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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1872
Page
4
The issue reports warming weather and singing birds as streets and alleys are cleaned. Local events include Wilcoxen's Opera House tonight featuring The Foresters, and Bertha at the Opera House on Wednesday. Editor W. Clinton visited. Best & Morgan advertise on page five amid crackdown on rums. Also notes on shad in rivers, paper upgrades, and commentary on beet cultivation.
A meeting of the Stephenson County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to commence Thursday, April 11. The note also references an editor in New York discussing a publication and mentions W.G. Barnes & Co planning a large warehouse addition to accommodate their growing stock of farm machinery.
A Freeporter reports attention on Saratoga Newport and other resorts as prospecting travels begin with a Democratic editor from a nearby town planning a visit. The piece notes the editor as a goose who flies when moving between places.
The Chicago Post misstates Tom Fitch as a Nevada United States Senator, though Fitch never served in the Senate. A Manny Stickney prosecution concludes with the jury acquitting Stickney after the State’s attorney’s summing up. J M Bailey, consul for Stickney, did not deliver a speech.
After snow and ice clear, citizens worry about holes in sidewalks and unsafe night streets. A suggestion envisions a calcium light on the Freeport courthouse dome to illuminate roads when the moon fails. The critic notes the idea sounds brilliant yet the author seems unclear on government powers.
The Forresters appear in Wilcoxon Opera Houst this Tuesday featuring exciting scenes and incidents. With many years since first plays, the public is urged to attend a full house at the oval.
A notice lauds a commercial law compendium by Professor Parsons, asserting its high authority and warning against inferior popularizations. It highlights forms and directions for business transactions and endorses the work as a lasting, reliable reference for merchants and readers.
Citizens weigh a potential move of a large carriage manufactory from a neighboring city to Freeport. The firm employs many workers and runs heavy business, prompting local leaders to ask if incentives should be offered or if workers will be left facing a cold shoulder.
A reader asks if Stephenson street should be used as a daily horse race course, claiming it endangers ladies and children on the street by exposing them to noise, dust, and danger as men and boys exercise their horses. The letter frames a plea to City Fathers for safety and comfort of pedestrians.
Messrs C B Bidwell GJ Bilas J I Braver and J J Piersol departed for an annual duck hunt near Savannah. The writers hope for plentiful ducks and note the hunters are skilled shotists likely to bring in a large influx upon their return.
Mr James H Prescott, a famed Freeport caterer, has closed his Freeport business and moved to Polo to open a new hotel. The Polo community and travelers are urged to give him strong support and endorsement as a trusted landlord.
Warren Sentinel reports the German American legislator William Massenberg of Stephenson County will publish his opinion on the new temperance law. Described as an eminent German American with influence over Stephenson and Jo Daviess counties, Massenberg is noted as a Republican elected as an independent Republican candidate.
The annual distemper of house cleaning has broken out in one or two places, and by another week it will probably be at its height. Prudent new foresceing the evil are looking for places to hide themselves.
Work on the new courthouse advances with steady progress. The builders aim to complete the structure and be ready for occupancy by September 1st before winter snows arrive.
At Pecatonica town meeting voters named officers for the new term including Supervisor F Salisbury Town Clerk L P Salisbury Assessor Trios Hance Collector Wmn Welch Commissioner C Hollenbeck and Trustee F W Fuller with five seats filled by vote.
Workmen on Monday morning found Stephenson street buried beneath a heavy layer of fertilizing ingredients. The startling sight halted traffic as crews investigated the unusual obstruction and reported on the dense mix of materials coating the thoroughfare.
In Galesburg on Wednesday the town of Kent elected W. L. Navamore as supervisor, receiving 119 votes out of 114 cast, while embury Church in Vixon hosted a discourse on dancing that Sabbath evening as fires began in Lanner town.
The Dakota town records banished denominational fervor at protracted meetings, noting Sabbath scholars and a supper hosted by Mr and Mrs P Yoder for the Brags Band as they marched from hall to residence. Local political contests, school director J A Templeton elected, and townsfolk discuss moving and weather. Rev C Young returns eastward to plan move to Saline Kansas. Miller and mill changes hands. A fatal illness of Manuel and falls of Mrs Ginsburg and Mrs Drake mark personal tragedy as spring moves begin.
The editorial notes Street Commissioner Darrabi enforcing efforts to improve sanitation. If vigorous work continues, the city can boast of its cleanliness and ongoing progress in municipal services.
The Faipeng Social and Library Society held a Wednesday evening meeting with addresses by Thomas Sweet L W Guiteau and others on temperance. The upcoming session will feature John Montelius and others discussing temperance.
Leading locals including T. J. Turner discuss with President Hough a view of the Freeport route for the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. They emphasize the road’s advantages for the city and its future growth.
The Quarterly Missionary Concert of the First M B Sunday School was held last Sunday evening. The exercises were interesting and pleasing. The thirty-one classes contributed a handsome sum of 69,605 dollars for the past quarter.
Mr Tangd Q Day of the wholesale grocery house Day Allen Co Chicago killed himself Thursday at his residence. The firm, once hard hit by the Chicago fire, was regaining fortune but Day feared poverty, a motive cited in the report of his death.
During a Methodist class gathering in a southern village Brother Jones spoke to an older colored man known for Sabbath misdeeds. He asks if he has stolen turkeys or chickens recently, but the man denies. The exchange ends with a neighbor joking the man might have said ducks instead.
In 1840 New York had forty Representatives in Congress, while Illinois and Missouri had five. Now New York has thirty five, versus thirty two from Illinois and Missouri together. Political representation shifts reflect western growth and state strength.
A report details the disappearance and suspected murder of J. Clymer in Johnson county near Vienna and riverfront traces of a struggle, along with a separate shooting of James Wicks by his brother in Union county. It notes a mass of violent incidents across the region, including a boy tied and nearly killed by two men in the Mississippi bottom, amid rising crime concerns and calls for stricter protection by law.
A compilation of 19th century court items, including judgments by default, demurrers, pleas, and motions. Parties named include Mel and Milam attachments, Jeremiah Lambert, Walter Bailey, Neff, Bailey & Neff for plaintiffs, and many defendants. Topics cover trespass, writs, divorce decrees, foreclosures, and notices of publication with references to masters, costs, and appeals.
A printed register fragment lists several gentlemen connected to Missouri politics and nearby states. It mixes biographical sketches of C C Allen, J H Bohn, John L Bittinger, John L. Bittinger again, and Gen Hall with details on birthplaces, movements, military service, occupations, and political affiliations, including Confederate and Republican links, marriage data, and public offices held. The dense OCR reads like a late 19th century roster of candidates and officials with scattered dates and locations.
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