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Fairfield "Weekly Journal"
Jefferson County, Iowa
Vol. VI, #20, March 13, 1884
Transcribed by Justina Cook

Friday Facts. (Page 1)
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  --Clark MOYER is here this week.
  --W. C. BRYANT, of Winfield, is here.
  --J. M. WALTON, New York, is in town.
  --Dr. R. R. HALL is able to be out again.
  --C. A. DAGER, Cincinnati, was here to-day.
  --D. KAUFFMAN, New York, was in the city to-day.
  --L. C. STRASBURGER, Morris, Ill., was here to-day.
  --E. C. KOHN, of Rock Island, was in the city to-day.
  --Dr. MONFORT and wife returned from Iowa City to-day.
  --W. B. DUNKLEBERG, New York, was in the city to-day.
  --Mayor CUMMINGS is absent at Nebraska City, Nebraska.
  --Ernest, son of Wm. E. THOMPSON, is sick with membranous croup.
  --Isaac MAXWELL and J. P. SANGER, of Lockridge were in town to-day.
  --F. W. WALKER and wife, of Marshalltown, are at the LEGGETT House.
  --B. B. MAYHAM and C. R. BECKLEY, of Burlington, were in the city to-day.
  --George ABBEY, an old resident here, but now of Kansas City, is back visiting friends.
  --Mrs. R. H. LEGGETT has been confined to her room with a severe attack of neuralgia.
  --John HOLLAND, of the law firm of HOLLAND & MEESE, Moline, is in the city, stopping at the JONES House.
  --If our people would study their own interest, they will re-elect BURGESS and WEST as school directors next Monday.
  --Johnny TEMPLETON, son of D. W., who has been attending BRYANT & STRATTON commercial school at Chicago, is at home on a visit.
  --Frank ZIMMERMAN and J. W. BURNETT leave this evening for Davenport, to attend, as delegates, a meeting of the district Y. M. C. A.
  --Kate STODDARD, agent for Matilda FLETCHER, was in the city to-day. We did not learn whether she billed the old gal for this place or not.
  --We are sorry to hear that P. H. HOWLETT, of WELLS & GARRETTSON's bank, one of the most faithful and hard-working men in the city, is sick and unable to attend to his usual multitudinous duties.
  --Wm. H. NEIBERT, who occupies the Swayne shop, in the rear of RISK’s store, is recommended by P. M. MEHREN, the veterinary surgeon, as the best horse-shoer in the county, for horses with hoof bound or contracted hoofs. Take your horses to him to be shod.

