Court house item shows multiple ward and estate discharges
Court records list guardians discharged after final accounts for Henrietta Kesler Drusilla Seybold and other estates. It records balances due wards, executors discharged, and real estate or property transfers in Adams, Madison, and nearby counties. Included are minor balances for Eugenia Seiberlich and heirs, various tract sales in Alton Collinsville Edwardsville and Mt. Vernon areas, and sums paid out from estates with final distribution pending receipts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henrietta Kesler
Drusilla Seybold
Gottlieb .Schmidt
Anna Achmidt
Eugenia Seiberlich Et
Eugenia
Paul
Minnie
Joseph
Frank
Philip Kappas
Mary Ann Searcy
Ernest Wolf
Executrix
McPherson County
Kansas
Marriage Licenses Issued at Granite City and Local Areas
A list of recent marriage licenses shows Thomas Healey 22 and Edna Young 20, both of Granite City, along with Walter J. Gusewelt and Lydia A. Engelmann, and several other couples including Edna Mason 23 and George P. Byrne 26. Names and ages reflect local residents applying for licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Healey
Granite City
Edna Young
Pin Oak
Lydia A. Engelmann
Kdeville
George P. Byrne
Edna Mason
Mike Lueger
Mary Washko
Wm. A. Wallis
Cora Louise Seigel
F. Kesler
Marie Hoegland
Myrtle Sherry
Norma Bond
Mike Zika
jYennie Smola
Fobn Wehling
Alma Brunnworth
Troy Ills Board Sets Annual Plans and Elections
The Troy Illinois Board of Education held a special session on April 22 1915 to organize with President elect Dawson presiding. K L Dawson Frank Snodgrass and P B Wild were elected or confirmed as members and W H Gorlby was named clerk with a 25 dollar salary. Committees were appointed and salary terms set for principals teachers and other staff. The meeting adjourned after a bond appeal for governance harmony and plans to publish job notices in the Troy Call. A poetry fragment by Walt Mason followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Ill
Board of Education
Dawson
K. L. Dawson
Frank Snodgrass
P. B. Wild
Watts
Wild
W. H. Goalby
Naylor
Watta
Snodgrass
Lewis
Goalby
Watte
W. L. Oliver
Elfrieda Brede
Hall's Catarrh Cure promised as cure all stages
A vintage advertisement proclaims a $100 reward for proof Hall's Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages. It claims the medicine is constitutional, taken orally, and affects blood and mucous surfaces to restore strength and health, with a bold offer of one hundred dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Highlanders Win One Sided Opener Over Troy Advertisers
Highlanders defeated the Troy Advertisers 7 to 1 in a season debut at Highland. Voelker pitched for Troy with Harold Peters catching for Highlanders. Hightower fanned 11 for the Athletics and Troy managed only eight hits. Moore led off for Troy with a sharp hit to right, stealing second and scoring on Raber’s hit, but that was their sole highlight as Highlanders dominated the rest of the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Highland
Athletics
Highland Papers
Voelker
Trojans
Harold Peters
Hightower
Moore
Sarely
Raber
Highlanders
Young
F Peters
Davis
Hermann
Wick
The Value of Lime in Soil Fertility and Sweetness
The article explains how soil sourness or acidity harms crops and bacteria, urging lime use to restore sweetness. It details lime types, application timing, and typical quantities, noting marl as an alternative and stressing lime as essential for fertile yields and effective fertilizer results.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acre
Clean Up and Paint Up Get Behind the Brush
PRINGTIME has come to stay and prepare nature for summer flowers and autumn harvest. Housewives fix and paint up premises, painting is art preservative that saves repairs, adds life to properties, and pleases tenants and landlords. Enforce clean up and paint up to improve Our town. Try our prescription as a call to action for readers.
Troy City Council Adopts Power Contract and Saloon Bonds
In a special April 28 1915 meeting Mayor Kinder and council approve the Southern Illinois Light and Power Company contract to furnish electric power and pledge saloon bonds. A later April 29 adjourned session names Alderman Llewellyn mayor pro tem and approves bonds for Angelo Fasser Pistone Voelker Vetter Taylor Schmacker Raber and Liebler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Ill
Kinder
Southern Illinois Light and Power Company
Roll Call
Garnet
Cooper
Foster
Gerfen
Llewellyn
Taylor and Wild
Southern Minois Light and Power Company
Taylor
Wild
Nelson R. Kinder
H. Gornet
Gornet
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Roy. D. Elliott
Opera House
Ed J. Helmich
Weems Laundry
E. R. Deiniling
George T. Eckert
Bunetor Arte
Tooal
Herman Roeben
Center St. & Coll
H. Brownstein
Julius Peter
Union Shop
J. R. Ward
Florist
C. E.rood
Batiiaton
P. Early
Perry H. Hiles
Jesse L. Simpson - Early
Hiles & Simpson
Attorneys At Law
Eckert
Bell—Main
Main Street
Edwardsville
J. Brown
M.D
C.E. Molden
M.D. Brown & Molden
Physicians and Surgeons
Baptisl Church
Brown
Molden
F. Kliermann
Deutscher Zabwarst
Walter A. Reese
Wendler'’s
Collinsville, Hl
B. W. Jarvis
Elianty
Gall Office
Kinloch
Bell
Dora Rosnberger
C. F. Vozel
Smith’s
Alton
Ee.m. Smart
Nellie FP. Drom
Maxey
Elvira Massey
C. C. Harris
W. Weisbach
J. Wickenhauser
Fountain Square
Nelson Montgomery
J. J. Kubicek
W. H. Weisbach
Woodriver
Aug. Beutel, Sr
Wm. B. Porter
Wesley Jarvis
Fred W. Heeley
Catherine Ward
East Granite
Gee. D. Burroughs Et al
Clover Leaf Loan
Edwardsville Township
Lever Estate
T. C. Kistner
Marie F. Kistner
Lottie ‘Eeek
J. M. Clark
Elizabeth Cannevan
H. G. McPike
Elizabeth Cannavan
Thos. Cannavan
Godfrey Townships
Helvetia Milk Condensing Co
Granite Place
H. Anderson i
Efima Walther
EB. Leng
Dennis Fennel
Tod
F. Fennell
Kerr’s
Venice
Hy. Hoffmiann
Geo. F. Smith, Jr
Wm. G. Burroughs
A.B. Reviseh
Union Add
Collinsville
Henry Flake
Ferdinand Volbracht
Maple Heights
Short Et al
W. Spokowaki
Woodriver Heights
Jaub
Subject
the Board OF Education
Walt Mason
Lima
New York
Chicago
Troy Exchance Bank
Journal OF the Council
Stopurkicken
Coopz
Yuede & Probst Commission CO
North Third St
ST. Louis, MO
Sunan
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