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"Weekly Journal"
Fairfield, Jefferson Co., Iowa
Vol. #40, July 31, 1884
Transcribed by Sharyl Ferrall

Friday Facts. (Page 1)

  --Will BARBOUR, Boston, is here.
  --J. A. BELL, Pittsburg, is in the city.
  --P. L. FOWLER, Osceola, is in the city.
  --J. C. HOOPER, Pittsfield, is in the city.
  --H. M. DEAVEN, Westfield, N. Y., is here.
  --J. W. DAVY, Cincinnati, was here to-day.
  --G. S. BURKMAN, Kansas City, is in the city
  --J. D. McCARTNEY, of Rochester, N. Y., is here.
  --Rev. H. B. KNIGHT, the financial agent of Parsons college, Fairfield, was a visitor to the Junction, Monday, in the interests of the institution he represents.--Columbus Safeguard.
  --The remaining cases against Mrs. Mary BLANK, of Marshalltown, convicted of violating the prohibitory law, have been abandoned, Mrs. BLANK having agreed to quit the business.
  --William ALSTON has broke ground for a new brick, two stories, 22x90, on the west side. The lower story, we understand, will be occupied by E. M. KANN, the clothier.
  --Among the good hotels in this section of the country the Harper at Rock Island stands prominent. Its new fire escape, most comfortable rooms, careful atendants and well supplied table make it all that a hotel should be. The traveler will always find a cordial welcome and the best of treatment at this deservedly popular hostelrie.--Davenport Gazette.
  --The Birmingham Enterprise is in favor of a late Congressional convention, because, it says, "farmers are very busy with their work." The idea that farmers have anything to do with Congressional conventions is ridiculous. Don't Mose McCOID, Uncle Dick ROOT, Dr. PAUL, Cale DAVIS and calculate to run the next republican congressional convetion?
  --George McCORD, sheriff of Marshall county, was shot and perhaps fatally injured, yesterday afternoon, by one of two burglars, whom he had captured, and was putting in his buggy. They then started to drive off, but the sheriff shot and killed the horse. A posse of men started after the villains and one of them Jack REYNOLDS by name, was captured and lodged in jail.
  --Burlington is endeavoring to get the branch home for disabled soldiers located there, and the Hawkeye publishes a letter from ex-Secretary of War William W. BELKNAP to Mayor ADAMS, in which the former offers any aid he can render toward the location of it in that city. But they make no reference to poor Mose McCOID's bill to give them the home in order to pacify them. They don't consider his influence worth cultivating.
  --Judge STUTSMAN, of Des Moines county, is the strongest man the republicans can nominate at the approaching congressional convention. The democrats will nominate Ben HALL, who, if McCOID is nominated by the republicans, will carry Des Moines county by 2,500 majority. Judge STUTSMAN is as popular with, and as acceptable to the republicans of Des Moines county as Mr. HALL, and would poll as many votes. By the nomination of McCOID from 1,000 to 1,500 votes will be sacrificed in Des Moines county alone, and about 1,000 in other portions of the district.
  --We acknowledge receipt of the catalogue of the Pleasant Plain Academy for the Academic year 1883-'84 and circular for 1884-'85. It is from the Tribune job presses of this city, and is a handsome job throughout. The Principals are Prof. Isaac M. COX and Miss Cora M. HADLEY, of Richmond, Indiana. The fall term begins ninth month nine, 1884, and ends eleventh month twenty one; winter term twelfth month two, 1884, and ends third month thirteen, 1885; spring term begins third month thirty-first and ends sixth month fifth, 1885. There is no better educational institution in this part of Iowa than the Pleasant Plain Academy.

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES.

Locust Grove.
  --We had quite a storm here Monday night last, which uncapped nearly all the hay stacks in the country.
  --John IVES and H. E. EVERETT have got their new Esterly Twine Binder running. It does beautiful work.
  --John IVES has five of the largest sucking calves in the township! He is talking of getting stilts to elevate the cows so the calves can suck.
  --Abingdon republicans don't like The Journal because it will not support M. A. McCOID and James F. WILSON. They say they are the best men in the party. If these are the best may God have mercy on the rest of them.              Tree Frog.