Saturday Sayings. (Page 1)
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  --T. M. WALSH, New York, is in town.
  --H. McCORMICK, Iowa City, was here to-day.
  --W. MEREDITH, Perry, Kansas, is in the city.
  --Perry PRINGLE, Bussey, Iowa, is in the city.
  --A. H. MARSHALL, Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
  --John PATTERSON, of Brookville, was in town to-day.
  --R. B. LINDSAY, of Washington, Iowa, was here to-day.
  --C. D. WILEY, of Inland, Iowa, was in the city this morning.
  --Dr. J. E. KING and wife went to Albia this morning to visit their son.
  --H. J. SCHROLL and Frank L. HILL, of Chicago, were at the LEGGETT House to-day.
  --Dr. R. J. MOHR and wife have taken rooms with Mrs. Maggie JORDAN on Burlington street.
  --Justice SULLIVAN, Frank HURST and Adam WILSON, of Liberty township, were in the city to-day.
  --Alfred JOHNSON, of Brookville, who makes the best brooms in the county, was in town to-day.
  --Wm. H. CRAIL and wife, of Batavia, are in the city to-day, guests of Captain and Mrs. B. F. CRAIL.
  --J. J. SMITH, Tucson, Arisonia, and Rev. J. A. THOMPSON, of Avery, Iowa, were at the JONES House to-day.
  --Rev. E. L. BRIGGS, an old and fovorite Methodist pastor here, now located at Mt. Pleasant, was in the city to-day.
  --Jim HINSON has fitted up a neat little room adjoining his grocery, north of the northwest corner, next to George, the Jeweler, into which he has moved his barber shop, and his customers will find him there hereafter.
  --Mr. Francis LATHROP, who had much to do with the decoration of the new Metropolitan opera house, has prepared for The Manhattan a design for a new cover, which has been approved of and will be placed at once in the hands of the engraver.
  --The April number of The Manhattan will be a gallery of portraits of Edwin BOOTH, presenting him in two scenes of "Hamlet;" in two scenes of "Richelieu" - as Iago, Othello and Lear, the last named being engraved from a picture by Jervis McENTEE. The frontispiece will be a half-length of BOOTH, engraved by VELTEN.
  --Mrs. Wm. OVERHOLSER died at her residence in the northeast part of the city this morning at 1:45. She had been sick since Tuesday last. The funeral will take place to-morrow. The cortege, with the corpse, will leave the house at 10 o’clock for Bethesda church, five miles east of town, where a funeral sermon will be preached. All friends are invited to attend.
  --T. W. GOBBLE & Co., of Abingdon, have sold their stock of hardware, queensware, crockeryware and tinware to FRYAR Bros. of Brooks, Adams Co. FRYAR Bros. have leased T. W. GOBBLE’s brick building for two years, and take possession on May 1st. T. W. and Lee T. GOBBLE will continue the dry-goods and grocery business, under the same firm name of T. W. GOBBLE & Co. Charles H. GOBBLE goes to Clinton.

