Troy Seeks Four Acres For Brick Shoe Factory Growth
The Troy Commercial Club held a public meeting about locating a new industrial enterprise in Troy. Representatives praised the shoe factory building and proposed four adjoining acres for yards at a purchase price of about 1000 dollars. If approved, twenty four workers would relocate with eventual growth to forty men and twenty girls. The project aims to start within two weeks, with a fundraiser to raise the land cost and fireworks and music planned for Independence Day celebrations. The post office will close and businesses shorten hours on the holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy Commercial Club
Braner
Troy
Ilinois
Howard H. Klein
Fourth of July Celebration in Troy Campus Parade and Dinner
In Troy a Fourth of July celebration will be held next Tuesday under Sunday school auspices with participation from Baptist Methodist Presbyterian and German Evangelical churches. The event centers on the McCray Dewey academy campus and features two parades, a decorated automobile contest with prize, a civic parade concluding at the academy, a basket dinner, and an afternoon program of addresses songs and games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
McCray-Dewey Academy
Program of Teachers Meet at Madison County Institute
Considerable interest is shown by county teachers for the annual Madison County Teachers Institute to be held at Edwardsville October 23 to 27. The program covers city and rural sections with speakers from Urbana Detroit Macomb and Minneapolis among others, addressing reading language mathematics pedagogy vocational guidance and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County Teachers’ Institute
Edwardsville
City Schools
Harry G. Paul
Urbana
University of Ilinois
Andrew Thomas Smith
Detroit
Mich
Thomas Normal Training School
J. Adams Puiter
Grover W. Simms
Oakland City
Ind
Oakland City College
Elizabeth K. Wilson
Ann Arbor
Cora M. Hamilton
Macomb
Western Ilinois State Normal University
Paul
Lotus D. Coffyean
Minneapolis
Normal
Llinois State Normal University
Simms
Highland Man Faces Auto Trouble This Week
Louis Ruhr of Highland figured in two automobile incidents this week. On Monday he and Ford Dillison, traveling toward Greenville, had a confrontation when Dillison could not pass. Ruhr telephoned Greenville leading to Dillison’s arraignment in Justice Matney's court with $11.40 in fines and costs. On Tuesday near St Jacob Ruhr’s car rolled, pinning him under the vehicle until rescuers freed him. he was bruised but his car and machinery remained largely intact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Ruhr
Highland
Greenville
St. Jacob
Rubr
Elmer Blumer
Roy Clark
Highland Hosts Large Egyptian Hustlers Convention
Highland secured the 1917 convention of the Egyptian Hustlers at Cairo last week. A large Highland delegation traveled with the Highland Concert Band to Cairo to fund the next meeting and returned with success. The event promises to be among Highland's biggest community occasions. Also promotes Philip Schulte for bricklaying plastering and concrete work, phone 8 5 26 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Highland
Philip Schultue
Be a Booster A rallying cry to uplift a town
A short exhortation urges readers to be positive boosters and reject gossip. It argues improvement comes from effort, not cynicism, and reframes criticism as wasteful. The piece promotes active, constructive support for the community and discourages tearing others down.
Local Happenings and Fragments From Collinsville Area
Conrad Beck bought a Saxon roadster from Dr. P W Braner, Harold Clayton joins Charles Gindler meat market in Collinaville, and wheat in the area nears a partial crop with better yields than earlier estimates. A two year old Schultze child breaks an arm, as does a daughter previously. P M Essenpries plans to rebuild the Pierron grain elevator after a May fire, upgraded and modern. John Mayfield, seen crying crazy wares, is taken to Jacksonville for care. July Fourth celebrations are planned at Diamond Mineral Springs Grantfork with dancing and fireworks. A long list of relatives and friends visit Collinsville or travel to nearby towns, with many short notes on arrivals and visits. Walter Meiners returns from trips to Kansas City Colorado Utah and to secure an advanced artificial hand.
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Conrad Beck
P. W. Braner
Harold Clayton
Join Clayton
Charles Gindler
Collinaville
August Schultze
Collinsville
Jacksonville
State Institution For the
Diamond
Grantfork
Continuous electric service to St Jacob and Marine
The power line from Collinsville to St Jacob by Southern Illinois Light and Power Co nears completion and may start by July 1. Transformers held by a strike delay. Marine Electric Service will run systems in Marine and St Jacob, now 24 hour service and power purchased from others. Miss Strene Smith, 12, of St Jacob, won seventh prize in a St Louis Globe Democrat short story contest among 4000 entrants.
