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Newspaper
Freeport Journal
Location
Freeport, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1881
Page
4
A rural paper promotes Kendall's Treatise on the Horse as a valuable pestilence and remedy guide with drug tables and a teeth engraving. The offer applies to all subscribers paid in advance. The column then lists local notices, arrivals, deaths, council actions, a burglary scare, and a frightened resident.
James Musser of Orangeville visits for business while J Richart & Son from Cedarville transit via the city en route to Chicago. Ministers from M F E churches conference. Freeport Commandery No. 7 to meet. Oct 5. A. B. Trexler and Alice Hartman wed Sept 25 at Cedarville. Judge Bailey returns from Colorado. Messrs Garnhart and Bechtel from Florence praise the State Fair. Mrs. J. Russel Bradford visits Cambridge. Matt Quest moves to Waterloo to start jewelry business and leans Republican. Memorial services list omitted societies. The Journal notes Capt. Wm Bechtold’s hospitality and Republican family ties. Bechtold farms grapes, sorghum syrup production.
A tramp visited Thos Jones’s house near McConnells Grove claiming Alsace origin and German speech. He offered to deposit fake valuables for a $35 loan to return to Buffalo where he claimed $13,000 lay in a bank. He proposed paying $70 to redeem the watches, then vanished. reports say a farmer near Orangeville fell prey the next day. An Lena officer pursued the suspect, but details fade.
Congregations of First and Embury M E churches joined in a memorial service at First M E for Rev. 8. A. W. Jewett D D. The service featured choral hymns by Charlotte Elliott based music and readings from scripture. Speakers praised Jewett for lifelong ministry, fidelity and leadership in the Rock River and Joliet districts, noting his early calling and prolific writings. His death at the campground after a long tenure in ministry prompted reflections on life, duty, and the sustaining power of faith.
On Monday evening September 26 the twenty fifth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs B Snyder was celebrated with over eighty old friends despite bad weather. Music by a quartet club featured. Gift list includes many named couples and items such as cake baskets, berry dishes, butter knives, sugar spoons, and other silverware. Georgia is to save a new 1,000,000 state capitol building.
Messrs Anthony and Ellis present an ideal Uncle Tom’s Cabin combination in a popular drama at the Opera House this evening. The troupe has earned praise and a strong local welcome, with a favorable advertisement elsewhere.
Found on Stephenson street a pair of steel bowed spectacles in a leather case. The owner can claim by paying for this notice.
Advertises for soft maple wood measured by 6 inch diameter or 4 inch square. Call Woodmanse Wind-Mill Co for advantageous terms.
Classified notice seeks two competent wood workmen able to run machinery for W G Barnes. Also notes Dr Marshall's Lung Syrup offering relief for colds at 25 and 50 cents a bottle. The Irishman quote echoes a proverb about unity.
A horse, about 15 years old with a short tail and white face, strayed onto premises 314 miles north of Freeport on Friday September 30. The finder requests the owner to pay charges and remove the animal. Contact Aaron Wheelock.
Mrs Theo Grove announces relocation of her dressmaking establishment to Boston Dry Goods Store at 91 Stephenson Street. She is joined by Miss Minnie Sutter who will assist with cutting and fitting and cloak making. Friends are invited to visit.
Delicate women and those with feeble constitutions are urged to try Electric Bitters as a speedy remedy for stomach liver and kidney issues. Sold by Emmer and Burrell for fifty cents. A Deadwood beacon reportedly attended church thrice in one day, led Sunday school, and served as prize fight referee.
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