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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1895
Page
5
Local notes report visits by residents from St Louis Tipton and Rolla plus Edwardsville and Madison county social calls. Community events include ice cream at Star Stable fish fests at Moellenbroecks Lake and a July 4 parish celebration plan. The Troy public schools cap school year with a large commencement at the Opera House and diplomas for nineteen graduates.
Memorial day observance held last Saturday at the Presbyterian church with Mrs J H Bell presiding. Gen Benj P Runke gave an address, Rev Oxborne Rev Seed and Rev Cooper spoke, selections by L Dawson and the choir, benediction by T W Dawson, and a procession led by the Spring Valley band to the cemetery where nineteen soldiers graves were decorated. Old women of the city praised for organizing the event, hoped to become an annual observance.
Correspondence from Troy Ill dated June 1 1896 commends the city council for finally tackling a long running odor and sanitation problem in a street ditch in front of a residence. The writer Tos W Dawson and family thank the council for ending more than six summers of stench and disease risk that protest and remonstrance could not fix.
A list of unclaimed letters at the Troy Post Office in Madison County Illinois, dated March 1, 1895, includes names such as Loy McQuiry, Green Tomekim Lenallan, Pirin, Lozmor, and John Key among others, with Postmaster Samuel S. Avis noted.
A speaker venerates the American volunteer soldier, recalling Civil War sacrifices from Fort Sumter to Gettysburg, praising duty over conquest and urging youths to preserve the nation’s spirit. He names Lincoln era heroes, recalls Chickamauga to Richmond losses, and contrasts Napoleonic glory with America’s wartime devotion. The speech honors fallen heroes and warns against forgetting the price of liberty.
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