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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1878
Page
4
The Journal seeks a Ro as an agent in every township for 90 days. Good references required. For details call or write us. Several local items note baptisms, auctions, and prizes at Catholic fair. Temperance and church events, concerts, revivals, and press changes are reported along with local crime bail and public notices.
A large meeting of the Young Men's Library Association stockholders was held on February 16 1878 in Freeport Gen Atkins presiding. They discussed donating the library property to the city if a free circulating library is established by the City Council. a committee was formed to confer with council and a unanimous resolution was passed to present the library property and 250 books to the city with one year of expenses covered if a free public library and reading room are created.
Col Eastman former Chicago postmaster visited the city and JOURNAL office. Misses Rowell Rosebrugh Scofield McNanny and others returned home from Clinton Amboy Chicago and Galena while Capt Mills and Mr Meacham left for engagements. Mendelssohn Quintette Club set for March 9. Ro Carey lecture on honesty drew a large Opera House audience and a church reception followed.
The Monday performance by Hyer’s Sisters drew a packed house with old plantation melodies, familiar songs, and duets and quartets enhanced by Sam Tucas’s drolleries. The show was praised as perfectly chaste and the audience highly appreciative.
Hon. O C Lathrop supplies an abstract of the general state law governing city organization. The text outlines voter petition thresholds, ballot wording, and the transfer of powers to new city officers after organization. It details mayoral duties, vacancy rules, council structure with ward representation, election mechanics, and the creation of officers like city clerk and treasurer.
County Court listings show estates probated inventories weighed and appraisements ordered recorded. Guardians appointed ad litem for infant defendants and executors named with bonds approved. Claims allowed for Mennonite Church and Hooper. Appraisers appointed for several estates. Copartnership inventory recorded.
The speaker, TuHos F. Mangan, pastor of St. Marys Church in Freeport, thanks contributors to a late fair and festival. He lauds citizen liberality and generosity shown in trying times and offers blessings from God, dated February 19, 1878.
Rev. C. Schmucker spoke to a crowded Salem Church on Sunday evening delivering an address to the young men. An address to the young ladies is scheduled for the following Sunday night.
An advertising note claims 110 source importers offer the finest garden grown Japan tea imported with a price of 78 cents per pound. Burrel Bros promotes this claim as a sales pitch.
Lieut Burrell and Lieut Williams led a thorough drill inspection of Freeport’s Color Company of the 3d Regiment, with Col Brazee and Capt Atkins present. The Rockford Journal notes Col Brazee’s praise of Capt Richards and the soldiers’ discipline and dress, predicting the unit will rank among the state’s best with continued citizen support.
Louis Seyfarth recently received a valuable present, one of Moseley and Co’s comple te watchmaker’s lathes, the most perfect tool of its kind. The inventor, Mr C S Moseley, long served as superintendent of the Elgin Watch Co. and has been prominent in American watchmaking. The lathe is in use at the J S Fifield store, 108 Stephenson Place, inviting interested parties to call and inspect it.
Mon Adrian Izar the world champion finger billiardist and his pup Amand Darlot will perform at Tettinger's Hall this evening. The exhibition promises fancy finger and cue shots, some seemingly impossible to beginners.
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