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FAIRFIELD, IOWA "WEEKLY JOURNAL"
JEFFERSON COUNTY,
Vol. VII, Issue # 4
Transcribed by Debbie Nash

Saturday Sayings. (Page 1)
  --Fred S. SANFORD, of Washington, well known here, is fitting up a new billiard hall in the elegant rooms upstairs, of the new ALSTON block.
  --We understand that the county, school, city and all other trust funds placed in the bank of S. C. FARMER & Sons is abundantly secured, and that the bondsmen are all indemnified against l ss. (sic)
  --We had to run off an extra edition to-day of last evening’s DAILY in order to supply the demand for extra copies, on account of the list of the creditors of FARMERs’ bank. Copies can be had by applying at this office.
  --Iowa wanted BLAINE for a candidate more than any other state, and guaranteed him 100,000 majority. His actual majority is so small that a magnifying glass will be needed to make it resemble one of the old-times affairs.--Chicago Herald.
  --The leap year hop at the opera house last evening was by far the grandest affair of the season. There were about one hundred couples present, including old and young. The supper, which was an elegant one, was served in the north room of STUBBS’ block. The ladies who managed the affairs of this party, deserve great credit. It was a rich treat for the men, who all, with one accord voted it a grand success.
  --The Chicago Tribune is at last compelled to throw up the sponge. Its headlines this morning are: "Gone Up;" "Almost the Last Chance of BLAINE’s Election Now Passed," "All but Three Counties in New York State Have Reported;" "More Than Half the District of New York Have Been Canvassed;", And CLEVELAND is Still 872 Ahead.
  --The Demon of Bull Luck Still Pursued Him;" "One of the Greatest Statesmen of the Age Probably Defeated by a Fanatical and Silly Side Issue."

Notice. (Page 1)
  Those who have deposits in the bank of Samuel C. FARMER & Sons, now closed, are requested to meet at the office of C. E. NOBLE, on the west side of the park, on Monday at 1:30 o’clock sharp, to consult about our interests in said bank. By order of Depositors.

Ministerial Association. (Page 1)
  The Mt. Pleasant District Ministerial Association of the M. E. Church met at Agency City on Monday evening Nov. 10, and continued in session until Wednesday evening following. B. MARK was elected President and A. R. MILLER, secretary. The opening sermon was preached by N. W. HALL, of Sigourney, I. O. KIMBLE, of Washington, preached on Tuesday afternoon and President McFARLAND, of Iowa Wesleyan University delivered a very fine educational address on Tuesday evening.
  Very able and interesting papers were read and discussed. Among these was one on "The relation of the Christian voter to Political Questions." and another on the "Influence of Methodism on other Religious Denominations."
  On Wednesday evening a very large and interesting Children’s Meeting was held. Addresses were delivered by O. S. MARTIN, by I. O. KIMBLE and by S. R. FERGUSON.
  The next session of the Association will be held at Brighton, on the third Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of May, 1885.

A PUBLIC ENTERPRISE (Page 1)
That Commends Itself to Every Citizen of our County.--A new Atlas of Jefferson County.
  So many changes have been made since the publication of the old county map, that it has become almost worthless as a reference. The property owners have long felt the need of something that will show Jefferson county as it is to-day. We are glad to be able to inform our readers that Mr. O. C. HASKELL, of Des Moines, an old and reliable map publisher, has undertaken the preparation and publication of an atlas that will not only meet the demands, but will reflect the enterprise and intelligence of our citizens. The Atlas will contain a fine engraving of the state house at Des Moines, will give a large map of the different townships, each township covering a page. On the opposite page will be a township directory giving each property owners name, post office address, distance and direction from P. O. No. of acres owned, and No. of years resident in the county. It will give the location of every farm, farm house, wagon road, church, school house, stream, the location of every town, &c. There will also be a history noting every important event that has transpired in the county since its discovery and the date of its occurrence.
  Active operations for the preparation of the work have begun and canvassers will visit every farm, taking notes and gaining the necessary information for the work. We hope our citizens will take pleasure in giving the information necessary to make a complete success. The work is to be first class in every respect and will be sold at a price so low as to place it within easy reach of every body.

