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Newspaper

Troy Weekly Call

Location

Troy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Nov 03, 1906

Page

4

Local Briefs Include Elections, Sales and Fires

Election next Tuesday announced with local notes on new postcard lines, upcoming lunch at Theo Guennewig, and a new rural carrier opening December 1. Reports include a 12 pound birth, a shotgun raffle winner, a fatal mining accident near Cuba, a house fire threat saved, and a Dramatic Club production of Much Ado About Nothing at Rieder's. Also notes on medical society meeting, pattern department ads, and DeWitt’s remedies.

Maria Smith Pin Oak Township Post-Dispatch Dan Peterman Agt M. Roberts Kiesel Theo. Guennewig Charles E. McKittrick Winchester Charles Evans John Schwarts Madison County Medical Society Commercial Club Edwardsville George Deck DeWitt S. Kingston J.C. Gebauer Market Street McCray-Dewey Dramatic Club Rieder

Lane idea sparks Oak Park alley makeover dream

In Oak Park the Model Lane Society plans to transform rear alleyways into bordered lanes with hedges roses and turf. Neighbors discuss appointing a lane commissioner and creating gated entrances to persuade officials to permit private driveways. Also highlights Sterling Massachusetts village improve efforts including signs a new piano gardens tennis court and park work.

Oak Park Jonz Chicago Post Cottonwood Lane Society Cottonwood Lane Sterling Mass Village Improvement Society of

Novels of frost and folly in Troy society

A jumble of rustic verse and local gossip from Troy reports frost on the farm, rising coal prices, hogs in pens, and schoolboy humor. Vignettes include fashion habits, a barbed Halloween prank, a miser’s deathbed joke, matchmaking mischief, and call-for-news chatter from THE Call reporters.

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