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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1878
Page
4
An offer seeks an energetic young man or woman with good address to act as agent for the JourNAL in every township for 90 days. Good references required. Inquiries at the office or by correspondence.
Prof 8 C Cotton former city schools superintendent has bought an interest in the Herald at Mt Carroll. The purchase positions the paper among the leading publications in the region and is wished success for the new firm.
A West travel letter reports farmers between Omaha and Des Moines plowing and sowing wheat with promising outlooks and no grasshopper signs. It notes Dr Will Tr. Taggert, a Philadelphia Dental College graduate, will open an office in Munns Building opposite the Court House and invites public patronage.
We report the death on Saturday last of Charley C. Winger infant son of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Winger from scarlet fever. The child aged 1 year 11 months had been healthy until the illness. The funeral was held Sunday at the Baptist Church. Clarence, another child in the family, is ill with the same disease but improving.
A small audience greeted a visiting club with rich applause for the exquisite music and Miss Ella D. Lewis. Prof Leland reports a vocal class organized at First M. E. Church with about sixty attendees and fifty in the class. The Queen Esther cantata will close the twelve lesson term, with many top city singers joining the effort.
Mr L Z Farwell returned from New York City last Friday. Miss May Ferris, after a Dubuque stay, came back to town Wednesday. Prof N C Dougherty, Mt Morris Seminary principal, visited Saturday. Mr Hiram Shons of Oneco dropped by with news that winter wheat looks good and farmers are busy planting. The group expressed general optimism about crops and local affairs.
County court journal notes final reports approved for the estates of Goddard Butterfield J Rietzell and others with guardianship and admin duties. March entries include Michael Kahl appointed administrator bond set. Jona Lincoln sale decree. Cahill fined for keeping open tippling house. Weather page remarks on early spring and shifting storms.
At Tem perance Hall last Wednesday evening the Reform Club elected Geo. M. Fugate as President Rev. J. Giffen as 1st Vice President John H. Wilson as 2d Vice President Wm. Madlung as 3d Vice President C. W. Leigh as Secretary I. F. Kleckner as Treasurer Rev. Geo. S. Young as Chaplain The Misses Wilson Tobias Mr. Wilson and Mr. Turner were thanked for providing music at club meetings.
Centennial Lodge I O G T hosts nearly sixty guests from Spafford Lodge Rockford for a Friday celebration with vocal and instrumental music tableaux and recitations. Visitors ride the midnight train home pleased with the day. Also notes deny Fugate telegrams to Creston Times and address local nuisance remarks and office partitioning in Winger building. Fire alarm from bonfire near River school caused no damage.
The Old Pioneer Clothing House reopens as New York Clothing House after renovations. The salesroom offers ready-made clothing hats caps and gentlemen’s furnishings with new stock and moderate prices. Mr Little administrator of the Stine Estate keeps a quality cloth stock for custom suits. The shop provides spring harness fits in either section.
A plan to buy wooden shoes and Limberger for two city officials as prizes for best acrobatics is under way. The scheme aims to elevate a summer or pre election exhibition with a focus on the officials as stars. Also noted are Mt Carroll Seminary teachers and students visiting for Mendelssohn concert, led by Mrs. Shimer and others, returning pleased.
Ladies can have their hair dressed in current styles by Mrs R Shibley at Simmmons Music Rooms. Mrs R also keeps in stock all kinds of hair goods and invites calls.
Messrs Emmert and Burrell of the old reliable Drug House return this week with a fresh advertisement noted elsewhere in the paper. The reminder underscores their continued presence in the community as trusted purveyors of medicines and household needs.
Lent season services begin this Wednesday with a schedule at Zion Church. Midweek morning and evening services, Friday morning and night prayers, Holy Week daily and Sunday 10 o clock Holy Communion. Special dates March 25 and April 15-20.
The poem contrasts The Bulletin and The Budget, two papers of differing faiths, as they wander at night to drink Holland gin and gamble. They mockingly vow virtue and law after drunken episodes, yet repeat social faults and indulgence, ending with renewed pledges amidst a whisky haze.
Rev J Giffen of Freeport lectured Tuesday evening in College Hall Fulton on Culture and the development of human life. He argued life offers vast possibilities and culture enables improvement through study and service, quoting Christ on being servant of all to be greatest. A large audience listened attentively and applauded at the end.
A prohibition mass meeting will be held at Temperance Hall next Saturday evening March 16 to nominate a no license ticket. Hon J O Detwiler is expected to attend and address the gathering. All are invited. By order of the Prohibition Club.
Executors of the estate of Jonathan Reitzell deceased will offer at public auction on Thursday April 4 1878 at 10 oclock a m a lot of agricultural implements livestock corn oats rye etc Sale will take place at the late residence of the deceased in Lancaster town
John Gochenour of Florence describes his potato growing system from soil preparation to planting and hilling. He details ground work with a homemade boat planter, a two iron shovel marker, and a scraper for covering. He advises selecting medium to large tubers, cutting into one or two eye pieces, spacing rows and hills, and thinning stalks for best yields. He also notes Buckeye potatoes resist the potato beetle.
Last evening at Judge Vail's Vermont avenue residence Lieut W A Dinwiddie U S A wed Miss Ella Kilpatrick daughter of Judge Kilpatrick Chief of the Swamp Land Division General Land Office The ceremony was by Rev Dr Chenoweth Dinwiddie formerly of Iowa City now a professor at Illinois Industrial University in Champaign He wore full uniform The bride wore dove colored silk with white camelias and a rosebud garland The best man was Lieut Hoxie and bridesmaid Miss Vail The guest list included Gov Kirkwood and others with many officers and social leaders The Philadelphia singer Miss Anna Fuller contributed songs during the reception
A wedding in Champaign Illinois drew notable attendees including Mrs Colonel Daniels Senator Saunders Vinnie Ream Mrs Judge Vail the Misses Burket Mrs Senator Kirkwood and Mrs Weddey all in black velvet and silks. After the ceremony guests enjoyed cake cream and ices and hot coffee. The couple depart today for Champaign to begin residence.
A bill by Mr. Gibson of Louisiana calls for a five engineer commission to plan and estimate a general Mississippi river improvement system. It would deepen and stabilize the channel from Cairo to the river mouth, with wartime support from the War Department, including boats and staff, and allocate 75,000 dollars for salaries and 2,500,000 dollars for the project costs.
London rumors suggest Lord Lyons may succeed Lord Derby as Secretary of State for the Foreign Department if tensions with Russia rise again. Some see the change before the European congress, leaving England represented by its Foreign Minister. Sir Bartle Frere reports a severe Kaffir War engagement with heavy Kakiffs losses and a wreck of the steamship Kaffir off Cape Point with five crew drowned. Bismarck's health shows little improvement after vacation. he plans another vacation after the substitute bill passes.
Archduke Francis, father of the present Austrian emperor, died in Vienna at age 76. He abdicated in 1848 in favor of his son, and his wife the former empress died six years earlier. Count Sclopis, Turin born jurist and Sardinian civil code drafter, also died, aged over 80, after notable service in Italy.
A Senate Finance Committee debate shows some members oppose a full repeal of the Resumption act and favor dropping the date clause. This could delay resumption but keep the Treasury machinery intact. A united committee of both sides could yield a favorable recommendation to repeal the date clause.
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