Brief News Notes and Local Gossip Roundup
Short items report a birth to Mr. and Mrs. Lover and a bouncing baby boy for Mr. and Mrs. Blackett. A 24 foot sign was installed at Davidson Store. Ollie Isenberg suffered a dislocated shoulder after a broncho spill. Mrs. Votsen is in serious condition after a stroke. A man named Fred Stewart shot himself at Edwardsville. Local ads promote millinery at cost. Marriage licenses issued in St. Louis and East St. Louis. Local baseball results include Collinsville Reds beating Edwardsville 1 to 0. County clerk George K. Thomas seeks sheriff bid. Greenville to receive road macadam. Advertisements for cough syrup and witch hazel salve. Miner Fred Guttersohn dies at 26 in Cuba. Bond county plans a Higgins monument. St Pauls Lutheran school opening with 25 in primary. 20 more expected later. Teachers promoted. advanced department to start in September.
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Michael Lover
W. J. Blackett
Davidson
Ollie Isenberg
Kennedy
S. Kingston
St. Louis
Allie Zimmermann
Stella Siedler
Highland
Chester Carthy
East St. Louis
Ida Hess
Marine
Collinsville Reds
Edwardsville Madisons
Trenton
George K. Thomas
St. Clair County
C. J. Lindley
Bond County
Greenville
DeWitt
Fred Guttersohn
Donk Bros
Cuba
Thomas Higgins
Higgins
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Parochial School
C. B. Krueger
C E. Kellerman
Kellerman
Wisconsin
Troy
Weekly Weather Bulletin for Springfield 11t August 13
The week ending August 13 showed near normal temperatures with maxima mostly below 90 in the north and around 90 elsewhere. Minima ranged from 54 to 70, and rains began on the 5th with several days of showers across all regions relieving drought. Cairo 2.94, Rantoul 4.38, Bloomington 3.52, Antoch 4.43, Riley 3.96, Lanark 3.82 inches. reports from Carlinville, Hillsboro, Flora note warm, cloudy, humid conditions and substantial rainfall easing drought.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Cairo
Rantoul
Bloomington
Antoch
Riley
Lanark
Macoupin
Carlinville
R. O. Purviance
Montgomery
Hillsboro
Ira L. Woodward
W. E. Cox
How to keep bilious attacks solved by Dr Kings pills
John N Pleasant of Magnolia Ind touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as the fix for periodic biliousness and habitual constipation. The advertisement guarantees satisfaction or money back and notes pills are 25 cents at Kingston's drug store on King Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr . King
John N. Pleasant
Magnolia
Ind
Kingston
Town Beautification Efforts By Women And Children Spread In Missouri
Missouri towns see civic pride rise as club women and school children lead a town beautiful campaign. Mayors and civic groups back efforts to clean streets yards and alleys with contests, prizes, and seeds supplied to participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
National Federation
Trenton
Towns Vie In Statewide Fight Against Dirt And Blight
A legislative panel toured Missouri towns to judge sites for new schools and spur civic cleaning. Smaller towns led the way with sweeping streets, mowing lawns, and trimming trees, while larger cities lagged. Macon’s women’s club finances street cleaning and beautification, and Arbor Day is widely observed by schools, driven by individual teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Webb City
Lebanon
Arcadia
Maryville
Stanberry
Savannah
Tarkio
Rock Port
Columbia
State University
Mike
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Macon
City council actions settle street fair rate and bonds
Journal notes council votes on street fair rate to Light committee, accepts Bank of Edwardsville bid for bonds, approves buying land west of the bridge from Dr Brown for 10 dollars, sells rock cistern top for cost, and adjourns. Eminence editor Hamm touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve for healing burns and wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of Edwardsville
Peterman
Horsley
Snodgrass
Bridge
Dr. Brown
Llewellyn
Henry Stoure
R. L. Dawson
Major Hamm
The
Constitutionalist
Eminence
Bucklen
S. Kingston
Desirable patterns shown weekly in THE CALL pattern department
Patterns are displayed every week in the pattern department on the sixth page. Any pattern shown will be supplied through THE CALL for ten cents. See souvenir Troy post cards at THE CALL office. Mounting board photographs for sale at Call office.
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Troy
Also Mentioned on This Page
Odd Fellows
Main Street
Illinois
Climateological Service
Weather Bureau
Journal OF the Council
Staunton Road
Hazelwood Place
W. S. Neuenschwander
Ford Automobile
Sidney
South Broadway
Til
S. H. Marn
South Mainstreet
John Langenwalter
Opera House
Formosa
S. Cartwright
Frice
St. Jacob
James .Giger
LEGAL
Felix Droll
Madison
Madison County
Edwardsville
A. D
Edith Droll
F. F. Miller
W. P. Early
Sarah
K. Johnson
Sarah K. Johnson
R. F. Allwarter
Springer & Buckley
E. H. Wolfe
Bear Grove
Elias Burk
John Petry
Troy, Ilinois
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