ORIGINAL NOTICE. (Page 1)
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, ss:
  To Thomas B. LAW -- You are hereby notified that on or before the 10th day of March, 1884, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Alice LAW, asking that she be divorced from you, and for the care and custody of the child, Catharine Eliza.
  Now, unless you appear thereto and defend, on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the 24th day of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.
          McCOID, BRIGHTON & JAQUES,
             Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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ORIGINAL NOTICE. (Page 1)
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, ss:
  To William JOHNSON -- You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of Lotta JOHNSON, plaintiff, asking for a decree of divorce from you.
  Now unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree rendered as prayed.
          LEGGETT & McKEMEY,
           Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Monday Melange. (Page 8)
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  --F. WALTING, St. Louis, is in the city.
  --J. M. BROCK, Aledo, is at the JONES House to-day.
  --Ed MOSS and Andrew WEST, of Birmingham, were in town to-day.
  --C. M. LaSHELLE and Samuel EHRLICK, of Chicago, were in the city to-day.
  --J. M. PARKMAN and Ben HASSELL, of Burlington, were at the LEGGETT House to-day.
  --Harry GIBSON left to-day for Sorocco, New Mexico, where he goes to work on a ranche.
  --Geo. W. WHITE, of this city, is running a hay press at Brighton, pressing hay and shipping it to St. Louis.
  --A. P. McKESSON, of Council Bluffs, a brother of Mrs. J. A. BECK, Sundayed in the city, a guest of the LEGGETT House.
  --Wm. G. BECK has sixty or seventy acres of land to rent, situated two miles south of the city. Apply to him on the premises.
  --Married at the residence of W. L. DAGGETT, Saturday evening, by Rev. SWAYNE, of the Christian Church, Mr. Mardin MENZIE and Miss Dora B. SHAMP.
  --The Chicago Inter Ocean rises to remark: "Disgusted at the leniency of alleged courts of justice, Frank RANDE yesterday hanged himself at Joliet penitentiary."
  --The Aldine Society of Parsons College will have a contest in the opera house to-morrow night. The programme will consist of orations, declamations, essays and music. Admission, 25 cents.
  --Clerk SIPPEL issued marriage licenses Saturday and to-day to Arthur F. SHIRK and Miss Gertrude G. YOUNG, Mahlon ROBERTS and Miss Malinda HOSKINS, Mardin MENZIE and Miss Dora B. SHAMP.
  --Mr. David SHEWARD, who published the Constitution and Union in this city during the war, and whose office was destroyed by members of Co. E, Second Iowa, at home on furlough, is now, in company with his son, publishing a small daily paper at Santa Rosa, California.
  --Frank ZIMMERMAN, J. W. BURNET and Geo. W. WHITE returned from Davenport to-day, where they have been attending the District Convention of the Y. M. C. A. They were kindly received by the people of Davenport, and report the conversion of several young men and others, and a general good feeling among the people as the result of the glorious work of the convention. All present manifested an earnestness and zeal in the cause worthy the imitation of all Christian workers.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
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  --Tom BLACK is back again.
  --Ed FORGRAVE, Cleveland, is here.
  --Doc FARISS was in Batavia yesterday.
  --Wm. AUSTERLITZ, of Chicago, is here.
  --W. C. DANA, Ottumwa, is in the city.
  --Dan LYONS, of Keokuk, is here to-day.
  --S. HUTTON, Franklin Grove, is in the city.
  --W. A. SPURRIER, of Creston, is in the city to-day.
  --J. M. CLARK, of Abingdon, was in the city to-day.
  --G. P. LIONSBERGER, Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
  --Jake VOTE and Vic TURNER left yesterday for Oregon.
  --John WALKER left last night for Sonoro, New Mexico.
  --J. A. LAMBERT, Chicago, is at the JONES House to-day.
  --Miss DORR, of Fort Madison, is visiting at James ECKERT’s.
  --J. J. EGERMAYER, of Racine, Wis., was in the city to-day.
  --Charles D. LEGGETT returned from Chicago this morning.
  --J. W. DAVIS and wife, Utica, N. Y. were at the JONES House last night.
  --J. M. HEATON and John SMITH, of Burlington, were in the city to-day.
  --Mrs. Lizzie WILLEY, of Boone county, Neb. was at the LEGGETT House to-day.
  --John EDWARDS, of Brighton, was in the city to-day, and favored us with a call.
  --Mike HOGAN and family, of Red Oak, are in the city visiting their numerous friends.
  --Lost, somewhere in the park, a gold keystone. The finder will receive the thanks of the owner by leaving it at this office.
  --James BARTLETT has removed his barber shop from FARISS & STRINGER’s to the room formerly occupied by Mrs. RICE, two doors west of the northwest corner.
  --John McCULLOUGH, of Salina, a good friend of THE JOURNAL, came in yesterday and renewed his subscription to the largest and best weekly paper in Jefferson county.
  --We call attention to the potato advertisement of H. L. GRAHAM, of Letts, Iowa, in to-day’s JOURNAL. Everyone in this section knows Hugh, and know him to be perfectly reliable.
  --E. A. HOWARD, jr. has arrived, and he will, in due course of time, claim his interest in the south side boot and shoe store. Mother doing well, and father as happy as a clam at high water tide.
  --George D. TEMPLE and A. S. JORDAN were yesterday elected school directors. As there was no opposition to these gentlemen, and as one is a democrat, and the other a republican, we call upon the Ledger to define whether it was a straight republican, democratic or citizens’ victory. They will make valuable members of the Board all the same.

