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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1874
Page
4
A crop of short notices from Freeport mentions Opera House events, church services, and social happenings. It highlights a Patons of Idleness organization, a savers’ meeting, and city improvements while recording loan deeds, livery moves, and a sailors’ home fundraising effort in Chicago.
The piece notes subscriptions totaling 10000 dollars for a proposed Freeport clock factory with a goal of 65000 dollars. readers are invited to sign at Fieldfield and Brainerd's. Sheriff Piersol arresting Old Father Time at the Court House is reported. an arrest followed by a pledge to appear daily. A Sunday School mass meeting is announced for Sunday at 3 pm at First Presbyterian Church with pastors delivering addresses. Embury Church held a missionary concert with a strong musical showing by local youth. proceeds unknown. James S. Taggart recounts Washington observations and Capitol relocation debate, plus a historic Northumberland Argus copy from 1809.
Matilda Fletcher is ill in Des Moines. H B Amerling and wife plan a European trip this month. George Brown listed at Sherman House Chicago. H Clay Bray in Chicago meeting J H McVicker and dramatic agents. Mrs Elizabeth Packard called the top lobbyist at Augusta Maine. Wm Shannon of Shannon leaves for the Pacific region this week, away until July 1. S D Saxby of Grundy County Missouri seen in town, seeking Freeport location. Col is J M Saxby’s brother. Ives Paris of Detroit, formerly of Freeport, visits to tend his wealth. Hon George A Black, Utah Secretary, and wife appeared Friday night. she to summer with relatives. Magie Mitchell praised in Chicago Tribune May 7 half notice at McVickers. Bray Sisters in cast. General Smith D Atkins to address Decoration Day at Rockford Illinois May 3.
A temperance meeting under the Ladien Temperance and ladies is scheduled for Wednesday evening at the Opera House. The program includes music by the Quartette Club, scripture reading, prayer, speeches by Rev. I. E. Springer and Mrs. Kleckner, and a pledge reading. Local rumors about county order fraud are noted, with officials to investigate. ex Clerk Thompson’s alleged actions are being reviewed and the community shows sympathy for his family.
In south Florida stock raising stands as a highly profitable, large scale industry. cattle are marked and penned for fattening with minimal care, many owners holding tens of thousands of head. Cuba and other ports provide a ready beef market, while horses and hogs also offer strong profits. sheep are scarce and farming is minimal.
The Vanderbilt faction last Monday re elected officers of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad. The old Commodore served as President with his son, William H., as First Vice President. The company runs 1,181 miles of track. In 1873 total earnings were 19,414,509.26 and expenses 13,746,596.54, yielding net earnings 5,667,910.72. Gross earnings surpassed the prior year by over a million and exceeded 1870 by more than five million. Construction and equipment expenditures in the past four years exceed 17,000,000.
Augustus Shell presided as members from all parishes and parts of the city met to reaffirm Democratic ideals. The group praised past governance and expressed confidence a virtuous Democrat would soon occupy the Presidency, amid calls to unite the party. The Tammany Hall General Committee handled a dispute between ex-Congressman John Morrissey and John Fox, referring it to a sub-committee.
A movement among Southern and Western Congressmen and about 80 Pennsylvania members plans a convention in St Louis next fall. They aim to discuss currency cheap transport and Mississippi levees, forming an independent bloc from New York and New England to influence the next session and the fall political canvass. Republicans and Democrats unite in this effort, seeking self reliance and new funding terms from the North.
Freeport Public Schools report for the month ending May 1 1974 lists highest attendance and punctuality at River Lincoln Avenue and Enion schools. It shows enrollments by division with totals 116 pupils at agate River and River, plus district wide totals and percentages for attendance 92.2 and punctuality 95.5. Superintendent C. O. Snyder signs off.
John Adams Wilson was instantly killed on November 7 while attempting to board a moving train near Pleasant Green Missouri. Funeral held at his father’s house near Batleyville on November 10. He leaves a wife two daughters and extended family. A veteran of Co F 92d Illinois Infantry he later worked in cattle shipping with E O Lott. The article extols his soldiering citizenship and family devotion and notes a life well lived despite a sudden death.
Railroad timetable notes show trains between Freeport Mendota Chicago and Dubuque. It lists Freighteill Mail passenger and express services with varied departure and arrival times on Sundays Mondays Saturdays and other days, including fast trains to and from Chicago and Mendota, and connections with the Illinois Central and Burlington lines. W. P. Johnson and A Mitch are cited with supervisory roles.
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