Madison County School Officers Hold Largest Meeting Yet
The Madison County School Officers Association met at Edwardsville with over 200 attendees from all districts. Topics included new health and safety sanitation laws, heating standards, sanitation, ventilation, lighting, and a shift to single classroom seating. Officers elected for the next year were H. T. McCrea president, Frank Troeckler vice president, and Lillie Pettingill Stallings secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Oliver
Thomas Naylor
John Watts
Board of Education
Madison County School Officers’ Association
Edwardsville
Troy
Walter 8. Booth
Springfield
P. R. Dunn
Madison County
Uture
Association
H. T. McCrea
Alton
Frank. Troeckler
Mitchell
Lillie Pettingill
Stallings
Rural Carriers Elect New Madison County Officers
At Edwardsville last week the Madison County Rural Letter Carriers Association elected officers including Ww. c. StulIken president Fred S Edwards vice president P. W Somerlad secretary Philip Schaab treasurer and Charles Toole sergeant at arms Delegates named for the state convention in Jacksonville include Frank Paddock Louis Diefenbach Louis Iberg and P. W Somerlad Alternates are J A Leef Fred S Edwards H C Miller and J H Wetzel Ben Bernids of Edwardsville, former state president, was endorsed for re election The Labor Day meeting will be held at Godfrey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison County Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
Edwardsville
Ww. c. Stullken
Fred S. Edwards
Troy
P. W. Somerlad
Philip Schaab
Highland
Charles Toole
Godfrey
Jacksonville
Frank Paddock
Louis Diefenbach
St. Jacob
Louis Iberg
J. A. Leef
Alhambra
Fred
Justus B Willoughby Dead In Oregon Home
Justus B Willoughby former resident of Troy died last Saturday at his Eugene Oregon home at age 68. He had been in ill health for several years and was born June 26 1847 on a farm between Troy and Gallina. He is survived by a daughter Julia A Barnsback of Ok. The obituary notes his long residence west of Troy and bulletins of his marriage.
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Short
Upper Alton
W. W. Barnsback
Edwardsville
Justus B. Willoughby
Troy
Eugene
Oregon
Willoughby
Duatus Bulkely
Gollinawitle
Jwha
Jata Barnsback
Juliaa A. Barneback
West
Herman Wehmeier
Collinsville
Amos Hoenig
Jrun
Madison County Blacksmith’s ‘and Horseshoers’ Association
Howardsville
Congress
W. A. Rodenberg
Highland
Main and
Walnut Streets
Thomas Thomas
Ilinois
Wales
Wasson
Saline County
Thomas
August Massmann
Elmer Bergman
Waterloo
Deaconess
East St. Louis
Bergman
Alfred S. Joseph Sot
Charles Ferdinand Stahlbut
Madison County
St. Anthony's Hosplel
St. Louis
Conventions Set for Saturday Nominating Township Officers
Next Saturday the Republican and Democratic conventions meet at 3 PM to nominate candidates for town officers to be elected April 4. Rieder’s Opera House hosts the Republican gathering for supervisor and other posts, while St Paul’s Auditorium hosts the Democrats. Contests include tax collector with four Republicans and four Democrats running. several offices lack clear candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rieder
Arthur Garnet
Wm. Frangen
Arthur J. Thomas
George Gerstacker
4. R. Snodgrass
Wal, Kimberlin
Thomas Naylor
P. M. Davidson
Frank C. Raber
Henry C. Dettmar
Henry C. Rucker
Schoolteacher Drowns Attempting Shoal Creek Foray
George Bennett, a young teacher from Ware's Grove in Montgomery County, was swept away in Shoal Creek during a high flood while attempting to ford the stream after dismissing school for dinner. His body was recovered Sunday by an expert diver from St. Louis, about 400 feet from the spot of his last submersion. he was survived by his aging parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bennett
Ware's Grove
Montgomery County
Shoal Creek
Bennett
St. Louis
Young Bennett
Dissolution of Warly Hiles Simpson Law Firm Edwardsville
Legal firm Warly Hiles Simpson of Edwardsville dissolves with Judge Wm P Early retiring from the partnership. The firm will continue under the former name Hiles Simpson, with Judge Marly and Perl PuLoD YorTo among named associates, as local notices and social notes recap community happenings amid such changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warly
Resolutions of Respect for Sister Nancy Chapman
