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The Fairfield Weekly Ledger

May 28, 1868

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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.

May 28, 1868
 

Hotel Furniture.--- D. B. SHORT has sold the “White House” to Maj. A. R. PIERCE, and will sell the furniture, consisting of beds, bedding, bureaus, stands, tables, chairs, cooking and parlor stoves, and various other articles, on next Saturday, May 23d.  Great bargains will be offered to purchasers, and housekeepers will do well to attend the sale.  The furniture is nearly all new and in good order.  Go and buy furniture at cheap prices,

Ice-Cream.--- What happy mortals printers are, to be sure!  Helter-skelter went the entire LEDGER family to Phillip LANG’s ice-cream saloon over the National Bank.--- There we found a handsomely furnished room, good tables, and everything in ship-shape.  And Phillip was there, too.  But best of all we found an abundance of ice-cream.  None of the boys were slow in storing away a full share.  If you want good ice-cream, cake, confections, &c., be sure to call at LANG’s ice-cream saloon or grocery store.

School District Report.--- To satisfy the community and set at rest the many contradictory reports in regard to the amount of money expended on the new school building in Fairfield, we publish the following full report, giving the number, name of drawee, and amount of each school order, on citizens subscription, and also the list of outstanding orders for work done, together with amount cashed by discounting, and outstanding on the 29th of February 1868.  Mr. W. C. SLAGLE, the former Secretary of the Board, presents us this report.  Mr. G. A. WELLS, the present Secretary, also furnishes us with a list of the orders issued by the present Board.  The reports are long, but we believe it due the tax payers of this District that they should know just how the money has been expended.  Mr. SLAGLE’s report shows where and how every dollar was expended, and shows that the indebtedness of the District, at the incoming of the new Board, was $12,423 14.  The report of Mr. WELLS also shows where the money went that was expended by the new Board.  Let the tax-payers read and study these figures, and they can then talk understandingly.

The following is a list of School House orders, cashed by citizens on subscription to secure erection of building, and outstanding at date of Feb. 29, 1868.
No .
Name
     Amount
699 SLAGLE & ACHESON
$250 75
706 do
246 00
705 J A McKEMEY
100 00
711 S LIGHT
100 00
710 W W JUNKIN
100 00
712 CLARKE & SCOTT
100 00
713. H SEMON
100 00
714 D YOUNG
100 00
704 C S SHAFFER
15 00
708   do
15 00
731 S C FARMER
250 00
732 Geo WORKMAN
20 00
728 Wm S MOORE
26 72
730 D B MILLER
25 00
725 A T WELLS
25 00
726 W B KASTOR
25 00
738 Wm ALSTON
100 00
721 Ward LAMSON
100 00
739 do
100 00
762 W R WELLS
50 00
727 F M STEWART
25 00
771 J W MOORE
25 00
761 N M BRIGHT
50 00
759 G A WELLS
100 00
756 do
50 00
768 J F CRAWFORD
25 00
722 M C SHAMP
25 00
754 R McELHINNY
100 00
757 R A YOUNG
50 00
722 SPIELMAN & GAINES
50 00
760 MENDENHALL & DAVID
50 00
735 HUFFORD & HURST
50 00
736 George W PHELPS
50 00
753 P N WOODS
100 00
755 D P STUBBS
100 00
733 D STEPHENSON
20 00
746 do
25 00
748 do
25 00
719 D W TEMPLETON
100 00
  W F PUMPHREY
100 00
768 HIGLEY Brothers
25 00
764 do
25 00
774 George D TEMPLE
50 00
776 W W JUNKIN
50 00
758 George STEVER
100 00
788 N S AVERILL
50 00
787 HIGLEY Brothers
50 00
745 Samuel REED
25 00
789 Dr KING
10 00
752 do
10 00
765 H W LEWIS
25 00
778 HUFFORD & HURST
50 00
779 D B WILSON
50 00
775 SPIELMAN & GAINES
50 00
783 CLARKE & SCOTT
100 00
767 M A McCOID
25 00
751 do
15 00
780 JORDAN Brothers
100 00
798 J F WILSON
100 00
802 do
150 00
830 J C KECK
25 00
747 SLAGLE & ACHESON
3 50
797 Ed CAMPBELL
100 00
820 M CRAWFORD
25 00
799 J M SLAGLE
100 00
786 D E ECKERT
15 00
734   do
10 00
770 George HOWELL
7 50
717 do
13 12
749 J DAHLMAN
11 00
804 do
14 00
829 Thomas BONFIELD
100 00
741 D STEPHENSON
15 00
785 do
15 00
831 CLARKE & SCOTT
50 00
808 do
50 00
870 MENDENHALL & DAVID
50 00
878 John IRRER
100 00
868 W L McCLAIN
5 00
839 do
10 00
851 do
25 00
709 do
45 00
766 do
15 00
883 J M SHAFFER
30 00
884 do
15 00
894 do
5 00
917 W K ALEXANDER
10 00
803 C S SHAFFER
2 00
885 do
10 00
928 N STEEL
25 00
941 George BOND
7 00
926 do
25 00
940 do
18 00
1030 J MOORE
50 00
1034 JORDAN Brothers
   200 00
 