Eldon.
  Eldon has a Blaine and Logan club one hundred strong.
  Wm. HOUGHLAND spent a portion of this week visiting friends in Henry county.
  It is thought that by proper effort we can get the Fort Madison and Northwestern Railway.
  Mrs. Robert McCLURE, a sister of Judge SLOAN of Van Buren county, died last week at her residence near this place.
  The dedication of the new hall and Grand Army camp-fire here on the 26th of August promises to be a grand affair. Governor SHERMAN and other distinguished persons will be present.
  The Rock Island Railway Company has purchased the WILEY farm of two hundred acres across the river, for which they paid the snug sum of $12,000. We have no fears now of the round house being removed elsewhere.
              Happy-Go-Easy.

Pleasant Plain.
  Mira McCONNELL is closing out her Postoffice stock.
  Prof. COX, of the Academy, has returned from a trip to Madison, Wisconsin.
  Misses Anna and Ada CARSE visited in Washington recently with friends.
  In response to your request for correspondents to give the drift of public sentiment among the republicans with regard to the re-nomination of Mr. McCOID for Congress, I can only say that Mr. McCOID has a great many good friends in and around Pleasant Plain, yet while they feel friendly to him they feel that his re-nomination would weaken if not endanger republican success.
  Robert DAWES, an aged gentlemen, died very suddenly Saturday evening a week ago. He had been working in the garden and came in and told his daughter, Mrs. FULLER, that he had a severe pain in the arm. She rubbed it and done what she could to relieve the pain, but he expired in a short time. The cause of his death was pronounced paralysis.          HAM.

Brighton.
  Mrs. W. H. LLOYD is visiting her parents at Chariton.
  The Free Methodists are holding a series of protracted meeting here with good success.
  The grocery firm of B. TRACY & Sons is the most substantial and enterprising in the place.
  The Council has passed an ordinance limiting the speed of trains to eight miles per hour while running through the city.
  John SWISHER has returned from Kansas and will buy grain for Paul SHERIDAN, of Fairfield, at Cedar, a point on the narrow guage this side of Oskaloosa.
  I see you desire to know the feeling in different portions of the district with regard to the propriety or re-nominating Hon. M. A. McCOID, who has very creditably represented our district in congress for three terms. Like every other public servant, Mr. McCOID has friends and he has enemies here, but a number of our republicans feel that he has had the office long enough, and should step aside and give some other worthy candidate a chance. There is a strong feeling here that ex-Senator John W. PRIZER, of this place, would make a good representative. He might be considered a dark horse in the convention, but he would prove as lively as Jay-Eye-See on election day.        NARROW GUAGE.

Libertyville.
  J. C. FRY was on the sick list last week with the hay fever.
  Several very interesting lawsuits came before justice S. C. FRY last week.
  Postmaster J. W. FRY has a telephone connected with his store and residence.
  The Blaine and Logan club did not materialize Monday night according to notice. What is the matter?
  Capt. SCHALL, Leavenworth, Kansas, is a visitor at Mr. James HURST's this week, renewing old acquaintances formed in the Keystone State.
  Sam HOLSINGER, and old time resident here, but who has been practicing law in Fayettville, Arkansas, the last few years, has returned to Iowa for good.
  The wind storms of last week did great damage to growing grain in this community, some streaks presenting the appearance of "Hafed's" famous landscape in the world of chance, everything blown topsy turvy.
          RENRUT.

Birmingham.
  W. S. ALLEN will go to Nebraska next week on business.
  Mrs. Ed MOSS has gone to Battle Creek, Mich., in quest of health.
  Miss Anna and Bob LACY, of Pella, are the guests of Miss Mary HUFFMAN.
  Samuel DEAHL died on the 23d inst. He was about sixty years of age and has been a resident of Iowa for half that time.
  W. S. FAITH, of Rockford, Ill., an old old time resident of this place, but wno (sic) has been absent for fifteen years, is back on a visit.
  The Enterprise Cornet Band will give a festival in the Park, Friday evening August 8, for the purpose of raising money to purchase uniforms.
  Prof. WOLF, assisted by Misses Clara and Hattie WILEY, has been giving seadings and recetations on the practical value of education to the citizens of Mr. Zion and Zion Lutheran church near Doud's with great success.          MUM.

