Jefferson County, Iowa The Fairfield Weekly Ledger

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Fairfield Ledger
Fairfield, Jefferson County, Iowa
Transcribed by Sherry Bash

Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA }
                             } ss
Jefferson County   }
To All Whom it May Concern:
  Know Ye, That there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county a paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of William L. LAYTON, dec’d, and that the same has been produced in open Court and publicly read and the 1st day of the next term of said Court set for the proof and final hearing of the same.
  Notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned, That the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court in and for said county, to be held held in the Court-house in Fairfield on the 2d Monday of August, 1871.
  [L.S.] Witness Geo, H. CASE, Clerk, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed this June 27th 1871,     GEO. H. CASE
  3t27     Clerk

In Circuit Court the of State of Iowa, in and for Jefferson County. August term, 1871.
    Nathan HUDDLESTON,           }
Administrator of the Estate of     } Plaintiff.
Myers HUDDLESTON, deceased. }
          vs.
  Mary HUDDLESTON,      }
  Benjamin HUDDLESTON, }
  Rachel HUDDLESTON,    }Defendants.
  Uriah HUDDLESTON,     }
  Charlotte FORD,             }
  Thomas HUDDLESTON   }
To said Defendants :
  You are hereby notified that on or before the 1st day of August, A. D., 1871, a petition of Nathan HUDDLESTON as Administrator of the estate of Myers HUDDLESTON, deceased, will be on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the State of Iowa in and for Jefferson County, asking said Court to grant an order authorizing said Plaintlff (sic) to sell so much of the real estate belonging to said estate as may be necessary to pay the debts of said estate, described as follows: The east half of the southwest quarter, and the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter, and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section No. twenty (20) in township No. seventy-three (73), north of range No. eleven (11) west, 160 acres; also east half of the west fractional half of the northwest quarter of section five (5) in township No. seventy-two (72) north of range no eleven (11) west, (except 5 acres off of south end sold to Henry REAM, see vol. 10, page 606 , of Deed Records,) and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the August Term, A. D. 1871, of said Court, which will commence on the 2nd Monday of August, 1871, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.
      CULBERTSON & JONES,
            Attorneys for Plaintiff.

LEGAL NOTICE.
In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Jefferson County:
Phebe FLETCHER, Plaintiff, }   September
             vs.                         }   Term, 1871.
James FLETCHER, Def’t.     }
To James Fletcher:--
  You are hereby notified that there is now a petition of Phebe FLETCHER on file in the office of the Clerk of the district Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Jefferson County, claiming of you a divorce from the bonds of matrimony and other relief, and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the September Term, A. D. 1871, of said Court, which will commence on the 4th day of September, 1871, default will be entered against you and judgment will be rendered thereon.
        RATCLIFF & GILTNER
            Attorneys for Plaintiff.

Proof of Will.
STATE OF IOWA }
                             } ss
Jefferson County.  }
To All Whom it May Concern:
  Know Ye, that there is now on file in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County a paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Robert LEEPER, dec’d, and that the same has been produced in open Court and publicly read and the 1st day of the next Term of said Court set for the proof and final hearing of the same.
  Notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned, That the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court in and for said county, to be held in the Court-house in Fairfield on the 2d Monday of August 1871.
  [L.S.] Witness Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed this June 27th, 1871.       GEO. H. CASE,
  3t27          Clerk

STATE OF IOWA }
                             } ss
Jefferson County.  }
To All Whom it May Concern:
  Know Ye, That there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, a paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Elizabeth McLEAN, deceased, and that the same has been produced in open Court and publicly read and the 1st day of the next term of said Court set for the proof and final hearing of the same.
  Notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned, That the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court in and for said county, to be held in the Court-house in Fairfield on the 2d Monday of August, 1871.
  [L.S.] Witness Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this June 27th 1871.        GEO. H. CASE,
  3t27           Clerk.

STATE OF IOWA, }
Jefferson County. }
To Samuel I. TRAVIS, Emery P. TRAVIS, Daniel E. TRAVIS, Asa N. TRAVIS and Andrew CARLSON.
  You are hereby notified that there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Iowa, in and for Jefferson County, a petition of A. C. D. BRADSHAW, as administrator of Daniel TRAVIS, deceased, asking an order of said Court to sell the following described real estate of said deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts against said estate, to-wit: Forty-four and one-half (44½) acres off of the east end of the south half of the south east quarter of section 8, tp 72, range 8; and six and two-thirds (6 2/3) acres off of the west end of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of the north-east quarter of section 10, tp 72, range 8. All situate in the County of Jefferson and State of Iowa; and showing that it is necessary to sell all of said lands for the payment of the debts against said estate, and unless you appear thereto and defend the same, before noon of the second day of the August Term of said Court to be begun on the second Monday of August, 1871, default will be entered against you and said order will be granted in accordance with said petition.
        A. C. D. BRADSHAW.
  4w28    Adm’r of Daniel TRAVIS, dec’d.

