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Fairfield Weekly Ledger
Jefferson County, Iowa
Transcribed by:  Joey Stark

Note:  Typographical errors (followed by [sic]) and spelling variations in names in this document are intentional and reflect the actual newspaper articles.   Transcriber’s notes are occasionally included and are indicated with [Ed. note:….].  Surnames shown here are in UPPER CASE for easy location; not rendered as such in the newspapers.

August 13, 1868
 

Real Estate Transfers --- The following deeds to lands and town lots in Jefferson county, have been placed on record at the Recorder’s office for the two weeks ending Aug. 11, 1868.

John GILBERT from J. H. BEALTY, 25 acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated July 25, 1868.  525 00
W. F. BILLINGSLEY from Harriet J. GREGG, her undivided interest in 40 acres in Round Prairie township.  Deed dated August 1, 1868.  58 38
W. F. BILLINGSLEY from Harriett GREGG, guardian, minors interest in came land.  Deed dated August 1, 1868.  116 66
Joel CAMPBELL from W. H. H. MILLHOUSE and wife, one lot adjoining Fairfield.  Deed dated March 28, 1868.  240 00
John ALFRED from Samuel WHEELER and wife, lots 15 and 16 in old Batavia.  Deed dated June 23, 1868.  20 00
James A. WILSON from E. J. HALE, trustee, one lot in Batavia.  Deed dated June 11, 1868.  75 00
Susannah MIKESELL from Fielding CLINKINBEARK and wife, 60½ acres in Cedar township.  Deed dated December 2, 1865.
800 00

DIED—In Bebford, Iowa, July 28th, 1868, of Remittent Fever and Flux, Amie Eliza, youngest daughter of Robert H. and Addie PATRICK;  aged 1 year, 9 months and 24 days.    [Ed. note:  Suspect this should be Bedford, in Taylor Co., IA.]

---On Friday, August 7th, 1868, of Congestion of the Brain, William S., youngest son of William G. and Rachel BLACK, aged 1 year and 8 months.

Accident.--- We regret to learn that Capt. Cal. SNODGRASS, while at work on a bridge on the B. & M. R. R., on Tuesday, accidentally cut himself near the knee joint with an adze, inflicting so severe a wound as will confine him to the house for some time.

STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY,
 September Term, 1868
To Phillip COOK:
 You are hereby notified that on or before the 20th day of August, 1868, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, Iowa, a petition of Abigail W. COOK, claiming of you a divorce, and other equitable relief, and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next teerm [sic] of said District Court, to be begun on the first Monday of September, 1868, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.  I. D. JONES,
   4t31—pf $5     Att’y for Plff.

Marriages

---August 6, 1868, by Rev. J. A. WILSON, at the M. E. Parsonage, Batavia, Mr. Theodore B. WILLIAMS and Mrs. Sarah M. SHRINER, all of this county.

---August 2, 1868, by Rev. W. C. SHIPPEN, Mr. Joseph DEMARCE and Miss Serena TROWBRIDGE, all of this county.

---July 31, 1868, at his office, by Thomas MORGON [sic], County Judge, Mr. George H. STAKES and Miss Nettie HAMPSON, both of this county.

Marriages with greenback accompaniments are pleasant visitors at the LEDGER office.--- May peace, pleasantness and prosperity be always with the hapyy [sic] couple, who in their joys had the thoughtfulness to remember the poor editor.

 ANOTHER FALSEHOOD.

“A perpetuation of the Freedman’s Bureau, with its annual hundred millions for the tax payers to pay.”  Published editorially in the Iowa Democrat; and copied, we believe,  from the La Crosse Democrat.

The following sworn statement of the expenses of the Freedmen’s Bureau, since its organization, will show what a lie is contained in the above:

Total cost of the Bureau for three years $9,954,370.72
Or per annum    3,518,123.57
A large part of these expenditures was for the benefit of Southern whites reduced to poverty by the Rebellion.
  O. O. HOWARD, Com’r.

[Ed. note:  Per annum costs should be $3,318,123.57;  original newspaper clearly shows $3,518,123.57 though.]

 STATE OF IOWA, JEFFERSON COUNTY,
 September Term, 1868.

To John W. FRANKLIN,
  You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, Iowa, a petition of Rebecca N. FRANKLIN, claiming of you a divorce, and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of next term of the said District Court, to be begun on the first Monday of September 1868, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.
 STUBBS & McCOID,
July 30, 1868.—4t30    p.f. $5

 PROBATE OF WILL.
Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested, that a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Jonathan SWITZER, deceased, late of Jefferson County, Iowa, was filed and read in open court on the 3d day of August A.D. 1868, and was set for hearing and proof on the first Monday of September, A.D. 1868 at 11 o’clock A.M., at the office of the County Judge of said county, at which time and place all persons interested will be heard.
[L. S.]  Witness my hand and official seal this 11th day of August A.D. 1868.
 Thomas MORGAN, Co. Judge.
August 13, 1868—3t32

Lie Nailed.--- Mr. BLEAKMORE in his speech at the court house stated that the cost of collecting the internal revenue of Jefferson county exceed [sic] the amount collected, and he based his statement on official information.  Now the last number of the Fairfield Ledger gives the official figures from H. S. MORRILL, Deputy Collector at Keokuk, in detail, and the result is, amount collected $6,117.51.  Cost of collection, $1,036.70.  Amount realized over and above cost, $5,080,81.  So the statement was a lie, made out of whole cloth and Mr. B. must stand before this community convicted of falsehood, until he makes his statement good.---
Wapello Republican.

 PROBATE OF WILL.
Notice is hereby given, to all persons interested, that a paper purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Elizabeth A. HUGHES, deceased, late of Jefferson County, Iowa, was filed and read in open court on the 31st day of July A.D. 1868, and was set for hearing and proof on the first Monday of September, A.D. 1868 at 10 o’clock A.M., at the office of the County Judge of said County, at which time and place all persons interested will be heard.
[L. S.]  Witness my hand and official seal this 11th day of August A.D. 1868.
 Thomas MORGAN, Co. Judge.
August 13, 1868—3t32

 BATAVIA ACADEMY.
The fall session of the Batavia Academy will open on Tuesday, September 1st.  The trustees have secured the services of Rev. J. A. CALHOUN, as principal.  Other experienced teachers will assist in the different departments.

The school is designed for both sexes and will embrace the fall academic course.

Tuition fee, term of twenty weeks, $10, for half term of ten weeks $5.  Music and painting extra. Tuition will be required in advance.

No pupil will be received for a less period than ten weeks.  By order of the Board.
 R. B. MOORE, President.