Saturday Sayings.

  --John W. PARKER, Viola, Ill., is here.
  --F. PIKE, Cleveland, O., is in the city.
  --A. A. SAWYER, of St. Louis, is in the city.
  --J. S. CLIFTON, Cincinnati, Ohio, is in the city.
  --D. REGEMITTER, of Chicago, is in the city to-day.
  --Mrs. E. B. GRAHAM, of Omaha, is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. RANEY.
  --While at Agency City yesterday we secured ten subscribers to The Weekly Journal.
  --Call at FULTON's Furniture Store and see those nice new chamber sets he has got in.
  --The last term of Toland's Writing Academy opens Thursday night. There will be a large attendance.
  --Prof. J. C. GILCHRIST, of Cedar Falls, will leceure (sic) before the Jefferson County Normal at the M. E. Church on Thursday evening next on "School Management." A cordial invitation is extended to all.
  --Harry B. KNAPP, one of The Journal force, left today for a few day's visit with his parents near Princeton, Mo.
  --H. H. FULTON, the furniture dealer, has just received a lot of elegant chamber suits, to which he invites the attention of the public.
  --Frank MOREIN, the music dealer, has sold and delivered to Wm. H. MOHR, of the popular hardware establishment of Beaty & Mohr, an elegant square Norris piano.
  --Ex-Mayor J. J. CUMMINGS has received the appointment from George B. INMAN of superintendent of the water works.  The appointment is a most excellent one, and will give general satisfaction to our people.
  --No better evidence is wanted that the democrats are praying for the nomination of McCOID than the course of the Tribune, the democratic paper here, in the matter. In its last issue it tries to create the impression outside that McCOID is all serene in this county. There will be greater opposition to his nomination from this county than is now supposed. If the republican masses control the convention for the nomination of delegates, instead of the bosses, it is extremely doubtful if Mr. McCOID gets a single delegate from Jefferson county. The larger majority of the members of the party in this county, are opposed to his re-nomination. Not that they are personally opposed to him, or have any unkind feelings in the matter, but they regard his nomination as virtually giving the district to the democrats. And this objection will become more and more pronounced as the campaign progresses. The republican cannot afford to renominate McCOID, for as sure as fate he will be defcated (sic).

Monday Melange.

  --Seneca CORNELL, of Eldon, Sundayed in this city.
  --C. CURRIER, of Leavenworth, was in the city to-day.
  --W. A. SAUNDERS, of Mt. Pleasant, was here to-day.
  --Mrs. Dr. MONFORT, who has been on the sick list, is better.
  --Charley FULLEN's babe is quite sick with cholera infantum.
  --The Jefferson County Normal began it annual session to-day.
  --A. E. LEWIS, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, is in the city to-day.
  --There were twenty five transients at the Leggett House yesterday.
  --Israel JUNE, the sexton, who has been quite seriously ill, is convalescing.
  --S. HIMMELREICH, Charles M. CLARK and Chas. S. VINCENT, of Chicago, were here to-day.
  --Fordyce C. CLARK, editor of The Sun, of Greenville, Ill., was in the city Saturday afternoon and favored this office with a call.
  --Found.  By DeLand & Co., Fairport, N. Y., the secret of making the best Saleratus and Soda in the world. They surpass all the inventors of the age, because by these articles they insure success to the ladies in making fine pastry.
  --Rev. A. B. McMACKIN, of the Lutheran Church, has just passed through a severe siege of cholera morbus. He was out to-day.

