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Trenton Sun Highlights Local Developments Across Illinois
The Trenton Sun reports on the good roads push, a grand jury impending in East St. Louis, and top news such as Hillsboro apple crop prospects and Greenville church capacity. It notes salary hikes for East St. Louis officials, gnats decimating Albion horses, and Belleville revenue receipts of 50 061 75 for April. It lists licenses issued, Sunday closing by Belleville barbers, a Mt. Vernon axe handle plant hiring about 60, and a May 16 to 18 Illinois Sunday School convention in Decatur. It covers debt payments by Girard miners, coal oil trials on Sugar Creek, and new telephones for Carlyle Grain & Mill Co. It mentions election challenges in Carlyle, a plan to form Illinois Historical Society at UI, coal prospecting near Summerfield, and a fugitive in O’Fallon. It reports a Belleville electric road death, embezzlement verdict in Pana, a pardon petition from Taylorville, and tax assessment law effects in Morgan County. It ends with Union County banker’s death and large hidden riches discoveries.