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FAIRFIELD, IOWA "WEEKLY JOURNAL"
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Vol. VI, Issue #34, June 19, 1884
Transcribed by Justina Cook

Friday Facts. (Page 1)
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  --The Council meets to-night.
  --I. L. INGRAM, Chicago, is here.
  --E. F. PHELPS, Chicago, was here to-day.
  --J. B. PUFFNER, of Oskaloosa, is in the city.
  --Chas. R. BECKLEY, of Burlington, is in the city.
  --John R. SHAFFER returned from Des Moines yesterday.
  --J. A. THOMAS, Bloomington, Ill., was in the city last night.
  --C. J. LOVING, of Glasgow, who has been sick for some time is convalesing.
  --Wanted, a good girl to do general housework. Apply to Mrs. R. H. MOORE, 920 second South street.
  --Mrs. Dr. EWING is still improving, and hopes are entertained that she will now recover.
  --Mrs. STRIBBLING and her daughter Miss Mary, arrived from Indianapolis, Ind., last evening.
  --Clarence BURTNETT is the captain of the O. L. H. Base Ball club and not Harry TILSON as we had it.
  --John R. GUNTERMAN, of Des Moines township was examined yesterday by the Commissioners of Insanity, and sent to the asylum.
  --Maria ARMSTRONG has been appointed administratrix of James ARMSTRONG deceased, and C. C. RISK appointed guardian of Charles JOHNSON, minor heir of Nathan JOHNSON, deceased, vice George McCLURE resigned.
  --Mrs. Orlando FLOWER will receive in a few days a new stock of Summer Millinery goods including a full line of picnic hats. Call and see her. She has good goods at low prices. Adjoining the Postoffice.
  --The Eastern and Western Air Line railroad company has been incorporated at Springfield, Illinois. The object of the company is to build a road from Kankakee to Keithburg. The capital of the company is $13,000,000.
  --Licenses to wed were issued by the Clerk since the first of the month to H. E. KIRKPATRICK, 23, and Miss Anna McCRACKIN, 19; John IFNER, 29, and Miss Kunigunda MILLER, 23; Wm. E. HALFERTY, 25, and Miss Minnie BALDERSON, 21.
  --Samuel J. TILDEN has written a letter to the chairman of the democratic state central committee of New York, positively declining to be a candidate. He closes his letter as follows: "I but submit to the will of God in deeming my public career forever closed."
  --In accordance with a call published in some of the city papers, a meeting was held last night at the Court House to organize a Blaine and LOGAN club. Music was furnished by the Silver Cornet Band. The meeting was called to order by C. M. JUNKIN. N. ROSENBERGER being chosen chairman and C. M. JUNKIN secretary of the meeting, committees were appointed on permanent organization, constitution and to canvass for members. Speeches were made by S. H. HEDRIX, J. M. GALVIN and others. The meeting was a good one. Another will be held next week, which we hope will be well attended by our good republicans.

CITY COUNCIL. (Page 1)
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Regular Meeting of the City Council of Fairfield, Iowa.
[BY AUTHORITY.]
COUNCIL CHAMBER, June 13, 1884.
  Council met pursuant to adjournment.
  Present, Mayor BOLING and Trustees BRIGHT, CLARK, SHOULTZ, McGAW, RICKSHER, SCOTT, YOUNG and LEGGETT.
  On motion the minutes of the previous meeting were corrected by substituting the words "bonds ordered to be sold" instead of "transferred to INMAN," in order to correspond with recommendation of the Water Supply Committee.
  The Treasurer, James F. CRAWFORD, submitted his report, showing balance on hand, $3,616.88, which was received and ordered filed. Further time was granted the Committee on Claims to make a report.
  The Public Property Committee requested the Council to settle the question of use of electric tower for fire works on the Fourth of July. On motion the matter was referred to the Committee on Light to report at next meeting.
  A motion to reconsider the sale of bonds was postponed until the next meeting.
  A committee, representing a called meeting of the tax-payers of the city being present, the Council listened to their spokesman, Mr. James SULLIVAN, who propounded the following interrogatories:
  1.  Has there been a demand made by Mr. INMAN for any portion of the bonds that are unearned?
  2.  Does Mr. INMAN claim, or has he made claim, for the accrued interest on unearned bonds or the bonds to the credit of the city in bank?
