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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1898
Page
7
Ringling Bros plans excursions to Edwardsville on September 14 with special rates. The exhibition boasts three rings, a large menagerie, and a grand street parade at 10 am. Local notices tout mining talks, nursery stock sales, and a Christmas market at the Presbyterian church in early December.
Public school opens with teachers in place as students return after a three month vacation. Names listed for grades one through six plus remarks on the hopeful spirit of the term. A fishing party story ends with the horse returning for the buggy. A CK of L picnic at Rieder's park entertains with music and dances before a concluding note urging stockholders to attend an opera house meeting at 7:30 PM.
A collage of brief notes lists visits and social calls across Lebanon and St Louis. Names include Miss Daisy Tilley, Mrs. Jas Porter, Prof. J.C. Wells, J. W. Garnet, Capt. L. Cook, John Voelker, Mrs. Irene Jarvis, Miss Della Hagler, and many more visiting relatives and neighbors from Edwardsville, St. Louis, and nearby towns. Community figures also attend meetings and events including a senatorial convention in Alton and local school and church happenings.
Joy Diatriet Court No 262 8 C of HL held an ice cream festival at Cottral Hall on Wednesday evening. The hall was festively decorated with flags and flowers and treated attendees to ice cream cake lemon ade and other delicacies. The event was well attended and deemed a success.
Edward avilie a street sale draws attention while forty seven new suits are filed for the October term. The New Douglas World shrinks to five columns due to lack of patronage. The Highland Pair opened Thursday with strong attendance. Chas Neustadt, Madison county boy, named by Citizens' party for East St. Louis city court judge.
Springfield Aug 24 1898 officers and sanitarians invite attendance at the Auxiliary Sanitary Association of the Illinois State Board of Health convention at the capitol building September 26 and 27 1898. discussion includes disease prevention sewerage water supply village drainage and related sanitation issues statewide collaboration. Missouri State Fair runs Sept 26 to Oct 1 with railroads offering round trip tickets from any state point.
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