Neighborhood News Briefs From Marine Area
Miss Emma May visits St Louis relatives and Miss Emma Wittmann stays in St Louis. Wm Scheurer visited Grantfork business last Saturday. Mark Shepard rests at home due to illness. Mr and Mrs Henry Wright guests of Mrs L W Kennedy in Chicago. Ed Nendecker moves to Alhambra to paint and paper hang. Miss Gladys Pahlmann hosted Delta Alpha class with embroidery contest and refreshments. Marine Turnverein plans annual masquerade ball with Marine band. Interior improvements at Warners hall include re sealing walls and new lockers. Dora Gericke dies at 68. funeral in Marine cemetery with survivors listed. Marine saloons closed Sundays after Park View arrest for liquor sale to habitual drunkard. Mrs August Henze dies at 43 in Marine. funeral and burial at German Evangelical church and Marine cemetery.
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Emma May
St. Louis
Emma Wittmann
Wm. Scheurer
Grantfork
Mark Shepard
Henry Wright
L. W. Kennedy
Chicago
Ed Nendecker
Alhambra
Gladys Pahlmann
Dora Gericke
Henry Gericke
Marine
Marine Cemetery
Herman Becker
Park View
August Henze
German Evangelical Church
Merine
Andrew Schmidt
Local notables and events across St Jacob region
Richard Schiettinger visited from Highland on business. L W Adler Dan Widicus and Dr Q K Faires were St Louis visitors last week. Eugene Frey Fremont and Oscar Michael joined a concert at Collinsville last Sunday. The Turners hall event drew a large audience with a successful dance. A drama Better than Gold will be staged Saturday by Turners advanced public school group. Mrs B A Ellis and Miss Della, Mrs J J Gaffoer and Miss Grace Smith attended East St Louis women’s revival. Mrs Fred Brandly and Mona from Alberta Canada, Mrs Bertha Miller and daughters Irma and Alice joined Jacob Brandly’s guests. Sunday visitors at St Jacob included Dan Scheffer Ed Buehlmann and Wm Louis Buchmiller. M E church ladies plan a musicale and social next Tuesday evening. Prof Louis Baer, ex-principal of St Jacob and longtime Madison schools, died last Sunday in El Paso Texas. Baer had been in frail health and traveled south earlier this year.
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Richard Schiettinger
Highland
L. W. Adler
Dan Widicus
Dr. Q. K. Faires
St. Louis
Eugene Fréy
Fremont
Oscar Michael
Collinsville
Turners
B. A. Ellis
Della
J. J. Gaffoer
Grace Smith
East St. Louis
Fred Brandly
Mona
Alberta
Canada
Bertha Miller
Irma
Alice
Jacob Brandly
St. Jacob
Dan Scheffer
Ed Buehlmann
Louis Buchmiller
M. E. Church
Louis Baer
Madison Schools
el Paso
Tex
Baer
Happenings and Gossip From Troy Street Notes
Brief local notes cover St Valentine’s Day events at Central hotel and parish supper, illness updates on Miss Lynda Rucker and Miss Alice Willoughby, moving picture shows at Rieder’s Opera House, and notes on Bruce Campbell’s diphtheria. Also reported are Mrs Bessie Eccles’s death, Fred Schuler as annual first taxpayer, Henry Niehaus’s tax payment, dissolution of Adams and Elliott hack and drag business, and staffing changes in Troy public schools led by Prof George C Ritcher with Prof T J Hussenz named assistant.
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St. Valentine's
Lynda Rucker
M. Zelma
Central Hotel
Troy
Alice Willoughby
W. W. Barnsback
Edwardsville
George H. Scohmacher
Rieder
Bruce A. Campbell
Fred Schuler
Schuler
Henry Niehaus
Captainus
Adams & Elliott
James Adams
Roy D. Elliott
Adams Will Han
Heim Brewing Company
George C. Ritcher
Alton High School
Alton Public Schools
T. J. Hussenz
Ritcher
Round the World Voyage Beat by Magellan’s Fleet
In these travel notes Magellan’s ship led a fleet that first completed a full round the world voyage. The voyage held a three year and 28 day record, outlasting later purgings and echoing ancient navigation. Andrew Sibbold describes the land and its primitive state in The Call’s travel feature on page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magellan
Empuries
Andrew Sibbold
Call
Appointment Held Up over Edwardsville Postmaster
The confirmation of J Frank Stillwell as Edwardsville postmaster is stalled in the US Senate by Senator J Hamilton Lewis who seeks to substitute Wim. Dickman for Stillwell. Lewis claims a railroaded appointment and references a recent event in North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Frank Stillwell
Edwardsville
United States Senate
J Hamilton Lewis
Stillwell
Wim. Dickman
Lewis
Stillwell White Be
North Carolina
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H. C. Hoggard & Co
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Margaret E. Wait
South Fifth Street
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