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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1873
Page
4
Local notes recount summer events from Freeport including harvest prospects, circuses, strawberry festivals, and Fourth of July celebrations. Mentions crowd in town for circus day, blooming flower gardens, rain last week, court house progress, and printing services. Also notes Ban on white hats with brown bands, lecture planned at Embury Church, and local commentary on journalism and politics.
Rev Geo Elliott delivered the first of a course of lectures on the Confession of Faith of the Presbyterian Church last Sabbath at the Second Presbyterian Church.
Bishop Foley of Chicago will visit Freeport on June 18 to lay the cornerstone of the new Catholic Church and conduct a large number of confirmations.
The Freeport Zouaves express gratitude to the ladies who zealously made wreaths and bouquets for graves on Thursday last. If the dead could speak, they would bless them for the thoughtful remembrance and kindness shown.
The Rockford Gazette notes 26 of 47 delegates instructed against General Farnsworth with opponents named as William Lathrop of Rockford General Dustin of DeKalb and W H Hawkins of Aurora. Also reports 154 emigrant cars passed Lyons station in six weeks totaling 7700 emigrants on one NY Central line. A potato bug appears in a neighboring county.
A report clarifies that A. Yontz late Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court was not indebted to Captain Polk. The trust deed securing any sums taken has been surrendered, and the vindication is offered to readers, exonerating Yontz fully.
The ladies of the First Presbyterian Society host a Strawberry and Ice Cream Festival in church parlors next Friday evening June 7. They expect a first class entertainment based on their experience and ability and invite all to attend.
The election last Monday re-elected O. B. Bidwell to the Freeport Board of Education for a three year term. Bidwell won 309 votes to 186 for David Parsons, a total of 495 votes cast, a 128 vote margin. Citizens praised his faithful year of service and support for the schools.
The Springfield Republican and Chicago Tribune express regret at Farnsworth’s defeat. They opposed electing an enemy to the Republican party from a radical district. Voters rejected the scheme as too thin, and Farnsworth is elected to stay at home per the Rockford Gazette.
The Great Eastern Circus and Animal Show delivered entertainment on the 29th inst. Described as chaste and superb, it invites the entire family without hesitation. Geo W. De Haven, Esq., a sober respected figure, is the General Manager and upholds high standards under his canvas.
The Sabbath School Association of Illinois will hold its fourteenth annual convention in Aurora on June 18 to 20, 1872. The program mirrors the National Sabbath School Convention with topics The Field The Seed The Sowers The Sowing The Harvest. Citizens welcome guests and plan railroad fare reductions to aid attendance.
The Damascus Farmers Club held meetings through the month including sessions at Damascus school house Flansby and Waddams Center. A special gathering at Flansby was skipped by bad weather while Waddams Center drew a strong turnout to discuss crop placement. Members tested the Thomas Harrow, found it beneficial, and State Lecturer Abbot spoke on farmer consumer relations and suspicions of middlemen, culminating in a 16 member Grange organization led by 8. H. Train, Cor Secy.
On Declaration Day the Freeport Zouaves and citizens decorated soldiers’ graves and reflected on patriotism. Rev Crews urged yearly grave decoration and civic duty. Public instruction notes explain new Illinois school law requiring physiology hygiene and natural sciences exams for teachers, emphasizing botany zoology and natural philosophy for early education.
The article notes Freeport aims to keep pace on the matter and invites attenders to the Festival in the First Presbyterian Church parlors on Friday evening June 7. It also mentions an entertainment at the High School Building next Friday by the scholars, with all invited. The Zouaves Strawberry Festival at the armory Saturday evening drew a large crowd and netted $40, planning repeats throughout the season.
The Freeport Zouaves held a meeting to reorganize their county unit and select material for a new uniform. R W Hulburt was elected chairman and Shaffer secretary. Officers named include Captain R W Iul, 1st Lieutenant R M Buckman, 2d Lieutenant Orren L Williams, 3d Lieutenant D W Ambrose, and Sergeants and corporals led by W G Ford and Geo Noble. The group voted to call the unit Stephenson County Guards, with Shaffer as treasurer and Shaffer, Petiit, and Ford forming a committee to draft by laws. Uniform arrangements by Mr Stine were approved and members asked to submit measurements by Thursday the 6th.
The piece wanders through biblical idyls and ancient geography, citing Irby and Mangles, Burkhart, and Keith, to describe Idumosa's vast plain from Sodom to the Red Sea and to frame a discussion of cholera’s origins and its biblical plague narrative, ending with a dated note from Freeport Illinois, May 18 1872.
The remark attributes to President Lincoln, describing Horace Greeley as an unsafe and imprudent man in political affairs, noting it as his view within the broader national discourse. The quote captures tension between Lincoln and Greeley during the era's political debates.
The Buffalo Courier reports that the Liberal and Republican coalition seeks to secure a Democratic administration of the government. The piece frames the alliance as a path to control national leadership through joint political strategy and preferred policy outcomes.
The New York Herald editor James Gordon Bennett died on a Saturday with his body held for burial until his son arrives from Europe. Bennett left an estate valued around $10,000,000.
In Rutland Vermont, readers question Mr. Greeley’s war policies and platform. On reflection, they find limited backing for the Republican party or its loyalty claims.
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