Jefferson County Aims to Reach Fourth Liberty Loan Quota
Jefferson County targets 942 100 dollars for the fourth Liberty Loan with an early Saturday drive. Taxpayers, both property owners and earners, are urged to subscribe at polling places from 8 am to 3 pm. The drive uses 8 percent of net value with 50 percent added to 1918 assessed values. Iowa’s prior campaigns oversubscribed and the state is expected to again exceed its quota.
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Jefferson County
Iowa
O .F. Fryer
Pol's
Women’s Suffrage Group Sees War Time Rally Oct 5
Local suffrage association reports Cedar Rapids Iowa convention success and war work. The next meeting on October 5 will discuss federal amendment ratification, with speakers from Dubuque Oskaloosa and Cedar Rapids plus Liberty Loan activities led by Miss Alice Inskeep and J. A. Davis of Chicago.
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Woman’s Association
Wilson
Catt
Iowa
Senate
Towa
Cedar Rapids
War Activities Bureau
C. C. Loomis
Loomis
Anna B. Lawther
Dubuque
Iowa E. S. A
James A. Devitt
Oskaloosa
Effie McCollum Jones
Webster City
J. J. Toomey
Owen Elliott
Laura Hurd Bailey
Dunlap
Ralph Thompson
Muscatine
Ida B. Wise Smith
Laura Bass
Des Moines
Sadie H. Passig
Humboldt
Cora G. Lewis
Kansas
Liberty Loan
J. A. Davis
Chicago
Alice Inskeep
Naval Trainin School
Zip
No-Man’s Land
Fairfield Eyes National Guard Company and Regimental Band Honor
Fairfield seeks a 100 member national guard company with the regimental band as its honor. Recruiter Forrest Wright has reached sixty members and a public meeting with Adjutant General Lascher is planned. Local effort aims to sign up forty more recruits to secure the band’s state recognition and potential financial support.
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Fairfield
National Guard
Henry Oliver
Oliver
Forrest Wright
Lascher
Poultry Culling Demonstrations Planned in Jefferson County
Iowa State College extension representative will conduct September 30 to October 2 demonstrations on culling non producers from flocks. Schedule lists speakers at Fairfield Packwood Lockridge Batavia Libertyville and other venues with morning and afternoon sessions. Attendees may bring birds or questions for discussion at the meetings.
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Iowa State College
Jefferson County
C. D. Blough
Fairfield
Sacred and Patriotic Band Concert Postponed to Sunday
Cold weather disrupted last week’s community singing and patriot concert in Fairfield. The band performed a full show despite the chill, with Mrs. Ward singing, and organizers postponed the event to next Sunday at 3 pm in Central Park. The program aims to honor local soldiers and boost community singing with wide attendance hoped from across the county.
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Fairfield
Ward
Central Park
Auto
Correction notice on county registrants and obituary update
A Tribune typo changed the registered men aged 18 to 45 from 1811 to 811. The death report of Emmett Peacock, a National Army soldier at Camp Dodge, is based on his critical illness from blood poisoning with relatives notified and at Camp Dodge.
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Tribune
Emmett Peacock
National Army
Camp Dodge
Fairfield
Christian Church Annual Meeting
The Christian church holds an all day annual meeting next Sunday starting 9 45 with combined Bible school and preaching. A noon basket dinner follows. Afternoon features reports talks and special music. An 8 pm patriotic program dedicates a second service flag. Everyone invited with baskets.
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Christian Church
Thirty Men Drafted for Camp Dodge October 7 12
Thirty men from Jefferson County are slated to depart for Camp Dodge between October 7 and 12. The draft list, barely trimmed from class one, shows six men remaining. Exemption board staff handle mass questionnaires as lawyers aid registrants. the roster remains subject to last minute changes.
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Jefferson County
Camp Dodge
Exemption Board
Clinton R. McGahan
Grover C. Petzinger
Velmar
M. Bell
Geo. A. Harper
Chas. F .Liggett R. Fred Miller
Albert J. Fritz
Fred L. Peebler
Chester W. Murphy
Arthur Sable
Guy Ross Black
Walter Chapins Francis Benda
Fay O. Champa
Fred Lee Gallup
Clarence W. Finney Bernard EF. O’neil
John S. Campbell
John B. Taglauer
Roy W. Jacobs
Noble Hines
Carl V. Adams
Frank E. Emonin
Earl Martin Lawrence J. Fritz Victor D. Leech
Merrillm. Miller
Guy E. Maxwell
John D. Garber
Raymond Jacobs
What It Takes To Make Mile Of Front
A description of the vast material and labor required to build one mile of front line trenches in Flanders. It details 900 miles of barbed wire, 110 tons of wire, 6 250 000 sandbags weighing over a thousand tons, 12 000 six foot standards, 12 000 picks, 35 000 feet of corrugated iron, over 1 000 000 feet of timber and large rivet supplies.
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Flanders
Liberty Loan Boost Urges Iowa to Meet New Quota
Jefferson County Liberty Loan committee chairman Fryer received a telegram from State Chairman McNider urging Iowa to accept a greatly increased fourth Liberty Loan quota. The message praises past support, patriotism, and unified effort at home to back American troops in France and promises an ample share for all citizens.
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Fryer
Jefferson County Liberty Loan Committee
McNider
Iowa
Union
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