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Fairfield, Iowa "WEEKLY JOURNAL"
Jefferson County
Vol. VII, # 1
Transcribed by Debbie Nash

Friday Facts. (Page 1)
  --S. A. MIDDLETON, of Boston, is here.
  --Frank W. WILSON, of Des Moines, is in the city.
  --G. W. TITUS, of Muscatine, was in the city to-day.
  --S. P. MATTHEWS, of Davenport, was in the city to-day.
  --C. A. CULVER and P. E. PARKER, of Chicago, were here to-day.
  --Charles D. LEGGETT went south yesterday by the Rock Island.
  --Charles W. FINNEY, of Selma, was in the city to-day and called on us.
  --J. E. WILKINS, H. H. RUBY and J. A. DOVERMAN, of Lake City, Minn., are in the city.
  --W. H. DAVISSON, Geo. R. PUTNAM and E. H. VAN PATTEN, of Davenport, were in the city to-day.
  --The wedding of Mr. Harry F. WERTZ and Miss Fannie BALTZELL was solemnized at 7 o’clock last evening by the Rev. M. E. DWIGHT at his residence. The parties to this transaction are well known here, both of them, we believe natives of Fairfield, and hosts of friends join in wishing them years of happiness and prosperity. They took No. 4 last evening for Chicago.

SIGLER’s Pullman Car E cursion. (Page 1)
  On December 9th, 1884, a grand excursion will leave Chicago for the City of Mexico, California, and Honolulu, via the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. Round Trip Tickets, good for six months from date, will be sold at the following low rates:
  Chicago to City of Mexico and return, $117.00; Chicago to San Francisco and return, $117.00. San Francisco to Honolulu and return, $110.00. Special rates from points between Chicago and Kansas City.
  For tickets, rates and general information, address,
             H. C. SIGLER,
       No. 54 Clark street, Chicago.

Saturday Sayings. (Page 1)
  --S. C. ELLIOTT, New York, is here.
  --O. C. HASKELL, Des Moines, is here.
  --F. L. KOCK, New York, is in the city to-day.
  --L. SIEBENHAUSER, of San Francisco, is here to-day.
  --C. W. TUCKER and J. M. HEATON, of Burlington, are in the city to-day.
  --Charley STINSON to-day received $50 from a friend out west which he loaned him twelve years ago.
  --Samuel CROCKER, of Columbus Junction, the great greenback agitator, spoke in the park this afternoon.
  --J. M. LEGGETT, of San Francisco, son of the late R. H. LEGGETT, has returned to the city, after absence of several years in the west.
  --Rev. VALLANDINGHAM will preach in the Baptist Church, Sunday next, Nov. 2nd, at 11 o’clock and in the evening. All are invited.
  --We call attention of our readers to the excursion to Mexico and Honolulu over the C. B. & Q., as advertised in another portion of THE JOURNAL.
  --The Burlington Gazette copies our articles referring to the meeting of Mr. CARLISLE here, and says "THE JOURNAL is a republican paper but at the same time a fair one." Thanks.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON is making a most splendid campaign fight and is going to carry more than his party vote. Thinking democrats like his sensible way of talking and are disgusted with HALL’s vagaries. Congress is no place for such a visionary statesman.--Fort Madison Plaindealer.
  --All the republicans who heard WOOLSON at Columbus Junction last Tuesday are lavish in their praises of his speech. He surprised everybody by his thoroughness and vigor of his discussions, and pleased all with his gentlemanly deportment. We have a high opinion of Mr. WOOLSON ever since we became acquainted with him. Louisa county will give him a rousing majority.--Wapello Republican.
  --It is a trite but nevertheless a true saying that "wise men change their opinions, but fools never," yet in political times if a man changes his opinions he is abused like a pickpocket by the partisan press. The more we know of politics, the more we become disgusted with its practices, and the more we are convinced that honorable dudes--like Geo. Willie CURTIS and ourself cannot afford to be politicians.

IN MEMORIAM. (Page 1)
  DIED--In Fairfield, Iowa, Oct. 11, 1884, of diabeteis and marasmus, MAGGIE, only daughter of I. and K. B. MESSENGER, in the 12th year of her age.

"The lily dies not, when both flower and leaf
  Fade and are strewed upon the chill, sad ground
Gone down for shelter to its mother earth,
  'Twill rise, re-bloom and shed its fragrance ‘round."

"Thus in the quiet joy of kindly trust,
  We bid each parting saint a brief farewell;
Weeping, yet smiling we commit their dust
  To the safe keeping of the silent cell."

"Softly within that peaceful resting place
  We lay their wearied limbs, and bid the clay
Press lightly upon them till the night be past,
  And the far east gives note of the coming day."

