Jefferson County Online The Fairfield Weekly Journal

To easily find a name in these issues use the searching capabilities of "Find in page" under the "Edit" button. Use spelling variations of the name as well as the correct spelling.

FAIRFIELD, IOWA "WEEKLY JOURNAL"
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Vol. VI, #18, February 28, 1884
Transcribed by Justina Cook

Friday Facts. (Page 1)

  --J. T. Harming, New York, is here.
  --L. S. Sanoats, Davenport, is here today.
  --D. A. Kennedy, of Chicago, is in the city.
  --J. S. Eisenhart, Tipton, Iowa, is in the city.
  --Z. O. Fligg, Creston, was in the city last night.
  --Joe Bradley is able to move around a little on crutches.
  --Mrs. M. B. Case, whose accident we had occasion to chronicle some days ago, is improving.
  --Miss Ella Woodford, Miss Mattie Emery, Miss Laura Light and Miss Ida Waters, all Brighton school mams, were in the city to-day.
  --J. E. Myers, an intelligent Jefferson county farmer, and a life-long republican came in to-day and subscribed for THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
  --James Hickinbottom and John W. Dubois are being spoken of as possible members of the Council from the second ward at the coming election.
  --Lost, somewhere in the city, a black leather pocket book, belonging to the editor of this paper. It had our name on it. The finder will receive our thanks by returning it to this office.
  --Mrs. Margaret Fye and Miss Ollie Fye, of Ollie, Keokuk county, who have been in the city several days visiting Mrs. J. P. Manatrey, returned home to-day.

LIBERTYVILLE ITEMS. (Page1)

  Miss Ada Fry, of Fairfield, was a visitor in town Friday.
  J. Sketoe has been out of town a few days at his home at County Line.
  Z. T. Moore has purchased Mrs. Pollock’s property, and will move to Libertyville shortly.
  Will Riley, editor of the Ottumwa Press, was in town Saturday, shaking hands with his many friends.
  Barney Gifford left Monday for Brooklyn, New York, on a short visit to relatives and friends.
  A new dramatic club is being organized to play the well known and popular drama "East Lynne," in the near future.
  There was a very interesting law suit before Justice Sullivan last week, wherein a couple of Fairfield attorneys figured. Sheldon Campbell was arrested for causing a disturbance in the postoffice, and was fired out by the proprietor, J. W. Fry. The good sense of the people of Libertyville was shown in the demand for his arrest and prosecution. He was fined $10 and costs.          RENRUT.

Saturday Sayings. (Page1)

  --Mrs. Moore went to Libertyville to-day to visit her parents.
  --Mrs. McElroy, we are right glad to learn, is slowing imdroving ['p' typeset inverted].
  --The Lutheran Sociable was entertained by Mrs. M. B. Case Thursday evening.
  --Clerk Sippel issued a marriage license to-day to Charles L. Reader and Miss Annie Craft.
  --Mrs. R. W. Rollins (nee Ratcliff) left yesterday for Kansas City to join her husband there.
  --Married, at the residence of Mr. Daniel Fidler, near Glasgow, on the evening of the 21st inst., by the Rev. Amasa B. McMackin, of the Lutheran Church of this city, Mr. Wm. E. Bradshaw and Miss Kate Fidler. The high contracting parties are members of old and widely esteemed families. THE JOURNAL tenders its hearty congratulations and best wishes to the talented young couple.
  --Hawkeye Lodge, No. 18, United Brotherhood of Iowa, was instituted last evening by the election of the following officers: President, John L. Brown; Vice President, John H. Merckens; Corresponding Secretary, G. A. Rutherford; Financial Secretary, James Mouck; Treasurer, Thomas Fell; Trustees, John W. Worman, Charles Moller and Carl Hoch. The object of the association is mutual benefit, each member paying 25 cents on the death of a brother member.

Monday Melange. (Page1)

  --Albert Mair spent yesterday in Muscatine.
  --George P. Lang spent Sunday with friends in Burlington.
  --Wm. Adams and wife have moved to Downs, Osborn county, Kansas.
  --Nat McGiffin left this morning for Montana with two cars of horses.
  --We are sorry to hear that Wm. M. Swayne is quite sick at his home in this city.
  --Z. T. Moore, of Libertyville, and A. H. Caldwell, of Brookville, were in the city to-day.
  --Clerk Sippel to-day issued a marriage license to John Theodore Ingerson and Miss Rickey Sauber.
  --Frank Winn, of Libertyville, was in the city to-day, and favored us with a pleasant business call.
  --Rodabaugh & Maddix have the contract for furnishing the city with 40,000 feet of oak lumber, and have already delivered 16,00 feet.
  --Street Commissioner Higley on Saturday night finished up removing the slaughtering house, rendering house, hide house, corn crib, feed racks, etc. belonging to Mr. Willis, from the water works ground to the east side of Alston’s land.
  --List of letters remaining unclaimed and advertised in the postoffice in this city for week ending February 26th, 1884: C. S. Bishop, John Coons, Mrs. Harlem, B. A. Johnson, Dr. Ben G. Kimmell, Barris Nelson, W. C. Wilson 2.

