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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1898
Page
7
A collage of town items: weather shifts with rain and thunder, a cyclone near Fort Smith noted, Rev. Foster organizing clubs, dances at the opera house, a fire destroying a school house, hospitalities and visits in Collinsville, and community appeals for honest payment for the Cant. The piece mentions Anton Frangen ill with crystalline in the leg, Louis Struckhoff and wife’s 80th anniversary, and local officials meeting to discuss highway routes.
Regular meeting of the Board of Education with President Harding absent. Secretary calls meeting. Phil Eckert chosen President pro tem. Members present Avis Donoho Tilley Eckert Smith. Harding Cook absent. Minutes approved. Finance Committee reports favorably on bills totaling 830.00. Salaries listed for several staff. Encyclopaedia purchase approved. Meeting adjourned to February 8 at 7 p.m. Pro tem. Subscription note for Taw Can. One dollar per year.
PURELY PERSONAL. editor eRe August Droll spent Monday in St. Louis. Mr Fred Kinder will be in Collinaville Thursday. Miss Ida Horseman of St. Louis is home for a few days. Joh Morrisa of Collinaville was on business Wednesday. Mrs. W. B. McHenry of Decatur visits her ill father. Mrs. B. W. Tibbs of St. Louis visits sister Mrs. Chas Roehin. M F Auwarter in St. Louis Tuesday examining acetylene light. may purchase. Henry Stokes of Edwardaville was in town Thursday on business. John Collins Jr. returned from St. Louis last Tuesday after a month away seeking work. Died at home in Black Jack Monday January 10 at 11 p.m. Mrs John Wickins aged 66. Funeral Thursday January 18 at 10 a.m. from the home to the family burial ground. She leaves six children six. Her husband died about two years ago. The family suffered three deaths in 26 months. one daughter Catherine died September 1897.
Report from Troy Public Schools for December 1897 lists students in Rooms 6 J and 5 MBE and 4 MI88 JEPSON and 3 MISS CRESSY with names of pupils present or regular. Notes Mrs Brown sick in Room 1 and enrollment totals show 140 pupils, with comments praising progress and urging renewed effort and community cooperation.
The ST JACOB SQUIB reports warm weather making roads difficult on hills. A literary meeting Saturday evening drew a good crowd. Mrs L A Spies hosted a gathering Tuesday with seventeen invitations issued. Miss Birdie Beard visits St Louis. Hy Beard was there Sunday. Ed Feutz and Chas Buchmiller visited from Highland Tuesday. Mrs Camerer and Mrs Dawson, daughters of Mr and Mrs M Hochuli, returned to St Louis after a pleasant stay. A social euchre event Tuesday evening hosted by Mr and Mrs Oscar Appel was well received.
Geo. C. Morriss drove to Lebanon this week, Miss May Wilson in St. Louis, Christian Ruhrmaster on business there. Antone Arth’s child sick with diphtheria. Harry Wilson of St. Louis visited W. A. Wilson. Mrs. Charles Wilke and Mrs. Wm. Deterding in St. Louis. Horace Gaskill hopes to visit soon. A Formosa sporting man’s saddle disappeared after leaving with a fort y-eight. Letter List dated Jan 1 1898 includes names such as Arthur J R Brown B H Glenn Cynthia Hopper Geo Greenwood Thos Gresser Theo Green Mrs Eliza Jonas Prof J Johnson Chas B Krom Annie Lassaut L Metzger Minnie Mannz John Meyer Lewia Peterson Mrs Eliza Stock Philip Roederer W K Recklim Louis Ryan Mrs Dennis Smith Mrs N Schramek Barbara Schilling Fred Schraum Jon William. Printing job available at the office. Pool correspondence at Black Jack Sylvan Wall. Apply for stationary.
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