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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1910
Page
4
As 1909 ends we thank patrons and friends and wish prosperity in 1910. The store reports a record year and ongoing efforts to please customers, with plans to announce voting contest results next week at the store. The Call print deadline prevented early results, which will be posted after the contest closes.
A western judge grants a divorce citing ill temper and bad breath. The ad for Dr. King's New Life Pills claims the remedy would have prevented the split by curing constipation and liver trouble, banishing headaches and colds. Kingston's offers the product at 250.
Happy New Year announces another year of winter, and town gossip runs brisk. Illness visits E S Donoho at home while James Cook convalesces after a week’s illness. The city council meets Monday evening in regular session. Mrs. Martin Keck welcomes a bouncing baby boy born on Christmas Eve. Storm doors at M Auwarter’s store ease entry. William G Taylor relocates to Collinsville after taking a new foreman post. The J H Barnsback 87 acre farm near town sells for 47750 to Fred Henke. Highland Marble Works forms with 5000 capital, Edward Feutz Felton Feutz and Fred Johantosettel as stockholders. Mrs. Percy Wilkinson wins a dressed-doll contest at Riebold’s by guessing the name Maribel. Miss Rachael Llewellyn wins a gold watch and chain in a popular voting contest. City Clerk Vetter reports 352 Jarvis township hunting licenses issued so far this year, a record count with five months remaining. Mrs. J W Jarvis nets fifth district prize in St Louis Times contest, while Emma Wharif and Mrs W E Hubbel win top prizes. Rural delivery urges patrons to supply stamps and drop coins, avoiding delivery disruption. A New York count finds carriers collect 115 one-cent coins weekly, totaling 300 million coins nationwide.
The president of the Industrial and Orphans' Home at Macon Georgia reports nine years of successful use of Eletric Bitters in the institution. He calls it excellent for stomach liver and kidney troubles and a top family medicine. It purifies blood aids digestion creates appetite and strengthens weak people especially women. Available at 50 cents a bottle in Kingston's.
Market brief listing grain prices for common commodities and livestock. Includes wheat corn oats clover hay timothy straw flour meal and animal prices for cattle hogs lambs calves chickens ducks geese butter and eggs with wide price ranges and units.
The speaker cautions a new officeholder that the term will be a fast life. In two months or about eight or nine hours, the person will age with a gray beard, glasses, a wrinkled black suit, and weigh around sixty five pounds, while a glass thermometer-like device marks time, signaling the arrival of a successor labeled "boy."
Live correspondent Gussie Solter reports holidays visits and social rounds around Troy. Cousins Walter Engeling and families, St. Louis visitors Theodore Wendler and others, plus numerous local kinspans, gathered over Christmas and New Year at homes in Troy, Alhambra, Pocahontas, Wellston, and nearby farms.
Numerous snow drifts blanket Blackjack as a fierce blizzard disrupts mail delivery. Mrs. Jacob Ottwein is ill at home while John Widicus enjoys a combined business and pleasure visit in Highland. Mrs. George Jacob visits her Chesterfield relatives, and Ed Herbst returns from Maryville to his parents in town for Christmas.
A compiled year in Troy lists weddings such as Baughman Edwards and Deck Strain, Isenberg Stone, Schreiner Bernthal, Hambley, Taake Schultze, Cook Bay, and Whose names include Muir, Hampton, Dominik Contratto, Hall, Hall’s infant, and Roe. It notes deaths of Mrs. Erhardt Deimling, Mrs. Bernardine Hoge, Mrs. Josephine Liebler, Mrs. F. F. Hampton, Mrs. Martha Wiiston, Mrs. Dominik Contratto, and Mrs. Helen Bohlnenstiehl, plus fires at Beste farm and a collapse of a retaining wall. Public events cover city tax levy, bond issues, rock road construction, school openings, fairs, railroad depot access, and zoning-era civic matters. Multiple weddings, deaths, and community milestones appear between January and September, with later notes on earthquakes, riots anniversaries, and state fairs.
A digest of community items including weddings and engagements such as Mincer Hightower and Wille Nuhlmann. deaths and arrests like Charles and Louis Cline and V F Guinzy. business changes including Simpson Hiles partnership and Fritts Bros formation. school events, mine incidents, and transportation updates with schedule changes and a bloodline of local happenings in East St. Louis area towns.
A compact city notice list from City New Mexico lists events and deaths. Entries include a contempt jail sentence for Hans Parrette in divorce proceedings, plus multiple obituaries and observances surrounding Christmas Eve and Christmas.
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