McGAW --In Fairfield, Iowa, on Sunday, July 23d, 1871, at 7 o'clock, A.M., Ollie, son of G. D. and E. A. McGAW, aged 4 years, 2 months and 15 days.
  Ollie was a bright and handsome child, pleasant and agreeable to all, with no unkind word for any one. His parents were devotedly attached to him, and his loss is almost unendurable. In their severe affliction they have the condolence of a large circle of sympathizing friends.
    Weep not for those
  Who sink within the arms of death,
  Ere yet the chilling wintry breath
    Of sorrow o’er them blows,
  But weep for them who here remain,
  The mournful heritors of pain,
  Condemn’d to see each bright joy fade,
  And mark grief’s melancholy shade
    Flung o’er hope’s fairest rose.

        Proof of Will
STATE OF IOWA, }
                              } ss;
Jefferson County.   }
To All Whom it May Concern:
  Know Ye: That there is now on file in the office the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, a paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of Eleste MULKINS, deceased, and that the same has been produced in open Court and publicly read, and the 1st day of the next term of said Court set for the proof and final hearing of the same.
  Notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned, That the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court in and for said county, to be held in the Court-house in Fairfield on the 2d Monday of August, 1871.
  [L.S.] Witness Geo, H. CASE, Clerk, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this July 1st, 1871.         GEO. H. CASE,
  3t28                              Clerk.

In the Circuit Court of the State of Iowa,
IN AND FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY.

          August Term, A.D. 1871.
McCOID & HERON } Plaintiffs.
                             vs.
William MITTOWER,   }
Elizabeth MITTOWER, } Defendants.
Nancy KING,                }
  To William MITTOWER, Elizabeth MITTOWER and Nancy KING :
  You are hereby notified that a petition of McCOID & HERON is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Jefferson County claiming of you the sum of Three Hundred dollars, as justly due them on account, for services rendered, and asking the issuance of a writ of attachment; and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the August Term, A. D. 1871, of said Court, which will commence on the second Monday of August, 1871, default will be entered against you and judgment rendered thereon.
    4w28            McCOID & HERON.

STATE OF IOWA }
                             } ss
Jefferson County.  }
To All Whom it May Concern:
  Know Ye: That there is now on file in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, a paper purporting to be the last Will and Testament of George KNESS, deceased, and that the same has been produced in open Court and publicly read, and the 1st day of the next term of said Court set for the proof and final hearing of the same.
  Notice is therefore hereby given to all concerned, That the proof of said Will will be heard on the 1st day of the next term of the Circuit Court in and for said county, to be held in the Court-house in Fairfield on the 2d Monday of August, 1871.
  [L.S.] Witness Geo. H. CASE, Clerk, and the Seal of said Court hereto affixed, this July 17th, 1871. GEO. H. CASE,
  3t29                      Clerk.

LEGAL NOTICE.
In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Jefferson county.
John R. GIBSON, Pl’tff. }
             vs.                    } Sept. term 1871.
Emma M. GIBSON, Deft }
To Emma M. Gibson:--
      You are hereby notified that on or before the 24th day of August A. D. 1871, a petition of John R. GIBSON, will be filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Jefferson county, asking for a divorce, and that unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the September Term, A. D. 1871, of said Court, which will commence, on the 4th day of September, A.D. 1871, default will be entered against you and a decree rendered thereon.
    D. R. McCRACKIN, Att’y for Pl’t’ff.

   FRED. EBERWEIN
Prince of Barbers,
  Chicago Hair Dressing Parlor.
  In Arcade Saloon, West side of the Park,
just North of Jordan's Block.             30tf

IOWA COLLEGE.
  Fall Term begins Wednesday, Sept. 6, in the College Course, Classical or Scientific, (four years each), the Ladies’ Course, the Academy Course, and the Normal and English Department. Tuition. $5.00--$8.00 per term. Board with rooms, $3.50--$4.00 per week--without, $2.00--$3.00. Soldiers free.
  For Catalogues send to Treasurer, or
      GEORGE F. MAGOUN, President.

Dissolution of Co-Partnership.
  The co-partnership heretofore existing under the firm of IVES & BOERSTLER is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The business will be continued by C. H. BOERSTLER who will settle all accounts and to whom all debts due the firm must be paid.
      B. F. IVES,
      C. H. BOERSTLER.
Fairfield, July 18, 1871.           3t29

Administrator's Notice.
  To Mary MOORE, Elizabeth MAY, J. L. SEARS, Nancy MILLER, Jemima SCOTT, Martha J. COLLINS, James K. SEARS, V. B. SEARS, D. W. SEARS, Mary BREEKER :
  You are notified that at the August term of the Circuit Court of Jefferson county, Iowa, to be held on the 2d Monday of August, 1871, the undersigned will make settlement of the estate of David SEARS, deceased, and ask to be discharged and that some one else be appointed in his place.
DAVID SEARS, Adm’r.

