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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 27, 1868
 

Marriages

---At the house of the Bride’s mother, on the 22d inst., by Rev. C. DARBY, Mr. Samuel S. WALKUP and Miss Therissa WIGGINS, all of this county.

  The LEDGER was not forgotten on this occasion.
Be happy they!  the happiest of their kind!
  Whom gentle stars unite, and in one fate
Their hearts, their futures and their beings blend
  Attuning all their passions into love.

---August 24, 1868, by his Honor, Thomas MORGAN, County Judge, at his office Mr. Owen B. RUGGLES and Miss Sarah J. CLEVENGER, both of this county.

---August 20, 1868, by his Honor, Thomas MORGAN, County Judge, at his office, Mr. James FISHER and Miss Mary BIVINS, all of this county.

---August 9, 1868, by Rev. D. DONALDSON, at the residence of John S. NOBLE, Mr. Burdell W. TABOR and Miss Rebecca JONES.

---August 13, 1868, by his Honor, Thomas MORGAN, County Judge, at his office, Mr. Jacob HOCK and Miss Christena BROWN, all of Jefferson county.

---August 5, 1868, by Rev. J. A. WILSON, at the M. E. Parsonage in Batavia, Mr. Theodore B. WILLIAMS and Miss Sarah M. SHIVER, all of this county.
 

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 August 24, 1868:

John T. HARRAH from Margaret HARRAH and husband, 100 acres in Locust Grove township.  Deed dated August 7, 1868. 2,000 00
Jacob GIFT from John GIFT, a tract of land in Lockridge township.  Deed dated August 12, 1868.  500 00
John and Jacob GIFT from Archer GREEN, a guardian, four-ninths of 132 acres in Lockridge t’p.  Deed dated August 12, 1868. 802 64
John GIFT from Jacob GIFT and wife, a tract of land in Lockridgetownship [sic].  Deed dated August 12, 1868.  500 00
Jacob and John GIFT from John W. GIFT et. al., the three ninths of two-thirds of 160 acres in Lockridge t’p.  Deed dated June 22, 1868.
510 00
Thos. L. LOVE from J. P. HOLLIDAY and wife, 111½ acres in Buchanan township, deed dated July 25, 1868.  3,210 00
Zimri and Albert GREGORY from L. P. JOSLIN and wife, 80 acres in Black-Hawk township. 2,600 00
John D. ARMSTRONG from W. A. ARMSTRONG and wife, 80 acres in Locust Grove township, deed dated August 20, 1868. 500 00
Alex. BLAKELY from A. J. HARVEY, one half interest in mill property and 12 acres of land, Penn township, deed dated August 20, 1868.  2,200 00
S. H. MITCHELL from Richard GAINS, one house and lot in Grimes’ addition to Fairfield, deed dated uAg. [sic] 24, ’68. 1,200 00
Hiram SMITH from J. J. SMITH and wife, 188 acres in Liberty township, deed dated July 2, 1868.  4,000 00
J. H. STEWART from Mary STEWART, 20 acres in Blackhawk township, deed dated March 12, 1868.  325 00
Horace GAYLORD from Benj. TEMPLETON and wife, 4 lots in Glasgow, deed dated March 3, 1868.  300 00
Benj. TEMPLETON from Wm. WRIGHT and wife, 3 lots in Glasgow, deed dated September 26, 1860.  30 00
Nancy HIGLEY from John E. CUMMINGS and wife, lot 4, block 14 H. W. & Co’s. addition to Fairfield,  Deed dated August 12, 1868.  700 00
Matthias CROY from W. B. ROWLAND and wife, lots 7 and 8, block 4, old plat of Fairfield, deed dated April 18, 1868.  1,000 00
Nancy FETTOR from Geo. W. FETTER and wife, quit claim to one lot in H. W. & Co’s. addition to Fairfield, deed dated May 1, 1868.  [Ed. note:  No price given for this transfer.]

What did he Mean.--- An incident occurred at BLEAK’s meeting at Brookville, which is worth recording.  BLEAK was calculating, in his truthful (?) manner, the interest paid on the bonds, and after wandering through a mist, as intelligible to himself as it was to his hearers, he finally got the interest to the extraordinary rate of 22 per cent. annually.  A hearer listened patiently until BLEAK reached this point, when he exclaimed:  “Twenty-two per cent!  That’s nothing;  that’s not equal to forty per cent. in the Farmer’s Store --- there you never get the principal!”  What did the man, mean?

For Recorder.--- We are authorized to announce the name of A. J. COMBS, of Locust Grove Township, as candidate for the office of County Recorder, at the ensuing election, subject to the decision of the Republican County Convention.

Mr. A. J. COMBS was first a member of “F” Co., 27th Iowa Infantry, afterward a member of “B” Co., M. M. Brigade, where he served over two years, passing the last five months of said services as clerk for Brig. Gen. Morgan S. SMITH, as Post Head Quartermaster, Vicksburg, Miss.

New Location--- Our old friend A. J. McKEMEY, has removed his saddlery shop to the building in the rear of his old stand.  Mac always had the reputation of being a good workman and keeping on hand an excellent stock of saddles, harness, &c.  If you want your work done in a superior manner give him a call, and you will be satisfied with his work and prices.