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)
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  --C. G. GUINN, Canton, is in the city.
  --This was another of God’s own days.
  --A. R. HOAGLAND, Rock Island, is in the city.
  --Rev. McMACKIN was in Muscatine yesterday.
  --F. J. DOANE, of Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
  --Frank WHITMORE, of St. Louis, was here to-day.
  --J. A. FARMER, Quincy, was in the city to-day.
  --F. J. DEMARSH, of Perlee, was in the city to-day.
  --W. L. HALL, of Ottumwa, is in the city to-day.
  --Geo. C. NEWMAN, Des Moines, is in the city to-day.
  --Hon. Ed CAMPBELL, jr. went to Des Moines to-day.
  --Charles H. ROSSER, of Philadelphia, was here to-day.
  --Henry LOWENSTEIN, St. Louis, was in the city to-day.
  --Ora GREENLY, Lineville, is at the JONES House to-day.
  --Wm. HARRIS, Friendville, Nebraska, was in the city to-day.
  --Dr. P. N. WOODS has ordered a telephone put in at his residence.
  --Dr. R. H. HUFFORD and B. S. McELHINNY went to Chicago to-day.
  --J. E. POWERS and O. H. CESEBEEN, Chicago, were in the city to-day.
  --Dr. W. K. MILLER and Dr. WARNER, of Libertyville, were in the city to-day.
  --Squire RUSSELL came out of his hole to-day, appearing simultaneous with the ground hog.
  --John D. BENNETT, who resides near the Southwestern depot, died this morning of enlargement of the blood vessels.
  --The medical firm of WOODS & HAMMOND has dissolved. Dr. HAMMOND has gone out, and established an office over the postoffice, while Drs. WOODS & WOODS continue over LANG’s.
  --The annual exhibition of the Sophomore Class of Parsons College will be held at the opera house Friday night.
  --The ground hog went into his hole on the 2d of February, and came out to-day. It was a nice day when the critter disappeared, and to-day speaks for itself.
  --Four o’clock gospel meeting for everybody at Y. M. C. A. rooms on Sabbath. Topic: "Call of God to repentance." Bible study for young men Thursday evening. Subject: "Conditions of acceptable prayer."
  --List of letters remaining unclaimed and advertised in the postoffice in this city for week ending March 11th, 1884: John ALIRS, Tine BEVLAND, J. O. BARCLAY, Ella COOP, Mrs. Sadie DILL, Peter FAGTORE, J. B. MYERS, James MOONEY, B. E. THOMPSON, Wilber SPICER, Sarah WALDO.

Thursday Transpirings. (Page 8)
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  --D. R. BALDWIN, Detroit, Mich., is in the city.
  --A. FREEMAN, of Burlington, was in town to-day.
  --Charles SIMMONS, of Ottumwa, is here to-day.
  --Dr. B. S. RATCLIFF, of Eldon, was in the city to-day.
  --Scott WASHBURN, of Muscatine, was in town to-day.
  --LEIBIG’s Imported Beef Tea served at Ed. KENNEFICK’s.
  --The blue-birds and the robins have made their appearance.
  --J. A. TEMPLETON, Monmouth, was at the JONES House last night.
  --Mr. J. C. WRIGHT, a musician from Nauvoo, Ill., is in the city.
  --G. W. BALDWIN, of Kirkwood, Ill., was in the city this morning.
  --M. E. BLATCHLEY, a traveling man from Illinois, was in the city to-day.
  --E. B. TUCKER, an attorney of Columbus Junction, was in the city to-day.
  --T. A. PRATT and R. H. GILLETT, of New York, were in the city to-day.
  --We understand that seal-skin coats are going out of style, and in consequence colds are increasing among the fair sex. How fortunate there is such a remedy as Dr. BULL’s Cough Syrup!
  --The most prominent candidate for city marshal before the new Council is S. W. COFFIN.
  --John GUDGELL, who has been laid up with sickness for nearly a month, was out to-day for the first time.
  --P. M. MEHREN, Veterinary Surgeon, office at the GANTZ House.
  --Matilda FLETCHER, who claims to be the "queen of the platform," is booked for the opera house next Tuesday evening.
  --S. B. TURNER, of Glasgow, was in the city to-day, the first time for eighteen months. We fear Sam is not a very friendly neighbor.
  --HOOD’s Sarsaparilla is an extract of the best remedies of the vegetable kingdom known as Alteratives, and Blood-Purifiers.
  --Geo. WILLIAMS was around with his ice wagon to-day. George says the "coons" appear simultaneous with the ground hog and the blue-birds.
  --We see by Kansas exchanges that the Hon. David HERON, of Mankato, formerly of this place, is a candidate for congress from the Mankato district. Dave’s boom seems to be booming, looking on from this distance.
  --J. B. BRADSHAW, a brother of the Dr. died at his home in Stiles, Davis county, this morning, of rheumatism of the heart, after an illness of but a very few days. Dr. BRADSHAW left on No. 5 Rock Island for Stiles, and it is probable the remains will be brought here for interment.
  --Mrs. MOORE went to Libertyville this afternoon to visit several days with her parents.
  --Barney GIFFORD, of Libertyville, returned from his visit to Brooklyn, New York, to-day, bringing with him a pair of fine German birds.
  --An exchange remarks that, "the best teachers are those who learn something new themselves every day;" so we announce this day that several thousand important cures have been made by the use of Dr. BULL’s Cough Syrup.
  --Geo. B. LIMBERT, W. L. WILLIAMS, H. O. ELSROAD, Charles B. GILBERT and Charles BROWN, of Chicago, were at the LEGGETT House to-day.

