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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1896
Page
5
Froth oysters at Kuntzman s. Wine Night Syrup at Droll s. A meeting at St Jacob December 5 6. A holiday notice for Miss Cora Granger. The Vandalia Line timetable change and other local notes. A raffle at Albert Richer s produced winner Heary Warner. An oyster supper at Mt Zion M E Church and a rattle bone craze among town youths.
A quiet wedding occurred in O’Fallon on Tuesday between F S Edwards and Cora Auwarter with Rev N D Sweeney officiating. The Mayflower Lodge 1686 K of H Troy reported a $2,000 benefit to Mary Granger, widow of Joseph Granger, and noted the lodge’s 23 year history and lack of death losses lawsuits. Alice Hoonly, wife of William Hoonly, died aged 34 in Oconee and was buried in Black Jack. Rev Gustave Plassmann preached. Local notices also describe sorghum and cranberries, a birthday party for John Bohnenatiehl, and a euchre party hosted by Michael, Allie and Belle McKittrick with prizes awarded.
The Troy Call will continue under new management Edwardaville Intelligencr editors A L Bounds and B W Jarvis lease from August Drell. They pledge a heat and tidy paper for Troy with proper encouragement, aiming to improve the publication opinion.
A compilation of personal mentions from St Louis visitors to the city, Thanksgiving guests, and local hosts. Highlights include Misa Julia Stebbing and Henry Stientians visiting friends, families hosting from Collinaville and East St Louis, and Rev G A Seed’s revival work in Summerfield with notes on editor’s etiquette and a possible future visitor.
In Troy a humorous tale recounts T H Bell and Arthur Risser with Rev G A Sead attempting to cast a door key from scrap metal. After failed plaster molds and clay substitutes, the group finally produced a rough key through melting, cooling, filing, and sanding. The piece ends with hopeful notes on a possible new local “kay” industry.
A long list of Troy area merchants and professionals express gratitude for health, steady business, and better times under the new administration. Names include Wm Hampe, S S Avis, Wm Goalby, A Heddergott, Herman Rump, Jobs Deimling, Phil Eckert, Wm Meiners, Geo P Simpson, Albert Kleist, F W Zanders, S Kingston, M F Auwarter, F L Hampton, J H Stienhans, Elias Burk, J W Garnet, Franz Welte, Gebauer Bros, Julius Peter, Phil Zenk, N M Jarvis, oe Kontzmann, oe Busse Bros, Theo Guennewig, Geo Liebler, G A Purviance, er Rees Llewellyn, and others.
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