$5,237 59

List of School House orders for work and amterial [sic], unpaid, at date of March 13, 1868.
No.
932 A PEPPER
  Nov.  5  1867
$500 00
933 do
  do   do   do
500 00
934 do $300
do  do  do bal
100 00
1031 R H VANDORIN
Jan. 18, 1868
19 13
1035 JORDAN Bros
do 21, do
353 15
1040 W R BLOSS
do 24, do
10 00
1041 do
  do  do  do
10 00
1042 do
  do  do  do
10 00
1043 do
  do  do  do
10 00
1044 do
  do  do  do
5 00
1045 do
  do  do  do
5 00
1046 do
  do do  do
5 00
1047 do
  do  do  do
5 00
1048 do
  do  do  do
7 50
1050 B B TUTTLE
Jan. 31,  do
4 00
1041 B B TUTTLE
  do   do,  do
25 00
1042 do
do   do   do
25 00
1053 do
do   do   do
44 76
1070 Joel CAMPBELL
  Feb.  8   do
25 00
1061 do
  do   do   do
24 40
1072 James JEFFERS
  do   do   do
110 00
1073 J Q CRISMAN
  do   do   do
5 00
1074 do
  do   do   do
5 00
1075 do
  do   do   do
5 00
1076 R H VANDORIN
do   do   do
18 12
1077 J Q CRISMAN
  do   10   do
5 00
1078 J Q CRISMAN
Feb. 10 1868
5 00
1079 do
do   do   do 
5 00
1080 B B TUTTLE
do  15,   do 
    42 50
Amount at date of report
$1,888 55
1102  R H VANDORIN
15 00
1103 do
  do  do  do
15 00
1104 do
do  do  do
10 00
1107 W L McLEAN
March 13, 1868
62 00
1116 W R BLOSS
do  do  do
12 25
1117 do
do  do  do
2 75

The following is a list of orders cashed by discounting same, and outstanding at date of Feb. 29, 1868.
No. Name,
Amount.
782 George GIFT
$ 50 00
777 do
50 00
801 do
50 00
781 do
50 00
800 do
100 00
819 do
100 00
784 do
100 00
812 W ALSTON
(since paid) 230 00
828 do    do 
150 00
843 do    do 
100 00
879 First National Bank
325 00
886 do
200 00
873 Mrs L J PARKER
100 00
921 H SEMON
300 00
826 S W PIERCE
100 00
880 do
50 00
881 do
150 00
887 do
50 00
896 do
150 00
900 do
200 00
901 George CAMPBELL
100 00
918 do
25 00
929 do
75 00
936 do
200 00
946 do
100 00
947 do
132 50
950 do
50 00
953 do
27 50
976 do
150 00
977 do
100 00
882 do
25 60
897 do
15 00
1017 C W SLAGLE
150 00
1022 do
900 00
951 Joel CAMPBELL
36 00
961 do
10 00
972 do
50 00
1019 do
4 00
1023 do
10 00
795 S W PIERCE
15 00
815 do
100 00
871 do
250 00
1008 do
   30 00
Total
$5,180 00
The whole amount of orders issued for expense of the building included everything pertaining thereto; except the lot pu [sic] to the date of February 29, 1868 was
$21,997 02
Of which th re [sic] had been p’d at that date
9,690 88
There were outstandin g [sic] on citizens subscription
5,237 59
Discounted orders outstanding
5,180 00
Orders to workman outstanding
  1,888 55
21,997 02
After the publication of the report of the former board and before the expiration of their office said board issued orders to workmen,
    117 00
Making the whole expense of the building to the incoming of present Board
22,114 02
And making the whole indebtedness of the District at the incoming of the present board
12,423 14

Orders issued by the present Board.
No. Name,
Amount.
2 R. H. VAN DORIN
15 00
3 do
15 00
4 do
15 00
5 W. H. FULTON
100 00
6 do
118 75
7 J. H. CRISMAN
50 00
8 do
50 00
9 do
27 50
10 R. H. VAN DORIN
15 00
11 Jas JEFFERS
25 00
12 do
70 00
13 CLARKE & SCOTT
142 80
15 I RUMER
39 48
16 Thos BARNES
17 62
17 John BLOSS
10 00
18 do
12 50
19 do
9 25
20 A SIMONS
141 25
22 John IRRER
121 00
23 do
100 00
24 do
50 00
27 do
33 75
28 A PEPPER
52 00
29 J. E. BONNEWITZ
30 00
30 do
9 15
41 W L. McLEAN
10 00
42 J P CAMPBELL
14 50
74 M E POLLARD
10 20
45 B F WOODS
1 35
46 S NOBLE
1 25
47 Thos BARNES
12 00
48 T K. HOPKINS
2 00
49 H MONROE
4 00
50 E JOY & Co.
300 00
51 M SCOTT
5 00
52 S LIGHT
15 15
53 Tim KILFOY
3 50
54 A PEPPER
8 00
55 HIGLEY Bros.
40 00
56 FRANKLIN & FILLEY
36 10
58 Geo CRAINE
18 00
59 J P CAMPBELL
8 15
60 JORDAN Bros.
   235 68
   
2 045 33
Claims due for which no orders
have been drawn
2 895 47
4 940 80
Orders drawn by old Board
     22,114 02
Orders drawn by this Board
      2,045 33
Accounts for which no orders are drawn
   2,895 47
Being the total cost to this date
     27,054 82

The indebtedness of the district now is,
Citizens’ loan
5,237 59
Discount loan
4,680 00
Outstanding orders
3,494 28
Accounts
2,895 47
 
16,307 34
The Treasurer had paid orders to the amount of
10,747 48
27,054 82


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