Cyclone Hits St Jacob Causes Several Hundred Dollars Damage
A Sunday Easter cyclone struck St Jacob and nearby areas causing extensive damage to barns sheds trees and fences with several hundred dollars in loss. The oak grove school and multiple farms including Otto Thumas and Frank Rule suffered damage while two Rule horses were injured and many chickens were killed or featherless. The storm passed near Highland with hail and rain accompanying the funnel clouds, and the school clock stopped at 3 50.
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St. Jacob
Troy
Louis Hill
Thoras Hoffmann
Frank Rule
Rule
Otto Thumas
Oak Grove
Huéy
Bloomington
Lincoln
Pana
Wood
Electric road a certainty for Terre Haute to St Louis
Report from Vandalia Union editor T. N. Lankin confirms the St. Louis to Terre Haute electric line project via the Morgan syndicate. Mayor Steinhauer traveled to Toledo to finalize instructions, a telegram from April 15 asserts there is no doubt and work will begin as quickly as possible. Delegations from Greenup Pittsburg and Fairview push for Vandalia Greenville routing, urging immediate right of way actions for rapid construction.
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Terre ' Haute
Ind
St. Louis
Bornin
T. N. Lakin
Vandalia Union
Terre Haute
J. Morgan
East St. Louis, Vandalia and Eastern Electric Railway Co
Morgan
Steinhauer
Toledo
Ohio
Vandalia
Greenville
Pittsburg
Fairview
Church and Society Notices and Local Items
Church services and meetings are announced for tomorrow and next week. A German Evangelical conference in Collinsville discussed scriptural questions with Rev Wm Marten in attendance. Personal anecdote extols Ballard’s Snow Liniment and Herbine for digestion and vitality, with prices. Men’s slippers advertised at Klein’s.
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Isabelle Mize
J. , Sefton
Greenville
Alton
Lotus Quartette Thrills Troy Audiences At Reading Opera House
A tambour of local talent complimented Edwardsville’s Lotus Quartette at Rieder’s Opera House in Reading. The quartet of Edith Metcalfe Tuxhorn Nona Barnsback Josephine Springer and Caroline Wolf drew a full house with refined selections and hearty encores while St Jacob and Troy residents gathered for weddings birthdays and social news including notes on local visitors and upcoming events.
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Rieder
Opera House
Edwardsville
Edith Metcalfe Tuxhorn
Nona Barnsback
Josephine Springer
Caroline Wolf
Troy
Lamothe
Bertha Hussey
Glover
Barnsback
Springer
A. Mascheront
Edith Meteslie Tuxhorn
Reading
Blake
the White
Mountain
Karlena Singletary
Quartette
Nnne Laurie
Dudley Buck
Parks
Lotus Quartette
V. Edwin Schoeck
Angie Rule
St. Jacob
M. E. Parson
C. S. McCollum
Frank Rule
Christian’ Schoeck
St. Louis
Gustave Vetter
Dora Duckett
J. Vetterles
Morgan Street
Wm. Kiesmeyer
Hickory Street
Weekly Crop Bulletin from Springfield Illinois Newsflash
The weekly crop report notes above average temperatures with a late cold spell in the north, excellent soil for plowing until the 10th rain slowed farming. Spring wheat sowing has begun in the north while central and south report promising winter wheat. Hessian fly and chinch bugs appear in fields. Oats sowing progressed, with some areas fully sown. Corn prep and planting affected by rain and wet soil. Meadows and pastures show vigorous growth under warm weather. peach buds largely killed elsewhere but some prospects of fair yields in the south. Potatoes planted in some locales and gardens generally backward. A Leesville Indiana notice highlights Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with claimed cures for lung ailments. price 50c and $1, trial bottles free.
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Springfield
Local notes on elections and small town life
Local election day observed with school vote on the horizon and a single ticket for the Board of Education. Names mentioned include J. E. Hindmarch, R. H. Mantle, and Thomas Bryant. Other items note retirements, property transfers, new hires, and a moon eclipse event.
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Elgin
Krause
P. M. Davidson
Stanhope
Gilead
Laura Anderson
Eadward Feutz
County Board of Supervisors
Board of Edulation
J. E. Hindmarch
R. H. Mantle
Thomas Bryant
Phil. J. Zenk
Zenk
Herbine Promoted For Fever and Malaria Cure
Mrs. Wmn. M. Stroud of Midlothian Texas reports Herbine cures fever and ague and stops chills. she has used it eight years for grippe bilious fever and malaria. The ad notes 50c at S Kingston and mentions new millinery stock at Mrs L Kiesel for ladies misses and children.
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C. Nud
Iowaville
Sedgwick Co
Kan
Ballard
S. Kingston’s
Wmn. M. Stroud
Midlothian
Texas
S. Kingston's
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Highland
Kingaton
iWdu
Tue Catt
Church and Society
Presbyterian Church
German Evangelical Church
Boauty
S.kingston's
Klein's
Social and Personal
The
Liliputiang
Lopere House
Main Street
Mesdames Robi
Will
Guy Kneedler
Collinsville
John Baird
F. E. Linder
Theodore Moser
Home
Walter Busse
Robert Worth
Minnie Leuth
George C. Morriss
Charles Rauch
Fred Helmich
H. Wohswinkel
Miss Katie
Felix Droll
Emil Droll
Gerardt Deimling
Highland Journal
John Ganninger
G. P. Simpson
Hermina Bircher
W. H. Hasler
J. C. Sefton
May Boston
Belleville
James Boston
H. A. Eldred
Geraldine
W. W. Jarvis
Democratic Executive Committee
John Norbury
East St. Louis
J. Canan
M. Kuntzmann
Charles V. Smith
C. E. Ritcher
George Ritcher
George Hollis
Jessie Smith
Achor
Jessie Thompson
C. S. Smith
Darwin Schott
Chicago
State Board of Medical Examiners
Lottie Tuttle
Rocky Ford, Colo
J. E. Marsey
Indianapolis
A. H. Krause
Marsey
George Wells
Trojan
Wells
Maryville
Mrs. Brown
Canton
Ill
Harry E. Brown
George C. Hartung
Katherine Bour
Rex
Jers
H. A. Canedy
State Department of Agriculture
Leesville
W. H. Brown
S. Kingston
Douglas
Union
John Grant
Nelson Kinder, Jr
Electric Light
L. Kiesel
Phil. Schultze
August Krieger
Dr. Sallee
Baird
Kleins
Bollman Mercantile Co
Gien Carbon
Edward R. Deimling
Dora Michael
Henry Kuhlmann
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