Brief News Notes and Gossip from Local Life
Easter comes in four weeks on Sunday while St Patrick’s Day is observed next Tuesday. Deimling Bros. Meat Market and Huffendick’s advertise weekly reads. A son was born to Peter Frangen but missed a vote for alderman. Oil drilling resumes at Keyesport with depth 1250 feet and potential extension. Mr and Mrs R B Luttrell relocate to Laurel Oregon and request their Call. Edwardsville teachers’ exam list includes several local names. Peter Sehnert, longtime Edwardsville resident, dies at 68 in Highland. Fairmount City votes to incorporate amid industrial opposition. Zeph Silver, former Alton resident and sheriff candidate, dies at 75 in Martinsburg. Miss Rena Buffo, Collinsville teen, dies by suicide at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis
St. Patrick's
Ireland
Deimling Bros
Huffendick’s
Peter Frangen
Keyesport
Luttrell
Laura Anderson
Troy
Sherwood
Ore
Laurel
Edwardsville
Wilbur Gebaurt
Laura and
May Johnson
Edna Kinder
Sarah Wilkinson
Bernice Eckert
Alice Mantle
Norma Jarvis
Mary Pritchett
Mary Massoglia
Peter Sehnert
Highland
St. Joseph's Hospital
Fairmount City
Vandalia
Caseyville
East St. Louis
Zeph Silver
Alton
Madison County
Martinsburg
W. Va
Silver
Rena Buffo
Collinsville
Dominick Ruffo
Gollinsville
All Gone and Beginnings of a Tent Call
A curious exchange quotes Stanger asking if a father is home and Peter replying no, then adds the idea of a tent being summoned. Yeast notes a brother who fished with four dollars of bait without a catch, yet remains unconcerned, returning the next day to feed the fish more. The snippets reflect a whimsical, clipped dialogue from the Yonkere Statesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanger
Hom
Peter
Crimsonbeak
Yonkere Statesman
Local Notes From St Jacob and Highland Communities
Personal items list residents visiting nearby towns and returning home, with multiple names and places including St Louis Highland Edwardsville Worden and Marine. Social updates cover travel, birthdays, and gatherings along with a church concert and local business visits. Married Linda Holtgrove to John Schmidt at the German Evangelical church with family witnesses, plans to live on a Kaufman area farm.
City Council to lay burial tract for sale funds cemetery
The council approved the Finance report and bills, then adopted a resolution by Attorney Hiles to lay out a triangular burial lot area east of Troy Cemetery bounded by Mills avenue wall for sale. Proceeds to be given to the Troy Cemetery Site Society. Mayor Kinder appointed judges and clerks for the April 21, 1914 election across three wards. Kickapoo Worm Killer ad follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Duckett
Donk Bros
Beutel
Llewellyn
Finance Committee
Attorney Hiles
City of
Troy
Troy Cemetery
Mills Avenue
Troy Cemetery Site Society
Traves
Taylor
Allen
Kinder
Sam Alen
Forbes McCain
Dan G. Liebler
Thomas Millett, Jr
Harry McDaniels
Judzen
Oscar Garnet
Wm. Hampe
H. Wilkinson
H. C. Kuckland
Oscar Sprick
Third Ward
Henry Gerffen
August Beutel, Jr
Ernest Hampton
Edward Burk
Milton Allen
Geffen
Nelson R. Kinder
Fred H. Gornet
Dr King’s New Discovery Sold For Cough Relief
Mrs David Moor of Saginaw Alabama praises Dr King’s New Discovery for curing her husband’s fifteen year cough and son’s eight year cough. The ad claims it stops hacking coughs relieves grippe throat and lung ailments. Money back if it fails. Sold by all druggists priced 60 cents and 1.00. Recommended by H R Huffendick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dougas
H. R. Huffendick
For sale electric belt dress ing and cemetery items
Advertisement fragment lists electric belt dressing promising belt preservation and power, mentions tombstones monuments and cemetery lots, and references W. J. Gebauer barber. Also notes paints at Huffendick's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lota
W. J. Gebauer
the Barber
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Market Street
W. D. Renfro
Babette Deimling
Main Street
Thomas Millett
East End
Frank Collins
F. W. Braner
L. W. Bondica
Roy Petera
Jarvis Township
P. M. Davidson
B. W. Jarvis
John H. ‘Voelker
Adam
Geo. P. Simpson
Henry
Dettmar
A. & May
A. F. Seligman
George W. Geratenecker
Jarvia Township
W. &. Hall
Jacob Kirseh
Subhjest
Wiliam Hampe
Enterprise Flour
Terre Haute Fair
First National Bank
Edwardsville, Ill
U. S
the Bank
U.S
Buyer
Trarus
Pres
Guo. W. Muyza
J. F. Kzaunza
Gnonga Kauercessee
Asst. Cashier 8
V. Onoséman
Ass't. Cashier
Jacob
Louis J. Hill
St. Louis
James Pike
C. H. Bernhardt
John Hochuli
D. D. Rule
J. J. Gaffner
H. Bernhardt
Elmer Blumer
Harold Baer
Appovement
St. Jacob
Finnich
Nelson Ernst
Leo Schoeck
J. W. Widicus
John Ueuiser
J. H. Veatch
Daniel Deibert
Rees
Catherine Aldrup
Louis Kesner
Chenoa
Wm. Pence
Russell
Mary Rawlings
Branley Beim
Rosa Faes
Lee Scherer
U. S Navy
Louis Neudecker
Otto Neudecker
Worden
Fanny Bernard
Gideon Dempsey
Grafton
L. A. Richardson
Florence Heim
Mackinaw
Edwardaville
Edward May
Eberhard Kase
Herbert Gehrs
B. Simmons
Medora
Win
Scheurer
Fred Scheurer
Otto Neu‘decker
Jacob Duncan
Diancay Street
Linda Holtgrove
John ©. Schmidt
Paul Buchmueller
Tillie Studlowisch
Philip Schmidt
Marine
Wm.Holtgrove
Kaufman
Fauwarter
Journal OF the Council
Kickapoo Indian Medicine CO
Philadelphia
ST. Locis
Huffendick
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