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Newspaper
Weekly Bulletin
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1874
Page
4
Fragmentary report shows Johnson, the Postmaster, involved in a Pom case with times listed 3.4 am and 12.18 pm. Details are incomplete but indicate official action against Johnson.
JW Donoho continues selling all goods at 10 cents per yard. Mr Bauer repairs City Mills and will resume operation soon. Two sons of William M Collins of Alton were poisoned by coal tar. A special term of Madison County Circuit Court for chancery business meets Edwardsville February. Possible large cheese factories planned at Chesterfield and Bunker Hill in Macoupin County. Presbyterian Sabbath School Missionary Band entertainment at Rev R Stewart residence next Wednesday. admission 20 cents. Fire destroyed the Andrew J Dugger residence eight miles east of St Jacobs. family escaped, dog bark saved them. $1000 money lost. Dugger aided by neighbors to rebuild.
At a meeting in Edwardaville on Monday and Tuesday, A. A. Barnsback was named president with A F Rogers as vice president EL Friday as secretary and John A Prickett as treasurer. Elected directors include J A Barnsback A R Rogers D B Gillham Wm A Wilson Theodore Miner J C Burroughs J P Owens Teaac C Davin and W Fangenwroth. The county fair is planned for October.
Editor Bulletin recalls a pulpit clash over morality versus Christianity and notes a hoisted critique, while the Lousiana Bridge Tunnel North wall partially collapses near Washington Avenue causing major damage. Perry county murderers are moved to Joliet for life imprisonment, amid mob fears, with Gov Beveridge's lenient stance praised by Belleville Advocate.
Alma Illinois resident William Flatbottom and Mary Alins Rogers fled to St. Louis to end their misery and become a couple. They wandered Walnut Street Monday morning, seeking the Southern Hotel lobby as a refuge of love lorn hearts. A clerk directed them there after Flatbottom hesitated but finally bribed a porter to guide them inside.
In a humorous episode from the St. Louis Democrat, a young couple teases fate by delaying a hotel stay. They converse with a clerk, linger through the forenoon, and finally wed with a justice who grants permission. They depart on the evening train, cheerful though hungry.
Public auction ordered by Madison County Court to settle debts of Jacob Spahn deceased. Walburga Spahn, administratrix, offers Lot 4, 5, 6 in Black 1 and Lots 8, 9 in Black 2 and 7, 8 in Black 3 in Jacob Spahn's addition St Jacobs plus about twelve acres in north west quarter of section 9 township 3 range 6. One fourth cash, balance in two equal notes at 6 and 12 months, mortgage on property. Also includes dower rights of Walburga Spahn. Auction February 16, 1874 at front door of the Pont Gillie, St Jacobs, Madison County, Illinois.
The firm warns that all unsettled accounts will incur costs after January 1 1874 and no new accounts will be opened until old debts are paid. They announce coal delivery at 16 cents per bushel by land and note notices of overdue accounts, with the administrator Frep. W. Zanders to collect after dates at Kingston's Drug Store and then residence.
An advertisement promises the largest stock of oval and square frames from five cents to four dollars and fifty cents, with half-price photo enlargements from old pictures. It touts Sonergrmn as a top Western portrait painter and invites customers to bring in old photos for enlargement and retouching at cheaper, better work, with display at the Odd Fellows' Hall gallery.
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