  3.  What is the Council's understanding of that part of the contract in taking estimates of work done, to wit: In excavation the contract price is 25 cents, for embankment 33 cents. Is the excavation to be measured and the dirt from said excavation be measured in the embankment counting it twice?
  4.  Is there any provisions made or contemplated by the Council as to the supervising of the income for the water works as to auditing the same or requiring Mr. INMAN to make an accounting at stated periods and the limiting him to actual necessary help at the usual ways as paid such employees by other firms?
  Each interrogatory being answered to the satisfaction of the questioners, Mr. SULLIVAN presented the following:
  At a called meeting June 13th, 1884, at D. P. STUBBS’s office of tax-payers of the City of Fairfield, the following gentlemen were present: D. P. STUBBS, Ward LAMSON, Ed HUNT, George A. WELLS, R. J. WILSON, R. H. HUFFORD, Capt. W. R. WELLS, James GILCHRIST, F. SACKETT, J. A. HYSHAM, G. P. LANG, J. S. RICHARDSON, G. EICHHORN and James SULLIVAN.
  The meeting was called to order by electing George A. WELLS Chairman and Jas. SULLIVAN Secretary.
  The following resolution was introduced by Geo. A. WELLS:
  Resolved, That a committee be appointed consisting of James SULLIVAN, J. A. HYSHAM, D. P. STUBBS, R. H. HUFFORD, Ward LAMSON and R. J. WILSON to represent this meeting at the meeting of the City Council to-night and take note of the proceedings of said Council in regard to the contract with George B. INMAN, and to enter our protest against any act on the part of the Council that shall, in their opinion, be against the interest of the tax-payers of the city, and to take such notice of the acts of the Council at this or any future meeting as shall protect the tax-payers in the contract with said INMAN.
  The resolution was adopted.
  The Chairman of the Committee on Light presented the following petition: To the City Council of the City of Fairfield:
  GENTLEMEN - The citizens of Fairfield will furnish and donate to the City an electric lamp, provided the city will on all public occasions, deemed proper by the Council or its Committee on Light, when the tower is lighted, light and operate the same, on the lower part of the tower, so as to light up the park beneath the shade of the trees. Upon the Council's acceptance of this proposition the lamp will be donated.
  The above proposition was accepted by the Council, and the Committee on Light was directed to purchase a hood for the above lamp.
  Communications from Mrs. FAULKNER and L. PETTY were referred to the Streets and Alleys Committee.
  The matter of cutting hay on the water works land was referred to the Water Supply Committee.
  The following bills were presented and allowed by a vote of the Council:
P. H. HOWLETT, coal for the
  electric light,                                23.66
D. N. SENSE, stone                         12.75
  The fee bill of Justice RUSSELL was referred to the Committee on Claims.
  On motion the Council adjourned for one week to meet at 7½ o'clock, P. M.
                    T. F. HIGLEY, City Clerk.
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A Card.
FAIRFIELD, IOWA, June 16, 1884.
  I desire to state that I have been misrepresented by certain parties by my name appearing in connection with other citizens in regard to water works. I will say that I met at D. P. STUBBS’s office, with other citizens for information, not with the intention of taking part in an injunction, but simply to hear and see if there was anything wrong. I make this statement to set myself right before the public, as I have been grossly misrepresented.                    J. S. RICHARDSON.

SATURDAY SAYINGS. (Page 1)
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  --J. P. MARTIN, New York, is here.
  --L. RUSSELL, of Denver, is in the city.
  --Al LITTLE, of Keokuk, is in the city.
  --A. P. BICKMORE, of Boston, was here to-day.
  --James BUCHNER, of Davenport, was here to-day.
  --Hon. John C. POWER, of Burlington, was in the city to-day.
  --L. R. STOHL and daughter, of Muscatine, was in the city to-day.
  --Mrs. W. H. CRAIL, of Batavia is visiting relatives and friends in the city.
  --F. R. PATTEN, of Pontiac, Ill. is visiting his daughter, Mrs. John E. DOUGHERTY.
  --Will D. RUMER has returned from Haldridge, Nebraska, and will spend a few days visiting his parents.