The Normal.
The Jefferson county Normal Institute has been in session here since Monday, under charge of County Superintendent, S. N. HOPKINS. Prof. O. C. SCOTT, of Oskaloosa, is the conductor, and the corps of instructors consists of Prof. N. ROSENBERGER, Miss Delia KNIGHT and Mrs. M.A. PECK. Yesterday the enrollment was 127, which is larger than at any previous session. This certainly shows a growing interest in educational matters. The names of those enrolled till the present time are: Bessie BLACK, Jessie BLACK, Eliza J. BUCHANAN, Florence A. CLAPP, Lizzie LOCKE, Elva G. SWENEY, Laura B. SWAN, Anna M. SMITH, Mary E. ULM, Kate JONES, Jessie CHANDLER, Etta BARR, Kate CHANDLER, Nettie KIRBY, Lena PAINE, Mariam CRUMLY, Flora DAVISON, Lena DURR, W. F. GOODBAN, Mary HIDY, Ida KIRKPATRICK, Emma LEWIS, Mary TURNBULL, Victoria TOOTHACHRE, Maggie WOLFE, Amy JUNKIN, Mamie McALLISTER, Lena COCH, Adda GARMOE, Ella GARMOE, Lida BECK, Odessa ALLENDER, Willamette ALLENDER, Mary ARMSTRONG, Mary BALDERSON, Sue M. BARTON, Rise J. BROWN, Eva COX, Maud CROY, Katie CARSE, Ida M. CLIFFORD, Iowa DALLNER, Kate DOYLE, Adie FRY, Laura GANTZ, Minnie GANTZ, S. Jennie HEDGES, Sue HIDY, Rose HICKATHIER, Lillian IRLAND, Sadie KENNEDY, Mary LYNCH, Lilla LEONARD, Rose E. MOHLER, Orra McCORMICK, Lucy McCLAIN, Anna MAHON, Bertha McPHERSON, Maggie NUGENT, Sadie PARSONS, Nannie PERRY, Sadie RUMER, Lottie SHAW, John A. SHELTON, Fannie E. TAYLOR, Mary DAVIS, Maud LOWERY, June ALLENDER, Ben F. ANDREWS, Luella BAKER, J. W. CASSEL, Amy D. CARSE, Flora E. CHESTER, Ernest COLLINS, Dennis COLLINS, Stella COCKLEY, Albert L. COOP, Adda F. CARSE, Anna M. CUNNINGHAM, Anna CLARK, Chloe CORNELL, Nora CLARKE, Lottie A. DuBOIS, Clara DUNLAP, Ollie EDWARDS, Cora FLIGG, Sadie FICHTNER, Nevada E. GILLETT, Jennie GILBERT, Montie HOBBIE, Hattie HOOPES, Anna HOWARD, H. A. HOOPES, Nettie HEWETT, William HUDGEL, Susie KING, Maggie B. LOCKE, Anna LEWARK, Hattie MONFORT, Katie MANN, Emma MUIR, Kate OBERG, Mary OLIVER, Bertha PARK, Minnie PEEBLER, Lula SPENCER, Sadie SIMMONS, Anna LYMONS, Lizzie STUART, Anna THOMA, Laura TURNBULL, Orville THOMAS, Mattie MUHERTER, Thomas WALTON, Anna WHITE, Mary J. WOLFI, Ella WHITE, Ida SINGLETON, Lida McCARTY, Mary BOYD, Ella PARSON, Maggie TOOTHACRE, Ella SPARKS, Maud TEMPLETON.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
  --Dene B. MERRILL, of Ottumwa, was here to-day.
  --Henry HUTTON, of Madrid, Iowa was in the city to-day.
  --Wm. H. SCHENCK and J. L. CARTER of Burlington, were here last night.
  --Charles D. LEGGETT is back again, after an absence of several weeks in Ohio.
  --For furniture of all kinds it will pay you to go to the South side Furniture store.
  --James A. KELLY, of Chicago, one of the heavy stockholders of the Sterling Silver Mining Company, was in the city yesterday.
  --We understand that quite a number of the teachers attending the institute are anxious to receive instructions in writing from Prof. TOLAND, and that our wide-awake and progressive County superintendent will probably secure his services for a course of lectures and lessons.
  --A prominent democrat, who is high up in the councils of his party, said to us today that if Judge STUTSMAN was nominated by the republicans, they could not beat him; that their big majority in Des Moines county would be lost. This is a pointer, and a valuable one, too, for the coming republican congressional convention.
  --Henry C. RANEY has taken in a partner in his law business. The firm will hereafter be known as Henry Clay RANEY & Son. The son arrived this morning, and will doubless prove a better pleader than Clay. He is small in avoirdupois but mighty in the estimation of his parents. Clay is resting easy, and the rejoiced mother is getting along nicely.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
John W. COLE, dealer in Foreign and American Marble. Monuments, Tombs, Tablets, Etc. BIRMINGHAM, IOWA. Scotch and American Granite Monuments furnished to order.  Call at Shop, see designs, buy of me and save solicitor's per cent.
jy24             John W. COLE.

