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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1910
Page
4
Committees submit resolutions on the death of Brother T. A. Riggin of Neilson Lodge No 25 O O F. They extend sympathy to the bereaved, vote to suspend the charter for thirty days, and publish the resolutions in Troy Call. Also an ad note about Dr Kings New Life Pills and a city council session on saloon licenses and upcoming regular meeting.
The board approved graduation for ten seniors including Sarah Wilkinson James Wilkinson Alice Mantle Ella Raber Maggie Joseph Minnie Joseph William Dunstan and Frank Maletz. They set ten programs per graduate at ten cents each and formed committees to assist Thurston with exercises and to visit him. A Rules and Regulations committee was named and the clerk directed to publish a teacher and janitor notice in The Call. The meeting adjourned after urging harmony and duty.
A digest of short items from Troy Collinsville and nearby areas covers socials, moves, births, and public notices. Isle of St. Louis effects, marriage licenses, a railroad inspection stop at Troy, a death in Kansas, and local officials changes in Madison County governance. Includes service exams passed and property transactions.
The Noble Grand and Officers of Neilson Lodge No 25 report the death of Brother Robert Williamson. Resolutions express grief, order burial records, offer sympathy to relatives, draping of the charter for thirty days, and publication to relatives. Signed by P M Davidson Frank A Collins Harry Cooper. Also a Troy Public Schools notice seeks teacher and janitor applicants by May 5 1910.
Court house notices list numerous property transfers in Madison, Collinsville, and Edwardsville, detailing grantors, grantees, parcels, and nominal sums. The section also records marriage licenses for residents across Madison and nearby towns and notes wedding invitations at The Call.
Market quotes for crops and livestock in Troy list prices in dollars per unit. Wheat at 1.00 per bushel, corn at 0.51 per bushel, oats at 0.50 per bushel, clover hay 7.00 to 9.00 per ton, timothy 9.00 to 11.00 per ton, straw 3.00, flour hard wheat 3.20 per cwt, flour soft wheat 3.10 per cwt, bran 1.20 per cwt, white middlings 1.55 per cwt, shipstuff 1.30 per cwt, meal 1.00 per cwt. Cattle 3.06 to 5.60 per cwt, hogs 7.00 to 8.50 per cwt, spring lambs 0.06 per lb, calves 6.50 to 7.00 per cwt, chickens 13 per 100, spring chickens 0.20 per lb, ducks 0.10 per lb, geese 0.10 per lb, butter 0.25 per lb, eggs 0.20 per dozen.
Card of thanks from Wm Sudhoff expresses gratitude for neighbors and friends during illness and after his wife's death. Public sale notice: May 14 1910 at 10 am three miles north of Troy and one mile south of Kuhn station on Staunton road. Herman Stoke farm 100 acres with house and outbuildings. Also store property in Troy occupied by Garnet Bros Mercantile Co. Herman Stoke Heirs. Legislative notice: M S Link announces candidacy for Representative in the Legislature in the Democratic primaries in Madison and Bond counties in the 47th senatorial district.
An Illinois company seeks agents to sell water color portraits with gold frames at a profit. Reports a $22 daily example in Ohio, offers 25 years established, no capital required, 30 day credit, extensive commissions, and asks for Ohio references. Responds via Williams Art Co., 2515 W Taylor St, Chicago, Ill.
A brief notice invites readers to use The Call to make their wants known cheaply and effectively by contact or mail.
A prospective candidate offers his name for the 47th Senatorial District seat, subject to endorsement by the Republican party of Madison and Bond counties.
United farmers prohibit fishing hunting or trespassing on their premises for the year 1910. Violators will be prosecuted. Signatories include Helmich Burk Giger Cline Flath Smith Wendler Hampe Prott James Smith Prott Boda Clark Bohm Minier Hackman Smith Struckhoff Whiteside Hunsche Horn Flath Jr Martin May Howard Giger Talleur Anderson Schmidt Bohm Ang Louis Daily delivers by Daniel Peterman 47-tf.
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