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"Weekly Journal"
Fairfield, Jefferson, Iowa
February 7, 1884
Transcribed by Cathy Joynt Labath
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Friday Facts. (Page 1)

--Miss Nellie P. Burgess has returned from several days visit to Brighton.
--Fred J. Savage, representing Deere & Co., Moline, Ill., was in the city to-day.
--Remember the meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at Mrs. Bell's to-night.
--John Carse, of Pleasant Plain, one of the best men in Jefferson county, and a constant and valuable friend of this paper since it started, came in to-day and renewed his subscription to THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
--Charley Hoch has put up one of the finest albums in the city which will be disposed of with one thousand cigars at his establishment. Every person buying a cigar will be entitled to a chance in the album.
--The G. A. R. boys will be found at any time on the street singing "Rally Round the Flag, boys," "We are tenting on the old camp ground," etc. They say Mrs. Chester on the orga? and Charley Sippel with the violin stir up all the old memories, and they are de?? give away to the strains of sweet mus??. [Webmaster note: column has a wrinkle in the paper and a few letters are lost.]
--The case of Edward O'Brien vs. C.D. Leggett, was concluded yesterday evening and the case given to the jury. The jury returned a sealed verdict which was opened this morning, finding for the defendant. McCoid, Brighton & Jaques and G.A. Rutherford appeared for the plaintiff and Leggett & McKemey and Jones & Fullen for the defendant.

Dinner and Mum Quilting.
  The ladies of the Presbyterian Church will give an old-fashioned Dinner and Mum Quilting in the church parlor on Thursday evening, Feb. 7th, dinner at 5 P.M.
BILL OF FARE:
SOUP.
Bean.
MEATS.
Stewed Chicken with gravy, Corned Beef.
VEGETABLES.
Mashed Potatoes, Hominy, Baked Beans.
ENTREES.
Boston Baked Beans with Salt Pork, Sauer Kraut
with Mashed Potatoes.
RELISHES.
Beet Pickles, Cucumber Pickles, Chow-Chow, Tomatoes, Catsup.
PASTRY.
Ginger Bread in honor of Parsons College.
Doughnuts in honor of C.D. Leggett.
Pumpkin Pie in honor of W. E. Thompson.
Dried Apple Pie in honor of the City Council.
Apple Butter in honor of the Electric Light
Apple Preserves in honor of the Telephone.
Rice Moulds and Jelly in honor of Union School.
DRINKS.
Coffee, Chocolate, Milk, Water.
  All persons will be fined five cents for each time they speak during the quilting. All are cordially invited to come and dine with us. Admission at the door, 5 cents; dinner, 25 cents.

Saturday Sayings.

--George Ruddy, of Buffalo, New York, is in the city
--Dr. J. W. Hayden, of Libertyville, was in the city to-day.
--Mrs. Friedlander of San Francisco, is at home with her mother, Mrs. M. Case, in this city. Her many friends will be glad to welcome her to Fairfield, but will sorrow because of the ill health that brings her home. Fairfield people, as a rule, do not seem to find in California the health Utopia which all seek for and but few find. We hope that Mrs. F. will speedily regain her health and have a long and pleasant visit.
--Neuralgic Rheumatism is the hardest kind to treat. The only way to get at it is to go right to the cause of it. The quicker you get your blood in good condition the less you will suffer in body and mind. ATHLOPHOROS moves directly on the enemy in the blood. It purges the vital fluid of the poisons and acids which give rise to neuralgic and rheumatic pains and inflammations. As soon as the work of cleansing begins you feel the pain departing and by the time that work is done the disease has fled.
--There are many thousands of farmers and fruit growers in the West who consider The Prairie Farmer an indispensable aid to them in the proper prosecution of their business. There are a great many more thousands who would be of the same opinion if they should become thoroughly familiar with its new form and under its new management. It is by all odds the best paper in and for the West, if not indeed in and for the whole country. There is, in fcct (sic), not a weak feature about it. It is o model farm and home paper in each and all of its departments. Besides mentioning its varied and instructive contents we may say it is the handsomest and best illustrated paper of its class that we know of. Its form is the most convenient in the world and its typography is faultless. We wish it to be found in every rural home in this community. The price is Two Dollars a year in advance, and every subscriber sending that amount to the publishers receives a superb map of the United States and Canady--58x41 inches--mounted on rollers. This map retails at $2. Or, if preferred, the subscriber gets his choice of several valuable books. See prospectus in another column.

LIBERTYVILLE ITEMS.

