Iowa Old Press

Weekly Journal
Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa
March 6, 1884

STATEMENT
Of Receipts and Expenditures of Independent School District, City of Fairfield, for the Year Preceding March 1st, 1884.

SCHOOL HOUSE FUND
Bal. on hand March 1, 1883            $19.58
Received from County Treasurer       1.80
Bal. in hands of Dist. Treas.              21.38

TEACHERS' FUND.
Bal. on hand March 1, 1883         2,038.84
Received from county treasurer     4,879.81
Received from temporary school
     fund,                                        1,574.40
Received from tuition,                    8,661.55
Paid teachers,               $5,180.00
Bal. in hands of dis-
trict treasurer,                 3,481.55-$8,661.55

CONTINGENT FUND.
Due dist. treasurer March 1, '83,     $1,334.94
  d. for painting entire inside of
  school building,                                  431.98
Pd. for carpenter work on win-
  dows and roof of school build-
  ing                                                       90.70
Pd. for diplomas and expense of
  graduating the class of '83                    34.85
Pd for hardware, lumber and
  lime for repairs at school house            34.36
Pd. for postage for secretary,                   4.25
Pd. for crayon, pencils and ink
  for use at school house,                       12.18
Pd. for printing annual state-
  ment and advertising for coal
  and painting                                        18.50
Pd. for stationery and printed
  blanks for school house                       22.55  
Pd. for repairing drain,                          12.26
Pd. for repairing pump and well             13.10
Pd. janitor's salary,                              398.25
Pd. for assistant to janitor in
  cold weather,                                      12.50
Pd. for repairs on furnace,                    155.34
Pd. coal for school house,                    460.30
Pd brooms, kindling, oil, etc.                  30.60
Pd. tables and chairs for
  school.                                                30.30
Pd. for blackboards, repairing
  old ones and new slating, etc.               57.82
Pd. for order book for secretary              6.00
Pd. for gong.                                            5.50
Pd. for tellurian,                                      30.00
Pd. for repairing air pump,                      12.10
Pd. insurance on school build-
  ing.                                                      330.00
Pd. for secretary's salary,                         68.05
                                                        $3,637.93
Amt. received from
  dist. treasurer,               $3,115.29
Due district treasurer,            522.64-$3,637.93           
     The following are the estimated amounts necessary, in the opinion of the Board of Directors to maintain the schools for the ensuing year:
     For Teachers' Fund,                      $5,200.00
     For Contingent Fund                       2,000.00
     By order of the Board,
                    JOHN M. GALVIN, Secretary.
     February 25, 1884.

ANOTHER FIRE.
Fairfield Visited Last Night by the Destructive Element-Between $5,000 and $10,000 Worth of Property Destroyed by Fire.

     Last night a fire was discovered about 12:15 in the rear end of the wooden building, in the rear of Pat Bradley's saloon, on the west side of the square, occupied as a bowling alley by H.C. Lightfoot, which with the saloon building was the only frame on that side. Alarms were given by telephone and ringing of the church bells; but before the "bucket brigade could get into fighting order the fire had made such headway that it was impossible to save the building. The fire soon spread to the wooden warehouse in the rear of Jordan Bros. & Co. and occupied by G. & K. as a storage house for stoves, barb wire, etc; also the frame barn across the alley west, belonging to Sam Coffin. All these buildings were entirely consumed, with most of their contents. Gaines & Kirkpatrick lost all that was in the warehouse, some $1,500 worth, and sustained much damage in the removal of their goods from the brick building in the front, which they occupy as a salesroom for general hardware and stoves.
     Bradley & Huffman occupied one of the three rooms in the lower story of the Jordan block, and were considerably damaged by the removal of their grocery stock.
     R.A. Tuttle, who suffered in our last conflagration, occupied the south room of the same block, and sustained more or less loss by the removal of his stock of general merchandise.
     Mr. Lightfoot lost his billiard table and furnishings, but we understand had them fully insured.
     Pat Bradley, the saloon man, saved most all his effects.
     George C. Fry, who occupied the lower room in the brick adjoining the saloon, lost six barrels of kerosene, and sustained some damage in the removal of his stock of groceries.
     All these parties had more or less insurance. The total damage will probably amount to eight or nine thousand dollars, but one hundred thousand dollars would not to-day cover the damage, had it not been for the extraordinary fire-fighting qualities of the bucket brigade. At one time all the windows on the west and the wooden-covered stairway on the north of the Jordan block were on fire, with dense hot smoke rushing into the rooms of the two upper stories, yet ladders were put in front when the outside stairway could not longer be used, and water carried through the building to the west end, and in the face of the scorching blasts the wooden casings of the windows were kept from burning and the blaze thus kept out of the rooms. Some of the brigade stood to the work after their faces were blistered by the settling flames.
     Whilst this was going on at the Jordan block, men were equally vigilant in, upon and about the Shaffer brick building adjoining the saloon building. All along the border of the burning circle men and boys worked with a will, thus keeping back the flames from the adjoining buildings. So intense was the heat from the burning buildings, largely intensified by the addition to the flames of coal piles and oil barrels, that the doors to the adjoining buildings were in several places burned through. But notwithstanding the intense heat, there was always energetic help enough at hand to keep back the inroads of the fiend by constant drenching with water.
     Never before have we seen so much brave, energetic and valuable work done, and so much property saved from the destroying elements of the fire fiend, with such primitive appliances. But where machinery and convenience were wanting, the heroic will and energy of the citizens filled the breach.
     The cause of the fire is unknown, but the opinion generally prevails that it was the work of an incendiary.
    But we have to add, that while so many of our good citizens were trying to save the property of their neighbors, there was some one near, despicable enough, mingling with the crowd to cut the pocket and slip the pocket-book from one of the most vigilant fire-fighters, Capt. W.T. Burgess. His loss was nearly $300 in money. The English language does not contain scathing epithets enough to apply to such contemptible meanness.

FRIDAY FACTS.
-H.H. Brighton has been in Chicago most of the week.
-John A. Spielman is taking in St. Louis and Chicago this week.
-Joe Streamer, of Chicago, is in the city, visiting his uncle, J.V. Myers.
-Al Hilbert is convalescing fast, and will be able to resume business in a few days.
-Mrs. H.E. Kinsloe, we are glad to note, is able to be out again after quite a protracted illness.
-Frank B. Clark, with Hufford, Bradshaw & Thomas, went to Centerville today to visit his mother.
-Mrs. Case, wife of State Senator, Geo. H. Case, of Mankato, Kansas, and daughter Hattie, are in the city for a few days.
-Mayor Cummings administration has been progressive and in keeping with the times. It has given us electric light and waterworks which has given our city a name and fame abroad.
-Will any of our readers please point to a public improvement for the city of Fairfield, in which the Ledger or some of its relatives were not financially interested, that the sheet never ignored. Name us one instance.
-The telephone wires of Bradley & Huffman and R.A. Tuttle were demoralized by the fire last night, and will not probably be put in working order until to-morrow. In the meantime members of the exchange can call them through 36, Allmayer & Brother.
-The Ledger, a paper which in all of its thirty years existence has never favored a public improvement for the benefit of our town, wants a change in the city government, because the present Council is progressive and up to the spirit of the times, and not obliged to patronize that paper because of party ties.
-H.W. Lyman and Chas. A. Croney, Oskaloosa; F.P. Phillips, Chicago; W. H. Platt, Keokuk; Alex J. Kneuster, Maryville, Mo.; Miss Laura Kneuster, Dubuque; H.W. Medes, Quincy; A.H. Wimer, Kansas City; Charles Spain and wife, St. Joe and B. Wolf, Philadelphia were at the Legett House to-day.
-A bevy of boys, composed of Willie Stump, Willie Chew, Harry Beardsley, George Simons, Elmer Quillen, Fred and Harry Lowery, John Stump, Davy Ricketts and Rubie Stump set out this morning to gather up the snow-birds killed last night by the electric lights in order to give THE JOURNAL an item. They gathered 158 dead ones, and caught seven that were stunned, and found one dead owl.
-We invite the attention of our readers to an article in another portion of this paper, taken from the Boston Standard, with reference to the Burlington Insurance Company. The editor of THE JOURNAL has been personally acquainted with the officers and managers of this company for over fifteen years, and during all that time it has been a matter of pleasure and pride to us to note its steady and solid growth until it is now recognized everywhere as one of the safest insurance companies, and solidest financial institution in our commonwealth.
- The city election takes place Monday and we trust that all the voters will get out. Last evening, ex-Senator Boling was nominated for Mayor by those who favor knocking electric light and waterworks in the head, and a raid on the city treasury by Bosses Wilson and Junkin and their relatives and friends. Mayor Cummings will doubtless be renominated  to-night by those in favor of an economical and progressive city administration, irrespective of party. THE JOURNAL has always been in favor of public improvements, and trusts that the people will turn out Monday and elect the ticket that will be nominated to-night, and thus avert disasters that might come to our public improvements now in progress by virtue of a change of administration to the Wilson-Junkin ring.

