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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1895
Page
5
Notice announces the opening of McCray-Dewey Academy on September 6 1805 with contact details for Isaac W. Cook for particulars and information.
City officials are listed including Mayor Eliag Bark. Aldermen in three wards. City-Clerk Daniel G. Jones. Treasurer W Jarvis. streets superintendent Charles Smith. marshal Charles Smith. police magistrate James N. Jarvis. supervisor H C Kersey. town clerk George Bleset. collector J W Gambt. auctioneer George Himpeon. highway commissioners I W Onok Q W Mille B B Jacobe. school trustees William Lloyd etc. Real estate described: two one story houses with outbuildings. two fine track farms and a larger tract of twenty acres, well improved, totaling $1 sum unclear.
Local items list cranberry sales at Drolls, feasts at Klein's, and Kuntzmans holiday sweets. Warns of winter, mine accidents, tax bonds, and visitors from St. Louis and Carbondale. Socials include a New Year masquerade, feather renovator ads, and multiple community updates amid travel, illness, and church notices.
A snapshot of 19th century local life with ads for toys and Round Oak stoves, a brief obituary for John Widicus, a petition to pardon Wm Vanderburg, and court notes from Amelia Mulkey v Mulkey to Ve, plus city license dispute involving Henry Daube and a divorce case Servia v Servis in Edwardville.
Free give away items include a 14 carat gold fill watch with Elgin or Waltham movement and a French eight day clock with half hour gong strike. Also advertised are watches from $15 to $75 and oak or walnut clocks at $2.98. Edwardsville and surrounding shops tout jewelry clocks and household novelties for Christmas gifts with multiple local sellers and limited-time offers.
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