  There is an effort being made here to organize a post of the G.A.R.
  Miss Jessie Fry and Miss Nellie Rowntree were visitors in town Saturday.
  Quite a number of boys from here took in Hi Henry's Minstrels at Fairfield Monday night.
  Hamilton Smith has sold his farm to John Welday, of Fairfield. Mr. Smith comtemplates going East.
  Z. T. Moore, Marshalltown, is back to Libertyville on a short visit. He will remove his family soon to that city.
  John Sketoe is out of town for a few days attending court at the County Line, and is missed at the Postoffice grocery.
  J. W. O'Brien, the popular principal of the Libertyville school is attending Court at Fairfield this week, and F. T. Anderson is teaching in his place.
  J. F. Loehr, J. F. Potts and J. C. Fry, veteran of that great epoch in our National history, went to Fairfield Monday night to attend the grand army camp fire.
  The Lions Dramatic Company presented their temperance drama here Friday and Saturday nights and were greeted with large and delighted audiences.
  J. A. Glotfelty, who has been teaching at Balding's school house, has decided to quit the business and remove to his farm in the Spring. John, you should not be easily discouraged.    RENRUT.

Monday Melange.

--D. Lamb, New York, is in the city.
--E. F. Phelps, of Chicago, is in the city.
--W. C. Coons, of Des Moines, is in the city.
--H. C. Meriness, of Burlington, is in the city to-day.
--A. S. Yearick, of Washington, was in the city yesterday.
--D. C. Bradley, of Centerville, was in the city yesterday.
--W. Clark Moyer, of Chariton, spent Sunday in the city.
--P. L. Dawson, of Tuscola, Ill., has been in the city several days.
--Col. Sam Farmer has had a telephone put into his residence. His number is 39.
--W. L. White, of Wayne county, came down Friday and stayed over night with George.
--Jim Richardson and John Manatrey are gathering sunbeams at Hot Springs in Arkansas.
--Miss Mattie O. Jackson, of Libertyville, spent Friday and Saturday in the city visiting her sister.
--Mrs. R. J. Morris and Miss May Briggs, of Denver, are in the city, guests of the Leggett House.
--T. C. Blayray, A. G. White, W. H. Stewart and George Stark, of Chicago, are in the city stopping at the Leggett House.
--Justice Russell on Saturday joined in marriage Warren Kirk and Miss Ella J. Kinney, both of this county.
--Capt. George E. Pingree, representing the Parlin & Orendorff Plow Works, of Canton, Ill, is in the city.
--Henry Mayer, of Galesburg, one of the largest manufacturers in the west, was in the city Saturday.
--Judge Lewis passed favorable upon the application of Edward O'Brien, and he was admitted a member of the bar.
--C.T. Patterson, of Burlington, and Miss Lizzie Arrowsmith, of Mt. Pleasant, spent Sunday in the city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Tuttle.
--There was a wreck on the C., B. & Q. at Mt. Pleasant yesterday. Broken rail and carelessness was the cause. Next!
--We are sorry to hear that Hon. Ed Campbell, jr. has been confined to his room for a couple of weeks with bronchitis. He is mending slowly.
--Ira W. White, who has been visiting a few weeks with his brother, George W. White, has returned to his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
--Little Geneva Bamford, daughter of Rev. Bamford, of M. E. Church, was stricken down with a severe attack of diphtheria yesterday, but is feeling very comfortable to-day.
--Frank R. Fegan came in Saturday from Plattsmouth, Nebraska, rode the goat at the meeting of the Legion of Honor, shook hands with a few of the boys and returned on the No. 1.
--Burglars entered the Rock Island depot Friday night. They had their labor for their pains, as there was nothing of any value get-at-able. They made away with a few postage stamps and some personal effects of Mr. Stinson and Mr. McReynolds.
--The American Express Company better look well to its laurels. Agent Boling of the United States, has just received a new express wagon, which outshines anything of the kind ever shipped into this city.
--Miss Gracie Moore, daughter of H. N. Moore, of Red Oak, who has been attending school at Tabor College, has been obliged to abandon her studies on account of ill health. She is now in this city and will visit relatives and friends here until the return of her father and mother from California in the Spring.
--James Hayes was up before Justice Russell this morning on a charge of assault and battery on the person of John Cosby. He pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and costs, in default of which he was sent to jail for fifteen days.
--J. M. H. Roberts, an intelligent and progressive farmer of Liberty township, who has been a reader of the largest and best paper in Jefferson county for over two years, came in to-day and planked down the wherewith for another year's subscription to THE WEEKLY JOURNAL.
--During the last few days Clerk Sippel has issued marriage licenses to the following parties: Daniel Sheets and Miss Laura G. Summers, Charles Nelson and Miss Minnie Anderson, Warren Kirk and Miss Ella J. Kinney, John Hutton and Miss Lady Isabel McCleary.
--Justice Russell's court was occupied Friday and Saturday on the case of Harry Bloss, arraigned for obtaining jewelry of Mr. Townley under false pretenses. After hearing the evidence the Justice decided it was a case of larceny from a store and bound the defendant over in the sum of $200 to await the action of the grand jury. In default of bail he was sent to jail.
--Loren Speck, who drives Unkrich's delivery and attends to the electric light at night, met with a singular circumstance Saturday night. He boards with John Moller, who resides in Mrs. Roberts' property, near the fair grounds. While going home at 12 o'clock at night he was followed from the "Q" depot by two men. After getting inside the yard, he turned around and rested his arms on the gate post, when one of the men drew a revolver and shot at him, the ball entering the muscle of the right arm. The men then struck out. Dr. Ward dressed the wound and extracted the ball. Mr. Speck says he knows no reason whatever for the singular action of the unknown men.