  --Miss Emma HALL, Des Moines, is spending a few days among friends, and is being entertained by Mrs. John R. SHAFFER.
  --A new candidate for Congress in this district has appeared in the person of Hon. John Van VALKENBURG, of Ft. Madison, Lee county. There is fun ahead yet, and Moses is by no means out of the bullrushes.
  --W. W. GRAHAM, formerly of the McKee House in this city, is now running the Bristol Restaurant at Ottumwa, and his many friends here will be glad to know that he is doing well. He keeps a first class restaurant, and our Fairfield boys visiting Ottumwa will find William will treat them well and charge them reasonable should they call on him for refreshments.
  --John H. FUNK, one of our very best young men, has started a Sunday School paper in this city, and calls it the Iowa Sunday School Worker. The first number, which Mr. FUNK kindly handed us to-day consists of eight pages, of three columns each, and is very neatly and tastefully gotten up. It will be published monthly at $1 per annum, and it should, and we doubt not it will, receive the necessary support to make it self-sustaining.
  --The meeting of our City Council last evening was quite an interesting one. The room was crowded with citizens and tax-payers who had gathered there to propound what they supposed were some knotty questions to our efficient "city fathers." Every question asked by the Citizen's Committee was fully answered, and the committee expressed themselves entirely satisfied by the answers. All their suggestions had long ago been considered and acted upon by the Council. The "city dads" thanked the committee for their presence and asked them to come again. It is to be hoped that the committee will hereafter read the official reports of the Council's proceedings as published from week to week in THE JOURNAL before they go to the Council to ask any questions.
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COMMENCEMENT. (Page 1)
  Last evening began the commencement exercises of Parsons College. The four literary societies, the Aldine, Orio, Alethean and Elzevir united and gave an interesting and creditable entertainment at the Presbyterian Church. The Hon. Ed CAMPBELL did the honors of the evening as President.
  The Aldine society graduated two members, E. E. REED and R. D. HALL. W. E. ANDREWS, the President, delivered an oration in his accustomed fluent, easy style, on "Brotherhood," after which was the presentation of diplomas to the graduates in a neat little speech. This was responded to by E. E. REED, subject "The Two Giants." He touched on the labor and capital question - they being the two giants that would revolutionize the world; spoke of the people becoming alive to the Mormon question.
  The Alethean society graduated two members, Miss Mary HARKNESS and Miss Fannie BOCKIUS. Miss Myrtie BYRKIT read an address. All we could hear of it was very good. Miss Myrtie possesses a sweet musical voice, but did not speak loud enough. After this the president, Miss Nettie ANSTEIN, in an appropriate address, presented the diplomas. The response was given by Miss Mary HARKNESS in an easy, graceful, self-possessed style.
  The Orio society graduated one member, S. H. SAWYER. E. M. SHARP's oration "The Coming Revolution," was well delivered and some good thoughts expressed. The president, R. W. CAVIT, presented the diplomas with good wishes and a hearty God speed.
  The exercises were pleasantly varied by excellent music furnished by the string band and Miss Carrie SPIELMAN playing in her usual airy, brilliant manner.
  Hon. Ed CAMPBELL, at the close of the exercises, thanked the students for the pleasant entertainment they gave us, and also spoke of the pride we ought to feel in having Parsons College located in our beautiful city, and of the gentle and ennobling influence that comes to us through it.
  Sunday afternoon at three o'clock, the Baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by the president of the College, Rev. Dr. EWING. In the evening Rev. Dr. GANTS, of Chicago, will deliver an address to the graduates. Monday night the graduating exercises of the preparatory department will occur. Tuesday night the contest of the Junior and the Freshmen classes will take place. Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock will be the graduating exercises and Wednesday evening a banquet at the LEGGETT House will be given by the Senior Class.

Monday Melange. (Page 1)
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  --C. L. PENNINGTON, New York, is in the city.
  --Dr. J. M. BOYNTZ, of Richmond, Ky., is in the city.
  --J. W. BRANHAM, Louisville, Ky., is in the city to-day.
  --E. G. AYER and wife, of New York, Sundayed in the city.
  --Will HOWELL, of Keokuk, is in the city attending commencement.