Monday Melange. (Page 1)
  --J. D. VAN KIRK, of Chicago, is in the city.
  --S. K. HOWE, of Muscatine, is in the city to-day.
  --Make haste now to surrender what you have lossed on the election.
  --John SHIELDS, of Brighton, spent Sunday visiting his daughter here, Mrs. J. W. HANCOCK.
  --S. A. DONOVAN, of Fairfield, visited his relatives in this vicinity last week.--Brighton Enterprise.
  --The official canvass of New York is now completed, and CLEVELAND has a plurality of 1,105, and is consequently elected President of the United States.
  --The Rev. J. H. CULLER, of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Burlington, and Rev. O. C. MILLER, of Cedar Rapids, are at the Lutheran parsonage to-day.
  --FRASHER, of the Brighton News, not being a good judge of the King’s English, inquires: "What kind of a man is R. H. MOORE, of THE FAIRFIELD JOURNAL? Is’nt he a kind of an Arnold?" We are a full fledged mugwump.
  --While loading baled hay Friday for Geo. W. WHITE two teams belonging to Geo. KAUFFMAN and son took fright at the cars and ran away crippling one horse and making a wreck of both wagons. Happily no persons hurt.
  --A New York paper gives the following much needed advice which is well adapted to the latitude of Iowa: "Most men have business matters to attend to which have been neglected of late. It is a good time to stop talking politics and go to work."
  --The constitutional amendments submitted at the recent election, viz: changing general election to "Tuesday next after first Monday in November;" reorganiziug (sic - final 'n' inverted) judicial districts; reduction in members of grand jury and for a law holding criminals without such jury; and for election of county attorneys, have been carried in the state by good majorities.
  --Miss Lucetta STONE, wife of R. S. MILLS, of Brighton, died on Saturday evening, Nov. 8, 1884. Mrs. MILLS was born in Ashtabula county Ohio, January 4, 1817, was a daughter of James and Isabel STONE; was married to R. S. MILLS on March 23, 1842. She united with the Congregational Church in Clay the following year and ever lived as an exemplary Christian. The deceased endeared herself to a large circle of friends whose presence and tears at her funeral attested the love and esteem with which she was held. Mrs. MILLS was the mother of Mrs. James M. HUGHES, of this place.

JEFFERSON COUNTY’S VOTE.  (Page 1)
The following is the correct and official returns of the election in this county as canvassed by the Board of Supervisors this week:
                TOWNSHIPS        PRESIDENTIAL              CONGRESS                 SUP. JUDGE

                       TOWNSHIPS               SEC’Y OF STATE               AUDITOR OF STATE

                       TOWNSHIPS               SEC’Y OF STATE               AUDITOR OF STATE

                      TOWNSHIPS        TREAS. OF STATE            ATT’Y GENERAL     CIRCUIT JUDGE

                        TOWNSHIPS         CLERK OF COURTS        RECORDER     MEM. OF SUPERVISORS

SCATTERING.
Walnut township reports 1 vote for D. P. STUBBS for circuit judge; Fairfield, Allen KING 3 for circuit judge. Fairfield, Penn and Polk, 1 each for I. D. JONES for recorder: Fairfield, 1 for T. F. HIGLEY. Liberty, 1 for Peter YOST for supervisor. Liberty, 2 for B. HALL for elector.

Friday Facts.  (Page 1)
  --Mark BAKER, Burlington, is here.
  --W. CANTWELL, Lynn, Mass is in the city.
  --W. P. JOHNSON, St. Louis, was here to-day.
  --Fred S. SANFORD, of Washington, is in the city.
  --Capt. S. H. WATKINS, of Libertyville, was in town to-day.
  --Mrs. Mary McELHINNY arrived from her trip East last night.
  --J. H. GRAHAM, and Chas. D. SPENCER of Keokuk, were in the city to-day.
  --H. S. COLE, W. S. McCOMAS, S. J. ENRIGHT and G. B. HOLCOMB, of Chicago, are in the city to-day.
  --The oldest editor in the state has gone to Dokata (sic). Wonder if he will sing "Old John Brown up there."
  --H. A. SPIELMAN, J. W. BURNETT, Harry ROOP and Miss Clara KING are attending Y. M. C. A. State Convention at Cedar Rapids this week.
  --The bank building used by S. C. FARMER & Son, was sold in October by Mrs. Mary FARMER to John MARCY. The deed was filed for record yesterday. The consideration was $7,000.
  --The Washington Democrat, above its flaming rooster, has the words "Glory to God." Most the organs exonerate God from any part in the election of Grover CLEVELAND, but change it on St. JOHN and CONKLING.
  --The jollification meeting last night by the Democrats over the election of Grover CLEVELAND and B. J. HALL brought out a large gathering, but there was not as much enthusiasm as there would have been had the presidential contest not been so long drawn out, before it was known that Mr. CLEVELAND was elected. The procession headed by the C. B. & Q. Band made quite a display, and there were such transparencies as the following: A sick rooster labeled "Junkin’s rooster;" "Who will care for Logan Now," "It is a Cold Day When Grover Gets Left," "24 years in the Wilderness," "The Mugwumps Did It," etc, etc. Speeches were made by Hon. D. P. STUBBS, Hon. Ed CAMPBELL, Hon. John J. CUMMINGS, I. D. JONES, C. E. STUBBS, James SULLIVAN and others. The noise was kept up until a late hour, and the faithful returned home believing that it was good to be there, and that Grover had surely "Got there Eli."

