19 Sep 1877
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Newspaper
Brimfield Gazette
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1877
Page
1
A dense community update recounts church and school events, business expansions, sports results, and political notes. It notes Rev Adkins preaching, Z Hall leading a Methodist service, and a wedding upcoming. Local businesses add stock, a new shoe shop, and a clerkship change. Fire damage in Galesburg prompts coverage on costs, while editorial rebukes unscrupulous ad pitches and warns against remote sellers offering credits for remnants.
Personal travels report several residents visiting Chicago and returning home including Mr Wiley Mrs Wiley Mr Day and Mrs Day and J W Herrington. Rev Thos Armstrong to hold services Sept 23 in Rochester Congregational church with a lecture series by Rev B Edmiston starting Sept 27. Local notices cover fairs lectures farming humor and social visits with many family moves and community events across Elmwood Monica Princeville and surrounding towns.
The Peoria Advertiser notes a new state legislative act amending exemptions from execution, attaching, and distress. It lists protected items such as clothing, Bibles, school books, family provisions, plus specified dollar values of other property, with adjustments for heads of families and debtors who must declare assets under oath. The article also mentions related provisions about debtors, appraisals, and when exemptions do not apply in wage-related cases. It concludes with Democratic convention actions in Peoria County and party platform excerpts.
A Peoria case details two lawyers D McFarland and Ignac Lambert and a Palmer accused of swindling Elizabeth Koosier of an 80 acre farm in Tazewell County. Koosier affidavits to Lambert and Krefting describe deceptive conveyances to shield land value with deeds held for protection. Lambert later faced arrest while McFarland provided a statement exonerating himself, shifting blame to Lambert.
A fragment from a 19th century column notes noticeably light worshiper turnout as young men loiter outside on street corners during Sunday evenings. The piece laments dwindling congregations, contrasting full prayer meetings with empty pews and urging reflection on church membership and behavior.
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