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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1915
Page
5
Threshing continues between rains. Donk Bros. Coal Co. payrolls rise with steady work. Vandalia Line delays due to washout. trains detoured via Big Four. Local residents relocate, attend sales, and visit relatives in Troy and St Jacob.
Notice from residents of Pin Oak township blocking fishing hunting or trespassing on their premises and vowing prosecution. Names listed include Whiteside Chris Burk William Bohm Fred Engeling Chas Helmich Wesley Smith James Smith Edward Pratt Fred Pratt Clemens Talleur Jim Carters Frank Kinder Edward Hunsche Henry Vorderhage H L Schmidt Charles Metzger W F May August Minner D Cline William Nell Hugene Riggin John C Horn George Flath and others. Also a note asking readers to state they saw foreign ads in The Troy Weekly Call.
An advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It promises one hundred dollars for any case cured only by Hall's Catarrh Cure, sold by J Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio, and notes Emily Pills for constipation.
Wm Gericke enjoys a new Ford. A platform dance is planned at John Nemnich's Saturday. Hugo Elbring of St Louis visited Marine relatives over Sunday. Rev Paul Buchmueller and George Wentz visited St Louis last Friday. Fred Wittman and family of Biggsville were guests of Mrs T B Mundis. Miss Hilda Kolb visited the Dempsey home at Grafton last week. Leo Talleur returned to Chicago after two weeks with his parents. Otto Staeger opens a new butcher shop in the Park View hotel building. Mrs Johanna Steger improved after a stroke last week. Hulda Elbring visits Danville for two weeks with the Leis. A new smokestack and repairs at the I C pump house. Madison County Medical Society to meet in Marine in September. Mr and Mrs L A Richardson and son Louis on a two week western trip. Christian church Sunday school picnic planned on the D A Brooks farm east of Marine. Irma Appel goes to Mt Vernon for chautauqua as guest of Olga Bender Mange. Freeman Bircher, 18, injured with both wrists broken in haystack fall east of Marine. Mrs Wm Koch, now with daughter in Mont, seriously ill. New milk receiving station west of the I C depot nearing completion. building is 36 by 60 feet, concrete.
Help cover Madison and adjoining counties by taking orders for nursery stock. Earn weekly pay with special inducements for quick action. Perry Nurseries Rochester NY. 35 42.
An old advertisement claims accumulated bowels cause poisoning and fevers, urging Dr King's New Life Pills for a full morning bowel movement. It touts a 36 pill bottle for 26 cents and urges readers to buy today from their druggist.
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