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Weekly Journal
Fairfield, Jefferson co. Iowa
December 4, 1884, Vol. VII, Issue #6
Transcription by Sharyl Ferrall

Friday Facts. (Page 1)
--G. B. CORNS, Pittsburgh, is here.
--B. B. FRASE, of Des Moines, is in the city.
--John GANE, Carrollton, Ohio, is in the city.
--S. R. McENTYRE, Morning Sun, is here to-day.
--D. A. Van SICKLE, of Cincinnati, is here to-day.
--J. H. DANSKIN, a former student of Parsons College, in the city.
--E. E. LEVY, R.E. [illegible surname] and W. S. J. DeLAND, of Chicago are in the city.
--Hon. Ed CAMPBELL has been elected Treasurer of the School Board [illegible word] Samuel C. FARMER.
--F. J. HOUGHTON, of Packwood, was in the city to-day and favored us with a business call.
--The Cyclone Club met at the residence of Miss Maggie HUNTZINGER Wednesday evening.
--Mrs. Wm. G. BECK has purchased the H. G. KNOPP property on third south street, of I. D. JONES.
--Miss Anna CUMMINGS, of Fairfield, is visiting her friend Miss Mattie LYON --Mt. Pleasant Journal.
--A new grocery store has been started in the north room of the Mendenhall block, formerly occupied as republican headquarters.
--Hon. M. A. McCOID denies the report that gained currency during the week that he purposed settling in Washington for the practice of his profession. He says he proposes to practice law right here.
--A man stopping his paper, wrote to the editor: "I think folks ottent to spend their munny for paper, mi daddy diddent and everybody nod he was the intelligetest man in the country and had the smartest family of boiz that ever dugged taters."
-Otto TAPPERT, the good natured and whole souled representative of the Standard Oil Company, of Burlington, took his thanksgiving among his many friends here, and found time to give us a pleasant call and toss over one hundred and fifty cents for The Journal the coming year.
-The Clerk has issued licenses to wed to the following parties: W. A. NIMOCKS, 30, to Miss Martha J. ROBINSON, 23; Matt McHENRY, 23, to Miss Ollie HARTLEY, 23; Kasper ZIELINSKI, 55, to Mrs. Babbina GLUBA, 47; Peter SCHAFER, 35, to Miss Nannie HAWKES, 30; Alonzo N. WELCH, 22, to Miss Ella SCHOOLEY, 21.

The Uniform Rank, ? of P. promise us a rich treat in their forthcoming Masquerade Ball on Christmas night. In fact it is to be the event of the season.  Extensive and elaborate preparations are being made, and it is expected that the attendance will be large. A general invitation is extended to all those desiring to attend.

The case of W. W. DUNLAVY, of Libertyville, against the C., R.I. & P. Railway, comes before the December term of the Supreme Court, which convenes at Des Moines on the first of December. LEGGETT & McKEMEY, of this city, and SAMPSON & BROWN of Sigourney, appear for DUNLAVY and M.A. LOW for the Railroad company.

The Board of Supervisors at its last session allowed the Ledger nearly three hundred dollars for work that any other office would have done for less than one hundred. The overplus was doubtless to pay the paper for services in the late campaign. This is the way the tax payers are fliched to keep up campaign organs. But then as long as the WILSONs and the JUNKINs boss the common cattle, just so long will the tax payers have to "grin and bear it."

Mr. A. S. WILCOX, of Fairfield, and Mr. Geo. E. DAVIS, of this city, have associated themselves in the insurance business. They expect to have their headquarters at Burlington. Mr. WILCOX will remove his family from their present home to Orchard city, and Mr. DAVIS will, for the winter, have his family remain here. Both gentleman are practical business men and we predict success for them in the business in which they expect to embark. We are pleased to know that Mr. WILCOX and his estimable family will be brought nearer to us and also that Mr. DAVIS' family will remain our citizens as heretofore for a while at least. -- Fort Madison Democrat.