  MAGGIE was a child of the covenant, in infancy publicly consecrated to God in the ordinance of baptism, and trained in the fear and love of God. A child of delicate constitution nd unusually tender sympathies, kind and gentle in disposition, she grew in favor with all her associates. Those who knew her best loved her most. Her Sabbath school class showed their attachment to her in the profusion of beautiful flowers they placed upon her casket. MAGGIE found special pleasure in Christian work and worship; was a faithful member of the Sabbath School, Mission Band, and Band of Hope; was greatly interested in missions, and conscientiously saved her pennies for this purpose. Two years since she expressed a desire to make a public profession of her faith in Christ, and although she did not then make her profession publicly, she has since given good evidence of her love for Christ.
  MAGGIE had been gradually failing in strength for near six months, but was confined to her room about five weeks before death. During her illness she was, notwithstanding her great suffering, cheerful and happy. Although she expressed herself delirious of living, as life to her was very dear, yet she did not fear to die, and when she came near the valley, was calm and peaceful and even anxious the Master should hasten His coming. So friends and loved ones may be confident that MAGGIE "is not dead, but sleepeth," and so when He shall appear MAGGIE shall appear with Him in glory. "For, if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him."

"The star is not extinguished when it sets
  Upon the dull horizon; it but goes
To shine in other skies, then re-appear
  In ours, as fresh as when it first arose."
              T. D. E.

Monday Melange. (Page 1)
  --H. BURTON, Peoria, is here to-day.
  --George MOUL, of Ottumwa, is here.
  --C. SMITH and Paul MEYER, of Chicago, are in the city.
  --R. W. DURKEE and O. L. HACKETT, of Muscatine, were here to-day.
  --Mrs. SEARLES, of Monmouth, Illinois, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. H. CHASE.
  --Miss Lillian TEETER returned Friday from Milan, Mo., where she has been visiting for sometime past.
  --Miss Cora JACKSON, of Libertyville, who has been visiting her sister for several days, returned home to-day.
  --Mrs. Lottie M. BRADSHAW and her son Byron were unexpectedly called to her father’s home at Albany, Mo.
  --J. W. HURST and wife, of Newton, Kansas, were in the city over Sunday, and left for their home by the Rock Island to-day.
  --Fred SPIELMAN was severely hurt while playing foot-ball at the College grounds on Friday afternoon. We trust that he will be about in a few days.
  --Married, at the Lutheran Parsonage, by Rev. A. B. McMACKIN, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 26, Mr. C. A. WOOLHASS, of this city, and Miss Elma QUICK, of Four Corners.
  --Any of our Jefferson County people who desire to send anything to the World’s Fair at New Orleans, can do so by leaving the same with BRADLEY & HUFFMAN.
  --The Eldon Review says: "Attorney CORNELL will abandon the practice of law for awhile and devote his time to teaching. He has secured a position at Bonaparte as principal of the public schools of that place, and will take charge next week. Seneca is a graduate of one of the best schools in the Stae, and ought to fill the place, and we think he will."

Our Next Representative. (Page 1)
  On Tuesday next the election will occur, and as the readers of THE JOURNAL will naturally be interested in the public life and character of the next representative in Congress from this district we take pleasure in presenting a sketch of one of the squares (sic) men in the state of Iowa,--a man with the ability of a CURTIS and the honesty of a McCRARY,--who will prove in the halls of Congress, one of the best representatives ever sent from the First Iowa District:
  John S. WOOLSON was born in 1841. His father, Hon. T. W. WOOLSON, was a lawyer by profession and his son received a good, thorough education, graduating from Iowa Wesleyan University in 1860. Mr. WOOLSON was actively identified with those who offered their lives in defense of the principles and institutions of a free republic, but he joined a branch of the service to which Iowa, from its geographical position, furnished but few representatives. Mr. WOOLSON entered the United States navy in 1862, and we detailed for service in the ship of war "Housatonic." His record during the war was one of which any man might be proud, the "Housatonic" participated in many fierce and bloody naval engagements, among which were those off Fort Sumpter (sic) and Charleston and both attacks on Fort Fisher. In the latter engagements Mr. WOOLSON was signal officer of his vessel, and his name was specially mentioned in the official report, for gallent conduct and efficient service. The ill-fated "Housatonic" was finally sunk off Charleston by a rebel torpedo, Mr. WOOLSON being picked up from a floating spar after the wreck. Though the war closed in the spring of 1865, Mr. WOOLSON remained in active service until December of the same year, when he resigned his commission and returned to Iowa.
  The following year he entered upon the practice of law, being associated with his father until the latter’s death in 1873, and since as senior member of the firm of WOOLSON & BABB. He was not allowed to remain long in private life, being chosen to represent his fellow-citizens in the state senate for the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth general assemblies. Here he held the chairmanship of important committees, such as those on insane asylums, schools and the judiciary and in one session was elected to the presidency pro tem by a unanimous vote. In the senate he made a fine impression as an orator, logician, scholar, statesman and gentleman, and gave abundant evidence that he was fully qualified to fill any position to which he might be called. He ever acted for the best interests of his state and his constituency, in accordance with the teachings of his conscience and his reason.
  In 1884 his name was urged as the choice of Henry county for representative from the first congressional district, and after a long, but good-natured contest in the district convention received the unanimous vote of the delegates. If elected, and there is every reason to predict that he will be, he will be the first representative of the first district from Henry county. He is making a splendid canvass and will receive every republican vote in the district, besides those of many democrats. The republican party in the first district has every reason to be proud of its candidate, and that he will, as congressman, be an honor to his state and nation can not be doubted.