  --Miss Nannie WILSON, of Pittsburgh, Penn., arrived in the city to-day, the guest of Mrs. C. S. SHAFFER.
  --Miss Mae HURST, of Centerville, daughter of A. W. HURST, formerly of this city, is visiting Miss Bertha Coffin.
  --Curtis S. HILL, who was born and raised in this township, died of consumption at his home near Batavia Saturday. He was 31 years old, and known all over the county.
  --The motto of John FUNK's new Sunday School paper at this place is "Iowa for Christ." A sacreligious individual at our elbow on reading it to-day remarked that "he did'nt know Christ was running." He said he had always understood Iowa was for BLAINE.
  --Rev. Dr. GANSE, of Chicago, preached the annual commencement sermon to the graduates of Parsons College last night. The church was taxed to its utmost capacity, and the learned gentleman delivered a most excellent sermon, full of wise thoughts and practical suggestions. The baccalaureate sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. EWING in the afternoon.
  --"The Fairfield cornet band is out of luck. While at New Orleans recently with the K. of P. excursion they serenaded Jeff. DAVIS, and now the citizens of Fairfield refuse to listen to any more of their music until they have properly repented. On Decoration day they were not allowed to play and at the K. of P. doings Wednesday the Washington band was imported for the occasion.--Brighton Enterprise. They seemed to be good enough to play for the BLAINE and LOGAN pow-wow the other evening.
  --The temperance meeting at the Court House Saturday night effected an organization called "The Fairfield Temperance Alliance." Its object as set fort in the constitution, is the enforcement of the temperance laws in Iowa. H. C. RANEY was elected President; W. W. JUNKIN, Vice President; Thomas BELL, Treasurer; John W. BURNETT, Secretary. A constitution was adopted. The Alliance will have a committee consisting of its officers and five of its members of the purpose of looking after the work of the organization. There will also be a committee of three appointed whose special duty will be to prosecute all violators of the prohibition law. An attorney will be employed to assist the committee.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
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  --E. H. BLAIR, St. Louis, is in the city.
  --N. P. LEVISON, of Cincinnati, is here.
  --J. M. STEIN, of Canton, Ill., is in the city.
  --C. W. MARSH, Sycamore, Ill., is in the city.
  --George L. GOW, of Fontanelle, Iowa, is here to-day.
  --E. T. KIGGINS, of New York, is in the city to-day.
  --O. G. VALE, of Promise City, Iowa, was here to-day.
  --O. E. HOBBLE, of Columbus Junction, was in the city to-day and favored us with a call.
  --Rev. M. BAMFORD is in Mt. Pleasant attending the opening exercises of the Iowa Wesleyan University.
  --Miss Libbie KNAPP, of Goshen, Mo., is in the city attending commencement and visiting her brother, H. B. KNAPP, of this paper.
  --Col. Wesley W. GARNER, of Columbus City, auditor of the tax department of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway, was in the city to-day.
  --J. B. KNETSAR, one of our employees while in Moline, and one of the best pressmen in that State is in the city on his way to Bedford to attend a wedding.
  --The graduation exercises of the Senior Class of the Preparatory Department of Parsons College took place at the Presbyterian Church last night, and were very largely attended.
  --Mr. Peter STALLMANN, Bennington Township, Iowa, having suffered with rheumatism was induced to try St. Jacobs Oil, the marvelous pain-reliever, and was entirely cured by its use.
  --The Lutheran Sociable will be entertained this week by Mrs. Amelia WHITE, on West 3d South Street, on Thursday afternoon and evening. Refreshments will be served. All are invited to be present.
  --In a conversation to-day with Mr. STREIGHT, the artist, he remarked that if any of the boys wanted some of his work while here, he proposed to put the price down within their reach. He said he desired all his old friends to have a piece of his work.
  --W. H. DANIELS, who has charge of the Fairfield Woolen Mills, is evidently "the right man in the right place." He is pushing the works with an energy that is commendable in the highest degree. He runs sixteen hands, and informs us that he expects to work up fifty thousand pounds of wool this season.
  --On June 18, 1884, and every day thereafter up to and including June 23, the grand Rock Island route will sell round trip tickets at all coupon stations, to Abilene, Florence, Baxter Springs, Independence and Ottowa, in Kansas, and very possibly to other land excursion points at one fare for the round trip. Tickets good from June 18th to June 23d.

