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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1918
Page
2
The Fairfield Town Band plans a Sunday afternoon concert at three in the park with patriotic songs by Mrs. Ward. A tag day for the band, featuring gold tags, will accompany the event. Prof. W Mountain is in charge of the community winging, and the concert, postponed from last Thursday, will proceed.
A representative from the Extension Department of Iowa State College will visit Jefferson county on September 30 October 1 and 2 to demonstrate culling non producers from flocks. The schedule lists talks by C D Blough Fairfield Charles Edmund Packwood Wm Achenbach Lockridge Roy Fresconi Batavia Frank Lyons Libertyville and Trail Bros with sessions at 9:00 am and 2:30 pm daily. Residents are invited and may bring birds for discussion.
Will Hays urges the Republican organization to unite at every voting place to ensure rapid over-subscription of the Fourth Liberty Loan. He declares the drive the party’s main business and calls every man woman and child to participate as a fighting force.
Telegram received by the local exemption board states the thirty men called to Camp Dodge for a five day period beginning October 5 are cancelled due to a Spanish influenza epidemic. Camp Dodge reports many cases while the courthouse remains busy as men complete questionnaires and Judge Cornell holds court in the supervisors' room for probate matters.
The community learns of Miss Bessie Daggett’s marriage to Thomas W. Krieg in Boise Idaho. L T L and Y P B girls schedule meetings at the Methodist church. Mrs L H Morrow and family visit Jacksonville and neighbors welcome Beiner’s return with a sharing evening. Marie Morrison wed Dr Howard Anderson in Iowa City with plans for residence there after October 15.
Rally Day will be observed with recruiting officers enlisting new members. School aims for 250 in attendance and expects to exceed it as reports indicate. The church will be decorated and a splendid program has been prepared.
The list shows registrants from Polk township on September 12 with entry numbers and names such as Frank Edward Lutes Carl Allison Coley John Nelson Loomis but many OCR fragments and misspellings exist. The roster includes hundreds of entries with varied spellings and some stray digits like 809 822 825 and oo oo indicating garbled text.
The Mir of Moscow reports a decree ending a reign of terror as Lenin calls for orderly government. In Washington reports describe Russian atrocities with massacres in Petrograd and Moscow and prisons so full inmates starve.
Real estate and buildings on Riverside drive New York owned by Mrs Lilly Busch of St Louis are to be sold by the federal custodian of alien property at private sale. The sale follows presidential executive order. Busch's seized property in this country valued in the millions was taken while she was in Germany and she petitions for its return claiming American citizenship.
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