NOTICE.
  My wife, Rose, and myself having parted, I will pay no debts that she may contract.
July 12, 1871.     4t29     W. F. GASSNER.

  Change.--B. F. IVES has disposed of his interest in the dry goods business in Fairfield to C. H. BOERSTLER, and will start for Chicago in a few days to take a position in the commission business with his brother. Mr. BOESTLER will continue to offer for sale a complete and varied assortment of Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Laces, Notions, &c. We commend him to our many readers.

Wagons on Time.--David LOCKE will sell best made wagons of his manufacture at very low figures for the next three months, and give a credit until January 1st, 1872.
  July 20, 1871.

Chariton Express.--The local express train on the B. & M. R. R. which leaves Chariton at 4:30 A.M. and leaves here at 8:30 A.M., stopping at all stations, will hereafter make close connection with an Express Passenger Train of the C. B. Q. R., leaving Burlington at 10:30 A.M. and arriving at Chicago at 8:15 P.M. This train will make connections in Chicago with east bound trains of Trunk Lines.  The traveling public will do well to remember this.

The Fall Term of Fairfield College will commence on the first Monday in September.     Rev. A. AXLINE, Principal.

Over the County.--We renewed our trip over the county on last Thursday, but were forced to return on Friday evening, in consequence of the effects of a couple of Red June apples eaten before dinner at the house of our excellent friend, Hon. William HOPKIRK. For once Mr. H. was mistaken; we thought they would hurt us, but he insisted that they would not, and he being an older man, and a bigger man, and we being half-willing, he over-powered us. We are all right now.
  We visited the eastern portion of the county passing through the townships of Buchanan, Cedar, Round Prairie, and into the villages of Wooster, Glasgow, Coalport and Salina. We found many old friends and some new ones. Among them we must mention our old friend of a quarter of a century, John COCHRAN, with whom the ills of this world do not over-balance the pleasures. Dr. W. S. WRIGHT, Charles UNKRICH, Post Master TILZEY, Dr. S. W. TAYLOR, Elijah BILLINGSLEY, Henry WEBB, CHAPMAN Bros., Henry LONG, Ira KYLE, and many others, were met; not forgetting our honest old friend Michael RYAN. We stayed all night with Henry UNKRICH, whose wife, as hostess of the Glasgow House, sets before the weary traveler a well ladened and invitable table.
  A portion of the country passed over is of a piece with the best in the State. We passed within sight of the large farms of J. C. BRADSHAW, F. T. HUMPHREYS, Edw. CAMPBELL, Jr., Daniel FIDDLER, John SWOPE, J. A. GALLIHER, P. L. G. CAMBLIN and Peter MENATRY. The large and handsome edifice of Mr. FIDDLER can be seen a long distance, while his huge barns denote the industrious and thriving farmer

  The number of convicts at present in the penitentiary at Fort Madison, is 272. Of this number, 27 are United States soldiers, sent from the plains by order of courts-martial, for desertion, and three are sent from the Territory of Dakota. Thirteen convicts are in for murder in the first degree, eleven for murder in the third degree, eight for assault with intent to kill, and seven for manslaughter. Of this list thirteen are for life, two for twenty years, and the remainder ranging from two to sixteen years. There is also one young man serving a life term for rape, and one a term of twenty years for the same offense.

  The remarks made by us last week in regard to crops in the western part of the county will apply with equal force to those in the eastern portion. We believe, however, that the crop of apples will be even larger than in the western townships. We can attribute this to the more broken character of the country, and the greater amount of timber land, and consequent protection from the heavy winds. The orchards are more numerous and the trees larger, which may be another reason for the conclusion reached that the apple crop was larger.
  Timothy seed will be a heavy item of wealth in Jefferson county this season. The hay and seed are both good, and the price of seed has induced our farmer friends to cut a large amount for seed,-- The quantity harvested in this county will be much greater than ever before. We scarcely passed a farm of 40 acres where we did not see timothy in shock, and some of the farmers whose lands we passed by have cut 100 to 125 acres. Most of those with whom we conversed put the yield per acre at four bushels; a few claimed five bushels.
  Universally, we think our farmers were in good spirits. They have made up their minds that prices would rule low, but were confident that the extra yield of all grains, seeds and fruits would compensate for it. Some of those who are in debt for articles bought at high prices will feel it an additional burden to pay for the articles used with produce at much reduced rates. But the great majority will swim with the tide. They have kept their heads above until this time, and are sanguine that they can get to shore. Many have resolved to go in debt no more.