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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1873
Page
4
Cold weather notes. butter scarce and sleighing good. Brown questioned today amid marriage listings. New Year events at Lena passenger depot and churches. Illinois Central office robbed of 45 dollars. jail crowd and Christmas cheer abroad. Local fire scare ends quickly. Beloit land sales spark regional optimism. Baker detention and jail security loom as judge prepares sentence.
The Rev J Giffen is supplying the pulpit at Second Presbyterian Church and regular Sabbath services are expected to continue. The Week of Prayer begins next Sabbath and the session invites all to join in the season of prayer for the Redeemer's kingdom.
Christmas Eve about six o'clock a thief on Stephenson Street tried to steal flannel from a box outside Gray Blanchard Co. store. He was chased by clerk Mr. Miller who pursued him. The culprit threw the goods over Brewster Co. depot fence and escaped into darkness.
The Inquirer will not pursue further debate with C H L after his December shift to professing belief in Christianity, following November labels calling the Christian faith atheistic. The exchange deems further argument useless and notes a sharp, forgiving view of intellectual slips.
At Ridett Grange No 189 meeting held on the 27th alt officers for the next year were elected led by JF Strunk as Master and H P Waters as Overseer with a slate including Thomas Hunt Lecturer Thompson Lease Steward Joseph Hunt Assistant Steward John Swanzey Chaplain HS Blakeway Treasurer W T Lamb Secretary H B Dibble Gate Keeper and Miss E Woodruff Ceres Miss E Taggart Pomona Miss Zella Mynard Flora plus Miss E Waters L Assistant Steward. The piece then shifts to local notes about school vacation and a Christmas wedding in Lancaster where Joseph Lapp and Annie Wade were wed before about 86 guests with a generous reception. The printer’s wife and subscribers are urged to settle accounts.
Christmas Eve saw decorated trees at Epis copial Embury and Lutheran churches and at the Opera House. Hundreds of children rejoiced, some receiving handsome gifts. First M E Church fed 350 for a school supper, Baptist tree event Friday drew a large crowd, Second Presbyterian Sunday School held a tree Tuesday evening, with other denominations likely hosting similar celebrations.
The Freeport Journal notes a minister from Stephenson county, Rev. J K Buoom of Tipton Iowa, thanking the paper for its courtesy. He recently left Orangeville Illinois for a new field of labor and wishes for a weekly Journal to follow him, though he cannot afford payment.
Baileyville December reports show a thriving town with active lyceum events. On December 23 the program included chair D A Galpin, minutes, readings by Flora Griggs and Edna Dovenbarger, Orin Galpin, M D E A Carpenter, Budget reading by editor W Lane, and a debate on fiction’s harm with Ethan Philbrick and Wes Hollenback for the affirmative and G D Cline and A B Ausherman for the negative. For December 30 the lineup featured readings by Belle Vought and Mary Frisbie, an essay by Elder Tibball, more Budget readings, and another Patrons of Husbandry debate.
From the Baileyville Budget the village shows continued prosperity as business and labor stay active. A German Baptists church is being erected, the M E Church is repaired and painted, the Chicago and Pacific railroad may cross the Illinois Central at Baileyville, and plans for a steam grist mill and a cheese factory are discussed for next year.
On Saturday afternoon the Lena depot ticket office was broken into and cash and tickets stolen, with no arrests yet. The town kept holiday events, including Lutheran and Presbyterian Sabbath school entertainments, a Masonic lodge installation, runaway teams, and Christmas Eve accidents, including a wagon overturned injuring a girl and a clergyman bruised.
The Loy Schools of the Second Presbyterian held elections on Monday for the coming year. Officers include President J. S. Wine, Superintendent Samuel Chapman, Librarian Jonathan Nesbit, Treasurer A. W. Her, Secretary S. G. Lathrop, and various assistants and organists across Loy Schools and First M. E. areas, with named roles listed.
A Christmas account from Ephors Journal describes a festive family reunion in Freeport with members from Sylvania Chicago and Freeport battery workers. A dinner yields practical factory talk, with arguments for manufacturing and railroad interests and criticisms from a granger advocate, ending with the old adage about conversion.
A January 1 1874 festival by St Marys congregation Freeport at Hettinger Hall to raise funds for pastoral schools aims to entertain with supper in dainty style and a Gibler directed band. Committees listed urge citizens to attend and support for a successful event.
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