A new counterfeit silver dollar is in circulation which is very cleverly executed. It is so perfect in ring and imitation of the genuine that it is almost impossible to detect it. It runs from the years 1878 to 1884 and the material is "white metal," compactly compressed in a die and carefuly plated with silver. But for the shortness of weight it would be perfect. A great number have already been passed as is evident from the fact that several are being discovered nearly every day at the banks and it was only a few days ago that a man was arrested in Keokuk on suspicion of passing one, but no direct proof being found, he was discharged. They have completely succeeded the clumsily executed lead dollars that have been floating around. the United States officers are endeavoring to locate it, but have, so far, been unsuccessful.

Saturday Sayings. (Page 1)
--J. B. LANE, of Rockford, is here.
--A. L. OMSTEAD, of Des Moines, is in the city.
--A. S. WILCOX, of Fort Madison, was here to-day.
--The English Opera Company, who played here last evening, were guests of the Leggett House.
--Lost, a Norwalk door key, No. 19. The finder will be rewarded by leaving it with Charley COWAN.
--Services every Sunday at 11 o'clock and at night at the Baptist church by the pastor, Rev. VALLANDINGHAM. All are invited.
--There is talk among some of our leading capitalists of organizing another National Bank here. There is abundant business to support a third bank in this community.
--B. S. McELHINNY has been elected Vice President of the First National Bank of this city. While we congratulate the bank in its wise selection of a Vice President, we are disposed to think that it would be largely for the interest of the institution if Mr. McELHINNY were made President. Then the bank would cease to be run as a political concern.
--The ladies who gave the leap year dance a few evenings since found a surplus in their treasury after paying up all bills, and placed it in the hands of J. S. RICHARDSON to dispose of as he thought wise and prudent. He gave it to Albert ROSE, who has for sometime been sorely afflicted with inflammatory rheumatism. A more humane disposition could not have been made of it, or one that would be more generally acquiesced in by the ladies.
--Any of our readers desiring to take Harper's Weekly Magazine, Bazar, Young People, the Art Amateur, Littell's Living Age, The Atlantic Monthly, St. Nicholas, The Youth's Companion, Phrenological Journal, The Eclectic Magazine, Magazine of American History, Lippincott's Magazine, Decorator and Furnisher, The New York Independent, The Art Interchange, for the coming year, will find it to their interest to consult this office before making their order.
--As will be seen by consulting our business directory, Henry H. BRIGHTON and Anthony W. JAQUES have formed a partnership for the practice of law, and have taken rooms over the store of HUFFORD, BRADSHAW & THOMA. All the unsettled cases and accounts of McCOID, BRIGHTON & JAQUES are in the hands of this new firm, and will be carefully attended to by them. They will prove a permanent and reliable legal firm, will give careful attention to all business, and we trust will receive a good share of the partronage of this county.

