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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1881
Page
6
At the meeting of Centennial Lodge No. 2321 G T held on Friday evening May 27 the lodge adopted a resolution by rising vote that Bro Charles C Wolf resigns as Worthy Chief Templar due to his relocation. The lodge extends sincere regret and prayers for his future prosperity.
The excerpt reports on lodge activity with ninety two lodges organized since last September and notes from the R W G L including a warm Topeka welcome and Gov St John address. It also contains a long anecdotal piece from Betsy Jones about lodge life and a string of assorted notices and brief items on people places and events.
A Betsey Jones letter from Jonesville dated June 1 describes joining the Good Templars lodge, her initial reluctance, social pressure, and an evolving view on cider tied to a sermon about brotherly love and Paul’s teachings. The misremembered dates and casual narration reflect a personal snapshot of small town life and moral debates of the era.
A scattered column notes varied topics from Maximilian memorial plans in Mexico to social trends and language in dictionaries. It mentions a royal gift exchange, a shoe advertisement, religious shifts in Siam, a Texas constitutional founder, a London Knights Maccabees controversy, armistice hostages claim, patent medicines, a cemetery dispute, and a health tonic promise for pale women.
The Parents publish that eleven years of suffering by their daughter ended when Stop Bitters restored health after doctors failed. They condemn prejudice against the medicine and urge others not to withhold relief. The Telegram notes Ir Crosby’s long study of street beggars in New York finds no native Americans among them, calling each petitioner a liar and a foreigner.
Directory of local churches with denominations and service times including Evangelical German Reformed Presbyterian Roman Catholic Baptist Zion Episcopal and Methodist across Pleasant Exchange Williams Union Chicago and Stephenson streets noting pastors and Sunday school times. Strong named entities include Rev Byers Rev Stuelster Rev Hoffmeister Rev Wernley Rev Mere deth Rev Hiller Rev Jenkins Rev Crissman Rev Elfeld Rev Kalvelage Rev Mangan Rev Sweet Dr Cooley Ferris and St Joseph St Marys churches.
The document lists city offices and officials including Mayor James McNamara at Mc Namara's Shoe store 87 Stephenson street city clerk Warren C Clark in Council Rooms Fry's Block city attorney J C Kean in Fry's Block city marshal E Chamberlin street commissioner W Kmpsehild surveyor F E Josef office Court House aldermen 1st Ward T L Waddell J Hartman second Ward J Brown Taylor Dr Louis Stoskopf third Ward H J Porter Win H Wagner.
Clerk Kleckner. Treasurer Hutchison. Recorder Dan Brewster. Sheriff Captain Stewart. Surveyor Hiram Shows. All county offices are in the Court House.
Wm. O. Wright presides with W. G. Barnes and H. J. Porter on the board. Superintendent Charles C. Snyder has an office in the High School building with hours from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m.
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