LIBERTYVILLE ITEMS. (Page 8)
  The members of the M. E. Church will have ice cream on sale at the red front, MOORE & JACKSON’s store every Saturday afternoon and evening, for the benefit of the church. It is a good cause and every one should patronize it.
  Libertyville will celebrate in the evening of the 4th, beginning at five o'clock. The exercises will be a grand army campfire and festival, and other exercises of speaking and singing. A splendid time is anticipated, let every body come.
  Friday was the close of the school at No. 6, known as the poor farm school taught by Miss CRUMLEY of Pleasant Plain. At night the school gave an exhibition which did great credit to those who took part.
  Dr. W. K. MILLER will move this week to Winterset, Iowa, where he has decided to practice. Doc. has made a host of friends here who will be sorry to see him leave, but their good wishes will follow him and his family where ever their lievs should be cast.
  Simon C. FRY, one of the solidest citizens of Libertyville received the appointment of Justice of the Peace Saturday by the Board of Trustees, to fill vacancy. This is a splendid appointment and will give universal satisfaction. Mr. Fry is a man of splendid judgement and large experience, having been Justice in Batavia for four years.
  A visit to our County Farm Friday convinces us that it is in a most flourishing and progressive condition, under the able management of J. R. LAUGHLIN. Every acre of land is utilized to its best advantage, and the appearance of the growing grain present the flattering prospect of a bountiful crop. There are in all thirty-four inmates, fifteen males and nineteen females. A saving of eight hundred in the expense of the farm last year over the year preceding proves that the county has the right man in the right place.
                    RENRUT.

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)
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  --W. W. MILLER, St. Joe, Mich., is in the city.
  --A. B. CASSELMAN, of Des Moines, is in the city.
  --E. G. AYER and wife, of New York, are here to-day.
  --Louis WEINSTEIN, of Burlington, was in the city yesterday.
  --J. L. SHEILDS, of New London, spent yesterday in the city.
  --Scott WASHBURNE, of Muscatine, was in the city yesterday.
  --Rev. A. C. STILSON, of Ottumwa, was in the city yesterday, the guest of John R. SHAFFER.
  --John A. MURRAY, a former student of Parsons College, was in attendance at commencement.
  --Miss Mattie and Miss Cora JACKSON, of Libertyville, have been in the city this week attending Commencement and visiting their sister.
  --S. H. SAWYER and wife, of Unionville, Mo., and J. L. SAWYER and wife, of Centerville, were in the city to-day attending Commencement exercises.
  --A Bible reading on "Faith," conducted by Rev. M. BAMFORD, at association rooms, next Sabbath afternoon. Young men invited to Bible study on Thursday evening.
  --One of the very best orations at the Commencement exercises to-day was that of W. G. ROSS, of the law firm of GALVIN & ROSS, on the subject of "Conservativeness." It was universally commended.
  --John A. AXLINE is selling the life and public services of BLAINE and LOGAN. It is a book of several hundred pages, and should be possessed by every lover of the "Plumed Knight" and the great warrior. A copy can be obtained by calling on Mr. AXLINE.
"Rough on Coughs."
  Knocks a Cough or Cold endwise. For children or adults. Troches, 15c! Liquid 50c. At Druggists.
  --List of letters remaining in the postoffice in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, June 10th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster: M. W. AVERY, J. M. BUCKNER, Mrs. Lettia CUMMING, Milla FINK, Dr. D. HURST, J. W. POWERS, Tina PETERSON, Etta STERLING, Mrs. Martha STERLING, George L. SMITH, Maudie WALTERS, Henry McKENNEY.

Thursday Transpirings. (Page 8)
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  --Geo. D. BAKER, of Peoria, is here.
  --M. R. RICKEY, of Cincinnati, is here to-day.
  --Gus NEWLEN and wife, of Des Moines, are in the city.
  --Mrs. Samuel NOBLE, of Albia, is in the city, the guest of Mrs. CRAINE.
  --Good health is the greatest of fortunes; no remedy has so often restored this prize to the suffering, as HOOD’s Sarsaparilla.  Try it.