Saturday Sayings.
-Ed Taylor is back.
-Aver is in town to-day.
-Vote the entire citizens ticket Monday.
-G.A. Unkrich was in Burlington yesterday.
-In case Boling is elected, Boss Wilson will virtually be the mayor.
-M.A. Frawley, special agent of the Burlington Insurance Company, was in the city yesterday.
-John Walker, of Sonora, Old Mexico, known by nearly everybody around here, came in yesterday.
-Mrs. Smith, widow of the late Samuel Smith, died at her residence in the southwest part of the city, of cerebral hemorrhage yesterday, aged 56 years.
-We return our thanks to Mrs. J.C. Duneau, formerly of this city, now in Dakota, for late copies of Grand Forks papers.
-Every wide-awake and progressive citizen, who has the welfare and best interest of our city at heart, will vote for the re-election of Mayor Cummings.
- There will be a citizens' convention at the Court House, to-night, to put in nomination candidates for city officers irrespective of party, to be voted for Monday. Let everybody come out.
-M. Levy, Davenport; E.W. Knapp, Cleveland; A.W. Nimrocks, Eldon; C.C.C. Brown and B. Beane, Thomson, Ill. and J.C. Stirling, of Washington, were at the Jones House last night.
-In the contest to choose the representative for the Iowa State University at the State Oratorical Contest the first honor was awarded to Carl H. Pomeroy, the second to Herman W. Craven and the third to T.J. Hysham of this city.
-We understand that Boss Junkin received a telegram from Boss Wilson in Washington yesterday, instructing him to be sure and have Boling nominated for Mayor. The Senator, we understand, regretted his inability to get home and help drive up the cattle.
-The Rev. J.C. Culier, the genial and accomplished pastor of the Ev. Lutheran church at Newton, Iowa, was in the city over night. His friends will be glad to know that there is a strong probability of his being called to the Ev. Lutheran Mission about to be established at Burlington.
- A few of the faithful, at the instance of Boss Junkin, assembled at the Court House last evening to put in nomination candidates for city officers. H.C. Raney was called to the Chair, and Rollin A. Tuttle selected to act as Secretary. Hon. S.M. Boling was nominated for Mayor by acclamation. Being present he was called upon and made a speech accepting the nomination. The nominations of J.F. Crawford, for Treasurer, and John T. Axline for Assessor, were also made by acclamation. Boss Wilson had blocked out the programme, and all they had to carry it out. A central committee composed of J.W. Quillen in the first ward, J.S. Gantz in the second, W.W. Junkin in the third, and J.M. Hinkel in the fourth, was selected.

Monday Melange.
-R.W. Durkee, Muscatine, was here to-day.
-W.W. Minbach, of Des Moines, is in the city.
-E.R. Perlect, Anamosa, is in the city to-day.
-Frank Clark returned this morning from Centerville.
-Hufford, Bradshaw & Thoma commenced to invoice to-day.
-Z.T. Moore and A.W. Jackson, of Libertyville, were in the city to-day.
-The Emerson Concert Troupe Sundayed at the Leggett House on their way to Muscatine.
-The Clerk has issued marriage licenses to J.B. Pickard and Miss Ada May Clarridge, James Batson and Miss Patricia J. West.
-The Washington Democrat gives us this piece of news: "The fire at Fairfield Thursday night destroyed a fine billiard hall which was owned by C.A. Sterling, the steward of our county farm. He had $1,000 insurance, but it will not cover the loss.
-The March number of Our Little Ones has appeared and is an exceedingly attractive one of that excellent magazine for young folks. One only has to put a copy in the hands of the children once to see how well it is appreciated. It is issued by the Russell Publishing Company, No. 36 Bromfield street, Boston, at $1.50 a year.
-A convention of citizens, favorable to nominating a ticket for city officers, irrespective of party, to be voted for to-day, was held at the Court House Saturday night. C.E. Noble was called to preside and R.H. Moore elected Secretary. The following ticket was nominated: Mayor, J.J. Cummings; Treasurer, J.F. Crawford; Assessor, J.T. Axline. And it will be elected to-day.
-Mrs. Jennie Workman, widow of the late J.M. Workman, died at her home five miles northeast of the city, in Buchanan township; yesterday afternoon at five o'clock, of consumption. She was about 35 years old, and a daughter of Mrs. McCrea, of this city. The funeral took place this afternoon, and the remains deposited in Richwood's cemetery.
-Portraits of three lovely, happy children adorn the colored lithograpic title-page of "Hood's Latest," a handsome little eight-page periodical, published by C.I. hood & Co., Lowell, Mass., proprietors of the successful medicine, Hood's Sarsparilla. It also gives an abundance of humorous and other reading matter. Copies free at drug stores, or by addressing the publishers.
-The Davenport Gazette says: "Iowa is not proud of her contribution to the population of Illinois, known abroad as Frank Rande. Illinois ought not to be proud of her leniency in forbearing to hang the desperate murderer. Because of that misdirected leniency, one of the prison officers of Joliet has been killed by the desperado, and the desperado has now met the death to which he should have been doomed by the jury. Rande's real name was Charles Scott, of Fairfield." The Gazette is a little off. Neither of the parties are yet dead.

Tuesday Tit-Bits.
-E.N. Benedict, Dubuque, is here.
-L.F. Racine, Ottumwa, is in the city.
-H. Sikemeier, St. Louis, is here to-day.
-Jim Hinson is in Pleasant Plain to-day.
-W.T. Clark, Des Moines, is in the city.
-Dr. Monfort went to Iowa City this morning.
-Wm. B. Capell, New York, is in the city to-day.
-Justice James Grewell, of Eldon, was in the city to-day.
-John Holland, a lawyer of Moline, Ill. was in the city to-day.
-J.E. Wilkins and wife returned last night from their Ohio visit.
-W.H. Snider and Jim Buckner, of Davenport, were here to-day.
-I.S. Felger, Levi Hills, F.S. Blossom, and W.G. Coles, of Chicago, were in the city to-day, guests of the Leggett House.
-A little daughter arrived at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Millhouse yesterday, and THE JOURNAL extends its congratulations to the happy parents.
-The sociable of the ladies' society of the Lutheran Church, will be entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hershberger on Thursday evening. All are cordially invited.
-Bible study at Y.M.C.A. rooms Thursday evening. Topic: "The necessity of prayer." Service Sabbath afternoon. Subject, "Life's responsibilities." Eccl. xii-14.
-Any person desiring Unitarian pamphlets or papers, or information concerning Liberal Christianity can be supplied gratuitously by addressing Mrs. C.T. Cole, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
-Helt is closing out his stock, and Mr. C.C. Wormwood, from Illinois, will start a restaurant in the same room as soon as he can get possession.
-George O. Johnson, Moline, Ill., M.A. Pratt, Lineville; A.E. Lind, Lucas; J.H. Bonnell, Fort Madison; Mrs. W. R. Benton, Sutton, Neb., and Orange D. Reeves, Richmond, Ind., were at the Jones House to-day.
-W.B. Murray left last night by the Rock Island for Kansas City, where he will join an excursion party for Parral, Old Mexico. He goes to examine the property of Sterling Silver Mining Company, and will be absent a month.
-We chronicle with sorrow the death of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Whitham, who have recently returned from Fairmount, Nebraska, to their old home near this city where they will, in the future, continue to reside. Junia Etta, the second child of the bereaved parents was born Jan. 17th of the present year, and died on Sunday last, March 2d. of membranouos croup. We extend to the parents our sympathy.
-The city election passed off quietly yesterday, yet some very hard work was done on both sides. Ex-senator S.M. Boling was elected mayor over J.J. Cummings by 183 majority; James F. Crawford, for treasurer, and John T. Axline, for assessor, were re-elected, having no opposition. In the first ward Daniel Young was elected alderman over Tom Cole by a majority of 22. In the second ward Joe Ricksher had a majority of 20 over Tom Tilson. In the third ward Geo. D. Clarke was elected by a majority of 25 over G.A. Unkrich. In the fourth ward Charles D. Leggett was chosen, having no opposition. It is a new deal all around.
-Mr. and Mrs. J. Brier celebrated their crystal wedding at their residence in this city yesterday. Quite a number of invited guests, besides relatives, were present. The following is a list of the presents received: Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Knerr, bread plate; M. and Mrs. Clark Vannostrand, glass dish and goblets; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Reed, preserve dish; Wm. Knerr, honey dish; Mrs. Goebner, bread plate; Capt. and Mrs. C.Z. Bedford, pitcher and pickle dish; Mrs. Mullenix, pickle dish, and a number of other presents were received. The guests were served with a bountiful dinner.
-A special from Joliet, Ill., to the Chicago Daily News says: "Deputy Warden McDonald, who skull was crushed by the desperado, Frank Rande, in the penitentiary yesterday, is still alive and conscious, and hopes are retained of his recovery. Rande is likely to recover from the wounds received in the struggle. He is still very defiant and expresses regret at his failure to kill McDonald outright. The bullet in his head has not been extracted. He is evidently preparing to play the emotional insanity dodge in case McDonald dies, as he asked several times to-day whether he would be hanged in that event, adding that he should not be punished because he could not help it, being impelled by a higher power."
-At the school election in District No. 2, Cedar Township, yesterday there was no little excitement, and the election ended in blood. Link Stanford was elected director, and after the election was over John Mahon and Joe Heisel got into an altercation over school matters and from words came to blows. It is said John's blows were awkward, but powerful, like his sledge-hammer blows of twenty-five years age, and that Joe, who never knew what it was to be anything else but a peaceable citizen, put in his licks with equal irregularity and awkwardness. A reporter of THE JOURNAL, describing it to us, says it put him in mind of two old women fighting. However Squire Daugherty parted them and commanded peace, lest the snowy-white walls of the school house would be covered all over with gore.

