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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1878
Page
4
The Journal thanks subscribers for donations and urges payment on delinquent accounts while promoting reduced advance pricing. It previews excursions to Geneva Lake on June 27 and Fourth of July activities with letters from Andrew Shuman accepting an oration request.
The corner stone of the Rock Grove Evangelical church will be laid at Rock Grove on Sunday June 284d at 8 oclock p m. Services will be led by Rev D B Byers Elder of this district. All interested are invited to attend and take part in the ceremonies.
Company I at Galena receives 40 Spring field breech-loaders from Adjutant General Hilliard. Company C will likely be supplied soon as Hilliard strives to arm state troops, earning praise for his diligent work.
The New Orleans Minster show drew strong laughter and praise for its entertaining program. Audiences enjoyed flawless vocal and instrumental music, while the performance was described as chaste and elegant throughout the night.
The week’s weather favored crop growth with warm spells in March and April giving an early start. Cold snaps slowed growth. wheat oats and barley look good while corn is small. Rye may have suffered frost but is showing cheerier signs. Chinch bug and Colorado potato beetles affect limited crops. Seagull issues aside, prospects look promising for grain and hay, with plentiful vegetables and scarce fruit.
Freeport Illinois June 11 1878 Jress E B L Shannon Esq SaitH D Atkins accepts invitation to address Freeport firemen on July 4 promising to assist in making the celebration a success Signed Atkins expresses thanks for the complimentary invitation and obliges to contribute to the event planning.
The glass ball shooting club held a Friday evening event at their new range with many spectators. Despite a lower average than prior matches, organizers note the competition followed Bogardus rules with three traps and 18 yards rise, requiring shooters to face an unknown trap.
Miss Etta Purinton left for the East on Monday. L A Rowley of Galeria passed through yesterday en route to Mt Carroll and paid a friendly call. Capt Wm Cox of Winslow visited last Tuesday on business with the Narrow Gauge Railroad. M P Rindlaub editor of the Platteville Witness stopped by from Kansas and Colorado. L K Scofield left for Rochester NY to attend the American Association of Nurserymen Florists and Seedsmen meeting. Dr R D Pulford of Mineral Point returned from Milwaukee and described Mineral Point’s recent tornado.
A committee of masons met to arrange travel to Polo Illinois for St John’s day celebrations on Monday the 24th. They will charter a train leaving the depot at 10 a.m. and returning from Polo at 8 p.m. Tickets are one dollar for round trip and on sale at C G Sanborn’s. Masons urged to buy by nine o’clock Friday evening the 21st to gauge car needs.
The Northern Illinois Classis of the Reformed Church holds its 8th annual festival in Cedarville at J. Hf. Addams' grove, Iron. Rev Dr G W Willard of Heidelberg College Tiffin Ohio will speak. All are invited to hear the genial doctor and spend a day in the leafy grove. Suffering on the premises is strictly prohibited per resolution.
Witnesses describe a live demonstration of Edison's phonograph in a Palmer House room. A six inch cylinder, tin foil, and a diaphragm captured and replayed spoken sound with surprising fidelity, including intonation, and a cornet tune was reproduced. The article notes rapid improvements, patents, and potential uses in clocks and toys, plus regional land and cattle details in Buffalo and Russell, Kansas.
J D White reports from Russell Kansas that crops look promising with grasshoppers counted as defeated. Wheat fields are extensive and promising including a 3000 acre field in Abi line and a 500 acre field near Russell. One farmer, Mr Goudie, expects about thirty bushels per acre from five hundred acres with two headers cutting wide swaths.
From Winslow Wisconsin a Grange gathering at Sweeleys Grove drew crowds from Cadiz Franklin and Wayne and even Nora Illinois. Speakers including W H Eells of Winslow blamed hard times on policy and a five hundred dollar State Fair fund. plans to form a greenback club were announced. A separate account recalls a fatal well accident, as Mary J Atchison signs off from Derinda Illinois noting family loss, work and hope for pay.
June 12 Galena Gazette note from Winters Illinois prints a letter by Mary J daughter of the late Thos Atchison defending his memory. The writer disputes claims of premeditated swindle and asserts he would not have been digging wells or leaving debts behind. She notes his daughter would not work as a servant for low wages.
A letter from May 20 reports the death of a father who was struck by a hoisting box while in a 52 foot well with his son Eddie. The incident occurred May 11 and the letter describes bringing him out and the immediate aftermath.
The new story Under The Lilacs set in a New England homestead follows lively youths and a trained dog Sancho. Begun in St Nicholas in 1877, it will complete in 1878 with other serials poems and pictures. Scribner & Co. publish in New York.
John Weels of Butler New York claims six years of bedridden sickness ended after his wife took three bottles of Hop Bitters. He notes annual costs of 200 dollars totaling 1200 dollars and praises his wife for resuming housework without missing a day.
Freeport dealer Forp Rose & Co offers a remarkable lot of accordions violins guitars and Padua strings at unusually low prices showcasing a selective inventory to attract buyers.
Mrs. T. C. Porter will open a select school in the high school building on Bridge street starting July 1. Terms are 50 cents per week in advance.
Firemen and all Freeport Fire Department members are invited to meet the Committee of Arrangements at Col. Stephenson Engine Co. rooms on Wednesday evening June 19 at 7 30. J E L Sitannon, Secretary.
Royalty of birth does not insure a man against liver blood and nervous diseases but Dr Fenner's Blood and Silver Remedy and Nerve Tonic does. Use his Cough Honey for all coughs and Gulden Relief for Neuralgia and all pain. Sold by Emmett and Burrell.
A local sale offers 85 children’s carriages to be sold regardless of cost to free room at J. D. Diffenbaugh’s. The auction emphasizes immediate clearance and storage space.
A devotional line declares that divine attention rests on the heart while the tongue remains unable to mask truth. It stresses moral accountability, urging honesty before a higher judgment.
Firet-Music and Frayer present the third reading of a declaration with M Stoskopf Esquire handling the event. Governor Shunt offers fifth address. Gen Smith D AG presents sixth benediction in a pageant-like session.
The citizens of Freeport and all county are cordially invited to celebrate the Fourth of July with the Freeport Firemen in a proper manner.
By order of the GEO the document lists names including Wm. Lichtenberg Joseph Seifert Philip Arno and others as part of an official committee. The fragmentary text references a legal or administrative directive with several initials and numbers.
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