Legal and Transient Notices in Troy Herald
Public notices fill the Troy Herald page detailing legal ads and advertising rates. Various businesses list services and goods including mail order, groceries, sewing machines, and milk delivery.
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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1878
Page
8
Public notices fill the Troy Herald page detailing legal ads and advertising rates. Various businesses list services and goods including mail order, groceries, sewing machines, and milk delivery.
PROG PRICEY GRANON reports taking charge of a fledgling school in Prices Branch. Over forty seven pupils enrolled and twenty five more expected. The county fair granted tickets to all schools for one day, bringing a large, bannered procession and some music. Farmers in the area praise local lands and foresee a dry goods store boosting trade. crops show a strong hog yield and good wheat oats. Leopron.
At the crossing three miles from Troy a general assortment of groceries and other goods offered at lowest rates. Produce accepted in exchange. Poultry and meat specialties. Bring in chickens and other items. Hmattox proprietor, Ixo manager of store.
Local notes record dull business in Burr Oak with few merchants, weddings on October 17, and a political meeting between Democrats and Greenbacks. Courting tales, marriage ceremonies, and a Nat C. Dryden lecture are noted alongside idle talk of lake ducks and mill repairs.
The column covers local happenings at Star Hope including farming outlook with wheat sowing, arrivals home from Louisiana, attendance at La Grange College, and remarks on church meetings by Rev. Matthews of Clarksville. It mentions teachers institutes sought for the county, visits by E Tinsley and family, sale of a Star Hope farm to Wm Derkley for 98000, lectures in St Louis and Atlanta, lodge installations, and recent marriages in the area with names and dates.
Old See can be taken to BB for repainting at Troy. The service costs only a song, offering a quick renewal before resale.
Mira Mattie Gilbert made a flying visit to Clarkaville this week. Dr A E Noel spent last week here on professional business Robi. Black is building a two story shop. Uncle Jack Hingleton has been quite sick but is now better. Rev Mr Matthews led meetings at this place with large attendance. Our friend Raetor enjoys chess and knows how it is played.
In a U S circuit court trial, Douglass v Lincoln county, evidence showed over $125,000 in St Louis and Keokuk railroad bonds delivered by agent James V McLellan after March 30 1872. Plaintiffs allege unregistered bonds. defense argues county contracts require lawful agency and predated counter-signature. Judge Trent noted influential precedents but indicated the issue would go to the U S Supreme Court for review. The panel and counsel debated before the jury was dismissed for two hours.
Pendleton offers best four at two pounds fifty shillings at Wentzville. The message urges readers to visit the House of East and Birkhead for School H and related deals.
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