Veterinary Surgeon.
P.M. Mehren, Veterinary Surgeon. treats horses and cattle for all chronic diseases, such as heart, lung, liver  and kidney disease, ring-bone, spavin, wind gall, fistula and poll evil, ore eyes or blindness. No cure, no pay. To be found at the Gantz House. Office at Clarke's Drug Store, Fairfield, Iowa.

BLOODED HORSES.
H.D. BLOUGH,
BREEDER OF
Norman French Horses
Elm Grove Farm, 2 1/2 Miles South
East of Fairfield, Iowa
     I now have the finest lot of Imported Norman
Stallions that has ever been in Southeastern
Iowa. My stud is headed by the imported
"PHILLONICUS,"
who cannot be excel'ed. I also have
"GILT-EDGE,"
who took the sweepstakes at the last Fair. I also
have Imported
"ORIENT,"
a jet black which beats them all. I have besides
these a fine lot of Grades on hand, from one to
three years old, which I will sell reasonably. Ex-
amination invited, correspondence solicited.
H.D. BLOUGH.

Wednesday Wanderings.
-C.W. Fracker, Iowa City, is here.
-A.P. West, Villisca, is in the city.
-J.W. Burnett is in Ottumwa to-day.
-E.H. Beane, St. Louis, is in the city.
-H.W. Miller, Allerton, was here to-day.
-Col. Sam C. Farmer went to Chicago last night.
-Rev. Carson Reed, of New London, is in the city.
-Henry Webb, Agency City, was in the city to-day.
-W.M. McFarland, of Brooklyn, Io., was in the city.
-L.L. Kellogg, Nebraska City, was in town to-day.
-We are sorry to hear that Bert Stubbs is at home sick.
-Hon. Wm. Hopkirk, of Lockridge, was in the city to-day, and made us a business call.
-John M. Galvin, of Galvin & Ross, spent two days of this week in Burlington on legal business.
-Marshal Sigler and E. Barker, of Keosauqua, were in the city to-day, stopping at Jones House.
-F. T. Plimpton, G.W. Mansfield and W.F. Fox, of Chicago, are in the city to-day, stopping at the Leggett House.
-Mrs. H.M. Sykes, general agent for Missouri and Iowa, of Freeman's Improved Geographical Cards, is in the city, stopping with Mrs. D. Eckert.
-The advertisement of H.D. Blough, border of Norman French horses, will be found in this issue of THE JOURNAL. Mr. Blough is one of the leading breeders and solid farmers of Jefferson county.
-Mr. and Mrs. Milton Dickens and Mrs. Charles H. Wilson, of Washington, Iowa; Miss Juliet Wilson, of Uniontown, Penn., and Miss Anna Wilson, from Illinois, are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Milt Roth.
-List of letters remaining unclaimed and advertised in the postoffice in this city for week ending March 4th, 1884: Rev. J.A. Corey, Irea Finney, William Johnson, Christopher Near, A.B. Smith, Cora B. Smith, Ellen Venner, Sally Woodward.
-They had a spelling match at the Y.M.C.A. rooms last night, in which several of the boys participated. The first prize, a set of Indian clubs, was awarded to Christie Condit, and the second, a double jointed fishing rod, to Carl Davis. A lively, interesting and profitable time was had.
-Freeman's Improved Geographical Cards should be in the hands of every family and teacher. They are both instructive and amusing as a game. One box contains two hundred cards and about one thousand facts of all countries. Sample box $1.00 by mail. Address Mrs. H. M. Sykes, Trenton, Mo.
-The law card of H.C. Raney appears in to-day's paper. Mr. Raney is so well and favorably known to the readers of THE JOURNAL that a good word from us seems unnecessary, yet we will say those who trust business with him will have it dilligently [sic], faithfully and honestly handled, and charges reasonable.

ELDON NOTES
     A school board election will be held next Monday.
    Hon. H.C. Dean was in town Monday and had on a clean shirt.
    Mr. Irland, one of the bridge men of Centerville, was here Tuesday.
    The young men here are trying to get up a lodge of the Knights of Pythias.
    Eight or ten couples will go to Agency from here to a hop Friday evening.
    Miss Klopps and sister, of Kansas City, are visiting their sister, Mrs. Coness.
    Charles Stevens' engine 98 is in the repair shop, and Charley gets a lay off.
    Both mills, saw and grist, have been run to their full capacity the past week.
    The hook and ladder club will give a dance St. Patrick's day at Bickford's hall.
    A brakeman named Stewart had his hand badly mashed at Muscatine last Saturday evening.
    S. Cornell and Tom Asby, both lawyers of this place, are at Judge Travers' court in Ottumwa this week.
    Heavy shipments through here last week have been without precedent. Every crew has been run to its full capacity.
    A sporting club will be under way soon to contain 12 or 14 members. They have five barrels of glass balls and six good guns.
    The "dinkey" is laid up for repairs, and Pat Casey of the old "45" is doing yard work, while dad Hoffman's "160" is acting as a pusher.
    The democrats carried everything at the city election last Monday, by majorities from 22 to 65. Mayor, E. Whitzel; Recorder, Orlando Daniels; Assessor, H. Baker; Trustees, John Wolte and Bill Huston.

Thursday Transpirings.
-Henry Ackerman is in Ottumwa.
-E.T. Kiggins, New York, is here.
-R.S. Beck, of Cincinnati, is in the city.
-Dr. J.M. Shaffer, of Keokuk, is in the city.
-H.C. Lightfoot went to Washington on No. 6
-Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Wilson returned from Washington City this morning.
-Miss Nellie Fullen, Agency, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. Fullen.
-It is likely we will lose several of our old residents this summer by removal.
-Dr. Worthington is removing to the property recently occupied by Mrs. Stribbling.
-Lon. Burgess left on No. 1 last night for Des Moines to undergo a postal examination.
-James M. Hughes, we are sorry to know, is at home sick, and his condition very alarming.
-Many London ladies crop their hair short and wear an almost entire wig, and consequently catch cold more frequently than their American cousins, but of course they all use Dr. Boll's Cough Syrup.
-A new side-walk was put down to -day over the burnt district by street commissioner Higley.
-Are our citizens going to allow Ottumwa to take the narrow gauge from Birmingham, and cut us off from all that trade in the southwest.
-C.F. Scott, Lincoln, Neb.; Perry Elliott, Trenton; N.R. Smith, Washington and Frank Gearhart, Atchison, Kas. were in the city to-day, stopping at the Jones House.
-W.T. Burgess and H.N. West, two of the most efficient members of the School Board, retire with this year. Who will be chosen to fill the vacancies? It is important that good men be selected. Let's call a straight republican caucus.
-It is now settled that McCoid is to be judge. Rol Wilson has just returned from Washington where he had a conference with President Arthur, and the president promised him it should be so. We are glad the much vexed question is at last settled and that the Fairfield pole knocked the persimmons.
-Miss Lizzie J. Noble, who has been visiting friends here for some weeks, returned to her home at Villisea this morning.
-John M. Richards, Geo. W. Sloat, R.H. Kerr, Chicago; Phil T. Hall, Pekin, Ill.; S.D. Nichols, Panora,and H.E. Davison, of Springfield, Mass., are in the city to-day stopping at the Leg????
-Mrs. S.E. Pressley has purchased the interest of Miss McGinnis in the northwest corner hair store, and will run the business herself hereafter at the same place, second story Myers' building.
-North-Side Drug Store, Albert C. Jones & Co., successors to W.H. Jones & Bro.; Drugs, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dye Stuffs, Perfumery, Fancy Notions, etc. News Dealers.
-A card received this morning from W.B. Murray dated Kansas City, March 5th, 9 P.M. says: "We leave at 10 o'clock in special car for the land of the Montezumas. Another train is to arrive yet with some more of our company. We will have twelve or fifteen."