The Neosha Council No. 34 of the Degree of Pocahontas mourns Sister Nancy Chapman who has departed this life. The group extends sympathy to her husband and family, orders mourning for thirty days, and directs records and publication of the resolutions. Dated February 22, 1916, Roy, Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Chapman
Neosha
Pocahontas
Ann M. Ramshaw
Florence May
Mannie Farnsworth
Roy, IL
Local Folks Visit, Travel Ties Highlight Weekend Gatherings
A flurry of Sunday and Monday visits connects East St. Louis Collinsville St. Jacob Glen Carbon and nearby towns. Families entertained relatives from St. Louis Calhnsville Caseyville and Beald while others returned from trips to Prosser Washington and Cartinville to reunite with kin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Weil
St. Jacob
Troy
Mise Ursula Rarick
Highland Friends
Lydia Wehmeier
Collinsville
Emma Steinmeyer
Louis Kirsch
St. Louis
Wesley Sandles
East St. Louis
Micb Ruth Cramer
Jane Wilkinson
James Scott
Ida Dixon
Callinsville
James W. Taylor
John W. Taylor
Mary Beguelin
Lottie Long
Caseyville
Mary Mossmann
John Clayton
Ed Bohnenstiehl
Minnie Goetz
Louise Schon
Ed Schroeder
Glen Carbon
Harold Peter
George Ottwein
Val. Ottwein
Anna
Lena Bertorello
Cartinville
John Schlichting
Will Buhrmester
Prosser
Wash
Henry Buhrmester
Wm. Herrin
Ash Wednesday marks Lent start and local meetings
Ash Wednesday begins Lent with church notices. The Ladies Aid at M. E. church meets at the parsonage. Miss Rachael Carr, a returned missionary from India, speaks at M. H. church next Friday. Troy Cemetery Mite Society gathers at Mrs. Kingston’s. Rev. Eversall preaches at Presbyterian. Troy Civic League meets at Baptist church. Also notes on Sloan's Liniment and Hand Witch ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Aid Society
J. W. Smith
Rachael Carr
India
M.H
Troy Cemetery Mite Society
S. Kingston
Frank L. Eversall
Presbyterian Church
Troy Civic League
Baptist Church
Divorce Day Delivers 22 Decrees In Circuit Court
Tuesday's divorce default day in the circuit court produced twenty two legally separated couples with decrees granted every six minutes under Judge Gillham. Cases include adultery, desertion, cruelty, drunkenness and one maintenance ruling, while three suits for divorce were continued and several probate inventories approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillham
Dimitre Gunivanoff
Dena Gunivanoff
Granite City
Anna Rupprecht
John Rupprecht
Alton
James R. Wallace
Clara Wallace
Maryville
George D. Reeves
Otis Wallace
Phoebe Hessenauer
Leroy Hessénauer
Harry M. Morris
Mary Morris
Madison
Nancy Johnson
Thomas Johnaen
Collinsville
Florence Chichester
Albert Chichester
Ora Taylor
Wm. B. Taylor
Esther Staresoplos
George Staresoplos
Tillie Schuster
Benj. Schuster
Bijaneh Davis
George Davis
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OF County Association
Rural Carriers’ Meeting
Highland Leader
Union
Perl
Elmer Sapp
Prudential Insurance Company
Michigan
Klein's
Misa Rose Willielein
Wm. Preston
Edith
Margaret Roper
Arthur Roper
Stubblefield
Gerhardt Knewitz
Juanita Church
Delbert Roper
Alice Eldred
Ruth
Geraldine
Sphaguene
Allen Roper
Besse
Carl Kreider
Dora Cox
Miss Fay
Kenneth and
Kieth
Hasie
Mittle Edwards
Clarence P. Edwards
Viola Morrisa
Anieta Droll
Minnie Milner
Nola Anderson
Elizabeth Chrystal
Viola Geiger
Helen Miller
Norma Stolte
Mary Kelley
Lavanche Snodgrass
Oradell Dettmar
Libbis Edwarde
Oleo Messia
Howard and Burre
Preston
Edgar Garnet
Walter Niebruegge
Lorene Anderson
August Milner
George Rawlings
Paul and
Jule Edwards
Hazel Snodgrass
Frank Snodgrass
Rose Circle
The
Baptist Sunday School
Norma Snodgrass
Irene Liles
Lavern Fries
Ruth Peters
Vera Dillingham
Goldie Foster
Rosie Casey
Lucretia McCain
Winifred Norbury
Vera Wild
Arthtor .Moreley
O'Fallon
Last Sund
Mays
Robert Rawlings
Home Falke
Anon Rucker
Col- Anawlle
Neosha Council No
Cearse
House Furnishing Co
Daniel Peterman
Klein’s
Dal
Circuit Court
Henry Rabhert
Henry W. Yaeger
Continental Cement Co
John W. Koch
Martha M. Figart
Daniel Figart
Vera Doughty
John Doughty
Circuit
Anna Faust
Fred Faust
Schroeder Et al
Wm. Bachs
Emma Oliver
George Oliver
Cleo Tibbits
Harry Tibbits
Walter Bress
Wm. Schmidt
Liza Starbrown
Frank Starbrawa
Bertha Lachiner
Alexander Lachiner
Kate Zarahuba
Joseph Zarahuba
Bliss C. White
Morgan Prosser
Minnie Bartlebough
Silas Bartlebough
Oscar Latowsky
Frank Drda, Jr
International Bank of St. Louis
John H. McPike
Hillsboro Building and Loan Association
Matt Noll
Martha
Lewis
Faunte Emrich
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