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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.

July 30, 1868
 

 PROCEEDINGS OF CITY COUNCIL.
 Council Chamber, }
 July 28, 1868.  }

Council met with the following members present:  Mayor C. DAVID in the chair.  Ald. ACHESON, ALEXANDER. FERGUSON, MESSICK and SHRINER.  Absent--- CRAWFORD, MONFORT and PRATT.

Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved.

Petition of D. WEBSTER and others, claiming the obstructions of sidewalk and alley around J. D. KECK’s shop to be a nuisance, and asking that same be abated, was read, and, on motion of Ald. FERGUSON, the petition was referred to the Mayor, with instructions to have the same abated.

Street Commissioner B. R. PRATHER made report for month of June and on motion the same was ordered to be placed on file.

Ald. ACHESON moved that the petition of B. GILTNER and others, concerning the sidewalk of Presbyterian Church, be not granted.  Carried.  Ald. ACHESON offered the following:

Resolved, That there be levied for corporation purposes on the real and personal property in the city of Fairfield, for the current year, a tax of three mills on the dollar, and that the same be certified to the Clerk of the County as required by law.  The yeas and nays being called on the above resolution resulted as follows:  Yeas--- ACHESON, ALEXANDER, FERGUSON, MESSICK and SHRINER.  Nays--- none.

On motion, adjourned to meet on Thursday, August 6th, 1868, at 8 o’clock P.M.
 G. H. CASE, City Clerk.

Marriages

---July 9, 1868, by Rev. J. A. WILSON, at the residence of George ACTON, Mr. Henry C. PICKERELL, and Miss Elizabeth McQUERRY, all of this county.

---July 12, 1868, by J. W. HANKINS, D. D., at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Francis M. STEPHENSON and Miss Elizabeth S. WHITSON, both of this county.

---July 27, 1868, by Thomas MORGAN, Co. Judge, at his office, Mr. Benjamin GRUBB and Mrs. Emeline MERCHANT, both of Henry county.

WHAT EVERY HORSEMAN WANTS.--- A good, cheap, and reliable liniment.—Such as Dr. TOBIAS’ Venetian Horse Liniment.  In pint bottles at one dollar.  For Lameness, Cuts, Galls, Colic, Sprains, &c., warranted cheaper than any other.  It is used by all the great horsemen on Long Island courses.  It will not cure Ring bone nor Spavin, as there is no Liniment in existence that will.  What it is stated to cure is positively does.  No owner of horses will be without it after trying one bottle.  One dose revives and often saves the life of an overheated or driven horse.  For Colic and Bellyache it has never failed.  Just as sure as the sun rises, just so sure is this valuable Liniment to be the Horse Embrocation of the day.  Use it one and all.  Depot, No. 56 Cortland Street, New York.  Sold by all Druggists and Storekeepers. 4t29

 NOTICE IN BANKRUPTCY
This is to give notice, that on the 6th day of June, A.D. 1868, a Warrant in Bankruptcy was issued against the estate of Julia A. BLEAKMORE, of Fairfield, in the County of Jefferson, and State of Iowa, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt on her own petition;  that the payment of any debts and the delivery of any property belonging to such Bankrupt to her, or for her use, and the transfer of any property by her are forbiddin [sic] by law;  that a meeting of the creditors of said Bankrupt, to prove their debts, and to choose one or more assignees of her estate, will be held at the Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at Albia in his office, before Daniel ANDERSON, Register, on the 20th day of August, A. D. A1868, AT 10 o’clock A.M.
 G. W. CLARK,
U. S. Marshal, as Messenger, Dist. Of Iowa
July 23, 1868.—3t20   p.f. $7.00

THIEVES.--- Bold and expert thieves are operating successfully in Fairfield just at this time.  On Sunday night they robbed Mr. Phillip HOFFMAN of $40 in money and some school orders;  borrowed some $15 from Jacob VOTE, took two gold rings from Mr. DAGGETT.  They also visited LANG’s, BELL’s, and BLACK’s groceries, and some other places, and were generally successful in capturing small sums.  If you can keep awake, watch and shoot.  That is about the best remedy we know of.

SHERIFF’S SALE.

By virtue of an execution to me directed from the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson county, Iowa, I will offer for sale on
 SATURDAY, AGUST 22, 1868,
at the front door of the Court-House in the city of Fairfield, Iowa, between the hours of 9 o’clock A.M. and 4 o’clock P.M., sale to commence at 1 o’clock P.M. of said day, for cash to the highest bidder, the following described real estate, to-wit:  Sarah SEARS’ thirds of the following described lands:

The Northwest quarter of Section eight, in Township seventy-two North, of Range eleven West, in the district of lands subject to sale at Fairfield, Iowa, containing one hundred and sixty acres.  Also nine acres and three quarters of an acre of the Northwest part of the Northeast quarter of the Northeast quarter of Section eight, in township seventy-two North, of Range eleven West, bounded as follows:  Beginning at the Northeast corner of said land at a while [sic] oak stake, thence West thirty-five rods [Ed. note: A rod is equal to 16½ feet.] to a red oak stake, thence South eighty-nine rods to a hickory stake, thence North to the place of beginning.--- Also fifteen acres and three-quarters of an acre on the Southeast quarter of the Southwest quarter, in Section five, in Township seventy-two North, of Range eleven West, beginning at Northeast corner, thence South eighty rods to the Southeast corner, thence West sixtythree [sic] rods to a stake, thence to the place of beginning.

Also, the Northeast quarter of the Southeast quarter of Section seven, in Township seventy-two (72) North, of Range eleven West, containing forty acres.  Also the Northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter, Section eight, in Township seventy-two, Range eleven West, in the county and State aforesaid.  Said property was taken in execution and levied upon as the property of Sarah SEARS, to satisfy a judgment in favor of W. J. ELSA, rendered on the 14th day of January 1867.
 J. S. GANTZ, Sheriff
July 30, ’68.—2t30—p. f. $12 00

STATE OF IOWA,   } In District Court of said
County of Jefferson,        } County, Sep. Term; 1868

To William S. DOLE, Elizabeth C. IRETON, Catherine W. FLEENOR, John S. DOLE, Mary M. SNIDER, Luranda R. DOLE, and Joseph C. DOLE.

You are hereby notified that on or before the 8th day of July 1868, there will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Jefferson County, Iowa, a Petition of Joseph R. DOLE, Rebecca S. YOST, Mary Ann DOLE, Nancy E. VAUGHT, George A. DOLE and Jonathan O. DOLE, claiming a right to a part and asking for a partition of the following described real estate belonging to the estate of Joseph DOLE, deceased, to-wit:  The west half of the northwest quarter of section sixteen (16) (except ten acres off of the west side thereof) containing seventy acres more or less;  also the northwest quarter of the Southwest quarter of said section sixteen (16), and a part of the Southeast quarter of the Southwest quarter, bring ten (10) acres in a square tract out of the northwest corner thereof, of Section thirty (30); also ten acres off of the east side of the northeast quarter of the southeast quarter of No. nine (9) all in township No. seventy-one (71) north of range No. (10) west, in all about one hundred and thirty acres;  and also claim their share in and partition of all the other real estate belonging to said Joseph DOLE, and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the next term of the Distirct [sic] Court in and for said county, to be begun and held on the first Monday of September 1868, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.
 I. D. JONES,
 Atts. For Pl’ffs.
July 9, 1868.--- 4t27, p.f. $12.50