LEGAL NOTICES.

ORIGINAL NOTICE.
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, SS.:
     To Thomas B. Law-You are hereby notified that on or before the 10th day of March, 1884, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Alice Law, asking that she be divorced from you, and for the care and custody of the child, Catherine Eliza.
     Now, unless you appear, thereto and defend, on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A.D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the 24th day of March, A.D., 1884, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.
     McCOID, BRIGHTON & JAQUES.
     Attorneys for Plaintiff.

ORIGINAL NOTICE.
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, SS
     To William Johnson-You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Lotta Johnson, plaintiff, asking for a decree of divorce from you.
     Now unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A.D., 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A.D. 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree rendered as prayed.
      LEGGETT & McKEMEY
     Attorneys for Plaintiff.

ORIGINAL NOTICE
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, SS:
    To Robert M. Steel, The Howe Sewing Machine Co.-You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of James Steel, plaintiff, claiming to be the absolute owner by title in fee simple of the following real estate in Jefferson County, Iowa, to-wit:
     The South fifty (50) acres of the East half of the Northeast quarter of the Section twenty-seven (27) in Township seventy-one (71) of Range ten (10) and asking a decree that you be barred and forever estopped from having or claiming any title thereto adverse to the plaintiff, and quieting the title to said premises in plaintiff, and for other relief see petition. No money judgment is asked against you.
     Now unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of the second day of the March Term A.D., 1884 of said Court, which Term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A.D., 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree entered as prayed.
     LEGETT & McKEMEY
     Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Fairfield Weekly Journal
Jefferson County, Iowa
Vol. VI, #20, March 13, 1884
Transcribed by Justina of Jefferson Co, IA USGenWeb Project

FRIDAY FACTS. (Page 1)
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     --Clark Moyer is here this week.
     --W. C. Bryant, of Winfield, is here.
     --J. M. Walton, New York, is in town.
     --Dr. R. R. Hall is able to be out again.
     --C. A. Dager, Cincinnati, was here to-day.
     --D. Kauffman, New York, was in the city to-day.
     --L. C. Strasburger, Morris, Ill., was here to-day.
     --E. C. Kohn, of Rock Island, was in the city to-day.
     --Dr. Monfort and wife returned from Iowa City to-day.
     --W. B. Dunkleberg, New York, was in the city to-day.
     --Mayor Cummings is absent at Nebraska City, Nebraska.
     --Ernest, son of Wm. E. Thompson, is sick with membranous croup.
     --Isaac Maxwell and J. P. Sanger, of Lockridge were in town to-day.
     --F. W. Walker and wife, of Marshalltown, are at the Leggett House.
     --B. B. Mayham and C. R. Beckley, of Burlington, were in the city to-day.
     --George Abbey, an old resident here, but now of Kansas City, is back visiting friends.
     --Mrs. R. H. Leggett has been confined to her room with a severe attack of neuralgia.
     --John Holland, of the law firm of Holland & Meese, Moline, is in the city, stopping at the Jones House.
     --If our people would study their own interest, they will re-elect Burgess and West as school directors next Monday.
     --Johnny Templeton, son of D. W., who has been attending Bryant & Stratton commercial school at Chicago, is at home on a visit.
     --Frank Zimmerman and J. W. Burnett leave this evening for Davenport, to attend, as delegates, a meeting of the district Y. M. C. A.
     --Kate Stoddard, agent for Matilda Fletcher, was in the city to-day.  We did not learn whether she billed the old gal for this place or not.
     --We are sorry to hear that P. H. Howlett, of Wells & Garrettson’s bank, one of the most faithful and hard-working men in the city, is sick and unable to attend to his usual multitudinous duties.
     --Wm. H. Neibert, who occupies the Swayne shop, in the rear of Risk’s store, is recommended by P. M. Mehren, the veterinary surgeon, as the best horse-shoer in the county, for horses with hoof bound or contracted hoofs.  Take your horses to him to be shod.

SATURDAY SAYINGS. (Page 1)
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     --T. M. Walsh, New York, is in town.
     --H. McCormick, Iowa City, was here to-day.
     --W. Meredith, Perry, Kansas, is in the city.
     --Perry Pringle, Bussey, Iowa, is in the city.
     --A. H. Marshall, Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
     --John Patterson, of Brookville, was in town to-day.
     --R. B. Lindsay, of Washington, Iowa, was here to-day.
     --C. D. Wiley, of Inland, Iowa, was in the city this morning.
     --Dr. J. E. King and wife went to Albia this morning to visit their son.
     --H. J. Schroll and Frank L. Hill, of Chicago, were at the Leggett House to-day.
     --Dr. R. J. Mohr and wife have taken rooms with Mrs. Maggie Jordan on Burlington street.
     --Justice Sullivan, Frank Hurst and Adam Wilson, of Liberty township, were in the city to-day.
     --Alfred Johnson, of Brookville, who makes the best brooms in the county, was in town to-day.
     --Wm. H. Crail and wife, of Batavia, are in the city to-day, guests of Captain and Mrs. B. F. Crail.
     --J. J. Smith, Tucson, Arisonia, and Rev. J. A. Thompson, of Avery, Iowa, were at the Jones House to-day.
     --Rev. E. L. Briggs, an old and fovorite Methodist pastor here, now located at Mt. Pleasant, was in the city to-day.
     --Jim Hinson has fitted up a neat little room adjoining his grocery, north of the northwest corner, next to George, the Jeweler, into which he has moved his barber shop, and his customers will find him there hereafter.
     --Mr. Francis Lathrop, who had much to do with the decoration of the new Metropolitan opera house, has prepared for The Manhattan a design for a new cover, which has been approved of and will be placed at once in the hands of the engraver.
     --The April number of The Manhattan will be a gallery of portraits of Edwin Booth, presenting him in two scenes of “Hamlet;” in two scenes of “Richelieu - as Iago, Othello and Lear, the last named being engraved from a picture by Jervis McEntee.  The frontispiece will be a half-length of Booth, engraved by Velten.
     --Mrs. Wm. Overholser died at her residence in the northeast part of the city this morning at 1:45.  She had been sick since Tuesday last.  The funeral will take place to-morrow.  The cortege, with the corpse, will leave the house at 10 o’clock for Bethesda church, five miles east of town, where a funeral sermon will be preached.  All friends are invited to attend.
     --T. W. Gobble & Co., of Abingdon, have sold their stock of hardware, queensware, crockeryware and tinware to Fryar Bros. of Brooks, Adams Co.  Fryar Bros. have leased T. W. Gobble’s brick building for two years, and take possession on May 1st.  T. W. and Lee T. Gobble will continue the dry-goods and grocery business, under the same firm name of T. W. Gobble & Co.  Charles H. Gobble goes to Clinton.

ORIGINAL NOTICE. (Page 1)
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, SS:
     To Thomas B. Law - You are hereby notified that on or before the 10th day of March, 1884, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Alice Law, asking that she be divorced from you, and for the care and custody of the child, Catharine Eliza.
     Now, unless you appear thereto and defend, on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the 24th day of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.
          McCOID, BRIGHTON & JAQUES, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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ORIGINAL NOTICE.(Page 1)
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, SS:
     To William Johnson - You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Lotta Johnson, plaintiff, asking for a decree of divorce from you.
     Now unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree rendered as prayed.
          LEGGETT & McKEMEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

MONDAY MELANGE. (Page 8)
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     --F. Walting, St. Louis, is in the city.
     --J. M. Brock, Aledo, is at the Jones House to-day.
     --Ed Moss and Andrew West, of Birmingham, were in town to-day.
     --C. M. LaShelle and Samuel Ehrlick, of Chicago, were in the city to-day.
     --J. M. Parkman and Ben Hassell, of Burlington, were at the Leggett House to-day.
     --Harry Gibson left to-day for Sorocco, New Mexico, where he goes to work on a ranche.
     --Geo. W. White, of this city, is running a hay press at Brighton, pressing hay and shipping it to St. Louis.
     --A. P. McKesson, of Council Bluffs, a brother of Mrs. J. A. Beck, Sundayed in the city, a guest of the Leggett House.
     --Wm. G. Beck has sixty or seventy acres of land to rent, situated two miles south of the city.  Apply to him on the premises.
     --Married at the residence of W. L. Daggett, Saturday evening, by Rev. Swayne, of the Christian Church, Mr. Mardin Menzie and Miss Dora B. Shamp.
     --The Chicago Inter Ocean rises to remark: “Disgusted at the leniency of alleged courts of justice, Frank Rande yesterday hanged himself at Joliet penitentiary.
     --The Aldine Society of Parsons College will have a contest in the opera house to-morrow night.  The programme will consist of orations, declamations, essays and music.  Admission, 25 cents.
     --Clerk Sippel issued marriage licenses Saturday and to-day to Arthur F. Shirk and Miss Gertrude G. Young, Mahlon Roberts and Miss Malinda Hoskins, Mardin Menzie and Miss Dora B. Shamp.
     --Mr. David Sheward, who published the Constitution and Union in this city during the war, and whose office was destroyed by members of Co. E, Second Iowa, at home on furlough, is now, in company with his son, publishing a small daily paper at Santa Rosa, California.
     --Frank Zimmerman, J. W. Burnett and Geo. W. White returned from Davenport to-day, where they have been attending the District Convention of the Y. M. C. A.  They were kindly received by the people of Davenport, and report the conversion of several young men and others, and a general good feeling among the people as the result of the glorious work of the convention.  All present manifested an earnestness and zeal in the cause worthy the imitation of all Christian workers.

