Weekly Crop Bulletin From Springfield Ill May 13
Weather for the past week favored crops with warmth early on and cooler later, few frosts, and showers mainly on Tuesday and Saturday keeping land moist. Wheat and oats improved. corn planting progressed rapidly though late-week coolness slowed germination. cutworms damaged some fields leading to replanting in places. Meadows and pastures improved with hay prospects large. fruit prospects mixed with peaches less favorable and blackberries raspberries weak. A clipping ad and local notices follow.
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Springfield
Ill
Troy Again Victorious Over Rose Hills in 10 to 3 Baseball Tilt
Troy defeated Rose Hills of St. Louis 10 to 3 as Voelker hit a home run and the home team struck hard throughout. Patrette pitched for St. Louis while Costigan worked for Troy, with four costly walks by Costigan. The article also notes a future game vs the Cumberlands, details a June 9 school picnic at Jarvis Grove, and mentions local happenings including a minor accident and a summer opening at Diamond Mineral Springs.
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Rose Hills
St. Louis
Troy Boys
Voelker
Troy
Abrh Pa
Young
Patrette
Herbst
Clancy
J. Young
Costigan
Scott
E. Young
Bain
Mullen
Jarvis’ Grove
Wm. Marten
German Evangelical Church
XI. M. Hawley
M. E. Church
Main Street
Wm. Hampe
J. H Stienhans
B.D. Miller
Alton
Inl
Representative International Correspondence Schools
Comings and Goings of Relatives and Friends
The social page lists visits and events around town including pupils from room No. 6 honoring Miss Mabel Cochran, an ice cream festival at the Presbyterian church basement, and numerous visits by residents to St. Louis, Marine, Collinsville, Newport, and Highland. It notes a family reunion for Mrs. Kuntemann and a wedding in Highland, with several locals enlisting or visiting among gatherings and social activities.
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S. Kingston's
Enly
Tilley
Mabel Cochran
Court of Honor
Presbyterian Church
Theodore Kleist
Mt. Olive
Adolph Kuntzmann
St. Louis
Pearl Keown
Marine
H. C. Kersey
J. H. Stienhans
Mound City
L. E. Rawson
Frank Bour
Dock’ Riebold
Highland
N. Cowan
Sorento
Bollman Mercantile Co
Mra. M. W. Powell
Miss Eunice
St John Bohnenauehl
Collinsville
John Zabner
Sugar Creek
Ohio
Newport
Ark
Helen Hencke
C. E. Jarvis
Elmer
Fred Kuntemann
Los Angeles
Cal
Threshers buy Chamberlains remedy to stay at work
An Oklahoma seller touts Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy noting five bottles sold to threshers who continued work without missing a day. The ad urges readers to keep a bottle handy. Local livestock breeders offer 25 milch cows for public sale next Saturday at Morriss livery yard.
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Chamberlain
H. R. Pers
Plymouth
Oklahoma
S. Kingston
Brown & McHatton
Houston
Randolph County
Morriss
Board of Education Election and 1902 meeting records
The Troy school district held an April 1902 election to choose a President and two Board members with votes for G L Elliott James Hindmarch and J R Renfro and for Members I W Cook Silas Shadwick Fred Campbell Renfro etc. Hindmarch was President and Cook and Shadwick were elected to the Board. A May 1902 session organized the board with Hindmarch presiding and Mantle named clerk. Committees were formed and salaries set, and teacher applications reviewed with Thurston and others recommended.
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Troy
Itr
Township 3
Board of Education
G.L. Elliott
James E. Hindmarch
J. R. Renfro
I. W. Cook
Silas Shadwick
Fred Campbell
G. L. Elliott
T. W. Cook
Troy, Inc
Hollis
Cook
Donoho
Mantle
Harding
Shadwick
R. H. Mantle
Hindmarch
Cork
R. H. Manze
Int
H. F. Thoroton
Mabel Cochran
Bertha Osborne
Karlena Singletary
Birchie Kremer
Edna Donoho
Rhoda Bartlett
George Garnet
Ianiford
H. Stienhans
Kingston
Ang. Droll
H. F. Thurston
Alice Collins
Misa
Illie Weikanant
Lillie Weikanant
Decoration Day Gossip and Local Notices
Local notes mention Decoration Day coming, lawn mower use, a full moon next Thursday, and Hawley’s watch repairs. Fred Liebler quits Bollman Mercantile, J H Stienbans stocks cheap wall paper, and real estate transfers add $325 for Troy lot. Community events include M E Ladies' Aid, Merry Workers at two homes, and Pentecost observances with picnics.
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Hawley’s
Manhattan
Fred Liebler
Bollman Mercantile Company
J. H. Stienbans
M. E. Ladies’ Aid Society
F. A. Dawson
Merry Workers
August Droll
W. W. Jarvis
Wm. H. Wild
Wesley Jarvis
Troy
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Hlindis
Agricultural and Weather Bureau
Burnett Mann
Levanna
Price
Frep Gerfen
Hustler Union No
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths
Gates
Geo. C. Morriss
Edwardsville
Thomas Brown
Grantfork
A. J. Kraft
G. A. Purviance & Son
Hack and Drag Line
Desire T
Progressive Enterprisea
Albert Rizper
Social and Personal
C. S. Stienhans
Emmet
East St. Louis
Albert Kleist
Lieta Vetter
Jett, Edna Donoho
Bertha Osborn and
Susie Hollis
Louis Bollmann
Christian Bollmann, Jr
Julia Liedel
John H. Collins
Clarence Smith
Navy
Madison County Teachera
Granite City
George Ritcher
Henry Ritcher
Rhoda Bart
J. L. HaGeer
R. H. Manter
Fy C. Gates
Ackerman
Ernest A. Mann
Shurtleff College
Upper Alton
Baptist Church
Worden
Madison County Old Settlers? Association
Blackjack
Rieder’s Park
Gebauer
Wrieder
George W. Combs
Collinaville
Walter S. Johnson
L. A. Richardson
Richardson
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