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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1906
Page
4
An advertisement from Park Place, Troy, solicits patronage for a new washable wall covering by Paper, urging customer satisfaction. It notes options by foot or contract and includes contact details for the supplier.
May 7 1906 Troy Itt details the regular monthly meeting with roll call Mayor Stolte Clerk Dawson and eight Aldermen. Bills listed include numerous salaries judges of election clerks and laborers and various haulage and sundry charges recorded for finance committee action.
The record lists payments for city services and supplies including medical services, lumber, grading, printing, livery, and coal hauling. It covers finance committee actions rejecting Jacob Duckett’s bill, council committee appointments, city electrician and night engineer hires, and street superintendent selection by secret ballot. The treasurer reports balances, receipts, and expenditures for April 1906.
Weekly weather bulletin reports farming conditions for the week ending May 7 in Illinois. It notes generally favorable conditions for plowing and some planting, with a week that opened warm then cooled sharply with frosts in central and northern districts. It records temperatures from Lanark Knoxville and Cairo and cites scattered precipitation including thundershowers and a hailstorm in Livingston county.
Found pair of steeds inquire at CALtle office. For sale span of sound yearling mules under Emory Edwards. For sale two and one half horsepower Olds gasoline engine. Bids wanted by June 9 from Jarvis township for treatment of paupers disabilities July 1, 1906 to July 1, 1907. George Liebl er, Supervisor. 23-31 Old newspapers and heavy wrapping paper for sale at the CAL office. Subscribe for The Calr.
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