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Lieut David Cassat is enjoying a furlough at his home here while awaiting expected early orders to go over seas from his station in New Jersey.Bom, to Mr .and Mrs. Leo D.Thoma, Tuesday, Oct. 8, a daughter.John F. Loehr has been appointed as justice of the peace for this township by the county board of supervisors ,to succeed the late C. M. Redick.Mrs. M. Allmayer and son, of Kirks-ville, Mo., were visitors in Fairfield with friends last week.Because of the death of Horton Spencer, the Coop family reunion, to have been held last week, was postponed until next Saturday. All friends o fthe family are cordially invited to com eand bring their lunch for a bigpicnic dinner.Roy Spence left this week forColumbus, O., in answer to a call for limited service in the army.Ernest Peasley has returned from sev*eral days’ business visit in St. Louis.John A. Huglin is in Kansas City on business.pected soon.It is said that unless the full onehundred membership desired for the company is secured there is a possibility that the formation of a company here will yet fall through. Urgent appeal is made to the public to furnish the ten or a dozen men yet needed to fill the company. The advantages of membership will be fully explained by any member of the company, or by Forest Wright, who is recruiting it.**DEATHS¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥¥Buy Wall Paper, Paint and Window Glass at Thoma’s. 31-tfDEMOCRATS ASKCAMPAIGN FUNDFROM PRECINCTSCONRAD.Columbus W. Conrad wos born in Perry county, Missouri, July 26, 1834, and died at Fairfield, Iowa, October 6, 1918, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Dora Rundle, 507 South B. street. He was united in marriage to Hulda C. Eddlemon December 21, 1854, and to this union were born five children, two sons and three daughters. The | wife and four children have preceded ! him in death.On August 20, 1864, he enlisted at Pilot Knob, Missouri, in Co. C, 47th Rep:., Vol. Inf.After serving fourteen months he i returned home to his famliy and resumed his work as a miller, and continued to work until overtaken by the j infirmities of age. He was a lifelong member of the Methodist church and dii i«. that faith.He leaves to mourn his death one daughter, Mrs. Dora Rundle, andu * three grandsons, Wm. K., Herbert andT.t\l°LlZZh'V.W. Schroder of Fairfield, and Angelocommitteemen of the democratic par r Xt ± ia national R- Harmon.V. n°w In the navy; two!ty it was planned to raisegranddaughters, Mrs. Guy Simmons!state, district and county campaign , v i vx , . nP.Jinct. of Hugo, Oklahoma, and .Miss Kath-fund in the various voting precincts 1 r xr * , . . .^ Sears of Nevada, Mo., besidesby an assessment of approximately V i V i u *33 1-3 cents ner democratic vote cast £randchlldren and a host‘DemSS'of^ounSya;. urged', ™e funer.Uervice, were held fromto do their part in each of the various °n ^onda/ evening at 7:30,precincts toward raising the fund conducted b.v Rev- C. L. Tennant, andThe assessment is as fol-, $ “°promptly, lows.Walnut ...............................................$ 34Abingdon ............................................ 12Batavia ........ 30,* Enlist and Died the Same Day._______ Waterloo, la.—Nine months agoBlackhawk 12 ^wo Dunkerton young men enlistedBrookville 11 anc* the same time to becomeBuchanan ..........31 members of Uncle Sam’s fightingCedar ...................................... 28 forces. Saturday afternoon within aCenter .................... 28 few hours the parents of the youngI)es Moines”™!*^ 23 men received news of the death of oneFairfield, first ward ........................ 20 anl • the probable leath of the other.Fairfield, 2nd ward .......................... 48 Peter Kross died at Camp Dix Salur-Fairfield 3rd ward............................ 53 day morning from Spanish influenza.Fairfield', 4th ward......................-..... 34 Har°ld Bellmar is reported miss-Liberty ................................................ 31Lockridge township ........................ 21Lockridge, town ................................ 6Packwood ............................................ 21ing in action.* Grows Record Potato Crop., C. P. Kessel claims the potato grow-Penn .................................................... 29 ing record of this vicinity this year onRound Prairie .................................... 23 his farm near Fairfield. He plantedbut one acre in potatoes but it yieldedGUARD COMPANY HASBEEN MUSTERED IN260 bushels and Mr. Kessel thinks that record will stand against all comers. The tubers were of an unusually finequality.Eighty-one members of Fairfield’s new National Guard company, K company of the 'Fourth Infantry, were mustered into the service of the government last Monday night. Since that’ time there have been a number of others mustered in but the company is yet short of the required hundred.Equipment will be furnished to the men of the company immediately following inspection and approval by an inspection officer, whose arrival is ex-Arrested for Wearing Uniform.Cedar Rapids, la.—Vance Cox ofjGrundy Center is under arrest here for wearing the uniform of a soldier.! Cox was drafted and sent to Camp j Dodge, wher ehe was rejected. He j bought a uniform and has been wear- j ing it. He was arrested on an order of the state adjutant general. jTribune Want Ads Pay
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Fairfield Tribune
Fairfield, Iowa, US
Fri, Oct 11, 1918
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