TUESDAY TIT-BITS. (Page 8)
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     --Tom Black is back again.
     --Ed Forgrave, Cleveland, is here.
     --Doc Fariss was in Batavia yesterday.
     --Wm. Austerlitz, of Chicago, is here.
     --W. C. Dana, Ottumwa, is in the city.
     --Dan Lyons, of Keokuk, is here to-day.
     --S. Hutton, Franklin Grove, is in the city.
     --W. A. Spurrier, of Creston, is in the city to-day.
     --J. M. Clark, of Abingdon, was in the city to-day.
     --G. P. Lionsberger, Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
     --Jake Vote and Vic Turner left yesterday for Oregon.
     --John Walker left last night for Sonoro, New Mexico.
     --J. A. Lambert, Chicago, is at the Jones House to-day.
     --Miss Dorr, of Fort Madison, is visiting at James Eckert’s.
     --J. J. Egermayer, of Racine, Wis., was in the city to-day.
     --Charles D. Leggett returned from Chicago this morning.
     --J. W. Davis and wife, Utica, N. Y. were at the Jones House last night.
     --J. M. Heaton and John Smith, of Burlington, were in the city to-day.
     --Mrs. Lizzie Willey, of Boone county, Neb. was at the Leggett House to-day.
     --John Edwards, of Brighton, was in the city to-day, and favored us with a call.
     --Mike Hogan and family, of Red Oak, are in the city visiting their numerous friends.
     --Lost, somewhere in the park, a gold keystone.  The finder will receive the thanks of the owner by leaving it at this office.
     --James Bartlett has removed his barber shop from Fariss & Stringer’s to the room formerly occupied by Mrs. Rice, two doors west of the northwest corner.
     --John McCullough, of Salina, a good friend of THE JOURNAL, came in yesterday and renewed his subscription to the largest and best weekly paper in Jefferson county.
     --We call attention to the potato advertisement of H. L. Graham, of Letts, Iowa, in to-day’s JOURNAL.  Everyone in this section knows Hugh, and know him to be perfectly reliable.
     --E. A. Howard, jr. has arrived, and he will, in due course of time, claim his interest in the south side boot and shoe store.  Mother doing well, and father as happy as a clam at high water tide.
     --George D. Temple and A. S. Jordan were yesterday elected school directors.  As there was no opposition to these gentlemen, and as one is a democrat, and the other a republican, we call upon the Ledger to define whether it was a straight republican, democratic or citizens’ victory.  They will make valuable members of the Board all the same.

WEDNESDAY WANDERINGS. (Page 8)
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     --C. G. Guinn, Canton, is in the city.
     --This was another of God’s own days.
     --A. R. Hoagland, Rock Island, is in the city.
     --Rev. McMackin was in Muscatine yesterday.
     --F. J. Doane, of Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
     --Frank Whitmore, of St. Louis, was here to-day.
     --J. A. Farmer, Quincy, was in the city to-day.
     --F. J. Demarsh, of Perlee, was in the city to-day.
     --W. L. Hall, of Ottumwa, is in the city to-day.
     --Geo. C. Newman, Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
     --Hon. Ed Campbell, jr. went to Des Moines to-day.
     --Charles H. Rosser, of Philadelphia, was here to-day.
     --Henry Lowenstein, St. Louis, was in the city to-day.
     --Ora Greenly, Lineville, is at the Jones House to-day.
     --Wm. Harris, Friendville, Nebraska, was in the city to-day.
     --Dr. P. N. Woods has ordered a telephone put in at his residence.
     --Dr. R. H. Hufford and B. S. McElhinny went to Chicago to-day.
     --J. E. Powers and O. H. Cesebeen, Chicago, were in the city to-day.
     --Dr. W. K. Miller and Dr. Warner, of Libertyville, were in the city to-day.
     --Squire Russell came out of his hole to-day, appearing simultaneous with the ground hog.
     --John D. Bennett, who resides near the Southwestern depot, died this morning of enlargement of the blood vessels.
     --The medical firm of Woods & Hammon has dissolved.  Dr. Hammond has gone out, and established an office over the postoffice, while Drs. Woods & Woods continue over Lang’s.
     --The annual exhibition of the Sophomore Class of Parsons College will be held at the opera house Friday night.
     --The ground hog went into his hole on the 2d of February, and came out to-day.  It was a nice day when the critter disappeared, and to-day speaks for itself.
     --Four o’clock gospel meeting for everybody at Y. M. C. A. rooms on Sabbath.  Topic: “Call of God to repentance.”  Bible study for young men Thursday evening.  Subject: “Conditions of acceptable prayer.”
     --List of letters remaining unclaimed and advertised in the postoffice in this city for week ending March 11th, 1884: John Alirs, Tine Bevland, J. O. Barclay, Ella Coop, Mrs. Sadie Dill, Peter Fagtore, J. B. Myers, James Mooney, B. E. Thompson, Wilber Spicer, Sarah Waldo.

THURSDAY TRANSPIRINGS. (Page 8)
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     --D. R. Baldwin, Detroit, Mich., is in the city.
     --A. Freeman, of Burlington, was in town to-day.
     --Charles Simmons, of Ottumwa, is here to-day.
     --Dr. B. S. Ratcliff, of Eldon, was in the city to-day.
     --Scott Washburn, of Muscatine, was in town to-day.
     --Leibig’s Imported Beef Tea served at Ed. Kennefick’s.
     --The blue-birds and the robins have made their appearance.
     --J. A. Templeton, Monmouth, was at the Jones House last night.
     --Mr. J. C. Wright, a musician from Nauvoo, Ill., is in the city.
     --G. W. Baldwin, of Kirkwood, Ill., was in the city this morning.
     --M. E. Blatchley, a traveling man from Illinois, was in the city to-day.
     --E. B. Tucker, an attorney of Columbus Junction, was in the city to-day.
     --T. A. Pratt and R. H. Gillett, of New York, were in the city to-day.
     --We understand that seal-skin coats are going out of style, and in consequence colds are increasing among the fair sex.  How fortunate there is such a remedy as Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup!
     --The most prominent candidate for city marshal before the new Council is S. W. Coffin.
     --John Gudgell, who has been laid up with sickness for nearly a month, was out to-day for the first time.
     --P. M. Mehren, Veterinary Surgeon, office at the Gantz House.
     --Matilda Fletcher, who claims to be the “queen of the platform,” is booked for the opera house next Tuesday evening.
     --S. B. Turner, of Glasgow, was in the city to-day, the first time for eighteen months.  We fear Sam is not a very friendly neighbor.
     --Hood’s Sarsaparilla is an extract of the best remedies of the vegetable kingdom known as Alteratives, and Blood-Purifiers.
     --Geo. Williams was around with his ice wagon to-day.  George says the “coons” appear simultaneous with the ground hog and the blue-birds.
     --We see by Kansas exchanges that the Hon. David Heron, of Mankato, formerly of this place, is a candidate for congress from the Mankato district.  Dave’s boom seems to be booming, looking on from this distance.
     --J. B. Bradshaw, a brother of the Dr. died at his home in Stiles, Davis county, this morning, of rheumatism of the heart, after an illness of but a very few days.  Dr. Bradshaw left on No. 5 Rock Island for Stiles, and it is probable the remains will be brought here for interment.
     --Mrs. Moore went to Libertyville this afternoon to visit several days with her parents.
     --Barney Gifford, of Libertyville, returned from his visit to Brooklyn, New York, to-day, bringing with him a pair of fine German birds.
     --An exchange remarks that, “the best teachers are those who learn something new themselves every day;” so we announce this day that several thousand important cures have been made by the use of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
     --Geo. B. Limbert, W. L. Williams, H. O. Elsroad, Charles B. Gilbert and Charles Brown, of Chicago, were at the Leggett House to-day.

