Newsy Notes and Gossip From Local Ledger
James A. Porter joins Frank A. Welte's grocery. Wm. Van Hoosier moves family to Worden when roads permit. Collinsville State Bank increases capital to 100000. Henry Hawke Sr public sale draws decent attendance. Martin Wittmann drawn as petit juror for circuit court. Representative C J Lindley stricken by ptomaine poisoning at Springfield. Joseph S. Watt buys a blooded hog. sire related to Meddler, World’s Fair champion. Greenville Electric to inaugurate day service with meters replacing flat rate. Robert Alsop of New Douglas dies at 59. Little Early Risers touted as easy cure. Leonard Adler reports Houston relocation. Schoolboy eye injury from snowball. eye likely saved. Highland forms baseball stock company with 1950 subscribed of 2000. Dr B M Herrin takes Edwardsville post with Donk Bros Coal & Coke Co. Bears Teddy Annie Alice visit Highland store as Bear Skin hosiery ads. John Tetherington vs St Louis Troy Eastern Railway reversed and remanded over farm lands due to embankment. Vandalia freight No 78 wrecked at Dexter. delays until Wednesday. Uncle Thomas Avis dies at Cassville MO. funeral in Troy. George D Bradford of Bradford & Weise dies by self-inflicted gunshot amid nervous strain. Infant son of Mrs Kincaid dies. buried Troy cemetery. Meeker v East St Louis Connecting Railway affirmed after reduction to 15000. injury left him with amputations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Porter
Frank A. Welte
Wm. van Hoosier
Troy
Worden
State Bank of
Collinsville
Henry Hawke, Sr
Martin Wittmann
C.J. Lindley
Greenville
Springfield
Joseph S. Watt
Express
Greenville Electric Light, Heat and Power Co
Robert Alsop
New Douglas
DeWitt
S. Kingston
Leonard A. Adler
St. Jacob
Walier- Spies Milling Co
Herman Schmacker
Highland
Clut
B. M. Herrin
Edwardsville
Herripv
Donk Bros. Coal & Coke Co
P. Storms
Chicago
Teddy
Annie
Alice
C. Kinne & Co
John Tétherington
St. Louis
Eastern’ Rail
Terre Haute
S. S. Avis
Thomas Avis
Cassville
Avis
George D. Bradford
Bradford & Weise
Waverly
Bradford
Clinton
Rockford
Tuscola
Vandalia
el Paso
First National Bank of Waverly
Kincaid
Wm. Dacy
M. E. Church
J. W. Britton
Lebanon Man Ends Life After Dance Hall Incident
Bernard Speiser, 45, janitor at Saenger hall in Lebanon, shot himself in the temple last Saturday afternoon after a dance at the hall. Paul Richter found his body in a dressing room. a revolver and one exploded cartridge lay nearby. Despondency and a past cyclone injury are cited as factors. Speiser leaves a widow and eight children. Local notice ends with an advertisement for DeWitt’s Carbotized Witch Hazel Salve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Speiser
Saenger
Lebanon
Speiser
Paul Richter
Baden
Court House Accounts and Guardian Appointments
Court house items show receipts 465.19 expenditures 50.08 balance 415.11 approved Justus Buckley deceased report receipts 356 expenditures 547.71 balance due executrix 191.71 approved. Guardianship bonds and letters issued for Kohlenbere Aninora Henry Schrivner Scrivner Willelmina Lentz Bartels and Depping discharge and probate actions listed with bonds and appraisers. Ward final report shows receipts 217.85 expenditures 16.50 balance 199.80 ward reaches majority and discharge ordered. Numerous court dispositions including dismissals, continuances, guilty verdicts, and property transfers with names and sums. Additional notices include final guardianship reports and ad justment days set for May and April. DAN PETERMAN agent delivers Post-Dispatch daily and Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justus
Buckley
Charles
Martin Kohlenbere
Aninora
Henry
Seindeu Ag Guardian
Philip Emrich
L. H
L. H. ‘Blume As Sureties. Clarence Schrivner
J. C. Scrivner
Julia A. Scrivner
E. H. Scrivner
Ola Scrivner
Wilhelmina Lentz
Peter Kaenders
Jos
D. Metzler
John Sutter
John A. Sutter
H. C. Dreisperner
Louis’ Flach
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Dasvids
Roger
A. R. Snodgrass
C. E. McKittrick
E. McKittrick
McKittrick Bros
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Company
Dent
Lake Street
Druggisia
Lake Bt
Bile News
Supreme Court
Dexter
Kingston. Se
Elgin, Waltham
M. Roberts
Kiesal
Market St
Mike Janoshik
Emil Etebach
City of
John Edie
Henry Daube
Wabash Ry. Co
People
Quincy Helhn
Louise Sprandie
Charles Daniels
Village of
Upper Alton
John McElheney
George Ward
J. F. Landolive
Henry Reinemer
Joseph McCune
Charles Strather
Wm. Forman
St. Clair Coal Railway Co
Sw Swift
Bernice Anderson
R. F. Kell
C. C. Herweck
C. W. Terry
E. Wheeler
Edwardaville
H. M. Schweppe
Alton Elke Bldg. Assn
Corner 2Nd
Easton Sta
Alton
Henry Batterman
Nancy Miller
J. F. Miller
John Essén Pries
Henry Spengel
Miller
Spengel
Paris
Jos. Higginbotham
Francis Titter
Wickliffe
Collinaville
Herman Wedler
D. M. Bishop
West Madison
Venice
Martha Proetz
Vasil Nicola
Madison
D. McLure Et al
Henrietta
Lena Mueller
Southern
Granite City
James T. White
Bertha Maine
S. M. Lancaster
Juanita Craves
Herman Neubauer
Dora'Mensing
Russell Fred Bowens
Pearl McCall
Madison Henry Lindhorst
Johanna Just
Vigsou Derewjangly
Madison Julia Kowal
Madison O. K. Allen
Mary Laws
The
Post-Dispatch
Dan Peterman
Smith
Obadiah Smith
Madam
Wm. Tilley
Durham Bull
Cmas
Goetz
Epw
H. Krein
A. F. LE Xic- Man
International Correspondence School
James Shaffer
P. B. Witp
B. F. Cramer
Henry J. Leary
H. Klein
Black Hawk Edge
B.S. ‘Wexte
S. 9
J G. ScHorckx
Jarvis Township
Frank C. Raber, Jr
Stanley Ritcher
E. H. Hale
Davidson Store Co
J. H. Stienhans& Son
Charles F. Stienhans
LEGAL
James GC. Riggin
James C. Riggin
Illinois
Madison County
Dora Edwards
Chumpleys
Puck
Star Tamarina Company
Star Tailoring Company
M. F. Auwarter
Kingston
D Drugaie
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