A Grand Affair. (Page1)

  The ball given last evening in honor of Washington’s birthday, by Fairfield Division No. 7, Uniform Rank, K. of P. was the largest and most brilliant ball of the season. At 8 o’clock the members of the Rank, under command of Sir Knight Farmer, gave an exhibition drill, which was highly enjoyed by the spectators, and flected (sic) great credit upon themselves. Those who participated in the drill were Col. Sam C. Farmer, B. E. Ristine, D. C. Bradley, Dr. S. F. Hammond, Charles E. Stubbs, Lou Thoma, Dr. S. Campbell, P. E. Parsons, G. W. Young, F. W. Voorhies, J. C. Huston, H. F. Booker, W. O. Harper, Jake McGaw, Tom Cole, Will Mohr and Herman Baer.
  The opera house was handsomely and most elegantly decorated with bunting, flowers, etc.
  The music was furnished by Thayer’s Orchestra of Des Moines, one of the finest in the State, composed of the following members: Prof. E. Thayer, E. J. Vromer, Chas. Schilling, F. T. Conway and Frank Cripps.
  There were over one hundred couples present that participated in the festivities and between one and two hundred spectators present.
  Among those present from a distance were Harry Davis, Miss Fannie Wilkinson, H. Ewing Taylor, Miss Angie McGowen, Park Bell, Miss Stella Wilkinson, Thomas Davis, C. E. Wright and Miss Laura Saunders, of Bloomfield; C. C. Clark, of Ottumwa; Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Henderson, Mrs. Sadie Johnson and Miss Mattie Shaffer, of Centerville.

  --The republican caucuses in the different wards last evening made the following nominations for aldermen: First Ward, Daniel Young; Second Ward, Joseph Ricksher; Third Ward, G. A. Unkrich; Fourth Ward, C. D. Leggett.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)

  --This was one of God’s own days.
  --A. B. Frend, Chicago, is in the city.
  --C. K. Pittman, of Ottumwa, is here.
  --E. P. Sweutz [Swentz?], Virginia, is in the city.
  --W. Rhodes, Grinnell, was here yesterday.
  --B. A. Raphael, Davenport, is here to-day.
  --T. R. Acres, of Burlington, was in the city last night.
  --Geo. Dimmitt, Ashland, Neb. was in the city last night.
  --R. A. Tuttle, our leading dry-goods merchant, is invoicing.
  --L. D. McCormick, of Mt. Pleasant, was in the city to-day.
  --Joel W. Pancoast, of Libertyville, was in the city to-day.
  --Geo. C. Richardson, of Leavenworth, was in the city to-day.
  --Dr. Fowerling, a dentist of Batavia, was in the city yesterday.
  --Thomas H. Hill, of Philadelphia, was in the city yesterday afternoon.
  --John Smiley and wife, of Brighton, were at the Jones House to-day.
  --A. S. Wilcox returned yesterday from several days at Fort Madison.
  --D. H. Startsman and A. W. Courson, of Cincinnati, are in the city.
  --Mrs. C. Durr, of Batavia, is the city visiting her daughter, Mrs. Dr. Campbell.
  --Mrs. Frank Huntzinger, with the baby, of Harlan, Iowa, is in the city visiting friends.
  --Leonard W. Bamberger and L. N. Flersher, of Philadelphia, were at the Leggett House to-day.
  --It is a remarkable coincidence that simultaneous with our bust up came a wreck on the C., B. & Q.
  --Uncle Davy Parrett, of Batavia, as good a friend of THE JOURNAL as there is in Jefferson, was in town to-day.
  --John L. King, who has been quite sick for some time with bronchitis, is, we are glad to learn, able to be out again.
  --Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Goodban are rejoicing in the arrival of a sweet little boy baby at their home one day last week.
  --Verner White has the opening of the Richland opera house, and contemplates opening it with a concert by the Fairfield Silver Cornet Band. We’ll all go.

