Jefferson County, Iowa The Fairfield Weekly Ledger

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Fairfield Ledger
Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa
April 6, 1871
Transcribed by Sherry Bash

  A bridge across Cedar on the old Keokuk road, in the southeast part of the country, has been strongly petitioned for and the petition has been presented to the Board of Supervisors.  This bridge is greatly needed, and will be of much benefit to the people in that neighborhood and to the merchants of Fairfield.  We hope they will get the bridge.

Fairfield Nursery
1 ½ miles southeast of Fairfield, on, the Glasgow road,
GILBERT & WHITHAM,
  Have for sale a large stock of two year old apple trees of choice kinds, which they offer to the farmers and fruit growers of Jefferson and adjoining counties.  These trees were all grafted by themselves with grafts selected from bearing trees, and are all true to name.  Have also choice English and May Cherry trees, Peaches, Chestnuts, Monthly Honey Suckles, Berberry, Peonies, &c  The Apple trees will be ready for Spring delivery.  Application by mail promptly attended to.
Jan. 12, 1871.

ONE MILE EAST OF FAIRFIELD.
MAPLE WOOD
  NURSERIES.
  JED. MOUNT
Has a very fine stock of
   FRUIT TREES.
  Apple Trees, 2 and 3 years old, all the leading varieties.
  Pear Trees, 2 and 3 years old; three to five feet high; dwarf and standard.
  Plum Trees, best and hardiest kinds.
  Cherry Trees. -- early May, English Morello, &c
   SMALL FRUITS.
  Grape Vines, 3 to 5 years old.--Concord, Ives Seedling, Hartford, Delaware, Clinton, &c
  Raspberries.--Black Cap varieties;  Doelittle, Mammoth Cluster and Thornless
  Red varieties:  Philadelphia and Clark.
  Strawberries.--Wilson, Green's Prolific, Jnunds, Nicanot, Triomphe de Gand, Large Early Scarlet, Colfax, &c
  Blackberries--Kitatiny and Wilson's Early Currants and Gooseberries--Cherry and White Grape Currants, Houghton's Seedling Gooseberry
 EVERGREENS, ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES.
Norway Spruce,
   Scotch Pine,
     White Pine,
        Austrian Pine
          European Larch,
            Mountain Ash,
     Soft Maple
Wigelia, Forsyhtia, Double Deutzia, Flowering Quince, Buffalo Berry, Snowball, Berberry, Monthly Trumpet Honeysuckle; also a new Monthly Honeysuckle from China--white, changing yellow; exceedingly beautiful
BULBOUS AND TUBEROUS ROOTED PLANTS FOR SPRING PLANTING.
  Japan Lily, Red, White and rose colors; Gold Band Lily; Dahlias in great variety; Gladioluses, over 50 varietios; Dialetria, Peonies, &c. A large assortment of
Flowering & Bedding out Plants
           In their season
LIGHT BRAHMA FOWLS
  A few pairs of the above from premium stock; $7.00 per trio; $5.00 per pair; also, eggs of the above st $1.50 per dozen, packed and delivered free at the Express office
  Address         JED. MOUNT
   Fairfield, March 9, 1871

Those interested in anagrams will find delight in the following:

Astronomers . . . . . No more stars
Elegant . . . . . . . . . Neat leg
Impatient. . . . . . . Time in a pet
Masquerade. . . . . .Queer as mad
Matrimony . . . . . . Into my arm
Melodrama . . . . . . Made moral
Midshipman. . . . . . Mind his map
Parishioners . . . . . I hate parsons
Parliament . . . . . . .Partial men
Penitentiary . . . . . Nay, I repent
Presbyterian. . . . . Best in prayer
Radical reform. . . .Rare made frolic
Revolution . . . . . . To love ruin
Sir Robert Peel . . Terrible poser
Sweetheart . . . . . There we sat
Telegraph . . . . . . .Great help.

A Mystery in the Calendar --
In this year there will be fifty-two weeks.  Nowhere during the year does Sunday come oftener than once in seven days.  The first week in the year begins with Sunday, and so do all the other weeks.  This may appear mysterious at first, but by consulting the calendars for 1871 and 1872, it will be seen that the last week in 1872 begins with Sunday and has a Sunday following it.  As two Sundays cannot come together, ‘72 begins with Monday, and, it being Leap Year, Sunday will occur once in seven days thereafter.  The arrangement will place Sunday at the end of the week instead of the beginning, and is a complete theological triumph for the Seventh Day Baptists.  This complication of the calender is supposed to have been planned by the Jews, who, on account of their superior edncation, were entrusted with its revision.  This explanation is not binding on anybody, nor to conflict with any person's constitutional privilege of universal toleration,