Hopeless Epilepsy Cured. (Page 8)
  "The doctors pronounced my case to be one of hopeless epilepsy," says our correspondent, W. C. BROWNING, Attorney at Law, Judsonia, Ark., "and declared death to be my only relief. Samaritan Nervine has cured me." Get at druggists. $1.50.
   --Married, on Tuesday evening, March 11th, at the residence of J. E. WILLIAMS, in this city, by Rev. M. BAMFORD, Mr. Henry A. WISE, of Batavia, and Miss Annie SUTTON. Also, on Wednesday evening March 12, at the M. E. parsonage in this city, by Rev. M. BAMFORD, Mr. Arthur F. SHIRK and Miss Gertrude G. YOUNG, all of Fairfield.

            WINSTON, FORSYTH CO., N. C.
  GENTS--I desire to express to you my thanks for your wonderful Hop Bitters. I was troubled with dispepsia for five years previous to commencing the use of your Hop Bitters some six months ago. My cure has been wonderful. I am pastor of the First Methodist Church of this place, and my whole congregation can testify to the great virtues of your bitters.
                    Very respectfully,
                              REV. H. FEREBEE.

  --Mrs. S. E. PRESSLEY has purchased the interest of Miss McGINNIS in the southwest corner hair store, and will run the business herself hereafter, at the same place, second story MYERS’ building.

                "ROUGH ON COUGHS."
  Knocks a Cough or Cold endwise. For children or adults. Troches, 15c. Liquid, 50c. At Druggists.

  --Joel D. BENNETT, whose death we chronicled yesterday, was born in Virginia in 1828, and has been for many years a resident of Jefferson county. His death was sudden and unexpected. He had been in poor health for some time, but it was thought that nothing serious would come from it, and even to the last moment he did not suspect that the end was at hand. The funeral services were conducted from the house this afternoon by the Rev. A. B. McMACKIN, of the Lutheran Church.
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ORIGINAL NOTICE. (Page 8)
STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY, ss:
  To Robert M. STEEL, The Howe Sewing Machine Co. -- You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, State of Iowa, the petition of James STEEL, plaintiff, claiming to be the absolute owner by title in fee simple of the following real estate in Jefferson County, Iowa, to-wit:
  The South fifty (50) acres of the East half of the Northeast quarter of Section twenty-seven (27) in Township seventy-one (71) of Range ten (10), and asking a decree that you be barred and forever estopped from having or claiming any title thereto adverse to the plaintiff, and quieting the title to said premises in plaintiff, and for other relief see petition. No money judgment is asked against you.
  Now unless you appear thereto and defend on or before noon of the second day of the March Term, A. D. 1884, of said Court, which Term commences on the fourth Monday of March, A. D. 1884, default will be entered against you, judgment rendered thereon, and decree entered as prayed.
          LEGGETT & McKEMEY,
           Attorneys for Plaintiff.