HOPELESS EPILEPSY CURED.
     “The doctors pronounced my case to be one of hopeless epilepsy,” says our correspondent, W. C. Browning, Attorney at Law, Judsonia, Ark., “and declared death to be my only relief.  Samaritan Nervine has cured me.”  Get at druggists.  $1.50.

   --Married, on Tuesday evening, March 11th, at the residence of J. E. Williams, in this city, by Rev. M. Bamford, Mr. Henry A. Wise, of Batavia, and Miss Annie Sutton.  Also, on Wednesday evening March 12, at the M. E. parsonage in this city, by Rev. M. Bamford, Mr. Arthur F. Shirk and Miss Gertrude G. Young, all of Fairfield.

              WINSTON, FORSYTH CO., N. C.
     GENTS —I desire to express to you my thanks for your wonderful Hop Bitters.  I was troubled with dispepsis for five years previous to commencing the use of your Hop Bitters some six months ago.  My cure has been wonderful.  I am pastor of the First Methodist Church of this place, and my whole congregation can testify to the great virtues of your bitters.
                    Very respectfully,
                              REV. H. FEREBEE.

     --Mrs. S. E. Pressley has purchased the interest of Miss McGinnis in the southwest corner hair store, and will run the business herself hereafter, at the same place, second story Myers’ building.

“ROUGH ON COUGHS.”
     Knocks a Cough or Cold endwise.  For children or adults.  Troches, 15c.  Liquid, 50c.  At Druggists.
     --Joel D. Bennett, whose death we chronicled yesterday, was born in Virginia in 1828, and has been for many years a resident of Jefferson county.  His death was sudden and unexpected.  He had been in poor health for some time, but it was thought that nothing serious would come from it, and even to the last moment he did not suspect that the end was at hand.  The funeral services were conducted from the house this afternoon by the Rev. A. B. McMackin, of the Lutheran Church.
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ORIGINAL NOTICE.
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, SS:
     To Robert M. Steel, The Howe Sewing Machine Co. - You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of James Steel, plaintiff, claiming to be the absolute owner by title in fee simple of the following real estate in Jefferson County, Iowa, to-wit:
     The South fifty (50) acres of the East half of the Northeast quarter of Section twenty-seven (27) in Township seventy-one (71) of Range ten (10), and asking a decree that you be barred and forever estopped from having or claiming any title thereto adverse to the plaintiff, and quieting the title to said premises in plaintiff, and for other relief see petition.  No money judgment is asked against you.
     Now unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which Term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree entered as prayed.
          LEGGETT & McKEMEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Fairfield, Iowa “WEEKLY JOURNAL”
Jefferson County
Vol. VI, # 21, March 20, 1884
Transcribed by Debbie of Jefferson Co, IA USGenWeb Project
 

Friday Facts. (page 1)

--Dan. Lyons, Keokuk, is here.
--H. C. Lightfoot has returned to the city.
--Henry Beach, of Omaha, Neb., is in the city.
--S. B. Thompson, of Danville, Ill., is in the city.
--Will H. Gurpe, of Burlington, was here to-day.
--W. V. Shaffer, of Wapello, is in the city to-day.
--W. M. McFarland, of Brooklyn, Iowa, is here.
--E. N. Huntoon, of Moline, was in the city to-day.
--Peter Mickel, of Washington, was in the city to-day.
--Leibig’s Imported Beef Tea served at Ed. Kennifick’s.
--Rev. C. S. McElhinny returned from the east this morning.
--The time for the arrival of the fast mail from Chicago is 9:45.
--The roads are so bad that there was no back to Birmingham to-day.
--There will be a select dance at the Leggett House to-morrow night.
--Robert H. Gray and Will E. Crane, of Chicago, were in the city to-day.
--J. C Sterling, Steward of the Washington county poor farm, was in the city to-day.
--Drs. Woods & Woods are re-papering their office, over Lang’s, and fixing up in excellent style.
--J. H. Wright and wife, and R. Wright and wife, Mendon, Ill., were at the Leggett House to-day.
--George C. Fry left to-day for a business trip to Brighton and Washington; to be gone two or three days.
--Charley Cowan has purchased of John Huff, a house and lot near the C., B. & Q. depot, for which he paid $800.
--Mrs. James Hunter and daughter, of Creston, and John Slimmer and wife, from Nebraska, are at the Jones House to-day.
--E. S. Beach, a former resident here, but now in the mining business at Tomichi, Gunnison county, Colorado, is back on a visit.
--Jordan Bros. got $700 on their building, and $700 on their warehouse, from the insurance companies for damages at the late fire.
--Miss Lena Porter, a teacher in the public schools at Birmingham, is in the city visiting our public schools.  She is a guest of Mrs. H. C. Raney.
--Miss Matilda Fletcher lectures next Tuesday night at the opera house on “The Law of Happiness.”  Admission, 35 cents, reserved seat tickets, 50 cents at Voorhies.
--We thought Fairfield had enough Churches, but yesterday the number was increased by the arrival of one at the home of Fred. Church, in the south-western part of the city.
--The fare on the Rock Island through Missouri which has heretofore been four cents per mile, has been reduced to three cents, making the rates to all South-western points much lower than before.
--The HAWKEYE has at last found out that it won't do to tie to Senator Wilson and Representative McCoid.  We have told them that time and again, but they wouldn't believe it until now, and they have finally right manfully acknowledge the truth.
--Leibig’s Imported Beef Tea is the favorite drink now and can be had at the Palace saloon of Ed. Kennefick.  It is not an alcoholic drink, being free from alcohol, but is as pleasant and healthful a drink as one could desire.  Call around and try it.
--The body of J. B. Bradshaw, whose death was mentioned in yesterday’s JOURNAL, will arrive on No. 6 this evening, and be taken from there to the residence of his father, J. C. Bradshaw, four miles east of the city, from whence the funeral services will be held to-morrow forenoon.

Saturday Sayings.(page 1)

--M. Dorsey, Omaha, is in the city.
--J. B. Weber, St. Louis, is in the city.
--W. H. Medes, Quincy, is in the city.
--W. T. Brown, Fredonia, Iowa, is here to-day.
--A. G. Barhydt, Burlington, was in the city to-day.
--W. P. Parker, Mendota, Ill., is in the city to-day.
--Geo. P. Frysinger, Rockford, Ill., was here to-day.
--Zell Brown, Kilbourne, Iowa, is in the city to-day.
--M. H. Chamberlain, Mt. Pleasant, was in the city to-day.
--R. S. Mills, an attorney of Brighton, was in the city to-day.
--R. T. Sanders, Fairmount, West Virginia, was at the Jones House to-day.
--George E. Moul and M. G. Graham, of Ottumwa, were in the city to-day.
--Miss B. Della Sheridan, of Independence, Mo., is in the city visiting Miss Emma Boyd.
--Wm. Cunningham, Lebanon, Ind., and Wm. Kline, of Wilton, Iowa, were in the city to-day.
--Joel W. Pancoast, W. H. Woolery, Ed. Glotfelty and Gus Riniker, of Libertyville, were in the city to-day.
--John A. Sellick, Wm. Davies, D. S. Sperry, and Geo. W. B. Robins, Chicago, were at the Leggett House to-day.
--Dr. Hufford returned from Chicago this morning, while Berny McElhinny went to Dubuque for a few days’ visit.
--Farris & Stringer have removed their cigar manufactory up stairs, into the room formerly occupied by Dr. Stever.
--The Davenport Gazette says:  “Frank Rande died a broken hearted man.  The mortification of having dealt a blow that did not prove fatal was too much for his proud and sensitive nature, and he preferred death at his own hands to a life thus dishonored.”
--Rollin A. Tuttle, one of the most enterprising and wide-awake dry goods merchants in the city, has leased the south room of Stubbs’ new block, and will take possession the 10th of April.  Rollin will make it lively for the boys when he gets over there.
--The professional card of Drs. P. N. & Harry E. Woods appears in our directory to-day.  Dr. P. N. Woods has been in continuous practice here for over a quarter of a century, and has been one of the most successful physicians that have practiced here during all that time.  He is so well and favorably known that he needs no good words from THE JOURNAL.  Dr. Harry E. Woods is his son, and is a well read and attentive physician.  We predict that he will prove as successful as has his father.
--William Rickey, an old and respected farmer of Pilotsburg, Washington county, suicided by hanging at half-past seven o'clock yesterday morning.  He was forty-seven years old and had been a resident there for thirty-four years.  He leaves a wife and six children.  He was well off and some time ago brought an adjoining farm on credit.  Though with ample means, the fear that he could not make the payments prayed on him so that at times he seemed demented.  For the past two weeks a watch had been kept over him.  He held family worship as usual yesterday morning and appeared better than ordinary, and on this account more liberty than usual was given him and he was soon missed.  Immediate search was made, when he was found hanging in an old shed near the house.  Life was not extinct, but he could not be saved.

