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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1901
Page
2
DuQuoin Call excerpt urges young men to conduct themselves properly around churches. It opposes sidewalk smoking and loitering, advises entering services, seating oneself, and leaving with a date inside the church. It urges police involvement if misbehavior continues.
A Brooklyn attorney finds a federal law granting every Spanish American War volunteer a $192 bounty. If valid, over $5 million could be paid, with 3000 claims likely approved without extended litigation. Knox in Washington to decide. settlement expected in ten days. Two bounty classes were paid in the late war: privates received $31.20 or two months extra pay, officers two months extra, and nondeploying volunteers one month extra pay.
A buried walnut log unearthed along a Greencastle creek prompts its buyer to pay 75 dollars to purchase the strip of land. The log, black and hard as ebony, is valued at 1200 dollars by the owner who asks 1800. The note urges planting walnut trees as a lasting farm improvement.
A Missouri man journeying through Arkansas with a native evangelist asks where he heads. The evangelist replies he is on the road to heaven for eighteen years in a sepulchral tone. The Missourian then says he will travel with him if the road is that long. The exchange ends with a question.
An Irish worker named Pat dug a well and, after it collapsed, hid in the bushes with his hat and coat on a windlass. Neighbors assumed he lay at the bottom and watched the diggers. When the earth was cleared, Pat emerged unharmed, thanked them for freeing him from the task, and the crowd laughed at the clever ruse.
The Tri City Leader of Madison fails as second class due to publisher Harlan being a past candidate for postmaster and rival E W Hiller blocking the application. Each copy mailed carries a one cent stamp. A Highland Journal note adds that such petty spite burdens small papers. President Roosevelt plans a Washington visit with major daily editors to discuss administration, with Hillsboro News suggesting he should also invite country editors Sam Kessinger of Litchfield and W W Lewis of Greenville for broader insight.
A Beardstown NL shoe store was robbed last Saturday night of several pairs of shoes and some money. Bloodhounds traced the trail leading to Walter Tee, 24, who was arrested Monday at 10. He confessed to a relative and died an hour later in his cell. He was a trusted railroad office employee.
Ninety indictments were returned against Centralia saloonkeepers and alleged gamblers by the grand jury at Salem one day last week, as part of a crusade led by Mrs May Welch, president of the W C T U. The effort began in June with the first warrant and has yielded about fifty convictions. The method used to obtain information remains a mystery.
A playful verse depicts Mary’s lamb following to church and waiting outside like an owl on a perch. Onlookers question the lamb’s entry while a playful moral hints at sheepish attentions near the door.
A remark from the Atchison Globe quotes a black woman distressed over her dead baby as she travels from a church. A white passerby asks which child is dead, and the grieving woman responds, The one in the hearse.
The Post Office Department will place a head of the late President McKinley on new postal cards issued under a December 1 contract. Surrounding the design will be the name McKinley the dates of his birth and death and the words Series 1901.
Topeka clergyman Rev. Mr. Sheldon stated he would prefer a bottle of red ink to beer. The Kansas City Journal comment calls the craving for stimulants awful while Staunton Times notes red ink contains alcohol.
Leon F. Czolgosz, the man who killed President McKinley, is scheduled for execution by electric chair at Auburn prison at 7 a.m. on Tuesday October 29.
Football banned by Nashville school board. Broomcorn hits 140 a ton in Mattoon. Pontiac Bank robbed, $12,000 to $15,000 stolen. Hillsboro reports smallpox cases and schoolchildren vaccinated. Sparta to host old settlers union October 23 24 with notable speakers. Granite City votes bonds 14,000 to cover city debt. Accident fatality near Pierron as eldest Pacatte son shoots brother. Kinloch Tel Co readies operations in Edwardsville with 12 long distance booths. Macoupin County to install twelve steel cells at almshouse per Indiana Bridge Co contract. Alton man Lawrence Hellring receives threatening postal card. Mulberry Grove farmer Louis Wehrli dies by suicide. Carlyle man Peter Schiesel finds wife missing and home despoiled. potential divorce noted. Carlyle death rate previously flagged by Globe-Democrat investigated. Harvard Herald cites smut risk in corn. cautions farmers. Edwardsville Intelligencer notes quail hunting around Edwardsville Crossing. non-resident licensing stressed. Shumway town, Shelby, unique with single saloon and brick sidewalks. town governance shows no police, broad civic roles. South Carolina governance method mocked at White House.
A whimsical Exchange verse laments the approach of autumn and winter. It contrasts school time and harvest with shortages in meat, liver, and warmth, while noting farmers, coal men, and children adapt to the changing season. The tone mixes humor and rural hardship.
A jokey list suggests the breadth of duties in newspaper work from poetry and tariff talk to umpiring and reporting weddings. The piece highlights diverse tasks readers expect a writer to master, from ink to community service.
A mother receives a startling country letter from her young son describing a boat capsize rescue, a buried companion, a drowning scare, a head injury, plans to burn a barn, and a promise to bring a tame woodchuck home, all amid anxious family fears.
A message to readers urges not to insult editors for differing views. It notes a paper aims to please many readers, not just one, and warns against keeping delivered papers without paying, calling it plain theft and referencing long established subscriptions.
A lighthearted local note describes a Methodist minister’s wife in West Virginia with a bird-themed family history. Maiden Part ridge married three times, first Robin, second Sparrow, current Quayle. two young Robins, one Sparrow, three Quayles. Grandfathers Swan and Jay are noted, one now dead and a bird of Paradise. They reside on Hawk avenue Eagleville Canary Islands, with the author a lyre bird observer.
The Tribune foresees future crime notes with a mocked tale of John Smith robbed of potatoes and $20. Bloodhounds are said to be on the case, and Smith vows to recover the tubers, even if it takes the whole winter. The snippet ends inviting readers to call on The Call.
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