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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1874
Page
4
A collage of brief items from a Chicago era notebook: weather, holidays, rail timetables, social quips, local ads, and notices. Mentions Cedarville Illinois Central timetable, Freeport schools, strawberry markets, a revival, and the Wallack Combination at the Opera House with mixed box-office notes.
Tickets will be sold at one and one fifth regular fare for Chicago and points east for the Fourth of July. Tickets also good until the 28th for Chicago. An Iowa joke about Christians on a railroad map stirs local amusement. Hoffman Janssen announce ice cream made in city and at Goddard's Grove with substantial sales last week.
Cedarville prepares a grand Fourth of July celebration with all arrangements nearly complete and the town urging everyone to attend. The pleasant weather has street lamp peddlers on the move, while local merchants urge residents to buy reliable goods from citizens who pay rent and tax to support city prosperity.
Geo Maynard is domiciled in Greece while Henry Abbemeier from Chicago visits the city and joins local festivities. Prof Whitney of Beloit College preached last Sunday at First Presbyterian. Judge Hyde will tend to county estate interests this week. John Beaumont visits from eastern military school. C L Shaffer and E J Wonderly depart for Ohio on business. Friends note Mrs J B Snyder’s serious illness improving Monday. Master Mechanic L Bunton at O and N W shops ill after a Cold from Rock Island. Rev S B Gilbert leaves for El Paso to serve the Baptist congregation. Hon J M Bailey quits practice for a six month Eastern tour. praised in Stephenson County. The Jovenan readers learn of Aug Watts’s sudden illness at the post office.
A jury trial before T. F. Goodhue involves plaintiff Henry Fisher and defendants J M Bailey and J I Neff over a promissory note. Fisher testified Bailey received $100 to influence Becker v Fisher. Bailey admitted the note and not addressing a speech to the jury, but denied any promise to drop the suit. The jury awarded Fisher $11.95. both sides appealed to the County Court for further review before Judge Hyde.
A column recalls medical recoveries and family notices while praising travel routes to St. Louis via the W A R R and urging use of the St. James Hotel. It notes Joaquin Miller in Rome, a portrait on a new 25 cent note, and Kalyn Kay’s poem altered for the Baltimore American. It discusses German language teaching costs, school funding, and a First M E sociable on Lincoln Avenue. The Young American Band accepts a Fourth of July invitation to Miles Iowa, with Freeport citizens advised to enjoy lemonade away from home.
The article reports on the Chicago Turn District Turn Fest held in Freeport with delegations from nearby cities including La Porte Indiana. It highlights grand processions, concerts, gymnastic displays, prize turning, and final balls marking a successful jubilee in 1874. It also includes a separate pledge piece by D. B. Byers from Freeport on total abstinence, praising temperance and linking pledge to moral and social benefits.
The Board of Education limits German instruction to the High School citing few grammar department students. the public discussion misread notices as ending German entirely. The plan keeps German for high school with about ninety minutes weekly and hinges on hiring capable teachers for other subjects.
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