THE BANK FAILURE. (Page 1)
Full List of the Creditors of the Banking House of Samuel C. FARMER & Sons.
  The following is an accurate list of the creditors of the suspended banking house of Samuel C. FARMER & Sons, as filed for record in the Recorder’s office yesterday afternoon, as provided by the assignment laws of the state:
 

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
  --J. W. DAVY, of Cincinnati, is here to-day.
  --James McADAM, of Mt. Pleasant, was here to-day.
  --Scott WASHBURNE, of Muscatine, is in the city to-day.
  --W. C. BOWERS, of the Louise SYLVESTER Co., was in the city to-day.
  --J. T. STANHOPE, Ben HASSEL and M. W. BOWER, of Burlington, are in the city to-day.
  --G. o. p. don’t mean grand old party any longer. It is now rendered get out promptly.
  --Ret CLARKSON, of the Des Moines Register will not be postmaster general this time. Some other time.
  --W. B. MURRAY and Joseph R. McCRACKIN are in Burlington to-day on Sterling mining business.
  --President ARTHUR is writing the last annual message that a republican President will send to Congress for at least four years.
  --Charley BECK has severed his connection with the LEGGETT House as clerk, and the entire duties now fall upon the broad shoulders of Bob CRAIL.
  --Grover CLEVELAND will be President ARTHUR’s successor, and stranger things have happened than that President ARTHUR will be Grover CLEVELAND’s successor.
  --Ed. MOSS and lady of near Birmingham expect to spend the winter at Tucson, Arizona, where the former will attend to his duties as one of the executive committee of the Blue Jay silver mine.--Keosauqua Democrat.
  --Mrs. C. F. GEORGE has returned from a pleasant visit among relatives and friends in Kansas and Missouri. She reports spending a couple of days with Mr. and Mrs. S. B. HIGLEY who are pleasantly situated at Cameron. Mrs. HIGLEY requested her to have THE WEEKLY JOURNAL sent to them, and of course it gives us pleasure to comply.
  --The metrapolitan journals are all theorizing and philosophizing as to the causes of BLAINE’S defeat. Some blame the prohibitionists, others attribute it to the crazy alliteration of Dr. BURCHARD, and still others blame Roscoe CONKLING, the mugwumps, the Pharisees, the dudes and the tumble-bugs. In our honest judgment the lack of votes is what done the business for the old man.
  --A number of the creditors of S. C. FARMER & Son met at the office of C. E. NOBLE yesterday afternoon to talk over the best plan of action. A committee, composed of C. E. NOBLE, Dr. A. C. D. BRADSHAW and Prof. J. B. MONLUX was appointed to examine into the assets of the firm into connection with the assignee. The committee was instructed to employ counsel, of thought necessary to protect the interests of the creditors.
  --Mr. J. W. QUILLEN, of Fairfield, Iowa, after looking through several Importers’ Company’s Stables, dropped in upon the Messrs. SINGMASTER, of this place, a few days ago, and bought one of their highly prized two year old Clydesdale stallions, selected from a herd of one hundred head of their late importation. The colt was shipped from here to Fairfield in care of his owner, Mr. QUILLEN. It will certainly prove a splendid accession to the many imported horses in Jefferson county.--Keota Eag e. (sic)

