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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1879
Page
4
Correspondents sought in towns and school districts to provide condensed readable news. Reports note Hazlett sermon, injuries from skating, a horse death, sleighing good, fog delaying trains, band disbanding, library move, Good Templars meeting, social visit, and a theater success. Also cover local sports, a move to Nebraska, and Lieut Norton returning from a world tour aboard the Alert.
Local notices report Elgin planning storage of 100000 tons for summer consumption and note prior actions on Jan 16. The item mentions a local mill and a statement “we wont give it away” amid other community updates. Nearby items recount a muskrat kill total, a turkey shoot, a military drama at the Opera House, and appointments to the State Senate.
Birth notices from the clerk list multiple infants born January including Jan 13 and Jan 18. Names include Johann Rotzvler Jacob Fender M Gill WIL Wissmann Miles Ryan FP Mensenkamp JF Erfert Dan Dubbs Johann Selawartz WG Koken Jacob Newe Jno M Ferguson GCF Sharen L F Price A Maermiee Jno Phillips Leo Wain Surris Jo. First and second to various parents.
News from Grandy Centre Iowa reports a major fire last Wednesday night that wiped out seven structures including C. C. Shuler's office and the Swartz and Whitcout drug store. Shuler lost his papers entirely. Several late communications from Winslow Cedarville Hamilton County Neb and Webster City were received too late for this issue and will appear next week. Also included are local notices and a long registry of Stephenson County deaths for the past year with age and foreign birth tallies, plus election of 1879 lodge officers and praise for the mutual benefit association now serving 5,000 members with $2,000 coverage and annual cost about $12.
A German Bible bound in oak boards with hogskin covers and brass mounts arrives for rebinding. It features original title page imagery including Paradise, Luther, Jerusalem on fire, and Tubingen. The 1738 Luther translation by Arndt notes print by Jos Sigmund and JH Schiraum in Tubingen. Property of Jno. Wirth of Dakota, on display at the WAL Book Binpeny for examination by the curious.
A January 18 1879 message from Florence reports church activity by Rev Rife at Shannon nine new members, a donation to Rev EF Bower, and local schooling led by E B Latham. Tax figures show district school funding totals of 2176.75 with district rates, plus notes on district sizes and tax changes. Also covered are John A Jogan’s nomination and a lengthy item on Woman’s Temperance ballot history and Home-Protection debates within the Woman’s National Christian Temperance Union and related state committees.
Fragmentary remarks attributed to Francis E. Winann and others on misapprehensions, listing members of the Executive Committee. Also notes a product sale for Self-Rising Buckwheat and a laundress wanted for a six-person household at Brewster House room 50.
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