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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1873
Page
5
Readable notices detail Rhodes & Brother meat market offerings and a Swarts & Stocking drug store display. Also promotions for Dr McLane Liver Pills, heating stoves, Castoria for children, and local political and community notices from Stephenson county including sheriff candidacy and a Lena mass meeting.
Local retailer Wright Cavanagh Co offers horse sheets at 5 to 125 dollars, leather nets from 34.06 to 6.00 per pair, patent buggy umbrellas with adjustable holders, and boots and shoes at reduced fall stock prices to clear inventory in Fry's Block Centre Room.
Town talk centers on a burglar alarm fix at 54 Stephenson Street. The notice cites a storage or business site and urges people to visit or inquire about the system amid chatter in the area.
Wa Kreranea, a Republican candidate for Stephenson County Sheriff, denounces counterfeit circulations accusing him of abandoning Republican principles for the so called Democrats Greeley reform party. He vows to remain true to the Republican platform with support from loyal friends and county convention backing.
A Dakota notice from W. T. McCauxey dated Aug 17 1872 declares he remains a Republican but will vote for Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley opposite support. He states he has formed a Grant and Wilson club in Dakota and asks friends to join promptly.
J E Brown clarifies that he does not seek support from the Freeport Democratic Liberal gathering and prefers a straight Republican convention. He urges that any office presentation be before a proper Republican body, not the Freeport assemblage of the seventh inst. Cassius M. Clay criticizes despotism, citing General Grant ordering him from St Peters burg for shaming the nation.
Railroad timetables show trains leaving Freeport and Chicago south and northbound, with freight and express services, daily and Sunday exceptions. Connections exist at Rock Island with Western Union teams and at St Louis for southern routes. Mendota and Mendota to Chicago routes listed. directs readers to Burlington and Quincy lines and a wide regional network.
A school will be opened in the basement of Zion Church Freeport on September 2 for instruction in basic learning and Christian doctrine. A competent teacher has been secured and public patronage is solicited. Rev Gro W Dean Rector Taos Winston Sen Warden.
The Stephenson County Horse Thief Detective Association will meet at the secretary’s office in Freeport on Saturday the 31st at 1 o’clock p m. All members are urged to attend for important matters. J. S. Cochran, Secretary, Freeport IL, Aug 12, 1872. 17-18-2w.
Notice states the firm J E Brown & Co is dissolved by mutual consent. Debts are payable to J E Timms and claims will be settled by J B Timms who continues the business in Freeport. Dated August 12 1879.
A timber and ornamental trees dealer from Freeport Illinois announces selling both Western and Eastern grown trees this year. He promises replacement if trees fail to grow in the first year and offers orders by personal application or letter.
A few Stephenson County maps by Ewart and Thompson offered at two dollars and a half, reduced from nine dollars. Original sale ad notes 17 18 of Stine and Bro.
Capt. C. Dunham begins within days to locate and file soldiers lands at Grand Island along the Union Pacific Railroad under the Soldiers Homestead law. He will trace boundary lines on the ground and accept calls from soldiers or others at his office near the Court House.
A local note recalls a hunting party on the season’s opening day near Shannon that bagged sixty prairie chickens. L. Z. Farwell, Rev. Geo. Elliott, and William A. Stevens contributed two pairs of chickens as a gift, praising their success on the first day.
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