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)

  --Alex. P. S. HICKS, of Philadelphia, is here.
  --John DOWLING, of Galena, was here to-day.
  --T. BEARDSLEE, of St. Louis, is in the city to-day.
  --Dr. J. W. NORRIS, of Birmingham was in the city to-day.
  --Eugene LEWIS, an attorney of Moline, was in the city last night.
  --P. S. CLANCY, G. W. WHITE and J. R. DAVEY, of Chicago, were in the city to-day.
  --A. SCHALL, of Lawerence, Kansas, was in the city yesterday trying to contract with Geo. W. WHITE for hay.
  --The Washington Democrat is the latest addition to the McCOID ranks. Like all the democrats in the district, it wants him nominated.
  --The merchants of this city have agreed to close their business places at 8 o'clock, with the exception of Thomas BELL. The drug stores will close at half past eight, with the exception of Jones & Co.
  --Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. B. CRAIL, Friday, July 25th, a son. The delighted father assures us that it's a Blaine boy. But that's not strange, it hasn's (sic) cut its eye teeth yet. -- Washington Democrat.
  --The anti-prohibition vote in Fairfield was increased by the arrival of a new recruit the other evening at Ed KENNEFICK's in the shape of a bouncing boy. Ed says he is bound to not let the prohibitionists get ahead of him. Hence the arrival of his boy simultaneous with Clay RANEY's.
  --List of letters remaining in the postoffice in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, July 29th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster: Wm. COWGER 2, Hannah HOGLAND, George HARRIS, Maggie EDWARDS, Alice LOARING, Joseph PARSONS, Datsie RONCH, Mrs. Emma WHITE.
  --Custer Post and Drum corps from St. Joe, Mo. attracted a great deal of attention at the Grand Army reunion at Minneapolis, covered themselves with glory, and were christened the "banner post of the west." Carl WILSON, formerly of this city, and a son of J. E. WILSON, is a member of the drum corps of this post, and was along with the boys on their Minnesota trip.
  --Albert, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe HEMMER, died yesterday of cholera infantum. The funeral took place at 9 o'clock from the residence to-day on west third south street, and the services were conducted by the Rev. McMACKIN, of the Lutheran Church. "Suffer little children to come unto me," saith the Lord, "and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of heaven." We extend our sympathy to the grief stricken parents in this hour of their sore affliction.
  --A very pleasant birthday party was given last evening by Mrs. H. H. KIRKPATRICK for her little boy Johnny, over whose head six bright and joyous summers have passed. There were present Stella and Charlie SAMSON, Helen McCRACKIN, Clarence UNKRICH, Ada BLACK, Nellie KIRKPATRICK, Eli STEWART, Mary and Robbie MOORE, Bertha GRIMES and Maudie JACKSON. The evening was spent merrily on the lawn and in the parlor, and the ringing youthful voices made us wish that "time would turn backward in its flight, and make us a child again just for to-night."

Thursday Transpirings.