Tuesday Tit-Bits. (Page 8)
  --H. H. GRAFE, New York, is here.
  --S. L. INGHROM, of Chicago, is in the city.
  --W. H. DANGLER, of Rock Island, was here to-day.
  --William HANLAN and wife, of Sigourney, are in the city visiting Mr. and Mrs. B. M. MIKESELL.
  --H. A. CAVINESS, formerly with Frank ECK, at Pleasant Plain, was in the city to-day and favored us with a call.
  --Mrs. Martha WHITE spent last week very pleasantly visiting in Richwoods with old friends of thirty-five years ago.
  --Hon. B. J. HALL, of Burlington, democratic candidate for Congress, was in the city to-day. He speaks at Glasgow to-night.
  --Capt. BURGESS who has just returned from Henry county, where he made several republican speeches, says Henry county is sure to give Mr. WOOLSON 800 majority. The enthusiasm for Woolson in that county is unbounded.
  --Just the way it goes. Two persons came in to-day and stopped their papers because they were displeased about our article on the hoodlums disturbing the CARLISLE meeting, and four others came up and subscribed because they were pleased with the same article. "‘T was ever thus from childhood’s hour." Wilbur F. STORY, of the Chicago Times, died yesterday, yet the great metropolitan paper still goes on.
  --The actual establishment of an Art Club will do more than anything else to discover and develop the art talent in a community. It often happens, however, that those who would like to start such an organization do not know how to go about it. The necessary information is fully given in the November Art Amat ur (sic), in a suggestive and stimulating article on "Working Art Clubs," an article which every amateur, desirous of self improvement, should peruse with the closest attention.

Proposal for Bids. (Page 8)
  Bids will be received by the Water Works Committee for laying the three-fourths (¾) inch pipe, supplying with stock water the property of Wm. ALSTON, adjoining the water works grounds.
  Bidders will call at once at Mr. Asa SCOTT’s SCOTT’s Shop (sic) and see plans and specifications.
  Bids will be opened not later than October 31, 1884. The Committee reserves the right to reject any or all bids.
              WATER WORKS COMMITTEE.
  October 20th, 1884.

Wednesday Wanderings.  (Page 8)
  --O. B. MILLER, Topeka, is in the city.
  --C. ARMSTRONG, Philadelphia, is here.
  --W. J. SMITH, Chicago, is in the city.
  --Wm. METZLER, of Perlee, called to-day.
  --J. A. WEBER, St. Louis, is in the city to-day.
  --W. H. VIRDEN, Mt. Pleasant, was here to-day.
  --A. B. WILDER, of Iowa City, was here to-day.
  --E. C. BURGESS, of Edwardsville, Illinois, is in the city.
  --William LYTLE and wife, of Washington, were here to-day.
  --J. H. MORRISON and P. E. BARBER, of St. Paul, are in the city.
  --See to it that Mr. WOOLSON’s majority is made 600 in Jefferson county.
  --Mrs. James M. SLAGLE, who has been spending the summer with her sons at Aspen, Colorado, returned home yesterday.
  --Every good citizen, who has the best interests of the First Congressional District at heart, will cast his ballot for Hon. John S. WOOLSON.
  --Mrs. Capt. Thomas D. EVANS, of Fairfield, who has been visiting at Gen. A. BRIDGEMAN’s, returned home Saturday morning.--Keokuk Gate City.
  --A vote for Hon. John S. WOOLSON for Member of Congress in this district, will be a vote for the faithful and honest administration of the affairs of the district. Mr. WOOLSON will make a representative of which his constuents (sic) will ever be proud.
  --Hon. John S. WOOLSON, republican candidate for Congress in this District and Hon. M. A. McCOID, of this city, will address the people of Fairfield at the Republican Love Feast at the opera house Monday evening, Nov. 3d--the night before the election.
  --Beware of campaign roorbacks. Make up your mind before you go to the polls who you are going to vote for, prepare your ticket, and go up and vote it. Don’t permit any one to change it for you. This is a free country and one has a right to vote as he pleases. But don’t forget to put in a vote for WOOLSON.
  --The 367th anniversary of the nailing of the 95 Theses on the Church door at Wittenberg, by Dr. Martin LUTHER, will be observed Sunday morning, Nov. 2d by the Lutheran Church of this city. Rev. A. B. McMACKIN, the pastor, will preach on "The Universal Vocation," one of the distinctive doctrines of the Lutheran Church.  Everybody is cordially invited to be present.
  --List of letters remaining in the post-office in this city unclaimed and advertised for week ending Tuesday, Oct. 28th, furnished THE JOURNAL by Thomas L. HUFFMAN, Postmaster: J. ACKLIN, L. HURST, M.D., W. N. KELLY, Mrs. Rosie LOOMIS, Geo. LOOMIS, Oscar McCRARY, Ed McCREERY, Domenico NICOLETTI, Mrs. Maria STICHEL, Oscar A. SEDMAN, Mable SEDMAN, Kate E. TILLOTSON.

SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED. (Page 8)
Reply to the Greenback Congressional Committee.
  The following letter appears in the Mt. Pleasant Herald, the greenback paper published at Mt. Pleasant:
  MT. PLEASANT, OCT. 20, 1884.--J. M. HOLLAND, Esq., Chairman, Etc.--Dear Sir : Replying to your letter forwarding to me certain interrogatories submitted for my consideration and requesting answers thereto, and by you stated to be submitted "in accordance with the action of the congressional convention of the greenback labor of the above named (first) congressional district," I would respectfully state as my views on the points submitted, the following:
  1. I favor the payment of the public debt of the United States out of any surplus funds in the treasury, to be paid as promptly, rapidly and continuously, until such debt is wholly discharged, as the condition of such funds will permit.
  2. I accept in its full force and effect the late decision of the United States Supreme Court on the question of the issue of paper currency by the United States government.
  3. I favor the coinage of gold and silver on equal terms.
  4. I believe the remonetization of gold and silver to have been just and proper; and as to our paper currency, I fully accept as above stated, the decision upon that subject, lately rendered by our supreme court.
  5. I favor the resumption by the government of all land grants which have become forfeited by reason of non-compliance with the terms of the grant.
  6. I believe the public lands should be scrupulously reserved for actual settlement in limited quantities.
  7. I favor such congressional action, under the power of congress to regulate and control inter-state commerce, as may be necessary to prevent extortionate transportation charges and unjust discrimination, of whatever nature, on the part of our common carriers.
  With respect, I am, yours truly,
              JOHN S. WOOLSON.

Thursday Transpirings. (Page 8)
  --Vote for John S. WOOLSON.
  --A. ETTINGER, Chicago, is in the city.
  --E. C. SPINNEY, Burlington, is here.
  --R. L. PRIEST, Rushville, Ind., is in the city to-day.
  --W. M. McFARLAND, of Estherville, is in the city to-day.
  --James W. KENNEDY, of Louisville, Ky., was here to-day.
  --A man living in a sky-parlor, cured himself of sciatica, with St. Jacobs Oil. He called the disease the skyatticker.
  --A. R. WICKERSHAM is now on the editorial staff of the Iowa City Republican.
  --Catarrh is a constitutional disease. HOOD’s Sarsaparilla is a constitutional remedy. It cures catarrh. Give it a trial.
  --Hon. M. A. McCOID and Hon. John WILLIAMSON speak at Ainsworth Saturday evening next, Nov. 1st.
  --Reports from Henry and Louisa counties indicate that each will plump one thousand majority for WOOLSON.
  --Ministers, Lawyers, Teachers and others whose occupation gives little exercise, should used CARTER’s Little Liver Pills for torpid liver and biliousness.
  --George W. WHITE went to Marshalltown to-day to see the general freight agent of the Central Railway of Iowa on business.
  --That staunch republican and valuable friend of THE JOURNAL, J. J. KRITZLER, of Glasgow, came in to-day and tossed over $1.50 for the paper another year.
  --CARTER's Little Liver Pills must not be confounded with common Cathartic or Purgative Pills as they are entirely unlike them in every respect. One trial will prove their superiority.
  --When you go to the polls next Tuesday don’t forget to plump a vote square for Hon. John S. WOOLSON for Congress. He will make one of the most creditable representatives our district has ever had.
  --All persons about to visit foreign lands, sailors, fishermen, lumbermen and miners should take with them a supply of Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment. It is both for internal and external use and is worth its weight in gold.
  --We miss our guess if Hon. John S. WOOLSON, the republican candidate for Congress in this district, is not elected by one thousand majority. The indications are certainly favorable for such a result.
  --There is no one article in the line of medicines that gives so large a return for the money as a good porous strengthening plaster, such as CARTER’s Smart Weed and Belladonna Backache Plasters.
  --Dr. E. R. HUTCHINS, of Des Moines, made an excellent speech at the opera house last night, presenting the issues of the campaign from a republican standpoint. The opera house was filled to its utmost capacity.