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Lne
Collinsville
St. Jacob
Southern Illinois Light and Power Company
Marine
Marine Electric Service Company
Strene Smith
John 8. Smith
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Misa Smith
Among Church and Society Meeting Notices
The quarterly business meeting of the German Evangelical church will be held Sunday at 2 PM. All members are urged to attend. The M E church Troy charge quarterly meeting and conference will be at Mt Zion church Saturday afternoon and Sunday with Rev G C Hall present. The Women's Foreign Missionary Society meets next Friday afternoon at Mrs Wm Lewis home.
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M. E
Troy Charie
Mt. Zioi
G. C. Hall
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Wm. Lewis
Probate Court Actions in Transcripts and Estates
Court records show numerous probate actions and guardianship matters including claims allowed for Irwin and Mary Stalkey estates, final reports approved, and executors named or bonds set. Proceedings continue with hearings scheduled for late June and July on estates of Lueders Mansholt Krapp and other deceased, plus guardianship and conservatorship items and distribution orders.
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Irwin
Thomas H. Joyce, Jr
Henry Dustmann
Caroline P. Crane
Mary B. Stalkey
Henry J. Marshal
Minnie Fainz
Fred A. Luran
Laura Schmidt
T. Ef. Perley
Henry ‘Mansholt
Harry Mansholt
Jane Wilkinson
Rebecca McGinn
Thomas H. Joyce
Nettie M. Elias
Anna Lovas
Lydia Lueders
Fred G. Lueders
Herman Mansholt
Conrad Krapp
Caroline Johnson
John Everts
George Eardley
John Eardley
Joseph Geiger
Guardian
John Kremer
Hilka C. Bowman
H. C. Gerke
Charles Harry Luddeke
M. D. Yates
Katherine Koehler
G. M. Ryrie
Frederick Grosze
D. J. Mills
T. E. Perley
C. A. Caldwell
Michael Dicken
Mary Dieken
Wm. Roth
Petit
Jou Bo Mara
Wm. Buente
Christian Buente
Wm. Buente, Jr
Minnie Frieng
Edw
Barnett
Hamel Township
Cahokia Gas and Oil Co
Edwin H
Ward
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Thomas Band
Nooe
Ences Tika
McClure
October Institute
Charles Smith
Amelia Hoenig
Della Norbury
Mabel Cramer
Alfred Gebauer
M. F. Auwarter
St. Louis
Bellevilla
Herman Schmacker
Herman Wehmeyer
GC. E. Molden
Heary County
Roy Peters
Fred Leitz
Snow
James Scott
Mary Granger
California
Mesdames Adda Matthews
Mamie
Bryant
Leola
Faneta Leltz
Janet
Margaret Thomas
John Cullom
Alice Jacobs
Edna Keck
Ruth Richardson
Wilbur
Harold Peter
Sophia Peter
Clara Titter
Napoleon
Weir
Kan
Hannah
Della Beguelin
Caseyville
Mary Mossmann
Ed Buhrmester
Chicago
Henry Buhrmester
Mabel Mann
Henry Hawke
Steve Schumacher
Breese
J.C. Gebauer
Lena Thompson
Louis H. Ortgier
Granite City
G. N. Robinson
Hillary Heck
Glen Carbon
George R. Giger
Julia Atherton
Mattin
Wm. Weber
Bertha
Sebastan Weber
David Titus
Joan M. Sapp
Margaret
Minnie Joseph
Theresa Kellermann
August Trost
Depke
H. Suafat
Lena Tipnoe
Margaret Meehan
Michael Meehan
East St. Louis
Rowena Kurth
Belleville
J. W. Hassler
Louis F. Kurth
Henry J. Leuth
Mary Wisenberg
Marie
H. Rahn
Valentine Ziemar
Martin Holt
Blackjack
T. W. Kaizer
Lillian
Charles Amos
Sorento
George Fry
Segwick
L. V. Reiff
Americus
Kaizer
C. R. Green
J. W. Smith
Elzirha
N. F. Hargis
Sheller
J. C. Gebaner
John
Henry Thompson
O'Fallon
Henry Schumacher
James Coughlin
John Clayton
Hannah Clayton
Henry Braner
Fred
Otto
Vincent
Curran
Springfield
F. W. Braner
Walter Meiners
Kansas City
Colorado
Utah
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