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Newspaper
Fairfield Tribune
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1920
Page
13
Daily meat and dairy specials listed for Armour's Star Skinned Hams Swinging from .40c per lb to 40c for various items. Hamburger 20c lb Fresh Pork cuts 28c lb and Pure Pork Sausage 25c lb. Market notes closing all day Monday July 5.
Advance agent Mr Billick promotes Gold Medal shows for week of July 26 at Hisel grounds with testimonials from officials. Local license at 167 dollars higher than other cities, but keeps out poor shows. Illness reports include Misses Doughty and Miss Scothorn due to ptomaine ice cream in Ottumwa. Numerous travel and meeting notices, births, and marriages noted in Jefferson County.
F E Butler succeeds A V Frazey as local undertaker with phone contact 1382. Firm announces continuity of services in the community.
Jefferson County League of Women Voters gathers on Saturday July 3 at 2 15 p m in the library assembly room third floor. The program covers the Civic Status of Women Food Supply and Demand and the six planks of the national league platform with talks on political status women gainful occupations women and education and mothers and children.
The article outlines goals of the national league of women voters including creating a federal department of education, federal aid to remove illiteracy, wage standards, a women's bureau in labor, joint federal state employment services, and citizenship parity for married women. It notes campaigns on home economics training, food regulation, and sex education, plus celebration of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and ongoing citizenship schools with university support.
Westfield Massachusetts Clayton M Root custodian of the town hall says his hen produced fifteen chickens from thirteen eggs. He suggests two eggs were laid after the initial set or some eggs were double yolked. A second hen produced thirteen chicks from thirteen eggs, another unusual instance.
Roy L. Emry has taken on duties as secretary of the Enid chamber of commerce in Oklahoma. A letter requests updating his Enterprise address with Emry writing that he is presently getting his bearings in the new post.
The Brighton Enterprise notes Enid area harvest to reach about 3,000,000 bushels as oil fields bloom 20 miles east. If oil strikes here, the city will boom amid a farming work call from 19 year old seeking labor.
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