Focal Matters Offers Free Paper to Subscribing Patrons
The Journal appeals for arrears and new paid subscriptions. It offers to deliver the Journal gratis until January 1 1879 for any subscriber who pays up all arrears plus 1.50 for the coming year or for new subscribers paying 1.50 in advance. It promotes the Journal as the leading Republican paper of the district and asks patrons to recruit friends.
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Journal
Charles ¥. Goodhue
Charlie
Hi T
George I
Stone
Oppogi Knowltons’ Bank
Knowtons’ Bank
Roll of Honor and News From the Journal Office
The Journal announces a roll of honor for patrons paying arrears and advancing a year in advance offering free delivery through January 18, 1879. Local items include illnesses, church confirmations, frost, a runaway incident, a death in Wisconsin, donations to the parsonage, and upcoming meetings. The paper notes subscriptions, editor’s thanks, a coroner’s inquest, and a property sale of the editor’s residence for 4500 dollars.
Farmers Debate Forming a Community Improvement Club
A call to organize a farmers club aims to boost husbandry ideas and local progress benefiting both growers and the wider community, with a push to form and perfect such an association. The Aurora society notes a pastor change and highlights a recent wedding in the area.
County Treasurer Goodhue’s Sudden Flight Sparks Scandal
Bondsmen uncover a jail order forged by county treasurer Charles F. Goodhue leading to a funds crisis. He vanished after securing cash from banks and shipping his trunk to Savannah, amid rumors of heavy spending, political manipulation, and possible romantic entanglements fueling his downfall.
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Charles F. Goodhue
Klecknar
W. H. Myers
Myers
Kleckner
Oliver 2. McCool
Goodhue
Dr. Darling
M. Hettinger
Mr. Hettinger
Central Rail Road
W. U
Savannah
Wedding of Miss Emma Mc Cool and Mr Harris Sheetz
On Tuesday evening October 15 the wedding was held at the bride's home in Evanston Illinois with Rev O P McCool performing the ceremony. A reception followed with an elegant supper and many gifts including stained glass and silverware items from relatives and friends.
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Buckeye Town House
Nett
Dean
Eloroy
Trailroad Company
Beaumont—Jenifer
Aurora
Out
D. Paine
Beaumont
Freeport Trs
Ella F. Jenifer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Jenifer
W. N. Watson
Freeport
Iis
Vreeport
Emma McCool
Harris Sheetz
Wm. T. McCool
0. P. McCool
O. P. McCool
Bride
A. Y. Sheetz
Villa Race
Emma Nina
Dollie V. Mesick
Jennie B. Norton
Evanston
Ill’s
Arvilla Aspinwall
James Bell
F.Q. Miller Jr
Desperate act rumors in Forreston stir town
Correspondence from Forreston dated October 18 1878 reports a deadly report that Mrs W H H Miller attempted suicide by taking corrosive sublimate. Doctors intervened and she was saved from danger after physicians treated her.
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Forreston
W. H. H. Miller
Town Moves Ahead After Ejecting Trustees in Freeport Fight
Oct 18 1878 Lena reports town action against a local board of trustees by 83 vote. The ousted board members named include Jas Potter W H Ayers EB W Johnson Emanuel Mullen and Samuel Stoner. Also notes hogs driven drunk near Jo Daviess line injuring two men and church appointment list for Freeport District with Rev James Baume moving to Princeton Mendota district.
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Townarmen
Freeport
Jas. Potter
W. H. Ayers
Eb, W. Johnson
Emanuel Mullen
Samuel Stoner
Lena
Jo Daviess County
M. E
Thompson
Samuel Langer
Fair Hayes
Edwin Breen
Elizabeth
J. H. Thomas
Woodbine
J. Liberton
Shannon
Cyrus F. Kreyder
Rev
James Baume
Princeton
Mendota
There Was An Old Soldier Named King
A humorous verse on a veteran named King famed for war service and habit of talking politics. It mocks his fondness for beans and soft money schemes while praising his stubborn, blustery campaigning nature. The piece relies on playful dialect and repeated references to “King.”
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King
Enin
Miss Lena Tittenborn to Open Dramatic Season 1878 79
Miss Lena Tittenborn the German American dialect soubrette will star in The Milk Wonder of Germantown translated by Carl Hueber and staged in Freeport UI Germania Hall on November 6 with a first class company and a Swedish Quartet concert to follow per local notices and Chicago press.
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Lena Tittenhorn
Lena Tittenborn
Carl Hueber
Frank Cosworth
Germantown
Cincinnati
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D.S. Bogar
Jack
B. Musser
Orangeville
Taylor
Taylor & Son
Rush Medical College
Chicago
St. Mary's Catholic Church
L.D. Snyder
Nora
Aee
Mt Carroll Methodist Conference
A. W. Jewett
G.S. Young
Walace Stibgen
W. Kh. B. Smythe
Hudson
Wis
Madison
Nadder
Journal of Ce
H. D. Jenkins
C.J. Fry
G.G
Boquet
Ella Sumner
Guitean
Temperance Hall
M. M. Mayer
Kansas
County’ Teachers’ Institute
Robi. Huber
Micheal Welsch
Justice Goodhue
Sant
Catherine Wilmot
Ann Arbor
Michigan
F. Gund
Baptist Church
D. H. Cooley
Canton
Cooley
Board of Supervisors
Fry’s Block
Western News Co
Angell
Pullman Car Co
Our
Hymeneas
Mishler
Chicago Times
Polkias
Gallops
Walta
Ghihaig
J. D. Diffenbaugh
C. C. Wilson
Bortree
WM. Walton
V. Allen
Key West
GEG, M, Sheets
Wells & Sheets
Stephenson Street
Brewster House
Ile
Tateer Agpie
Wilcoxon
J. Benson
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