Monday Melange. (page 8) 

--Curtis Sheam, of Des Moines, is in the city.
--John R. Walsh, of Chicago, is in the city to-day.
--H. S. Herold, Peoria, was in town over Sunday.
--H. N. Moore, of Red Oak, spent Sunday in the city.
--Barney Gifford, of Libertyville, was in the city to-day.
--W. H. Neibert has purchased the blacksmith shop of Wm. M. Swayne.
--Charles David, who has been in Nebraska some time, returned home Saturday.
--The new advertisement of Rollin A. Tuttle shines forth like the headlight of a locomotive.
--This is Clarke Moyer’s lay off week, and of course he is spending it among his friends here.
--Nels Surles was the holder of ticket No. 880, which drew three boxes of ten cent cigars at Fariss & Stringer’s.  F. Paramore held 879, J. C. Leads 881, and R. L. McGaw 882.  All so near, but yet so far.
--We call attention to the potato advertisement of H. L. Graham, of Letts, Iowa, in to-day’s JOURNAL.  Everyone in this section knows Hugh, and know him to be perfectly reliable.
--Attention, George Strong Post, No. 19, G. A. R.  The annual inspection of the Post will take place on Monday evening, March 17th.  Let all be present.  By order of T. F. Higley, commander.
--The funeral of Dr. Joel B. Bradshaw took place from the residence of his father, 4 miles east of the city, yesterday at 12 o'clock.  Mr. Bradshaw was about 33 years of age, and leaves a wife and child to mourn the loss of a husband and father.
--The professional card of S. F. Hammond appears in this issue of THE JOURNAL.  Dr. Hammond, having recently severed his connection with the firm of Woods & Hammond, has fitted up elegant apartments over the post office, being the suite of rooms formerly occupied by Dr. Geo. H. Blair.  Dr. Hammond has had the rooms re-fitted and overhauled, and now they are the neatest and most attractive quarters in the city.  Dr. Hammond is one of our very best physicians, and we make no doubt will at once command a practice that will be alike an acknowledgment of his ability, and a credit to one of our leading and most public spirited citizens.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (page 8) 

--J. P. Scott, Creston, is in the city.
--M. H. Sherwood, New York, is here.
--E. C. Kohn, Rock Island, is here to-day.
--Matilda Fletcher at the opera house to-night.
--E. D. F. Fisher, Council Bluffs, is in the city.
--S. J. Oliver, Philadelphia, is in the city to-day.
--Hon. M. A. McCoid will be home next week.
--Alonzo Long, of New York, is at the Leggett House.
--Dr. J. W. Stone, of Detroit, Mich., is in the city to-day.
--Hon. D. P. Stubbs is in Council Bluffs attending Court.
--L. D. and F. M. Johnson, of Washington, were at the Jones House to-day.
--Justice Sullivan and Adam Wilson, of Liberty township, were in the city to-day.
--I. Krauss, W. Stitchens, Geo. F. Roland, and K. K. Baldwin, of Chicago, were at the Leggett House to-day.
--Charles S. Vincent, representing the wholesale drug house of Fuller & Fuller of Chicago, was in the city to-day.
--Andrew J. Weaver, of Greenville, Pa., a brother of Gen. J. B. Weaver, of this state, committed suicide Tuesday last.  He was doubtless insane.
--Meeting for Bible study Thursday evening at Association rooms.  Gospel services Sabbath afternoon.  Subject:  “Why we believe.”  John iv:12.
--The Winter term of Parsons College closed to-day.  There will be a vacation until next Tuesday at 10 o’clock, when the Spring term will commence, continuing eleven weeks.
--The new Council met last night and organized.  They re-elected T. T. Harris city marshal, Judson Higley street commissioner and T. F. Higley city clerk.  Martin Schooley and Martin Robinson were appointed night police.
--The new Council don't seem to be changing things much after all.  We supposed from a careful perusal of a borrowed copy of the LEDGER the week after the election, that they would revolutionize the entire city government the first night.
--The store rooms in the east side of Wilson block, are all vacant.  It will require two library buildings to get up a boom for that corner.  If the post office building wasn't down there the owls and bats would soon take possession of that portion of the block.
--Spring has arrived in dead earnest.  The first Flower bloomed last evening at the home of one of our most estimable married couple, and Mr. and Mrs. Orlando, are quite naturally rejoiced.  It is a girl.  Father is doing well, and Mother is as comfortable as could be expected under the circumstances.

Stabbing Affray. (page 8)

A stabbing affray took place at the C., B. & Q. depot last night that came very nearly costing Lem R. Clark his life.  It seems that Lem, who has been in the employ of the company for some time, has charge of the depot building, and it was his duty to keep the rooms free from tramps and loafers.  While in the performance of this duty he dispersed a crowd of boys who were loitering around the depot last evening, and George Huffman, one of the crowd, took offense at Lem’s actions, and an altercation arose between them, whereupon Huffman drew a knife and inflicted several ugly gashes on Lem’s neck, which so seriously affected him, that he was obliged to take the ‘buss for his home at the Jones House.  Dr. Eugene Campbell was the first physician called, and he stitched up the wounds, after which Dr. Worthington, who is Lem’s physician, arrived, and the case was given over into his hands.  Dr. Worthington reports him now getting along all right, but regards it a fortunate escape from a fatal termination.  Huffman was arrested, and a preliminary examination had before Squire Russell this afternoon.  R. J. Wilson and G. A. Rutherford appeared for the state, and James B. McCoy for the defendant.  At the time of going to press a decision has not been reached.

A Card From Mrs. Huffman. (page 8)
R. H. Moore, Dear Sir:  In the Ledger of yesterday, I feel injustice has been done me and mine, and through the columns of your paper would like to ask the public if Mr. Junkin is just the man to write such an article.  Is his own past career so free from such blemishes, that he can, with a clear conscience, so deliberately try to injure others?  And he only a boy!  I am his mother, and while I do not try to shield him in wrong doing, I have a mother's feelings, and cannot but think that his cutting words, which pierced my heart as a dagger, were uncalled for.  There are two sides to every question.  Mr. Junkin seems only to have seen one.  In regard to the boy being a tramp and a loafer, as the Ledger stated, the past winter he has been employed in the mill, and has been working steadily and well, and they were in the habit of sending him to the train with the mail.  His article has done him such injury that it would be impossible for him to ever gain employment here.  And such discouraging words have only a tendency to make a wreck of an erring boy, for he is only sixteen.  Respectfully, Mrs. I. Huffman.  Fairfield, Iowa, March 20, 1884.

Wednesday Wanderings. (page 8)