Applies for the Million.
  Geo. W. White has 500 bushels of the best Missouri apples ever brought to Fairfield, for sale, He will be found at Wells & Garrettson’s bank Saturday of each week.

  --D. T. Devore, one of the most influential and wealthy farmers of Locust Grove township, has concluded to forsake farming and remove to Fairfield. We welcome him to our city.
  --A bright little girl baby arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stanton, Sunday morning, and father and mother are very naturally rejoiced in consequence.
  --L. W. Parrett, of Batavia, was in the city to-day.  He says that he has not let a November pass for twelve years without paying his taxes. This is the kind of men we like to have on our subscription list.
  --With the advent of the nice weather the matrimonial market livens. Clerk Sippel issued two licenses this afternoon to Joseph B. Nickerson and Miss Rosa Edwards, Edward R. Pollock and Miss Ollie S. Dustin.
  --Rev. A. B. McMackin, pastor of the Ev. Lutheran church of this city, spoke last Sunday on "The Providence of God as exercised in National Affairs," and showed, from Scripture, that God does visit his wrath upon Nations and individuals alike, when they depart from his ways and keep not his statutes. Mr. McMackin asks us to say that he will continue to speak on this topic for several Sunday mornings; and that he hopes to be able to show the relation which exists between droughts, floods, pestilences and all great storms, and national as well as communal and state disasters. Next Sunday morning the topic to be discussed is: "The manner of God’s punishment of Disobedient Communities and Nations." All are most cordially invited to be present. Every comer will be made to feel that he is welcome.

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)

  --J. D. Bisbee, Clinton, is here.
  --R. M. Calkins, Toledo, O. is in town.
  --F. C. Stanch, Chicago, is in the city.
  --J. S. Gorham, Cedar Rapids, is in town.
  --Conrad Stocker, of Ottumwa, is in the city.
  --E. D. Gallagher, St. Louis, was in the city to-day.
  --Dr. Fariss went to Keokuk yesterday on business.
  --R. J. Stump, Salina, Kansas, was in the city to-day.
  --Aug. C. Habich, Rochester, N. Y., was here to-day.
  --Geo. D. Sutherland, of Keokuk, was in the city to-day.
  --Chas. Willner, of Burlington, was in the city yesterday.
  --Hackett will not be here this week, and the city breathes easier.
  --Winter still lingers in the lap of Spring. This is a fresh item.
  --Geo. F. Loker and W. G. Coolidge, of Chicago, were here to-day.
  --George W. Ball, of Iowa City, a former resident here, is in the city.
  --F. McCrillis and wife, of Springfield, Ohio, are at the Leggett House.
  --James Slagle, a former Fairfield boy, came in this morning from Kansas.
  --C. J. Stevens, engineer on the Rock Island, and wife, were in the city to-day, guests of the Jones House.
  --Miss Mary Hogan, of Alleghany, N. Y., who has been visiting Miss Maggie Burns, returned home yesterday.
  --We are sorry to hear that Mrs. J. C. Monroe is alarmingly ill at her home in this city. Her babe lived but a few hours.
  --George Strong Post No. 19, G. A. R. announce a grand camp fire at the opera house to-morrow night.  The committee of arrangements is Thomas Bell, Dr. J. W. Oliver and C. D. Tomy.

Thursday Transpirings. (Page 8)

  --We lied, Hackett is here to-day.
  --C. I. Haggert, Cleveland, O., is here.
  --M. Mayhall, Canton, Ill., is in the city.
  --Levi Pomeroy, of Ottumwa, was here last evening.
  --H. Zehrung, Omaha, Nebraska, was here yesterday.
  --H. Farmer, Richmond, Indiana, is at the Leggett House.
  --Geo. C. Richmond, of Leavenworth, is is in the city to-day.
  --Avery has left, but he is not as badly left as those who persecuted him.
  --It is certain that the longer a speech, the weaker it is, but not so with a cold, the longer it runs, the worse it becomes. A cold, be it ever so slight, is not trifle, it should be checked in its early stages. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is the "Balm of Gilead" that millions say is divine in its origin.
  --Martin Pomeroy and Mrs. Emma Buckley, of Ottumwa, were married at the Jones House last night, by the Rev. Hunt, of the Baptist church.
  --Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment is one of the few really valuable patent medicines which we always take pleasure in calling attention to. It is both for internal and external use and is worth more to a family than a whole medicine chest.
  --The comrades of George Strong Post No. 19, G. A. R. will assemble at their hall at 7 o’clock, sharp, to-night.
    T. F. HIGLEY, POST COMMANDER