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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1899
Page
7
Local gardening hints and shop ads mix with city notices and a major clock giveaway at A Klein's. The call to trim trees, hunting season notes, community checks, and upcoming court sessions blend with personal mishaps and a livestock sale planned for March 14.
The death roll lists several recent obituaries including infant Kuntzmann son of Adolph and Florence in Troy and Mrs Dr Mullen Sabin of Anna Illinois aged in the mid nineties. Funeral details note services at the German Evangelical church and burial at Troy cemetery with numerous local pallbearers and attendees.
Auction on March 15 at 10 A M offers livestock and farm implements with six month credit on sums of four dollars and over. Local book seller advertises J W Buel titles priced from 1.00 to 1.66 each. Also notices rent for land, clothing ads, and a Red Men organization inquiry.
A local column lists visitors and residents in Troy and surrounding towns. Mentions Dr Keyston of Lebanon, Mrs Morris of St Louis, Mabel Halliday ill with brain fever, and many locals visiting relatives, with social calls and travels to St Louis, Granite City, and Collinsville. Also notes a Mine Workers Union delegate, a funeral, and a few humorous exchanges.
A historical testimonial notes Chamberlains Gough remedy praised for treating coughs croup whooping cough influenza and colds widely used by mothers for children with claims of prompt relief and safety. A patient from Germantown California reports chronic rheumatism relief after using Pain Balm sold by S Kingston Kingaton.
COUNTY CULLINGS. The county jail holds 25 prisoners. A 10 cent cut in incandescent lights posted in Highland. Senator J J Brenholdt of Alton ill at home with a second grip. I red 5. Datrich, respected Alton citizen and 3rd degree Mason, died at home Sunday. Leland hotel at Edw ard eville changed hands J H Brown of White Hall takes over. Edwardville sportsmen moving to form Southern Illinois gun clubs league. Venice Canning Factory to plant 250 acres of tomatoes next season with American Bottom farmers. Edwards ville flour war price cut 85 cents per hundred to compete with imports. About $100,000 to be spent on Car Works improvements at Madison next month with new engines and boilers in foundry. Glen Carbon brick yard mine strike ends. old scale to be paid and full force soon. Aug Hammacher justice of the peace and assessor of Nameoki township dies at Alexian Brothers Hospital St Louis. remains buried at Nameoki Sunday. A freak animal malformation exhibited at Rohrkaste Broatian saloon a two headed calf sent from Alhambra E A Graf. Edwardeville Intelligence.
Marriage licenses issued at the county capital include Lorie Stabbat age 24 and Mary Schaske age 18. Real estate filings show transfers including A Barnsback to Consolidated Coal Co for land and coal, and Henry Wendler to trustees Hagler cemetery for a tract corrected in 1904.
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