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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1907
Page
4
Popkins notes a doctor top of the heap as he recalls a visit for a boy who swallowed a nickel. The family physician charged $2 for the examination and advice, highlighting high medical costs in a humorous exchange.
Governor Deneen and the Illinois Senate debate a plan tied to an encampment of state troops as a potential obstacle arises from space at Springfield. The senate elections committee will hear the Gard ner vs Lucey contest for the Thirty Ninth district, with Lucey alleging irregularities to upset Gardners seat. Governor Deneen hosts a reception at the executive mansion for Forty-fifth General Assembly members this evening.
John Kemp of East Otisfield Maine endorses Topply Buckton's Arnica Salve as a cure for chilblains, salt rheum, fever sores, indolent ulcers, piles, burns, wounds, frost bites and skin diseases. Sold for 25 cents at S. Kingston's drug store.
Short items report Donk mine workers paid yesterday and a January term juror from the township. A marriage license was issued in St Louis to Fred Pauly and Emma Kuehne. Property sale in Cook's addition postponed to this afternoon. Tax books arrival eyed, with receipts due by February 1. Vandalia Line derailment delays trains. back pain remedies pitched. Local politics begin early with Dr J G Schoeck entering the race for collector. Dr Darwin Schott to relocate to Collinsville. Troy Press Brick opens uptown office on Clay Street.
J W Garnet will run the up town office for the concern with a store across the street. J R Renfro travels to Pocahontas to prepare a racket store opening, buying stock in St Louis and targeting February 1 opening with quarters in place. The trial over Donk Bros Coal damages resulted in $600 for the administrator C A Bartlett of Napoleon L Goalby estate. Goalby, a miner, was killed by a blast in Donk’s No 3 mine.
A sparrow hawk almost always catches flying birds for meals, sometimes taking large prey like wood pigeons but usually bringing down birds low in the air. Mobbed by small birds when numerous, the hawk sometimes secures a finch cloud before striking, and once was seen catching a bat at dusk near a house, an unusual meal.
Notice to Hunters states hunting or trespassing on the premises is forbidden and violators will be prosecuted. The warning references a public right in the area and lists numerous individuals by name in connection with the notice.
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