Fairfield News Roundup Signals Local Appointments and Developments
Russell E. Jones of Des Moines is named secretary of the Community club to fill the vacancy from David Cassatt’s resignation. Fairfield Building Trust buys land in Pumphrey addition to build about sixteen modern houses. Packwood approves a $90,000 consolidated school by a large vote. Courthouse activity includes a district court session with jury progress and a pending damage suit. Orpheum theater staff host a prewedding dinner for Vernal Sheehy and Richard Kessel set for next week.
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Ieee Geeta
D. Rider
Toma
Me Hsney Rider
Russel E. Jones
Des Moines
David Cassatt
Dubuque
Jones
Chariton Commercial Club
Des Moines Chamber of Commerce
Fairfield Building
Pumphrey Addition
Chautauqua Park
Packwood
John Merckens
Mary McIntire
Rolfe
Iowa
M. K. Barnes
Fairfield
C. G. Hanson
J. T. Jones
Boulder
Colo
P. I. Labagh
N. W. Labagh
Mystic
C. W. Hodgen
Kansas City
Mr. Hodgen
City
Mrs. Hodgen
Johnson
Brighton
Claude Kerr
Grandpa
H. E. Snyder
Mt. Pleasant
O. A. Banta
District Court
Vermilion
Margaret Herrerra
J Fred Clark
Employes
Orpheum Theatre
Local residents travel and visits near Pekin and Ottumwa
Lindy James Douglass moved a new tractor from here to his Pekin area farm in the last part of the week. Mrs Daley and daughter Dophelia and Mrs Hmel Nelson were in Ottumwa in the same period. Irene Bradfield was visiting in
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James Douglass
Pekin
Daley
Dophelia
Hmel
Nelson
Ottumwa
Irene Bradfield
Local notes from Fairfield and Ottumwa visits
In Fairfield Wes Kenyon stays with his mother and sister Mrs Parks since last week. George Gibeaut had an appendectomy last Thursday and is recovering well. Mr and Mrs Jones near town visited Ottumwa last week. Mrs W A Nelson of Fremont returned home Sunday after visiting Joseph Nelson and relatives. Mr and Mrs F P Steele and family visited Mrs Belle Forest and family Sunday. C B Ruggles is improving. Mrs Stanfield and daughter Mrs Hazel Linder visited Fred Smithhart's home. F M Nelson visited Joseph Nelson Tuesday en route to Ottumwa. L V Brown was in Ottumwa Tuesday. W R McVey in town Monday. Ray Wilson and wife in town Monday.
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Wes_M. M. Kenyon
Fairfield
Belle Forest
C. B. Ruggles
Deaths Gilchrist Mrs Kate in Jefferson Co
Mrs Kate Gilchrist died April 1 at the home of her daughter Mrs A H Messer 700 South Fourth street Fairfield born 1851 in Fairfield Pennsylvania she lived most of her life in Fairfield survived by four children and one brother funeral services were held at the Messer home last Saturday conducted by Dr W E Parsons
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Gilchrist
Kate
A. H.messer
South Fourth Street
Fairfield
Penn
Jefferson County
Missouri
A. H. Messer
Harry Gilchrist
George King
Rock Island
Charles Gilchrist
Kansas City
William Donaldson
Long Beach
Calif
George Gilchrist
Iowa Pays Big Tax How Iowa Enriches Uncle Sam
The Bureau of Internal Revenue shows Iowa paid 8,804,358.05 in income and profit taxes from January 1 to March 20. It is estimated Iowa will contribute 35,217,432.20 to the national treasury in the calendar year based on these payments being about a quarter of the total due.
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Iowa
Bureau of Internal Revenue
National Treasury
Iowa Truck Crop Irrigation Expands in 1150 Acre Muskait Island
Iowa irrigation growth rises with Muscatine Island reporting 1150 acres under irrigation. The land supports extensive truck farming and shows strong production success.
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Iowa
Muscatine Island
Iowa Car Owners Pay Similar Tax to New York
Iowa automobile owners with about half the number of cars pay roughly the same total tax as New York residents while Iowa’s population is about one quarter that of New York.
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Iowa
State of
New York
Webster City Bond Drive Passes for Gas Plant Purchase
In a special election Webster City approved a $75,000 bond plan to buy the gas plant for municipal operation. The tally was 599 in favor and 82 opposed.
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Webster City
Iowa Horse Sale Draws Large Crowd at Cedar Falls
More than 1500 farmers and buyers attended the Cedar Falls sale where James Loonan & Son sold 55 Percheron mares at favorable prices. Eighteen states were represented at the event.
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Iowa
Cedar Falls
James Loonan & Son
Trade Card Offer for Foley Remedies
Cut this slip and mail with 5c to Foley & Co. Chicago for a trial package including Foley's Honey and Tar for coughs, Foley Kidney Pills for pain and rheumatism, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and biliousness. Jericho and Easton, Druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Ill
Foley
Jericho & Easton
Stormy Sea Rescue Brings Barbara Savoy and Robert Garrick Together
On a sultry day Barbara Savoy pleads with her father to row in a boat with a boy he dislikes. A sudden storm sinks their craft. Barbara and her father survive after Robert Garrick's timely rescue. A week later Garrick encounters Barbara at the post office and starts daily rides to the hotel, sparking a summer romance.
