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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1905
Page
6
An item notes a park called LID opened last Sunday near Troy outside city limits. It references the first pry snnagy and a reenlt history, indicating local park developments and unclear historical context.
City Marshal James H. Davis enforces a Sunday closing order for all taverns in Troys starting April 23, with saloons to close 11 PM Saturdays and remain shut until Monday morning. The measure sparks public reaction, some compliance, and concerns whether the order will be continued by the new city administration.
The Siti anniversary of the institution of Colsellorship in the United States was celebrated in Collinsville with the St Clairs and Madison County Odd Fellows Anniversary Association. A 10 am business meeting elected officers, naming Miss Rega Wilkinson as third vice president. Local delegates attended from several lodges and encampments, with a 2 pm parade through Warner Park.
Queen City No 58 of East St Louis paraded in full uniform to loud admiration. Park activities featured music dancing refreshments and sports. The event was a success with praise for organizers. Caseyville narrowly won next year’s site over Troy and both vie to host in coming years.
Sylvania Caroline Meiners aged 5 years 7 months 7 days died Saturday at 9 45 PM after convulsions. She had been crippled by a fall two years earlier and hip disease developed. She loved Sunday school and wore braces and crutches. Funeral Tuesday at 10 from home to Baptist church, Rev James Osborn officiating, Troy Cemetery burial.
Announcement from Station Agent Elliott confirms a planned addition to Vandalia depot. The project enlarges the east-end freight and baggage room with a new waiting area, ticket window, and extra windows, modeled after Greenville depot. The change aims to relieve crowding and ease travel for the public and depot users. Also includes an advertisement for Cleopatra by Rider Haggard and a subscription offer for The Carr.
William E. Nix of Edwardsville and Della J. Deever, both connected with Granite City Press, married secretly last Saturday evening in Venice before Justice T. W. Kinder. They announced the marriage the next day, prompting surprise among family and friends as Nix and Deever hosted Easter ball events and social notices fill the column with local names and gatherings.
Worden traveled Sunday to visit relatives and was joined by Jacob Dornseff who returned home after a week’s stay. Stienhans hosted relatives from St. Louis including F W Stienhans and family, Augusta Steinhans, Gustave Becker, and George Steinhans. Mrs Josiah McElfresh of Herrick visits son William and sisters Bain and Montooth, plans to visit George Ledbetter’s family in St Louis before returning home. Mrs Gottlieb Mick of Troy, undergoing hospital treatment, went to sister Anna Bircher’s home for an extended stay. Attendees from out of town at the Meiners’s funeral include Lena Werner and daughter, Gertrude, Mrs Magic Gush, Theresa Helmake, and Laura Paulis of St Louis.
Arrangements are complete for the quarterly Madison County Teachers Association meeting in Troy on May 6. Several hundred visiting teachers are expected to attend at the Presbyterian church with two sessions at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The program lists lectures, papers, discussions, music, and an address on the value of English grammar.
The German Evangelical parochial school under Rev H T Bahnsen will open next Monday May tet. Prof S J Curlee state treasurer Epworth League of Illinois will lecture at the M E church next Saturday evening May 6 and again Sunday evening under the Epworth League of Troy. The YWCA temperance union held a YY party at Mrs A F Seligman’s home with strong attendance and enthusiasm for temperance. An elegy recalls Sylvania Meiners with a poem about an angel and Jesus.
Weather across Illinois this week stayed unusually cold with damaging frosts and freezing temperatures on several days. Heavy frosts reached far south, with timely showers on the 20th and 21st. Rainfall was uneven. central areas saw little, while north and south saw ample amounts. Plant growth slowed, plowing and sowing delayed by wet soil, oats nearly finished, corn plowing ongoing, and wheat in general good condition though slow. Strawberries damaged in southern counties. fruit injuries hard to determine. Reports from Madison Peters-All crops thriving. Bond cool and dry with frost. St Clair Millstadt wheat and oats fair. Engler notes promising fruit and early corn.
Local resident EL Wolfe of Bear Grove credits Electric Bitters with a complete cure for kidney trouble that caused pain and anxiety two years prior. He says the tonic aids general debility and nerve trouble and keeps a bottle on hand. S Kingston druggist guarantees them at 5 cents.
A Columbus Ohio man Theodore Schuele reports a foot wound from an accident causing great pain. He says physicians were helpless, but Bicklen's Arnica Salve quickly healed it. The ad touts Budden's Arnica Salve for burns and injuries, priced 25 cents at S Kingaton's drug store. Also offers wedding invitations and programs.
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