Monday Melange. (Page 1)
--Scott WASHBURNE, Muscatine, is here.
--R. G. KERR, of Chicago, is in the city.
--H. H. DEWEY, of Centerville, was here to-day.
--H. B. GOODALL, of Ottumwa, was in the city to-day.
--Charles BALES goes to Chicago tonight in the interest of Ben BLACK.
--G. D. McGAW, of McGAW & SHOULTS is in Chicago, buying some more goods.
--Hon. M. A. McCOID does not expect to leave for Washington for a few days.
--Tom COLE has sold his barbershop to Harry GREEN, and gave possession to-day.
--A. L. BRIGHTON, of Eldon, who holds down an engine on the Great Rock Island route, was in the city to-day.
--We call attention to the advertisement of the Birmingham and Mt. Zion hack line, by Charles H. CRANE in this issue. Mr. CRANE has a comfortable hack and good horses, and gets over the road in good shape. Leave orders at the JONES' drug store.
--The law card of McCOID & DANSKIN appears in this issue of The Journal. Mr. J. H. DANSKIN, who comes here and associates himself with Mr. McCOID, is a young man of excellent character and business qualifications, and McCOID & DANSKIN will prove one of our strongest law firms. Our readers and our people are acquainted with Mr. McCOID, and know him to be an able member of our bar. We make no doubt the new firm will command a large share of the business of this section.
--An old man who said he had two sons in the newspaper business recently applied for admission for the almshouse. The sons, who are traveling in the same direction, say they were willing to support their father, but he refuses to live on cough syrups, kidney pads and liver regulators, and declined to use due bills which were good for sewing machines, melodeons and lawn mowers, by paying about eight-sevenths of their price in cash. That was the best the sons could do, and the old man preferred to go over the hills to the poor-house.
--The new tax law is in effect, and taxes are not due the first of November, as formerly, but become due the first Monday in January, and payable in two installments. First installment becomes delinquent March 1, and second installment September 1. If the first installment is not paid by April 1, one per cent penalty is added to total tax each month as long as it remains unpaid. If first installment is paid before April 1, no penalty attaches to second installment until October 1. Such is the information of [illegible] legal light, and it is to be presumed that it is correct and reliable.
--The Burlington Post truthfully says of Hon. John S. WOOLSON: "Mr. WOOLSON accepts the result in a fair, manly way, recognizing the returns as canvassed as giving substantially the correct statement of the vote as cast, and leaves to the congressional committee the consideration of a fraudulent, illegal voting charged. Mr. WOOLSON in penning this letter proves himself worthy of the trust imposed upon him by the republicans of the first district and under circumstances more favorable to success we know they would all be glad to honor him again. He has been honest, honorable, frank and aggressive in all of his campaigning, and he closes the present popular contest with clean hands and the respect of all with whom he may have mingled."
--The Washington Press moralizes over the recent republican defeat as follows: "It is enough for Republicans to be Republicans, as Democrats count it enough to be Democrats, and not to give away to a flood or moral sentimentalities and allow the party to be made a museum of isms and tions. It is a great deal wiser and better to let hair-brained, cranky men go and flock themselves, than to cater to their crochets in Republican party platforms and to make the party a curious assortment of moral and sentimental odds and ends. We believe this defeat will have that effect. It surely will, if the party falls back on and exercises its horse sense." This is a pretty hard lick on Boss WILSON, who wrote the prohibition plank and insisted on its being in corporated in the republican platform.

Original Notice. (Page 1)
State of Iowa, Jefferson County, ss:
To Samuel PARADIS AND MARGENRite PARADIS, Fred CHINN: You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of E. M. B. SCOTT, claiming of you the sum of Eighty two and 50-100 Dollars and costs, on a judgment rendered against the said Samuel PARADIS and in favor of this plaintiff, in the District Court of Jefferson County, Iowa, on the second day of April, 1884, and asking that the following described real estate, to-wit: Lots 21, 22, 23 and 24, in the old or original plat of the town or city of Batavia, Jefferson County, Iowa, which real estate is in fact the property of the said Samuel PARADIS but the title to which is now fraudulently held in the name of the said Margenrite PARADIS, be subjected to the payment of said judgement with [illegible words] the costs of this suit, and be [illegible words]. And also that the judgment of Fred CHINN of Wapello County, Iowa, for the sum of Forty-Five and 85-100 ($45.85) Dollars and filed in the office of the Clerk of the Distr[paper torn]rt of Jefferson County, Iowa, on the fifth day [paper torn] cember, 188?, be declared an inferior lie[paper torn]laintiff's judgment.
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Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
--Ed GALLAGHER, St. Louis, is here.
--R. REESE, Keokuk, is in the city.
--George A. EVANS, Chicago, is in the city.
--J. ROBERTS, of Washington, was here to-day.
--R.T. McNEILL, Kansas City, was here to-day.
--Sheriff HARRISON is sorely afflicted with rheumatism.
--Edwin McGREGOR, of Elizabeth, Ill. was in the city to-day.
--Hon. M. A. McCOID expects to leave for Washington to-night.
--Here we are the second day of December basking in the sunlight of a summer's sun.
--Auditor Frank LIGHT is in Kansas and John B. MILLER is running the office during his absence.
--Mrs. Daniel WEIDNER, New Baden, Texas was cured of severe Neuralgia by St. Oil (sic), the great pain-cure. [Ed. note: St. Jacob's Oil]
--C. S. SHAFER, of Fairfield, who has been visiting his brother, Dr. SHAFFER, returned home this evening.--Keokuk Constitution.
--Clerk SIPPEL issued a marriage license to-day to E. C. McCLEARY 21 and Miss Ella TURNBULL 18, of Des Moines township.
--Bruce RATCLIFF, son of Rebert F. RATCLIFF, is now city editor of the Sioux City Daily Tribune. Bruce is a bright young man and a good paragraphist.
--Rev. George WARRINGTON, of Birmingham, was in the city to-day, and gave us a call. Mr. WARRINGTON goes to Chicago to-night with the cash in his pocket to buy the material for the new paper at Birmingham.
--Mrs. Anna HAYES says the $250 which she deposited with Sam FARMER was the proceeds of her spring and summer's work in keeping boarders, and that she deposited it less than three weeks before the failure.
--At the Odd Fellows Hall in Abingdon last Monday evening, Professor SCHELLHOUS, of Selma, gave us one of his common sense lectures on the Philosophy of mental Culture. He seems to be an expert in combining philosophy and practicality. He held a fair and got $11.65 out of the crowd.
--Green LAWSON was arrested on Thanksgiving day, on a charge of stealing a steer from Charley THOMPSON, and was again arrested on Friday last, charged with stealing a heifer from John STEEL. The property was identified in the possession of other parties, to whom they were sold by LAWSON. LAWSON is being tried to-day in Justice RUSSELL's court, H.C. RANEY conducts the prosecution and R. J. WILSON appears for the defendant.