Wednesday Wanderings. (Page 8)
  --F. P. HUGGINS, of Davenport, is in the city.
  --C. A. DUNHAM, of Burlington was here to-day.
  --Prof. ROMMEL and son, of Mt. Pleasant, were here yesterday.
  --Miss Lena PORTER, of Birmingham, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. RANEY.
  --The Catholic Church is undergoing repairs, and a new roof takes the place of the old one.
  --Hon. M. A. McCOID is putting an addition of several rooms to his comfortable residence near Parsons College.
  --Mrs. Louise SYLVESTER and Barny MAXWELL are stopping at the LEGGETT House. The balance of the troupe are at the JONES House.
  --Charles A. OVERHOLT, representing the wholesale music heuse (sic) of James A. GUEST, Burlington, was in the city to-day, and favored this office with a pleasant call.
  --The sheriff’s jury in the case of D. E. FINLEY against the Fort Madison Narrow Guage gave $527,50 damages for right of way. It will bust the concern to pay this amount.
  --The Louise SYLVESTER Company, which appears at the opera house to-night in "Freaks", is one of the best companies now traveling, and they give an entertainment of the highest character. No one should fail to take it in.
  --The Rev. O. C. MILLER, of the First English Lutheran Church, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, will occupy the pulpit of the Lutheran Church in this city on Sunday morning and evening next. A cordial invitation is extended to all to be present.
  --A stranger put up at the JONES House last night, and left on the 4:15 Rock Island this morning, jumping his bill and taking with him an overcoat belonging to J. W. NICHOLS, the grain buyer, and an overcoat and $5 belonging to another guest. He was evidently on the make.
  --List of letters remaining in the post-office in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Nov. 18th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster: Isaac ACKLIN, W. H. BAKER, C. J. EARICKSON, J. FARLEY, Jr., John GRIFFIN, Harry HOGUE, Miss Emma INGHRAM, J. W. MARSHALL, George R. SHAW, J. M. WASHBURNE, Mrs. Eliza WOLFE.

Thursday Transpirings.  (Page 8)
  --A. G. BARHYDT, Burlington, was here to-day.
  --D. G. KENYON, of Detroit, is in the city to-day.
  --W. SCHOONMAKER, of St. Joe, Mo., is in the city.
  --G. W. CHAMBERLIN, of Council Bluffs, is in the city.
  --M. R. METZGAR, of the Moline Plow Co., was here to-day.
  --G. F. FLETCHER and wife, of Iowa City, were here yesterday.
  --Charles SCHOFIELD, W. A. CLARK and C. A. MITCHELL, of Chicago, are in the city.
  --Mrs. Etta SEEVER (nee McKEE) of Council Bluffs, was here yesterday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. JONES, of the JONES House.
  --MASONs & MORGAN’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company is quartered at the JONES House.
  --We are sorry to hear that Ona BRIGHT, daughter of N. Steel BRIGHT, is confined at home with scarlet fever.
  --Fred SANFORD, of the new billiard hall in the ALSTON block, will have every thing ready to open out Friday night.
  --Arthur BARTLETT, formerly night operator at the "Q" has been transferred to the day service, and Perry HEFFLIN, of Batavia, takes Mr. BARTLETT's place.
  --Any person desiring Unitarian pamphlets or papers, or information concerning Liberal Christianity, can be supplied gratuitously by addressing Mrs. C. T. COLE, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
  --The MASON & MORGAN Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company, which appears at the opera house to-night, made a street parade this noon that attracted attention and universal admiration. They give one of the best renditions of the famous play of any troupe now traveling, and should have a full house to-night. The opera house is always crowded to its full capacity to hear Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and those wishing to avoid the rush would do well to secure reserved seats at VOORHIES’ before entering the hall.
  --The Louise SYLVESTER Company in "Freaks," at the opera house last night drew out a good house and they played to the entire satisfaction of all present. Miss Louise SYLVESTER, as "Theodolinda GOLDBUN," rendered her part excellently, and brought down the house at every word and expression. In fact, the parts were all well taken and charmingly rendered. It was genuine fun from first to last, nothing stale, but all new and original. We voice the sentiment of the entire audience in saying that it was the most enjoyable entertainment that has visited our city in years. Every one went away thoroughly satisfied.
  --Miss Kittie VOORHEES, of Fairfield, Ia., a student of the University School of Short-hand, is to be commended for the excellent progress she is making in the acquirement of a practical knowledge of Stenography. Her lessons are received regularly and the quality of the work she does is even superior to that of some students attending the school here in person. The idea of teaching a practical art by mail may seem wonderful, but the Short-hand School is achieving great success in this direction.--University Vidette Reporter.