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Barbara Savoy
North Shore
Daily Paper
Barbara
Mr. Savoy
Barby
Barbare
Robert Garrick
Garrick
Magellan Circumnavigation Noted But Death Occurred En Route
The account explains Magellan did not live to finish his voyage yet completed the circumnavigation by sailing east from Portugal to Banda Island at 130 degrees east and reaching Mactan at 124 degrees east. The text argues this achievement ranks among the top four discoveries and explorations, a value rarely recognized.
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Magellan
Globe
Portugal
Banda Island
Greenwich
Mactan Island
Enormous Pencil Output Across America
The largest factory in the pencil industry produces over 50 million pencils annually. There are more than 700 kinds shapes and colors. If lined end to end the factory’s pencils could span from Washington to San Francisco and back to New York.
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America
Washington
San Francisco
New York
Letters to 50 000 Pastors Urging Cooperation
The Interchurch World Movement reports National plans for a United Simultaneous Lenten Evangelistic Campaign and Join the Church Sunday as Easter outreach. Bishop Henderson says field reports show increased church membership and urges using cooperative evangelism programs, with letters sent to 50 000 pastors and 5 000 lay leaders.
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United States
Theodore S. Henderson
Interchurch World Movement
Henderson
C. L. Goodell
Commission On Evangelism
Federal Council of Churches
National Conference of Church Women
Washington
John R. Mott
Mabel Cratty
Bishop Henderson
Towner backs $1,000,000 Puerto Rico relief drive
Horace M. Towner of Iowa leads a congressional group in endorsing a $1,000,000 relief fund for Puerto Rico after a series of earthquake shocks. The fund aims to rebuild homes for homeless families and is endorsed by church groups and Porto Rican commissioners. Contributions may be sent to Alfred R. Kimball in New York.
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Horace M. Towner
Iowa
Congressional Committee On Insular Affairs
Porto Rico
New York
Porto Rican Commission
Towner
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Martin Travieso, Jr
Jose Sabater
Clarence E. Ferguson
Alfred R. Kimball
West Twenty-second Street
Presbyterian Girls to Be Visited on Mission Work Drive
Secretaries from the Committee on Student Work and the Women’s Boards of Missions plan visits to over 56 000 Presbyterian college girls. Cards will be mailed before visits to link scholars with nearby churches, supporting a $19 000 000 campaign. The Metropolitan Conference of New York Church Women met March 15–16 to discuss the Interchurch World Movement and push church cooperation. Several hundred women attended sessions to consider the movement’s message and foreign and home surveys.
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Presbyterian
Women's Board of Home Missions
Woman's Boards of Foreign Missions
Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian College
League of Churches
League of Nations
Metropolitan Conference of
New York Church Women
Marble Collegiate Church
Fifth Avenue
New York
Interchurch World Movement
Greater
Elderly Man Good Walker
Garret Brower of Brooklyn kept walking vast distances into his nineties averaging six miles daily seven years ago. Now ninety seven, he ceased outdoor walks three years ago, using a pedometer only as a memory of routine treks from Willoughby Avenue to the Williamsburg Bridge and Manhattan, often looping back to Brooklyn.
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Garret Brower
Willoughby Avenue
Williamsburg Bridge
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle
Sugar from Douglas fir hailed as native treasure
John Davidson and James Teit report a native secret of the Douglas fir producing exceptionally sweet sugar valued at 66 dollars a pound. The find spans areas between the 50th and 51st parallels and 121 to 122 degrees in British Columbia and nearby Washington, including the Thompson and Fraser valleys.
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John Davidson
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
James Teit
American Forestry Association
Francis Dickie
American Forestry Magazine
Thompson River
Nicola River
Fraser
Thompson Rivers
Lytton
Fraser Valley
Lillooett
Kamloops
Nicola
Similwameen
State of Washington
Unconventional Professions Postwar England
After war England sees new careers emerge. A man promises pleasant conversation for a fee. a former officer writes breezy letters for a price. War ravages push ex-women to seek chaperone or companion roles, manage large houses, or work as cinema actresses.
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England
Flanders
Scots Spurn Sunday Work and Lord Leverhulme Clash
Lord Leverhulme faced religious opposition from Scots on his Lewis Island property as he aimed to base a large fishing fleet at Stornoway with Sunday labor. The Presbyterian islanders rejected the plan, described by Common Sense as a clash between big new ideas and old intense beliefs.
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Lord Leverhulme
Common Sense
Cook Grabber: England's meanest crime in five years
The text calls the so called cook grabber the meanest crime of the past five years in England. It describes luring a neighbor's cook as the offense and notes shortages drive women to recruit cooks through conversation at doorways with promises of higher pay and better hours. The piece emphasizes the value of a cook in the kitchen.
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England
Farmer Rosser Plans Questionnaire For Summer Boarders
Farmer Corn Ros sell comments on hosting summer boarders and proposes a questionnaire to standardize political views. He says he is tired of late night porch arguments and wants to avoid disputes. The wife questions the purpose, and he explains the goal is uniform opinions among guests.
Mollie's Night With Lucy's Boy at the Club
Mollie enjoys a summer evening with Bess and friends when she encounters a rumored figure nicknamed Lucy's boy. Her aunt fears the match, while Mollie grows curious as Skinny Smith reveals he is Carter, the very man she misjudged. The dance ends with a hint of possible romance.
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Aunt Mary
Molllé
Lucy
Mollie
Aunty
Bess
Chet Olney
Chet
Smith
Skinny
Young Smith
Chette Bess
Greenfield
Lucy Norris
Skinny Smith
Carter
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