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)
--R. McDONALD, Shellrock, is here.
--C. N. HARWOOD, Boston is in the city.
--E. B. CRILEY, of Ottumwa, was here to-day.
--Frank W. HEARNEY, of Philadelphia, is in the city.
--M. W. KLOTZ, of Davenport, was in the city to-day.
--J. W. WATTS and H.M. DYER, of St. Louis, are in the city today.
--Rev. D. D. PROPER, Sunday School Missionary for Iowa, will preach in the Baptist Church Saturday evening and Sunday at 11 o'clock, and also Sunday evening. All are cordially invited.
--List of letters remaining in the postoffice in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Dec. 2d, furnished The Journal by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster: J. R. DAVIS & Son, Clara D. DAVIDSON, W. A. DILLON, L. H. HARTLY, R. D. MARTIN, Flora MURPHY, John NEFF, J. E. PARKER, Mrs. J. H. PEARL, Y. H. SCHIRASTY & Co.
--E. P. RIPLEY, general freight agent of the C.B.&Q. gives notice that all special rates will expire Dec. 31. All parties interested will take notice that no rates will be renewed next year unless applied for with reasons given for their necessity. This applies, without reservation, to all rates differing from tariff.

The Central Conference.   (page 8)
The Central Conference of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod met in the Lutheran Church of this city last evening at 7 o'clock. The members of the Conference were mostly present. Revs. B. F. HILLS and J. A. M. ZEIGLER occupied the pulpit with the speaker of the evening, Rev. G. C. HENRY, of Des Moines, who preached the opening sermon on the theme of "Family Worship" from John 24:15. Rev. HENRY, in introducing his subject, said that religion was two fold in character, external and internal, objective, mediate through our relations to the world, and subjective or personal.
* * Family worship was not a modern invention, but an ancient and honorable custom. It was commanded by God and practiced as a privilege and a duty.
* * * There should be family worship because the religion of the bible (sic - lower case) is the best religion. It conduces to love, contentment and devotion in family, social and all other life. Family Worship should be in character: 1. Regular. 2. General, all the household should participate. 3. Reverent, not hasty, nor slip shod, but orderly and reverently.
* * The effect of family worship in part consists in: 1. Bringing Christ into the home, with all that this means. 2. Originate goodly influences as a leaven which will work out God's will. 3. Aids in the training of children.
A good audience was in attendance, and the speaker was followed throughout with great interest.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. (Page 8)
  Conference was opened by Rev. S. RIDENOUR, who lead the devotional exercises. At 9:45 the regular session begun and was opened by the President Rev. Mr. HILLS, of Knoxville.
  The roll was called and the following members answered to their names: ?. H. CULLER and John LEMBERGER, Burlington; B.F. HILLS, Knoxville; A.C. HENRY, Des Moines; A.B. McMACKIN and Jos. BRADLEY, Fairfield; S. RIDENOUR, and Mr. NICHOLS Doud Station; J. A. M. ZEIGLER, Nevada.
  The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The officers were re-elected, namely: President, B.F. HILLS; Secretary, G. C. HENRY. Appointments were made of the various committees.
  The Question Box was given into Rev. Mr. ZEIGLER and the first topic on the programme taken up: "The Lay Element in Church Work."
  The first speaker was Rev. J.H. CULLER, who said: 1. Christian lay work should always be in lines of action approved by the Church. * * 2. Under the superintendence and government, of the Church. 3. And in harmony with the faith and polity in the Church. 4. Responsible to the authority of the Church. 5. And should always result, directly and indirectly to the benefit of the Church with which he is identified. Development of Lay Work, helps: 1. There must be in the development of lay work piety. 2. Personal consecration. Hindrances: 1. The minister himself, in not indicating and emphasizing. 2. Ignorance on the part of the laity. 3. The magnitude of the membership as in congregations of many hundreds. 4. Routine, "old ruts." 5. Lack of symptoms. For the best prosecution of the work to be done: 1. Prayer. 2. Religious conversation with the unconverted. 3.  Bringing them to the house of God. 4. Furnishing them with suitable reading, etc. A general discussion then followed.

