Rebekah Lodge No 96 to mark 67th anniversary with sandwiches and supper about seven. Miss Fern Hewett plus others entertain Mrs W R Keesey at Hewitt home. Westminster Bible Class guests at Walter Louden home with refreshments. George Strong Corps No 21 W R C meets tonight at Court House. Hawkeye Rebekah meet Wednesday at 2 30 with business meeting and officer elections. Co C 211th Engineer guests fare well reception in Chattanooga. Cross Lanes Woman's Social Club plans social with Fairfield Male Quartette and refreshments.
The Exemption Board and assistants are compiling the register of those who registered last Thursday. The Journal will publish the list once finished. First Ward registrants include Albert Thornberry, Lester Zillman, Allen Abbey, Earl Kenyon, Joseph Bucher, and many others through 707 Marion Jewell.
In Jefferson County Iowa court September Term 1918 final report of administrator C G Litton in the estate of C F Litton deceased is on file. Hearing set for September 26 1918 at 1:30 p.m. Objections must be filed to prevent discharge of executor and release of bondsman. Attorney X C Nady.
Des Moines reports the Iowa division of the National Farmers Union rejects ties to the Non-Partisan League. Members condemn unauthorized cards linking groups and pledge loyalty to their own union. A state farmers exchange is planned in Des Moines with a fundraising drive. Also notes local visits and a community chicken supper on Sept 19 at the Christian Church.
In district court Judge D Anderson hears Margaret Spray versus J W Bean administrator of J M Blakeley s estate for services during illness. Default entered in Batavia Savings Bank versus F M Ren o Rampy cases and several others. Some cases settled including Lindsay versus Ray Gall and Fritz versus Miller.
Peter H. Roth longtime Fairfield resident died yesterday afternoon at his West Adame street home. He was born April 17 1842 in Wayne county Ohio and lived on farms near Fairfield before moving to Packwood and back to Fairfield. He is survived by his wife two daughters three grandchildren and several siblings. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at two o clock from the residence with burial in Evergreen cemetery.
Des Moines Iowa September 17 conflicting reports on entering the vocational section of the Student Army Training corps led to registration confusion. The adjutant general's department outlined that after registration and questionnaire completion a draft board would classify the registrant and later calls for volunteers would be issued for the automobile mechanics corps and other vocational branches.
Advertisement invites readers to have their suit or overcoat made to order by the Drake Clo. Co. acting as an agency for Ed. V. Price Tailors with location at 109-17.
The note to the people's commissaries and soviets from Nikolai Lenine, printed in Pravda and republished in Berlin, says the Czecho Slovak front is dangerous and the Soviet government must seek a defensive alliance with another power to save workers and peasants, even with imperialists.
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