--Will L. Jagger, Burlington, is in the city.
--E. A. Platt, Philadelphia, is here to-day.
--W. R. Jeffry, of Washington, was in the city to-day.
--Ed Kohn, of Kohn & Adler, Rock Island, was in the city to-day.
--Charley Hustead returned yesterday from Cedar Rapids.
--E. R. Boynton and wife, of New York, were at the Leggett House to-day.
--The Clerk issued a marriage license yesterday to Alex Samuelson and Miss Sophia Samuelson.
--There is one thing the new council is powerless in – it can't stop the killing of ducks by the electric light.
--S. F. Clifford, a Methodist minister of Brighton, was in the city to-day in conference with Rev. Bamford, the pastor here.
--George L. Wells, representing the Chicago Daily News, is in the city looking up the interests of his paper.
--George Huffman waived examination yesterday afternoon and was bound over to court in the sum of $800, in default of which he was sent to jail.
--The Hawkeye is infringing on THE JOURNAL'S patent.  It has a column write up of Tom Kelly, who assaulted the managing editor, Mrs. J. W. Burdette.
--Dr. S. F. Hammond, Lou Thoma, Geo. H. Craine, Dr. Eugene Campbell and Willard Young go to Washington to-night on a visit to the K. of P. lodge at that place.
--McCoid’s future has been relegated by the President to the people of this district, where he will be done up in good shape, should he again seek their suffrages.  President Arthur has no use for him as a Judge.
--Lem Clark will probably be laid up a couple of weeks on account of the stabbing affray.  It is thought that he will always have a stiff neck in consequence.  Charley Clapp takes his place at the C., B. & Q. during his sickness.
--The story that Matilda Fletcher told last night as appearing in a Fairfield paper is entirely too aged to have appeared in THE JOURNAL.  Must have been the Ledger.  We publish none but fast train items now.
--C. C. Vannice has removed his music store to the room north of Clark Morris’ and has added to his stock a large lot of pianos and organs.  He has recently sold pianos to George A. Wells, M. A. Repass and Mrs. Tyler.
--A party composed of Ed Roth, G. D. McGaw, J. R. McElderry, Ralph Lamson and N. R. Smith left to-day on a duck hunting expedition in the vicinity of Sioux City.  They expect to be absent three or four days.
--List of letters remaining unclaimed and advertised in the post office in this city for week ending March 18th, 1884:  Alex. Gordon, T. J. Fullor, Noble Hamilton, Ida Messer, Mrs. D. Mullenixe, Emma Peterson, Hattie Peterson, Charlie Philips, Idella Prelogge, Adam Rail, R. T. Starr, N. C. Smith, John R. Sudviens, Annie E. Ward, J. B. White.
--There was a small but very respectable audience out last night to hear Matilda Fletcher’s lecture on the “Law of Happiness.”  At the outset of her lecture she took occasion to give Fairfield a dig because it did not give her a better audience, which was in very bad taste.  We say in bad taste because those that were out to hear her went there in good faith, and were not responsible for those who were not there.  Notwithstanding the slim audience she delivered a most excellent lecture, full of wisdom and practical common sense.  She is an excellent talker, being perfect in the “gift of gab,” and her lecture is well worth the time and money spent in going to hear it.
--Winston, Forsyth Co., N.C.
Gents – I desire to express to you my thanks for your wonderful Hop Bitters.  I was troubled with dyspepsia for five years previous to commencing the use of your Hop Bitters some six months ago.  My cure has been wonderful.  I am pastor of the First Methodist Church of this place, and my whole congregation can testify to the great virtues of your bitters.  Very respectfully, Rev. H. Ferebee.

Eldon Notes. (page 8)

Ed. Bradley leaves soon to go to the Keokuk law school.
Chas. Millian has laid off for a couple of weeks, and Cook feeds his engine now.
The G. A. R. are trying to buy 44 feet from Theo. Roland’s lot to erect a hall on.
Miss Lilly Williams, of Ottumwa, spent the Sabbath with her sister who is teaching in the schools here.
Considerable fuss has been made over starting a K. of P. lodge here.  It seems to take well and is a good thing.
Jack Curran will leave in a week or so for the farwest, Tucson, Arizona.  Jack is honest and will have success wherever he goes.
Monday evening is the fire company dance.  Several couples went from here last Friday evening to Agency to take in the hop.
Dr. Arenscheild has erected a fine new office on the railroad grounds, size 14 x 20.  It will be the best office in town when completed.
DODGE.

LEGAL NOTICES. (page 8)

Original Notice.  State of Iowa, Jefferson County, ss:
To William Johnson – You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Lotta Johnson, plaintiff, asking for a decree of divorce from you.
Now unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree rendered as prayed.  LEGGETT & McKEMEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Original Notice.  State of Iowa, Jefferson County, ss:
To Thomas B. Law – You are hereby notified that on or before the 10th day of March, 1884, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Alice Law, asking that she be divorced from you, and for the care and custody of the child, Catherine Elise.
Now, unless you appear thereto and defend, on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the 24th day of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.  McCoy, BRIGHTON & JACKS, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Original Notice.  State of Iowa, Jefferson County, ss:
To Robert M. Steel, The Howe Sewing Machine Co.  – You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of James Steel, plaintiff, claiming to be the absolute owner by title in fee simple of the following real estate in Jefferson County, Iowa, to-wit:
The South fifty (50) acres of the East half of the Northeast quarter of Section twenty-seven (27) in Township seventy-one (71) of Range ten (10), and asking a decree that you be barred and forever estopped from having or claiming any title thereto adverse to the plaintiff, and quieting the title to said premises in plaintiff, and for other relief see petition.  No money judgment is asked against you.
Now, unless you appear thereto and defend, on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree entered as prayed.  LEGGETT & McKEMEY, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Thursday Transpirings. (page 8)

--W. C. Ball is back again.
--Capt. Burgess is in Kansas City.
--A. F. Piper, of Davenport, is in the city.
--Geo. K. White, of Oskaloosa, is in the city.
--A. F. Bacon, Cedar Rapids, is in the city.
--Frank M. Parnell, of Davenport, is here to-day.
--James Corry, of Birmingham, is in town to-day.
--Charles R. Beckley, of Burlington, is in the city.
--Sumner Bickford is, we are sorry to learn, in very poor health.
--R. Williamson, of Fisk, Pa., was at the Jones House to-day.
--M. Myrnick, of Kansas City, was at the Leggett House to-day.
--Mrs. Harriet Snider started the first of the week to visit her son at Benton, O.
--The Chinese say a large nose indicates shrewdness, but we say a red nose and a barking cough indicates the need of a bottle of Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup.
--Mrs. D. Bonar, of Birmingham, and Mrs. T. C. Wood, of Brighton, are visiting with Mrs. J. R. Thomas.
--A good name at home is a tower of strength abroad.  Ten times as much Hood’s Sarsaparilla used in Lowell as of any other.
--Miss Tude Devecmon, of Denver, Colorado, is visiting her grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McKemey.
--When you suffer from dizziness, headache, constipation, etc. remember Carters Little Liver Pills will relieve you.  One pill is a dose.
--The Iowa Review for March has a biographical sketch of the Hon. William Benton Culbertson, whom everybody in this community knows.
--Dr. William A. Soula, D. V. S., the distinguished Veterinary Surgeon, New York, certifies to the curative qualities of St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain cure for sprains, galls, rheumatism, and all other afflictions to which horses are subject.
--Carter’s Little Liver Pills will positively cure sick headache and prevent its return.  This is not talk, but truth.  One pill a dose.  To be had of all Druggists.  See advertisement.
--Headquarters George Strong Post, No. 19.  Comrades:  Assemble at Post room at 1 o’clock p.m. to-morrow, 21st inst., to participate in the funeral of our late comrade, J. M. Hughes.  T. F. HIGLEY, Commander.
--J. H. Chase, of this city, who is one of our most enterprising and wide-awake horse men, has just purchased of Henry D. Hess, of Muscatine, a four year old imported Clyde stud colt, for which he paid $1,000 cash.  The colt was raised by Ben Hershey, and is one of the finest specimens of horse-flesh we ever gazed upon.  Mr. Chase is to be congratulated upon being the possessor of such a valuable animal, and the farmers of Jefferson county might well rejoice that he is within their reach.  He can be seen at Mr. Chase’s stables.
--Special Agent White, of the Monarch Insurance Company, of Des Moines, will be here this week to consult with the company’s agent here, Mr. R. J. Gudgell, with regard to a vigorous prosecution of business in this county.  Mr. Gudgell is one of our livest insurance agents, and has his office with C. E. Noble, on the west side.

Cabinet Shop. (page 8)

I would announce to the citizens of Fairfield and vicinity that I have opened a Cabinet Shop over Dr. Hall’s Infirmary, west of Clare’s drug store, where I will do all kinds of Furniture Repairing, Upholstering and Renovating Mattresses.  Special attention given to Re-finishing Old Furniture.  Having been engaged in this business in this city for the last three years, I feel convinced that I can give entire satisfaction.  HALLE W. DALE.

Libertyville Items. (page 8)

  S. C. Fry has become one of the solid citizens of Libertyville.
  The Creamery will start up on the 8th of April, under the management of Mr. Coigne.
  A new firm will soon start here, if rumor is correct, to do a general mercantile business.
  There is some talk of the possibility of Libertyville getting the Fort Madison narrow gauge railroad this summer.
  March 9th occurred the marriage of Miss Ada Clarridge of this place, to Mr. J. B. Pickard, of Pleasant Plain.  We think we voice the sentiment of their many friends in saying that we wish their pathway through wedded life one long golden dream of never-fading joy.
  There was a large party given to the little folks at the residence of J. F. Loehr Friday night in honor of Lee’s birth-day.  Some twenty-five boys and girls in all were present.  In our rounds, getting the news, we dropped in to take an item of it.  They were having a time, we should say.  Go it while you are young, for if a person ever has any pure and unalloyed happiness in this life, it is in childhood’s happy days.
  Our late school election was a victory for the boys.  J. F. Potts, as their candidate, swept the field by an overwhelming majority.  The issue was whether the boys should have the school house for amateur entertainments.  This was contested by the other members of the board.  So the boys organized their forces, and when the bright March election day morning came, there were no unbroken ranks and they marched on to victory.  Jim is thinking of coming out as a candidate for President.    RENRUT.