The Lutheran Conference. (page 8)
Wednesday afternoon.
  The first topic for consideration was "The Relation of Church members to the Sunday School." Rev. S. RIDENOUR was the first speaker. He presented a number of interesting, suggestive and instructing thoughts upon the subject. He emphasized, especially, the duties of pastors, teachers and parents in relation to the matter under consideration. He said: "Children are generally interested in whatever parents show themselves to be concerned in and with." The several points were amplified and explained at length. A general discussion then followed.
  At 3 o'clock, Rev. S. RIDENOUR preached an excellent and edifying sermon from Heb. 2d verse 1, 2 and 3. After the sermon the conference continued in business session.
  At 7:30 a good congregation being in attendance, Rev. J. A. M. ZEIGLER preached from Deut. 6:7 upon the theme "The Relation of Church Members to the Sunday School."
  Mr. ZEIGLER in introduction spoke of the relations of Jesus to the children. There was no bar between him and them while on earth. He spoke of Jesus being the door through which all must go into salvation; and of the proscribed duties of the Hebrews, with relation to the training of Children, and taking up his immediate theme the speaker said: 1. As parents, we are directly responsible for the training and education of our children. 2. As parents having duties to perform, we introduce supplementary agencies in the education of children. 3. The conclusion follows, therefore, that if our children do not attain to the standard which we have set for them, or to our own standard, as parents, we are mensurably responsible. The Sunday School is almost the only agency which we have for the religious training of the young. It is a great defect in the popular system of education, that the secular school is permitted to monopolize so much of the time of our children. It ought not to be so. As the Sunday School is therefore almost the only means to an end, the graver the responsibilities which come upon us.
  But we may ask what is the office of the Church? It is an institution ordained of God, clothed with authority unto the salvation of men. But what of the Sunday School? 1. Its primary object is to educate into the church. 2. To develop those who are in and of the church, young and old. 3. The Sunday School, then, becomes the training school of the church, and as such is of vast importance. The duties of parents, therefore, are: 1. To see that attendance and punctuality is as uniformly regarded as in the secular school. 2. To see that their children know and understand their lessons. 3. To be in attendance themselves. 4. To encourage and aid in every way the growth, work and effect of the Sunday School; unto this end the Sunday School needs the experience and help of all Christians.
THURSDAY MORNING.
  The devotional exercises were led by Rev. Josiah KUHN, and at 10 o'clock the regular order of business was commenced.
  Rev. J.H. CULLER, of Burlington, will preach at 7:30 this evening, and be followed by several brief addresses.
  The Rev. Josiah KUHN, of Maryville, is the last arrival.

Thursday Transpirings. (Page 8)
--Geo. E. MILLER, of Chicago, is here.
--George Van BEHREN, of Burlington, is in the city.
--Daniel SHEETS, an old resident of Glasgow, died Sunday morning.
--Gospel meeting at the Association rooms Sabbath afternoon. Young men invited.
--C.S. CLARKE & Son have put down a new sidewalk on the north side of their store building.
--D.W. MINER leaves to-morrow for Harvard, Wayne county, to spend a couple of months on business and pleasure.
--Mrs. J. B. BLEAKMORE and Mrs. Edwin MANNING, of Keosauqua, are in the city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. BECK at the Leggett House.