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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1878
Page
4
Generous subscribers offer: pay arrears and $1.50 for next year to receive the Journal gratis until January. New subscribers paying $1.50 for a year also get the same. Items note weddings, society meetings, local anecdotes, editor's jokes, and a bankruptcy indictment of J. A. Crain with bond set at $500.
Jolly tea party at Sheriff Leigh’s. McPatter quips about water works and a turkey. Barnes heads East on business. A Rock Grove marriage notice arrives unsigned. Freeport Commandery No. 7 election set for Dec 4 with dull attendance. Rev Jewett edits a Sunday Reading column for the Freeport Journal. Newborns praised on Stephenson Street. wishes for presidential future. A city toe stub leads to reflections on water and gas. Notables visit, county Sunday School convention Dec 3–4, with full attendance urged. Hart minstrel show praised for entertainment. Kilpatrick lectures at Armory for Company C fundraiser. 85 cent admission.
A rattlebrained preacher ran for Congress in Kansas on the Greenback line. He denounced gold and silver as relics of barbarism and later spoke at a camp meeting praising streets of silver and mansions of gold. An intervening listener quipped about Bradder Mitchell, noting the contradiction.
The First Presbyterian Society holds a regular weekly prayer meeting this Wednesday in the church lecture room. Union Thanksgiving Services are set for Thursday morning at Embury Methodist Church with Rev. H. D. Jenkins of the First Presbyterian preaching. Brick Pomeroy speaks at the Opera house Wednesday evening on Ward Times. General Kilpatrick lectures at Hettinger’s Hall Wednesday evening on Incidents and Battle Scenes of the Rebellion. Col. Stephenson Hose Co. No. 2 hosts a grand Halloween? Thanksgiving Eve ball at Hettinger’s Hall. Thanksgiving services convene at Zion Church at 10 AM and 7 30 PM.
The Illinois State Horticultural Society will hold its twenty third annual meeting December 10 1878 in the State House Springfield over four days. Papers by experts will cover all horticulture related sciences and practical arts. Return excursion tickets will be one fifth fare on Illinois Central Rail Road. Hotels charge 1 to 3 per day. Rev G S Young preached at First Methodist. Rev J S Best filled Embury pulpit. Bishop Bowman preached at Salem Church.
A circulated remedy claims kerosene gargles and small internal doses cure diphtheria, citing Plattsburgh and other New York locations. It warns family doctors to consult before use and notes reports of success in severe cases and for sore throat.
The Rockford Milwaukee and Western R R directors met in Polo last Friday. Bills were audited and accounts received. Work on the road will not be commenced this winter. The new pumping house at Forreston is finished. Wm Liscom is baggage master at Forreston, replacing Coon. Newhall Comstock Bennett of Galena visited the Journal. Dr Jewett officiated at Gratiot Wisconsin church dedication. Alma Weissman funeral held for five year old victim of diphtheria. Friday High School Literary Society exercises were well attended.
The sudden death of Mrs. J. Maynard at age 80 shocks Freeport as friends mourn a warm wife mother and neighbor. Her husband, away on business, returns to find her passing and their young son left without a mother. Relatives Mr and Mrs C Taylor receive heartfelt sympathy as grief settles over many households.
The Rockford Rifles face questions over their trial target score not reported promptly and rumors of a higher prize. Critics demand explanations, suspect possible “doctored” results if the prize is awarded without clarity.
Mr. M. V. B. Elson, a popular jeweler at the corner of Stephenson and Vin Buren Streets, displays an elegant holiday line including jewelry, silverware, watches, and clocks. He just returned from a market tour in New York Providence and other centers and offers cash purchases at unusually low prices.
The Freeport Journal reports strong work and reliable coverage from the past week. It notes corrections on syrup factory management and the death of Samuel Smith, plus impartial notes on the Swedish Lady Quartet and updates from Bobtown, Rockford, Lena, Orangeville, Brush Creek, and Canton.
Batch sale listing includes Kurtzman, C. D. Pease & Co., Halle Davis and Emmerson pianos plus J Fisher pianos, 21 organs, about 20 sewing machines, violins from 1.50 and up, German accordions cheaper, sewing machine needles at 25 cents per dozen.
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