  --H. C. DARBY, Kansas City, is here.
  --J. H. BRAYTON, Beloit, is in the city.
  --R. S. BECK, of Cincinnati, is here to-day.
  --Alex. J. F. DURHAM, New York, is in the city.
  --F. W. CARY, Rockford, was in the city to-day.
  --J. D. LINSDAY, Lawrence, Kansas is here to-day.
  --Hon. W. I. BABB, of Mt. Pleasant, was in the city yesterday.
  --Miss Bell THOMAS and Miss B. SPARKS of Des Moines, are here to-day.
  --Capt. J. J. KRITZLER, of Glasgow, was in town to-day, the guest of G. A. UNKRICH.
  --Miss Tillie MANDLIN, of Ottumwa, is visiting with Mrs. G. A. RUTHERFORD.
  --W. S. FAITH, of Battle Creek, Mich., was in the city yesterday and favored THE JOURNAL with a call.
  --Prof. J. C. GILCHRIST, of Cedar Falls is here, and will lecture to the students of the Normal at the Methodist Church this evening.
  --George WILLIAMS, who has so faithfully delivered ice to our citizens here for several years, has sold his wagon and ice business to STANCLIFF & WATHLINGTON, of Peoria, who have already taken possession. They have however, retained the services of Mr. WILLIAMS, who will make the rounds as usual. Those wanting ice can have it delivered promptly at the lowest prices.
  --The following are the latest market quotations in this city: Shipping steers, 4 to 4½c; good feeders, 4c; stock steers, 3½c; cows and calves, $30 to $40 a head; hogs, 4 to 4½c; sheep, $2.50 to $2.75. Oats, 25c; corn, 60c; timothy seed, $1.10; clover seed, $4 to $4.50. Butter, 10 to 12½c; eggs, 11c; bacon, 10 to 12½c; potatoes, 30 to 40c; green apples, 50 to 80c.

Neighboring Towns.
PACKWOOD.
  Packwood is a new town in the north part of Jefferson county, on the line of the Burlington and Western Railway. It has three good general stores, one furniture store, two elevaters, one meat shop, one hotel, one physician, one agricultural warehouse, and one blacksmith shop. It is located in the vicinity of an excellent farming community, and bids fair to become one of the best trading points in our county.
  Packwood was named after Samuel PACKWOOD, who resides on a farm near the place.
  New houses are springing up as if by magic. We noticed three going up, one by Dr. MOORMAN, one by Mrs. S. J. CHANDLER and one by Alonzo WAITE. Dr. MOORMAN's is being built by J. BURRIS, and the two latter by J. H. MURPHY, who says he has built nearly every house in Packwood.
  D. W. TEMPLETON and Paul SHERIDAN, of Fairfield, run the leading elevator here, and buy all kinds of grain. They pay the highest market price, and deal honorably and squarely with every one. Sam BROWN, formerly of Fairfield, is assisting Mr. SHERIDAN in running the elevator.
[illegible - column corner folded over - But?] Packwood has a good stock of [illegible - Dry Goods?], Groceries, Notions, etc. and [illegible] an excellent trade. He is a [illegible] d reliable business man, and [illegible] goods as low as the lowest.
  A. H. GRAFTON is in charge of the postoffice, and carries a good stock of agricultural imblements (sic) and farm macninery (sic), and sells as low as any dealer in the county. Mr. GRAFTON is clever and acommodating, and makes friends by his straightforward dealing.
  Joseph NELSON has a large and complet (sic) general stock; everything needed by mortal man or gentle woman, and allows no one to undersell him. Joe is a thorough, wide-awake and progressive business man, and always does the clean thing by his customers.
  The meat shop is run by A. HOLLINGWORTH who understands the wants of the community. He expects, after the warm season is over, to start up more extensive than ever before.
  Peter NELSON is the "village blacksmith," and while he does not make the anvil ring "under a spreading chestnut tree," he does business on the square, gives good work and makes reasonable charges.
  J. S. LAUGHARY runs a very fair boarding house and hotel. He is, we judge, crowded for room, but for a good square meal Mrs. LAUGHARY and her pleasant daughter cannot be excelled. Everything about the place is neat and clean and charges very reasonable.
  J. H. MURPHY will shortly put up a new building and fill it with furniture. He says he aims to as cheap as any dealer in Jefferson, Keokuk or Washington counties.
  Dr. MOORMAN, who recently removed there, has already got himself into a good and growing practice. We are glad of it. He is a good physician and clever fellow and deserves success.