CIRCUIT COURT

  In the Circuit Court the first jury trial following the O'Brien case, which was the last one reported by us, was the case of James Ingalls vs. Thomas Mitchell. In this case the defendant leased some land of the plaintiff and failed to farm it properly; an action was brought for damages. Leggett & McKemey and McCoid, Brighton & Jacques appeared for the plaintiff, and Ratcliff & McCoy for the defendant. The jury found in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of $25.
  The next case tried was James Speer vs. J. S. Gantz. In this case the parties traded horses. The horse the plaintiff got in the trade died in a few days, and he claimed he only had it on trial, and replevied the one he traded. Leggett & McKemey and I. D. Jones appeared for the plaintiff and H. N. West and G. A. Rutherford for the defendant. The jury, after being out two days, brought in a verdict in favor of the defendant for $60.-65, as the value of the horse, and $20 as damages. It will be remembered that this case was tried and submitted to a jury at the late term of the Circuit Court and the jury failed to agree. The jury then stood eleven to one on favor of the plaintiff.
  To-day the argument to the jury was being made in the case of Elva Chrisman against E. D. Salladay. Ratcliff & McCoy appear for the plaintiff and Leggett & McKemey and H. N. West for the defense. The defendant had the plaintiff arrested, a little more than a year ago, for larceny. The action was begun by the advice of the county attorneys, Wilson & Hinkle, but they were not able to convict the party arrested for lack of evidence. She now brings an action for damages, claiming $9,000 on account of malicious prosecution. The argument took up most of the time of the court to-day.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 6)

--Scarlet fever is almost gone.
--Hackett, Muscatine, is here
--I. S. Felger, of Chicago, is in the city to-day.
--A. D. Bulen, of Burlington, is in the city to-day.
--D. G. Hall, of Chicago, was in the city yesterday.
--Frank J. Demarsh, of Perlee, was in the city to-day.
--Mrs. Al Hilbert is in Pekin, Illinois, visiting her parents.
--S. Y. Mason, of Monmouth, Illinois, is in the city to-day.
--C. H. Gobble, of Abingdon, is in the city attending Court.
--P. S. Towle and A. J. Santee, Clinton, Iowa, were in the city yesterday, the guests of the Leggett House.
--J. A. Lambert, of Chicago, and J. B. Hazelton, of Sandwich, Ill., are in the city, guests of the Jones House.
--N. Leonard, Sheriff of Scott County, passed through the city to-day on his way to Mt. Pleasant with a patient for the insane asylum.
--A. P. Sandqvist, of Bloomfield, formerly in the employ of Risk & Hufstedler, and one of the best journeyman tailors that ever worked in Fairfield, is back on a visit to his friends here.
--Young men's bible study at Association room Thursday evening. Subject, "A Choice to be Made." 1st Kings 18:17-40. Four o'clock gospel meeting Sabbath. Topic, "Teaching the Way." 51st Psalm, 13.
--B. F. Carter, of Woodville, Oregon, who has been a constant reader of THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE ever since it was born, sends us his back subscription, and payment for sixteen months in advance. There is no reason why B. F. should not continue to be prosperous and happy.
--Frank G. Morein leaves to-morrow morning for Chicago, where he will visit the great music establishments of the Northwest. Before returning, he will visit his old home and the scenes of his youth at Yates City, Ill. Frank is one of our steadiest and squarest young men, and THE JOURNAL wishes him a pleasant and profitable journey and a safe return home.
--HOME.--In calling attention to an article advertised in our columns, we are pleased to notice an excellent sign in regard to it, viz: that the testimonials relating to Hood's Sarsaparilla are from New England people, and many are from Lowell, the home of this medicine. We are assured that the sale of this article in Lowell, where it is best known, is wholly unprecedented in the annals of proprietary medicines. We leave it with you to decide as to the probable merits of an article with such a solid foundation.
--The stables of the Jefferson County Coal Company at Perlee, caught fire last night about seven o'clock and were completely consumed, including six mules and one horse. The stables were quite a distance from the town and the cause of the fire is unknown. Each mule had one boy to attend it, and they all turned in about five o'clock. As all the boys smoke it is supposed it originated through their carelessness. Moral--Boys should not smoke. The Company belongs to Dr. R. H. Hufford and Acheson estates. The loss is about $1,000. No insurance. Dr. Hufford, who is now in California, will have to hurry home and lay in a supply of donkeys.

