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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1874
Page
4
Our Authorized Agents, Louis Karass, is our authorized agent at St. Jacobs to receive and receipt for subscriptions to the Bulletin.
Editor absent due to neuralgia, local ads include a line of all wool yarns at Samuel Rawson & Bro. A Dr H Mace dental visit plan is announced with office at 1201 Washington Ave. A Canton flannel offer at Samuel Rawson & Bro. A river survey between Alton and the Illinois river mouth under Government engineers to determine navigation improvements for congressional funding. Christmas events include a tree at M E Church Thursday evening and a donation party with oyster supper at the Baptist Church on Christmas Eve.
A margin note warns subscribers about prepaid postage proofs, a Madison County bond issue update shows bids for 48 500 of eight percent bonds, and state debt figures reveal 1 730 070 15 total bonded debt as of December 1 1874. Illinois is praised for solvency while local government proceedings cover minutes, bills, and repairs in Edwardsville and Madison County.
The MARINE column notes improving merchant activity with Christmas near. It mourns Father Buch’s removal for alleged unministerial conduct and mentions the granger considering a medical career. An oyster festival at M E Church on December 23 aims to aid the church, inviting attendance and stamps. A local man visiting St Louis reports a fall down stairs bruising himself, while cigar makers and others joke about a Samuel Baweon drove yard incident.
Belleville reports: twenty five prisoners in St Clair county jail, festival proceeds of 475 dollars, city lighting costs 515.80, health updates on Wm S Thomas and Rev W B Oglesby. Notes on the Belleville Songerbund concert, People's Bank dividend, and a fatal murder near Cahokia with grim details. Also a comic tale of a man named Slimmer and a dramatic incident at a depot.
A woman insists a man is her husband Henry but he denies kinship. The scene escalates as she clings to him in front of their children while workers watch. A lookalike stranger arrives, attacks Slimmer, and the couple flees by cab. The next day the wife learns the truth.
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