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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1917
Page
2
The notice lists carrier and mail subscription options including one week one month and three months in advance with prices. It notes mail subscriptions must be prepaid and directs readers to report irregular carrier service errors to the listed telephone number 23-10. The item is filed at the Fair Geld Iowa post office as second class mail matter.
Social events fill this column with Mrs Johnson hosting a Methodist Sunday School party on East Hempstead Street and refreshments served. The Ladies Aid of St Marys meets at Mrs Barnes home on South Second Street. J M club hosts C G Taylor on South Fifth Street. The Young Womans Auxiliary meets Miss Lorine Thomas on North Sixth Street. The B Y P A of the Baptist church gathers at Cob Jacob Grebers on North Main Street. The English Lutheran Girls Club meets Miss Reva Elder on West Hempstead Street to discuss business. A Burlington wedding unites James B Bailey and Minnie Redfern at 3:30 in the Methodist parsonage with Alex Easton as bridal party member. The Portland Oregon Journal reports Clark West marriage with Oswald West kin present. The Portlands Miss Jessie West weds Clarence Melville Clark at 8:30. Oswald West attends. The couple plans two weeks at Cannon Beach before returning home.
Jefferson County Nurses Training School held a graduation ceremony at the Presbyterian church. Miss Zilpha Kamp, Miss June Hazel Norris, and Miss Emma Katherine Marsh were named graduates with speaker Elizabeth Greener from Mt Sinai School of Nursing urging nurses to meet wartime demands. The program included an oath, diplomas, solos, and an address on nursing duties during national service.
The 23rd reunion of Company M, Fourth Iowa Cavalry, was held Sept 22 1917 at H Heaton home Wood-Thrush Park with about two hundred attendees. Officers were re-elected. new membership rules extend to descendants. A dinner followed including speeches by Rev Gabrielson and Rev A R Tothacre, songs by Captain Abraham and Mrs Gantz, and heartfelt tributes to comrades including the late Martin V B Crill.
District Court in Keosauqua closes after the September term with no further probate or chancery cases. Grand Jury discharged. report not released. The Keosauqua Republican notes a playful report of Judge Anderson jailing two witnesses in Fairfield for memory lapses and threatening more if needed.
Mrs. Kitchen and H. Heaton sang Brave Boys Are They and the assembly joined The Star Spangled Banner. Rev. A. R. Toothacre gave the benediction to close a most delightful reunion of Company M, noted as the only Civil War unit with its own association and reunions.
Readable notice invites diners to eat a fried chicken supper on Friday and Saturday nights at the Newport Cafe located at 306.
Trustees of Pleasant Grove Church of 304 THE NEWPORT warn offenders who took cakes and peanuts on Friday evening September 21 to settle promptly to avoid trouble. A fried chicken supper will be served Friday night.
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