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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1865
Page
1
Advertising rate card lists one column and partial column options with yearly and half year terms. Rates cover one year, six months, and quarter column spaces. Station wording references Rockwell Upham and a Pennywise style in a local weekly format.
Directory lists President Andrew Johnson and Vice President Lafayette S. Foster with cabinet posts. Secretaries named include State William H. Seward Treasury Hugh McCulloch War Edwin Stanton Navy Gideon Welles Interior James M. Evelyn Speed Attorney General James Speed Postmaster General Dennison with garbled spellings and punctuation.
Statewide list details congressional districts for Halbert I. Paine Sloan Amasa Cobb Eldridge Sawyer Walter D. McIndol and others with names of counties and offices including governor lieutenant governor secretary of state treasurer attorney general public instruction comptroller and supreme court justices. Distinct counties appear for each official with numerous misprints reflecting OCR errors.
An assembly district convention will meet at the Oconto Court House to nominate a candidate for the Wisconsin Assembly. Delegates from Oconto, Shawano, and Door counties will attend. Oconto gets six, Door four, Shawano three delegates.
Shawano September 23 1865 convention met at 1 p m Hon John Wiley chaired R S Lawhert elected chair D H Pulcifer secretary Credentials reported full representation from each town McCord Klosterman Wiley Myron H McCord elected senator delegate to Appleton Sept 28 Pulcifer Wiley Lambert elected assembly delegates Sept 30 Assembly District convention power to substitute votes affirmed Pulcifer praised Senator Harris for faithful service and parliamentary skill and integrity
The Wisconsin Democratic convention in Madison issues resolutions praising Johnson’s restoration policy, opposes negro suffrage, and endorses fiscal restraint. It then nominates a full ticket: Carrison C. Woburt for Governor, D. W. Maxon for Lieutenant Governor, Milton Montgomery for Attorney General, L. B. Vilas for Secretary of State, D. B. Davis for State Treasurer, C. S Wornessey for Prison Commissioner, and John C. Parkinson for Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Southern journals praise peaceful, productive behavior of freed people. Richmond notes sober fidelity and good feeling amid recent upheavals. Charleston News says blacks show industry, order, and propriety, facing misfortune without violence, offering hope for the future.
A collection of brief items reports a new colonel in the regular army, local political votes, shipwrecks on the river, a native specimen found near a ravine, potato disease and crop concerns, a Teutonic fight tale, a repair schooner arriving, and local licenses and governance. It notes Captain Nate Sanders bringing remnants of the Cornette for repairs, a large shingle haul, and village board votes on liquor licenses amid public reaction. Additional notes cover convict counts, black bears in Metomen, fruit yields and a giant tomato, and evolving public school attendance in Kenosha.
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