  --David HUDGELL has been appointed administrator of James H. FORQUER, deceased.
  --Derangement of the Liver, with constipation, injures the complexion, induces pimples, sallow skin. Carter's Little Liver Pills remove the cause.
  --Dr. J. W. HAYDEN, Adam WILSON and Isaac SHEETS, of Libertyville, were in town to-day.
  --Do not suffer from Sick Headache a moment longer. It is not necessary. Carter's Little Liver Pills will cure you. Dose one little pill. All druggists sell them.
  --Justice RUSSELL has removed his office to the room formerly occupied by Charley KIRKPATRICK.
  --The grain market in this city is as follows: Corn, 55c; oats, 28c; rye 50c; timothy seed, $1.00; clover seed, $4 to $4.50.
  --Mr. R. C. WHITFORD, Brookline, Mass., says, he has used St. Jacobs Oil, the great pain-cure, in rheumatism and neuralgia and found that it is all that it is represented to be.
  --Butter brings 10 cents in this market, eggs 10 cents, bacon 10, new potatoes $1.00, cherries 4 cents per quart, strawberries (home grown) 10 to 12½ cents.
  --Enoch BEARD and Mrs. TRUEBLOOD, quakers, were married near Glasgow yesterday. These parties are both between seventy and eighty years of age, and both of them have been married three times.
  --My friend, look here! you know how weak and nervous your wife is, and you know that Carter's Iron Pills will relieve her, now why not be fair about it and buy her a box?
  --Cattle, steers 2 to 3 years old are selling here at $4 to $4.25, extra good $4.50; milk cows and heifers, $25 to $40 per head; calves, good grades, for breeding purposes, $18 to $22 per head. Fat hogs $4.25 to $4.75.
  --Old Dr. JOHNSON was a benefactor. Seventy-five years ago he invented what is now called JOHNSON’s Anodyne Liniment, the wonderful success of which in the cure of diseases of the head, throat and lungs is truly astonishing. No family should be without it.
  --Warren BAILEY, who has been sick at the LEGGETT House here for nearly two months, leaves to-night for his home at Georgetown, Ky., accompanied by his mother and brother who have been with him for a month.
  --Thousands of dollars might be annually saved to farmers if they would give freely of Sheridan’s Cavalry Condition Powders to their horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and fowl. They prevent disease and promote the growth. We said Sheridan’s. Those put up in large packs are utterly worthless.
  --The Clerk has issued marriage licenses during the week ending to-day to Jonas B. RUFFNER, 51, and Miss Mary F. HENDERSON, 30; Charles W. GOODRICH, 26, to Miss Elmira J. RAMBO, 20; O. G. VALE, 24, to Miss Lina EDWARDS, 24.

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Commencement Exercises. (Page 8)
  The Commencement exercises of Parsons College were concluded to-day.
  Last evening occurred the fifth annual prize contest of the Freshman and Junior Classes. The contest in the Freshman class was for a prize of $25 given by Col. John W. DuBOIS. Declamations were delivered by C. Louis ZORBAUGH, J. H. CONDIT, W. E. BALLARD, W. L. CALHOUN and H. J. HASBROUCK. The prize was awarded to Mr. HASBROUCK.
  In the Junior class the contest was for a prize of $50 by Maj. R. D. KELLOGG, of Garden Grove, and was participated in by C. A. HILLER, Miss Nancy MILLIGAN, Miss Mary THOMPSON, Miss Beatrice CUNNINGHAM and Miss Effie JENKS. The prize was awarded to Miss Mary THOMPSON.
  The graduating exercises to-day consisted in orations by the graduates, Miss Mary L. HARKNESS, R. D. HALL, W. F. MAGILL, E. E. REED, S. H. SAWYERS and Miss Fannie BOCKIUS. Miss HARKNESS delivered the "Salutatory," and Miss BOCKIUS the "Valedictory." Masters’ orations were delivered by W. G. ROSS, of ’80 and Rev. E. M. SNOOK of ’81.
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Neighboring Towns. (Page 8)
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BRIGHTON.
