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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1915
Page
4
An aged advertisement markets DorEhinge’s Life Pills in glass bottles containing 36 sugar coated pills. It promises easy daily dosing with a glass of water, claiming quick relief and low cost. The copy mentions Troy Illinois and small yard plant offers nearby.
Local brief notes report new hats at Miss Rose Wilkinson’s with 27 31 sale prices. Education board and city council schedule meetings this week. Judicial election set for Monday with township polling places unchanged. Dr F K Liermann to work at Troy office Mondays and Tuesdays, Sundays by appointment. John A Uzzell, formerly county superintendent, located in Tarkio Missouri. family joined him. Idle Hour Theatre hosted a benefit show for Charles A Greaves of United Mine Workers. Edward and Mrs Hanke relocate to Idaho Falls, Call to Idaho Falls. Vandalia Line schedule changes affect No 39 and No 44 trains. For sale and rent signs available at The Call.
Measles cases reported in town as residents share travels and visits. Jesse Miller came from Alton for a home visit. Charles Grimm returned from Albert Lee Minnesota. A M Garner visited Iberia Missouri. Lyman Hill stayed with relatives from St. Louis. Bonham family from Caseyville with Mrs. Schoeck guests. Local gatherings included a well attended St Jacob Advertisers dance and ice cream social. graduation and school activities featured Porter niece Lillabelle and a St Jacob public school class of fourteen.
Mr and Mrs W Stone visited relatives in Divernon last week There was no ball game in Marine Sunday due to Memorial Day exercises Wm Scheurer and family have gone to Indianapolis to reside Miss Nellie and Kathryn Bilyeu of New Douglas were guests of Mr and Mrs Samuel Olive Oswald Fetterer ill for some time taken to his daughter's home in Highland Dr J H Veatch attended the funeral of brother in law J 23 Lehman at Mechanicsburg Ill Work on the new creamery is progressing and will be ready for business soon Edgar Mebold accepted a position with J L Noll at St Jacob to assist in selling patent grave coping Miss Catherine Grotefendt left for Winona Lake Ind and then Concordia Mo for a visit before returning to Marine Peter Seifert former Marine resident declared insane and sent to the Jacksonville state asylum Twenty one new Catholic Knights of Illinois members initiated at St Elizabeths school house in Marine with a church lawn picnic Visitors from Belleville Collinsville Trenton Memorial Day observance in Marine included a program in the village park United States attorney Hon Charles A Karch of East St Louis gave an address A parade followed and graves decorated at the cemetery
The McCray-Dewey academy held its 1915 graduation Tuesday evening at St. Paul’s auditorium. The four graduates, Paul Roland Auwarter Alma Anna Gebaner Laura Frances McManus and Mary Madaline Massoglia, received diplomas after a program of vocal and instrumental numbers and several orations led by Dr. G M Potter president of Shurtleff College. The event closed with Dr C E Molden presenting diplomas.
Memorial Day in Troy Sunday, under the Veterans and Sons of Veterans, drew a record attendance with visitors from out of town. A parade from the public school to the Presbyterian church preceded exercises led by Attorney Perry H. Hiles of Edwardsville. The program featured invocations, songs by the McCray-Dewey Choral Society, readings of Lincoln’s Farewell Address, and addresses by Rev. Marion Jackson Lowcease and others, concluding with the roll call of fallen heroes.
The Granite City Press Record reports a rail freight through Madison County on the Big Four road. A million dollar cargo of silk from China to San Francisco and then New York rode in Western Pacific steel cars with special guards. The shipment was on passenger time with right of way and valued at about a hundred thousand dollars per car.
A brief classified item notes writing inks carbon paper and stationery products available at The Call office. It mentions a price fragment $4 and implies sale or inventory listing without further details.
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