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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1907
Page
4
Brief notices detail upcoming holidays, local births and illnesses, a veterinary and postal chatter, a new millinery move, a hospital stay, a juvenile illness and scarlet fever quarantine, a church fundraiser, a railway extension near Belleville, and busy Valentine’s Day mail, with heightened local trade and community updates.
The Merry Workers meet Miss I J Mills next Wednesday at 2 30 PM. Rev H W Marshall of Lebanon preaches at the Presbyterian church tomorrow. Rev J W Britton leads services at the M BE church and Mt Zion church on Sunday. Rev Martin Daib’s Lenten sermon at St Pauls Lutheran next Thursday is The Prayer of Christ for His Enemies. Ash Wednesday marks Lent. Christening of Hedwig Amelia Krueger at St Pauls with sponsors Mrs Keller mann Mrs Daib and Henry Kueker Sr. Rev M B Van Leer held a revival at Pocahontas in a coal mine with 136 conversions. Union revival at the Presbyterian church ends with broad gains for Baptist Methodist and Presbyterian churches. Messrs Hill and Thoman leave for O Fallon to revive there. Grand jurors for March term listed from Madison county. The Cart's Want Ad column continues.
Court house items list court actions including alimony starting March 1, foreclosures, partitions, reporting and distribution orders, and dissolution of partnerships. Several estates and executors are noted with bonds, inventories, and adjustment days in April. Accounts show receipts and expenditures with deficiencies and estates proceeding through probate and appeal processes.
Henry Harles sues Arthur Cohn in a sum action. C C Voas appeals Vandalia Railroad Co. Wm Poos appeals Toledo, St. Louis & Western. Libby Percy sues Charles Percy for divorce with oratrix charges of cruelty and desertion. Irene Williams seeks divorce from Harry Williams and restoration of her maiden name Irene Schembra. Mary A Wisnasky sues Arnold L Hitz et al for partition of land in the west half of the southeast quarter of section 31-5-5.
Probate records list multiple decedents with approved claims and inventories. Included are Emil Hermann $8.15, Catherine Dustmann $2000, John Schon $5, Riner Miller $59.90, Henry Renken $2575.20 receipts and $1370.70 expenditures, and Mary Wade $25,448.80 with administrator discharge, among others.
A chain of property deeds records transfers from S N Elliott and others to G W Isenberg and others, including Lot 5 and 6 in various blocks at Alhambra, and a WD sale to Highland Brewing Co. Other entries show transfers to Ferdinand Baer, Mathias Bowles, Frances Trares, and various heirs in Worden, Edwardsville, Collinsville, and New Douglas with prices from 1 to 3 thousand dollars, plus coal and mineral exceptions where noted.
A list of residents and ages from Alton and nearby towns: Harris 33 Alton, Garner 19 Alton, Million 49 Alton, Nellie McHenry 30 Alton, George Schwartz 28 Alton, Mrs Florence Melville 29, Dwiggine 39 West Alton, Mary Mintert 24 Portage Des Sioux, Bissell 45, Emily Watson 35 Alton, Callins 42 Alton, Cora Fantoy 23 Alton, Winkelman 28 Argo, Katie Haase 18 Saline, Ferdinand Vidano 28 Troy, Anna Ruffatti 29 Troy, August Geffen Jr 19 Alton, Mamie Rothmiller 19 Alton, Percy Shatto 27 Granite City, Levora Miller 28 Granite City, Scroggins 24 Granite City, Nora Gracey 19 Granite City, Wallace Reay 21 St Louis area, Adele Reilly 21 St Louis, Joseph Welch 29 Alton, Ida Nettle 21 St Clair, Thomas Phillips 21 Belleville, Esther Biggs 18 Belleville, Henry Roth 27 Hamel, Minnie Reifer 19 Hamel, James Sullivan 27 O Fallon, Rosa Griffin 18 Collinsville, Frank Hagerman 39 Olive, Mrs Minner Stutzer 30 Alhambra. Also mentions wedding invitations and stationery at THE Cart office and a digestant product Kodol with dealer S Kingston.
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