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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.

December 3, 1868

Marriages

---November 26, 1868, by Rev. DARBY, Mr. George SHRINER and Miss Mary MONTGOMERY, all of Fairfield.

Another household set up --- another couple launched upon the sea of matrimony to puddle their way together.  May only bright skies and gentle winds be theirs to the end of their journey.

---October 25, 1868, by Rev. James COWGER, William W. TROBEL and Miss Mary E. DOWNEY.

---November 24, 1868, by Rev. W. C. SHIPPEN, Mr. W. M. SWAYNE and Mrs. Rebecca A. ROSS all of this county.

---November 26, 1868, at the residence of the bride’s father, by Rev. T. H. HOLMES, James E. SWAYNE and Miss Laura BONSER, all of this county.
 

DIED.--- At his residence, in Round Prairie t’p. Nov. 19 of Lung Fever, Benjamin D. WORKMAN, in the 53d year of his age.  He leaves a wife, two children and a large circle of friends to mourn his loss.
 

DIED.--- At the family home, in Round Prairie t’p, Nov. 27th, of Consumption, Mary E., only daughter of Joseph and Matilda A. TILFORD, in the 14th year of her age.  She bore her long and painful illness with great cheerfulness, ever having a smile of welcome for those who called to see her.--  All mourn her early death.
 

Cedar Townsaip [sic] Literary Association.--- On Monday night Nov. 23d, Capt. W. T. BURGESS, whose appointment had been twice deferred on account of the inclemency of the weather, delivered an address before the Cedar Township Literary Association, at Bradshaw’s school house.

He announced as his subject, “The power of the mind.” and for an hour and a half he had the earnest attention of his audience.--- The subject chosen comprehends a vast amount of thought, and weare [sic] lost in its contemplation, but the speaker with his peculiar faculty so happily condensed his remarks as to give a most intelligible view of the subject.

The Association was addressed on last Monday night by Rev. A. AXLINE, on “The Respectability of Labor.”

At an early hour the capacious school room was crowded, and the speaker taking for the basis of his remarks the declaration of St. Paul “he that does not work shall not eat” began what proved one of the most practical and able lectures of the season.

Holding the mirror of life so as to reflect every character in its true phrase he showed the miserable, debased principles which actuates the busy-body, the loafer, the political demagogue, and other classes of disreputable idlers.

The effeminacy of the close student is not caused by mental labor, as many suppose, but through the disregard of the laws of nature, as laid down by the great law-maker, by neglecting to give the body proper exercise.  And further, he remarked, that the success and the happiness of the human family depend upon the exertion of both the mental and physical powers.  The causes of indolence are numerous, and its effects will engender dissipation and crime.

For over an hour the audience, bound by the practical and truthful analogies and contrasts followed the speaker through his address, and doubtless every one who heard the lecture went home that evening better pleased with himself, feeling a high respect for his industrious neighbor, strengthened in his purpose in life, and feeling thankful that they had the privilege of listening to that address.

After the lecture the President Mr. BRADSHAW announced that Rev. Thomas MERRILL, would address the association on next Monday night.  Subject, “Women [sic] – what she is and what she must be to fill her mission in society.” CEDAR.