  Brighton is a beautiful little town of about one thousand inhabitants, is situated adjoining this county on the north, in the edge of Washington county. It has three railroads,--the C., R. I. & P., the B. & N. W., and the Central Iowa. It is composed of a live and energetic set of business men, and its people, as a class, are among the best in the State.
  The place has two thrifty newspapers,--the Enterprise, published by C. C. HEACOCK, and News, published by George H. FRASHER. The editor of THE JOURNAL gave Brighton its first newspaper--The Pioneer--which we established there in 1868, and in consequence of profitable and pleasant associations in years gone by, we shall always cherish a warm side for the place.
  We visited Brighton recently, after an absence of several years, and the first to greet us when entering the village around which so many of the joys and sorrows of our early manhood are clustered, was our friends Col. John SHIELDS and R. S. MILLS. John is the same old "coon," full of life and fun, and always has a yarn chucked away in his upper story to fire off to the boys when they come within his gates. He is engaged in the grocery business and has all the patronage he desires.
  R. S. MILLS is known by nearly everybody in Washington, Jefferson and Keokuk counties as a careful and reliable attorney, and has a monopoly of the legal business of the place, because he renders satisfaction to all who entrust business to his care.
  Ex-Senator John W. PRIZER, one of the pillars of the place, is still in the dry-goods business, and ready to talk politics and give reliable information to all who pull his latch-string.
  I. NIEUKIRK was appointed Postmaster by McCRARY in 1870 and has held the office continuously ever since. He is so uniformly prompt, clever and obliging that it has never occurred to the patrons of the office to want a change.
  Jacob HEFFLEFINGER, the same old Jake, whose countenance is as familiar as any old shoe we ever wore, is still as ever one of the solid men of the place. He is now engaged in buying horses.
  Bas. TRACY has been in the grocery business in Brighton for nearly a quarter of a century, and is one of the best and most prosperous citizens of the place.
  S. W. EVANS always was one of the best tailors in that section of Iowa, and still maintains his well earned reputation.
  W. H. DOWNS has recently retired from business with enough money to build one of the finest residences in the city. He is operating somewhat in real estate.
  The Fleak House is still piloted by the venerable Col. L. B. FLEAK in the same excellent manner which it ever has been run. Although the Fourth of July was a long ways off when we were over there, the Colonel carefully refrained from offering us any of his grape juice.
  W. H. BIERCE runs a fine livery, feed and sale stable, and runs a ‘bus to and from the cars. William is one of the live business men of the place, and is meeting with excellent success.
  George W. WHITE, of this city, is running a hay press here. He has already pressed over 240 tons of hay, and is still pushing the business vigorously. He ships to St. Louis and Kansas City. George pays cash for all hay that is brought to him, and consequently farmers like to deal with him. He is meeting with good success, and we are glad of it. He is an enterprising and reliable dealer.
  The busiest man we found in Brighton was T. L. EMRY, of the Creamery. The lively manner in which he lugged round that ponderous corporation of his--240 lbs. avoirdupois--puffing and blowing and sweating like a Rock Island engine--was commendable in the highest degree. And by the way the Brighton Creamery, which is run by Joe RICKSHER, of this city, and Mr. EMRY, is one of the largest and best creameries in the State. The building is 22x86, three stories high, and cost $5,000. The basement is used for the Creamery; the second story for packing butter and eggs, and the third floor is storage. It has a capacity for making three thousand pounds of butter per day, but they making only 1,400 lbs. per day now.
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  --"Sandy" SHECKLIN came to town yesterday morning accompanied by his two daughters and son Noah. He was in a terrible hurry to get some groceries and get home. So he "rattled around" lively and had Jim CRAWFORD fit him out in a jiffy with what he wanted. When ready to start he couldn't find Noah and a complete search was instituted by himself and daughters, but in vain. So they concluded to go home, and in the language of Sandy "let Noah go to h--l." Consequently Mr. CRAWFORD untied the team and turned it around, and "Sandy" and the daughters got in, but "lo! and behold" there were no lines. Then "Sandy" swore louder and louder against Noah, and they were obliged to hunt him up. So another search was instituted and the mischievous son found at Charley HOCH’s, swinging the lines and on the biggest kind of a "toote." Noah evidently come to town to have a grand old time, and he didn't propose to get left, and so secured the lines to accomplish his object.