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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1875
Page
4
Local note announces the Ladies Temperance Union will hold a meeting at the Opera House next Monday night with good speakers and music. All are invited to attend.
The Freacoit Journal lists new notices including Lawyer Burchard delinquent notices administrator John R Hayes and I F Kleckner publication notice and items from John Wertman carriages Haas and Dorman pony mare lost and C H Little fruit trees among others.
Langrishe and Atwater troupe performed at the Opera House on Monday night to strong acclaim. Atwater impressed as the Sleep Walker, while J. S. Langrishe drew applause as Peter Poulter. The company promises one more appearance this Wednesday, their last in the city, with strong word of praise for overall acting.
Miss Carrie Krinbill returns to Freeport after a year in New York attending school. Geo Hay new Carroll County Gazette editor and W D Mathews editor of Rockton Herald visited. Mrs Mennig of Allentown Pa and her daughter and family visit Mrs Wilcoxon in Freeport. Sheriff George P Sutton of Carroll County was in town. Dr and Mrs M H Aspinwall of Chicago arrived, Mrs Aspinwall staying with Rev F P Cleveland.
A reflective piece contrasts a hot sunny day with workers on sulky cultivators and mowing machines. It laments office confinement as a “deep cold shadow of the tomb” while noting shade temperatures from 90 to 100 degrees. It quotes poets praising sunshine and hints at independent farmers and the Grange movement.
A folksy proclamation extols Northwestern Illinois and Stephenson county with praise for bountiful cereal harvests and peace. It notes floods quakes and pests afflicting others while celebrating local flora crops and Grangers, urging outsiders to envy life in Freeport and vicinity.
L Stanton in Chicago reports Bowen vice president of Chicago and Pacific Railway says locals along Byron Lanark line offer inducements but final location not set. Bowen plans another visit. Freeport urged to push for the link. Citizens urged to back the railroad to secure the connection.
The itemized press column details Krinbill Rotzler & Co planning a dry goods store in Munn's building on August first, and 14th Illinois Volunteers reunion at Beardstown on August 25, 1875. It also reports on local commerce delays, wheat yields, a potato bug caution, a Geneva Lake excursion plan, a Cornell crew victory, rail and factory developments in Janesville and Freeport, assorted accidents, retirements, temperance events, and social notices from Lanark to Ottawa with multiple personal and organizational names.
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