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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1907
Page
5
Office on Market Street in the Rieder Building opposite the Postoffice permanently located in Troy. Office hours are 8:30 to 12 a.m. and 1:30 to 5 p.m. Phones: Office 54 and Residence 4.
A child was born to Mr and Mrs Elmer Duckett. Frank A Weite installed a large soda fountain. Mrs John Deimling rents and repaints Market Street residence. F Auwarter adds tile coping to brick store. Days shorten with sunrise at 5 22 and sunset at 6 44. Big 10 cent sale at H J Leuth Kiesel building Monday August 26. Jokerst Collinsville pitcher signed with Greenville for weekday games. Dank mine payroll near 10000 during two weeks of steady work. River View plat filed in Benbow City Woodriver township by W C Uppoff. DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve marketed by S Kingston. Surveyor Morgan Edwardsville in Troy for trade street sidewalk stakes. Dominic Contratto buys Cooks second addition block 2 for 100. Theo Guennewig sells Hickory street property to Ira P File for 1000. S L Fox retires as president GM of Model Department Store Edwardsville. Mayor Hotz named president, W W Warnock manager.
Decatur will host the McKinley interurban system repair shops and store rooms, to be built this year with a large repair shop measuring 252 by 300 feet. Other notes include a local woman’s heart hemorrhage after a blood vessel burst and school openings for St Pauls and StJerome parochial as well as the Collinsville crime fine and a hospital nasal surgery revealing a cherry seed.
Navy expired in April and he chose to stay at Pensacola as an electrician. James T. Purviance left for Pacific Missouri to join his wife visiting relatives there. Louis Hartung traveled from Edwardsville with Wilbur Gebauer and sister Louise visiting county relatives. Mrs. Percy Wilkinson and son Stanley returned from a four week St. Louis trip. Miss Lillie Farmer accompanied them home for a week. Miss Bernetta Joseph of O Fallon is visiting aunt Mrs. John F. Deimling in town. Mrs. Deimling and niece spent a day in Edwardsville with relatives. Amelia, the former's daughter, also visited. Theo Gebauer, Daniel Liebler and Frank Raber Jr. returned from a ten day Niagara Falls trip with side trips to Toronto New York City and Coney Island. In New York they met Lawrence Doyle and saw him play for the Giants. they were entertained by the Troy boy. They also met Joseph Scott, a Troy navy man, at the Brooklyn navy yard. Dr. and Mrs. I W Zanders hosted relatives and friends at home. Attendees included Mrs. G G Bock Smithton, Mrs. Daisy Woodward and daughters Ellene and Margaret, Mrs. C F Risser and Miss Minnie Boyd of St. Louis, and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Metz and Naomi of near St. Jacob. Dr. and Mrs. Zanders plan to leave Troy around September 18 to relocate in Florida at Lake Helen.
Prominent Bluff resident C. G. Hays touts Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the fastest healing remedy for sores burns wounds and piles. S. Kingston, a local druggist, guarantees the product at 25 cents. Rev. J W Britton to hold regular services at St Jacob M E church tomorrow morning and evening.
The town observes Labor Sunday on September 1 with Rev. H B Boyd preaching at the Presbyterian church. Hospital Sunday benefits the Granite City Lutheran hospital with similar services at St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church. Various church events include a coffee gathering at the M E church, an ice cream festival by the German Evangelical church, and a union prayer meeting led by Rev. Boyd next Wednesday. Raymond Henry, infant son of Mr and Mrs Wm Heck, was christened at the German Evangelical church. The W C T U schedules a meeting at Mrs August Mossman on Sept 3, and Merry Wickers plan a gathering with Mrs August Droll.
In St Louis the Second District Police Court advocates probationary temperance pledges for drunkenness cases. Judge William Jeff Pollard states the court aims to reform drunks rather than punish them, preferring family preservation and sobriety over prison, with a reported 95 percent long term reform rate. The Chicago Tribune urges more drinking fountains in parks and amusements, while the Catholic Order of Foresters bars liquor men. Daniel Peterman promotes St Louis Times subscriptions.
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