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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.

September 24, 1868
 

LIBERTYVILLE
Change of Mr. McCRARY’s Meeting.

The meeting of Hon. G. W. McCRARY at Libertyville, will be held on FRIDAY EVENING, instead of on Saturday afternoon, as heretofore announced.  Our friends will take due notice and govern themselves accordingly.

See adv. of PINNEY & WEAD for Sugar maple and evergreens for fall planting.

Big Pumpkin.--- R. W. JONES, of Round Prairie township, raised a pumpkin weighing 82 lbs.  Beat it who can.

For best drugs, paints, medicines, perfumery, toilet articles, notions, &c., HIGLEY BROS. are “a neck ahead.”

HURST, on the West side, maintains his position as a reliable dealer in best gold and silver watches, jewelry, &c.

The cheapest and best plows and wagons can be purchased at the establishment of David LOCKE.

DIED.--- On the 20th, inst. at Burlington, Iowa, of Typhoid Fever, Christina E. SPIELMAN, aged 19 years, 8 months and 22 days.

The deceased was born near Germanville.  At the age of fifteen years she made a public profession of Christ, and was confirmed in the Lutheran Church by Rev. M. BURK.  About three years ago she removed with her parents to Fairfield, and became an earnest and faithful member of the English Lutheran congregation of this place.  As a member of the choir and a teacher in the Sunday School she was always at her post and ready for duty.  All that she did for Christ and his church was done cheerfully, without excuses or complaints.  Even in the delirium of the sick bed she often spoke of the church she loved so well, and referred to the solemn services of God’s house in which she so much delighted to participate.

On the first of the present month she went to Burlington for the purpose of visiting her relatives and friends residing in that city.  She had spent only about week there when she had a severe attack of bilious fever, which continued for several days.  But finally the disease seemed to yield to the remedies employed by her physician, and she became so much better that she thought of returning home on the 15th inst.  But Providence ordered it otherwise.  On the evening of the 14th, she was prostrated by typhoid fever and so malignant was the disease in its first stages that from the very beginning, her friends had scarcely any hope for recovery.  Her parents and brother, together with Dr. MOHR of this place, the family physician, visited her during the week, and did all for her that could be done, but their efforts were unavailing.  On Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock she quietly and peacefully fell alseep in Jesus.  The day following her body was brought to this place, and on Tuesday, after appropriate funeral services held in the Lutheran Church, it was followed by a large number of relatives and other friends.  Thus another Christian has been called away to her reward.  Here her loss is deeply felt.  She was so kind, so faithful, so cheerful that she will be missed everywhere.  Still we trust that our present loss is her eternal gain, hence we need not weep as those who have no hope.  She has only gone before to welcome us to that rest which God has promised to his people.  May we forget her faults, remember her virtues, and follow her as she followed Christ.       A. A.

DIED.--- on Sept. 10th, 1868, Effie May, daughter of J. W. & Annie LANGFORD, aged 4 years, 2 months and 10 days.

As the sweet flower that scents the morn
  But withers in the rising day,
Thus lovely was our Effie’s dawn,
  Thus sweetly fled her life away.

She died ere her expanded soul
  Had ever burnt with wrong desires,
Had ever spurned at heaven’s control
  Or ever quenched its sacred fires.

She died to sin, she died to cares,
  But for a moment felt the rod;
Oh! mourner, such the Lord declares,
  Such are the children of our God.

Marriages

---On Thursday, the 10th inst., at Morris Ills., Mr. Wm. H. CALDWELL, of the Ottumwa Courier, to Miss C. Addelia COBLEIGH, of Morris.

  That in their journey through life their “bank” may never be out of “quoins,” their “bed” never lack good “blankets,” their “editions” be good and beautiful, and their souls finally “frisk-it” to “good sits” where there is a total absence of the “devil” --- is the prayer of the LEDGER.

---On the 10th inst., by Rev. A. AXLINE, at the residence of the bride’s father, five miles West of Fairfield, Dr. C. G. LEWIS, of Ottumwa, and Miss Anna H. BALL.

We wish the couple a long life and very much happiness.

---On Thursday, Sept. 17, 1868, at Glendale Station, by Rev. J. HEATON, Mr. Noah TETERS and Miss Susan May FORDYCE, all of this Co.