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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1918
Page
6
The Fairfield Iowa Band will give a patriotic and sacred concert Sunday afternoon at three in the park. It includes tag day with gold tags for the band and Mrs. Ward singing patriotic selections. A community singing led by Prof. C. W. Mountain will follow. The event was postponed from last Thursday.
An Extension Department representative from Iowa State College will visit Jefferson County on September 30 to October 2 to demonstrate culling non producers from poultry flocks. Demonstrations will include expert talks by Jon D. Blough Charles Edmund Roy Fresconi and others with sessions in Fairfield Packwood Lockridge Batavia Libertyville and others. Attendees may bring birds for on site discussion of keeping only productive birds.
Will Hays calls Republicans to unite for rapid over subscription of the Fourth Liberty Loan. He declares every party member and citizen must make the drive a primary duty, framing it as the nation’s fight against Germany and urging all to participate.
The exemption board received a telegram noting the thirty men called to Camp Dodge for the October five day period have been cancelled due to the Spanish influenza epidemic. Camp Dodge reports many influenza cases while the courtroom remains busy with men completing questionnaires. Judge Cornnell conducts court in the supervisors' room to handle probate and routine matters.
The many friends of Miss Bessie Daggett formerly of this city are informed of her marriage to Thomas W Krieg at Boise Idaho. The ceremony occurred Monday at the groom's parents home.
The list records registrants numbered 283 through 306 in Polk township. Names include Frank Edward Lutes Carl Allison Coley John Nelson Loomis Ralph Emory Neff Wilson Mitchell Thomas Holmes John W Sable Hiram Wesley Bradfield John Bernard Williams Virgil Leroy McChesney Arthur Loomis Iidel Dyert William Henry Avery Frank Aubery Roberts William Henry Widner Harvey Homer Bales John William Miller Ned G Oliver John Sandell Lawrence Ray Gould William Luther Whitmore Robert A Ryman John William Wiggins. A separate note mentions L T L and Y P B girls meetings at the Methodist church and a visit from Mrs. L H Morrow and family.
Reports from Moscow say the Soviet central committees backed Lenin's push for orderly government as a decree rescinds the reign of terror. Washington notes massacres in Petrograd and Moscow recorded by authorities with prisons overflowing and starvation risk. Also announced is the marriage of Miss Marie Morrison to Dr Howard Anderson at Iowa City on September 21.
Rally Day planned in Lutheran Sunday school with 250 attendance goal. Officers appointed and new recruits being enlisted daily. Church to be decorated with a splendid program prepared.
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