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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1880
Page
4
Freeport society circles report numerous Christmas visits by W B Norton from Evanston Theresa Weinberg of Chicago Ada Norton of this city and many more from Chicago Stevens Point Forreston Elgin and Greene County. Church events through Zion First M E and Salem Church plus a bee keepers meeting and a col Stephenson engine company social. A death notice for Henry Strohm of Florence and a note on railroad families moving to Savanna.
Cronkrite absent at installation and banquet while A K Stibgen receives Rogers statuary gift. Freeport Chapter No 28 RA M elects officers. John H Adams Lodge 23 AUW names leaders. First M E Sunday School sets its officers. Crissman and wife honored with gold spectacles and mink furs amid 23 below zero weather.
A book titled Southeastern Kansas by a Chicago press member is neatly written with full maps and reliable county information, plus data on Missouri and Kansas lead and zinc mines. It is available free, postpaid by writing J. E. Lockwood, Kansas City, MO, and is urged for travelers to Kansas.
Mysterious movements among several First M. E. Church ladies led to a plan presented after prayer meeting. Mrs. W B Thomas received a fifty six piece china set from her church and Sunday School friends for her faithful labors. The surprise moment drew praise and thanks before a brief social closing.
On Christmas Day 1880 a brass memorial cross from Coe & Son of London was presented by Frederic Bartlett for Zion Parish, Freeport. The cross honors Thomas Robinson, died Nov 10 1867, a former vestryman born in 1804 in Durham England who resided in Freeport from 1851. The vestry accepted the cross and thanked Bartlett in a December 22 1880 meeting.
The city Masonic bodies held Monday night installation of officers at Masonic Hall on St John’s day with a grand banquet at Brewster House. About two hundred attended despite 23 below zero weather. Officers of blue lodges were installed by P. G. M. Cregier of Chicago and the Chapter and Commandery by R E Grand Commander Gen John Carson Smith. A supper followed with toasts by L L Munn, Cregier, J C Smith, D D G M Jacob Krohn, P G M Scott, E B C Warner, M Stoskopf, C G Lathrop, and S D Atkin. A memorial toast closed the ceremonies, then younger guests danced at Armory Hall. Farwell presented flowers to Mrs Warner in absentia.
Ajoyful wedding at the Bray home as Mollie Bray and Hugh Flannery wed with Rev. H. D. Jenkins officiating. About seventy five guests attended a lavish supper and presented the couple with numerous valued gifts including furniture, silver, glassware, and keepsakes from family and friends. The Journal family contributed wedding cake to the celebration.
The speaker lauds a first-class Mason for all aspects of the order except the name. The overall affair is described as pronounced and grand, reflecting great credit upon the arrangements committee.
The young daughters Nellie and Jessie Moore received a cabinet grand upright piano on Christmas morning from L. Z. Farwell. The instrument, made by C. D. Pease & Co. of New York, was described as handsomely finished with a fine, rich tone and exactly what the girls had wished for Santa Claus.
The Bible Class gave Pastor gold spectacles and the ladies presented Mrs Crissman with a mink muff and boa. Other gifts were received as tokens of goodwill, with thanks extended to the friends.
A humorous historic vignette depicts a man angered at an editor who stops his paper. He pays below market price, sees his property seized for taxes, is fined for Sunday hunting, buys forged notes, hires a strongarm to confront the editor, and pays years in advance while forcing a macabre agreement to resume the paper or face harm.
We announce a second stock of the celebrated Radientome Base Burning Stove the most successful heater yet produced for sale only by F Bartlett at 75 and 77 Stephenson Street The Busy Barge is advertised as the plainest ornamented range in the market BURCHARD SCOTT New Lion Shop offering repairs and jobbing at Galena Street opposite Germania Hall E B Winger proprietor.
Five years ago said the stove variety was complete yet now Burchard and Scott offer a larger assortment to suit any description. Also advertised is Dr Marshall’s Lung Syrup with a quick cough and cold cure priced at 25 and 50 cents per bottle.
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