Wednesday Wanderings

--Ed Forgrave is in the city.
--O. H. Ward, Chicago, is here.
--M. J. Benge, of Paris, is in the city.
--J. W. Stone, of Detroit, is in the city.
--K. B. Hetrick, Canton, Ill., is in the city.
--C. E. Chandler, of St. Louis, is in the city.
--C. E. Clark, of Minneapolis, is in the city to-day.
--J. W. Iverson, of Chicago, was in the city to-day.
--E. L. Penn, of Mt. Pleasant, is in the city to-day.
--E. H. Halley, of Ottumwa, is in the city to-day.
--A. S. Houck, of Emporia, Kansas, is in the city.
--O. M. Ladd, of Ottumwa, was in the city yesterday.
--Frank Allender, of Salina, was in the city yesterday.
--W. M. McFarland, of Brooklyn, Iowa, is in the city to-day.
--Supper and mum quilting Presbyterian church to-morrow evening.
--F. Susemiehl, Deputy Sheriff of Davenport, was in the city yesterday.
--Dr. Hammond, we are glad to note, is out again after a severe sick spell.
--New telephones are soon to be put in for H. Hanson and Clifford & Cormack.
--A. A. Judson, of Maryville, Mo., is in the city renewing auld acquaintance.
--John H. Acheson, of Keokuk, is in the city shaking hands with his many friends.
--There has been no wreck on the C., B. & Q. to-day, a report to the contrary notwithstanding.
--A. Price and wife, and F. H. Davis, of Neponset, Ill., are in the city stopping at the Leggett House.
--S. S. Powers of Postville, and J. M. Denkman, of Wilton, were guests of the Jones House last night.
--Wm. Hanlin, representing the Sigourney Woolen Mills, is in the city, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Mikesell.
--That old and progressive citizen J. W. Dubois, Sr. came in yesterday and ordered THE DAILY JOURNAL left at his residence.
--Don't forget the supper and mum quilting at the Presbyterian church tomorrow evening. There will be no end to the amusement to be had.
--Mrs. Margaret Campbell, State Lecturer and Organizer of the Woman Suffrage Association, is announced to lecture at the Congregational Church Saturday evening.
--The Washington Democrat says that Matt Dwyer's attorney had a writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge Lewis, made returnable Tuesday, Feb. 12th by which he hopes to have defendant released.
--We acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to a grand masquerade ball at Lincoln hall, Eldon, February 14th, to be given by the Eldon Social Dancing Club. The committee on invitation is Seneca Cornell, W. W. Huston and Dr. Bruce S. Ratcliff.
--Mrs. George P. Lang, who has been sick for about a week, had a stroke of paralysis last evening, and her condition has been alarming ever since. Dr. Woods is constantly with her, and everything possible is done to save the life of the unfortunate woman.
--List of letters remaining unclaimed and advertised in the postoffice in this week ending February 5th, 1884: Ella Anderson 2, T. E. Brokaw, J. O. Barclay, Mary E. Bradley, Peter Bruey, Robert Couls, Rose Caviness 2, John Park Campbell, Morten Dykes, Ulysses Emerick 2, Mr. Easton, Miss Fell, Joseph Gordun, Jennie Grammar, C. G. Hagstrom, Mary J. Hayns, H. B. Katz, C. F. Mills, Ernest Metzler, C. W. Simmons, E. E. Slaten, C. Y. Weburg, Jas. Leigh Woolson, A. C. Goodman, Mrs. M. E.Wolfe.

Thursday Transpirings.

--W. C. Ball, is back again.
--W. R. Moore is in the city.
--Be careful of your understanding.
--Supper and mum quilting to-night.
--E. W. Boynton, of Davenport, is in the city.
--Charles E. Lurch, of New York, is in the city.
--George Silvers, of Ottumwa, is in the city to-day.
--J. Thomas, of Hastings, Nebraska, is in the city to-day.
--There were thirty transients at the Leggett House last night.
--W. T. Beardslee, of St. Louis, is registered at the Leggett House.
--F. M. Starkweather, of Milwaukee, was in the city yesterday afternoon.
--J. A. Kearney and George W. Bailey, of Chicago are in the city to-day.
--Loren Speck has gone to Chariton to visit his parents until his arm gets well.
--Miss Thickett Davidson, of Winfield, is in the city, the guest of Miss Ella Lamson.
--Mrs. Case slipped last evening and sprained her wrist, but not seriously, we are glad to know.
--C. L. Ewing, of Trenton, adjuster of the Great Rock Island Route, was in the city to-day attending Court.
--We are sorry to hear that Mrs. Henry Semon is so ill that the family are alarmed about her recovery.
--Morris Rosenburg and J. E. Tourke of Philadelphia, are in the city to-day, the guests of the Leggett House.
--Joe Bradley fell last evening and severely sprained his ankle. He will, in all probability be laid up for some time.
--Mr. and Mrs. Ora Clark, from Western Nebraska and Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Clark, of Council Bluffs, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Ward Lamson.
--Justice Russell this morning joined in the holy bonds of matrimony Mr. A. H. Folland and Mrs. Amanda Drankard, both of this county.
--Murray Shaw, of Kansas, with his friend, Mrs. Trowbridge, were in the city last evening, the guests of Mrs. Wickersham.
--O. S. McNeil, of Davenport, and Geo. C. Duffield, of Keosauqua, are in the city on State Fair business, the guests of Jno. R. Shaffer.
--Mr. Benjamin O. Rhoads, Sheriff of Marshall Co., Iowa, says: "I have used Brown's Iron Bitters as a tonic with excellent results."
--Sixteen couples of the young Irish people joined a pleasant dance at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kennefick Tuesday evening.
--Dr. R. H. Hufford and B.S. McElhinney returned last evening from their Southern and California trip. Doc got in just in time to supply the Jefferson County Coal Company with a new lot of mules.
--Mr. A. H. Brown, one of the oldest landmarks of Fairfield, fell in the yard yesterday, striking his head, from which he has since been unconscious. Taking into account Mr. Brown's extreme age, it is feared this fall may prove fatal.
--Mrs. S. E. Pressley and Miss Jennie McGinnis, in the up stair room of Dr. Myers' building, on the southwest corner, have on hand at all times a full stock of latest and newest styles of hair work and hair jewelry, and manufacture work to order. They cordially invite the ladies of Fairfield to give them a call and examine their goods.

LIBERTYVILLE ITEMS.

  S. P. Lionberger, Kirkville, Iowa, is a visitor in town.
  The Lions Dramatic Troupe go to Doud Station to play.
  There was a small mutiny at the Balding school Tuesday between the boys and teacher.
  Dr. J. W. Hayden and Ham Smith contemplate going to Nebraska soon to embark in the stock business, provided Doc can sell his land.
  An effort is being made to organize a company to build a town hall. There is already near $700 subscribed. The requisite amount is $1,000.
  There was a large number of people in attendance at the literary society Saturday night at Balding's school house at which ploce (sic) F.T. Anderson read a very spicy and interesting literary paper.
  The patriotic veterans of Liberty township, who wore battle harness during the great civil war, met Tuesday evening at Loehr's store and decided to have a grand army camp-fire next Tuesday night. Neighboring posts are cordially invited to be present, as a good time is anticipated. L. S. Tyler, of Keokuk, mustering officer of the Grand Army of the Republic, will be present and organize a G. A. R. post. The meeting will be held in Jackson's hall. A hot lunch will be provided for all visitors. The following are the committee of arrangements: A. G. Hague, J. F. Potts, Capt. J. C. Fry, S. C. Laughlin and C. Elliott.    RENRUT.

Board of Health.
  At a meeting of the City Board of Health, held January 21, 1884, the following resolution was unanimously adopted:
  Resolved, That the Board of Health order the closing of the public school and Sabbath schools of the city, and prohibit the gatherings of children, until January 29th, 1884, and that parents be recommended to keep their children at home during the time above stated.
     T.F. HIGLEY.
     Clerk of the Board.