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A Short Greene County Story
provided by the volunteers
of the Tri County Preservation Society
The Tri County
Preservation Society's Newsletter,
"Two Hoots and a 'Hollar"
has no less than
32 pages of Calhoun, Greene and Jersey County
Information
in
every
quarterly printing.
This
Society is preserving
our paper histories, DIGITALLY, one page at a time!
This and all forthcoming excerpts from their newsletter will change
circa every two months.
Carrollton Gazette, May 28,
1859
Severe
Storm
A severe storm of Thursday
evening made its appearance in the southeast at 4:00 p.m. It
seemed first about the size of a mans head. Its first
appearance was that of a fountain boiling over. It increased in
size, throwing small chord like folds increasing in width and
violence, as it approached the earth. As far as heard from, it
began in Calhoun County, carrying everything—men, horses, barns,
fences, trees and cattle with it.
From Manchester, to a distance of
twelve miles directly northeast, we can count thirty-six
dwelling houses, with all the barns and out houses destroyed.
The number killed, as far as heard from, are eleven, Mr. G.
Route, a son of George Van Zant, Samuel Brown, a Portuguese in
the employ of Mr. Route, Jonathan Carlyle, Jacob Sample and
wife, and a Mr. Thomas. There are about fifty seriously, if not
mortally wounded; most of them it is feared must die. A school
room, twenty by thirty, was with heavy timbers, and all, carried
away and cannot be found within two miles of the place. A wind
mill was carried over four hundred yards, with pipes, pumps and
etc. attached, small end foremost. There is not ten feet square
within the route of the storm that has not got rails, boards and
etc, stuck in so that no one can easily pull them out. Whole
partitions of houses are gone, and cannot be found. A man
riding in a field was blown from his horse, the saddle torn off
and carried about two miles from the place. No one can form an
idea of the terrific effects of this storm, which lasted by five
minutes with but little rain. The cloud was very bright while
on either side it was so dark as not to distinguish objects.
Carrollton Patriot, May 18, 1911
Jack
McDonald, the little son of Mr. & Mrs. Sam McDonald, was bitten
on the leg Monday evening by a dog belonging to Frank
Shackleford. The wound was quite painful for a time but it is
not serious. It was cauterized at once, and the boy is out
again. The dog was taken out of town the next morning.
Jerseyville Republican, 1917
Greene County:
Mrs. Zella Jones, employed on
the Fairbanks ranch west of Carrollton, filed suit against her
husband for desertion. One day shortly after they were married
Mr. Jones went out to get a bucket of coal and never returned.
After the suit was filed Mrs. Jones received a bogus check for
$500 from her husband, who afterwards shot a Mrs. Margaret
Jerald of St. Louis and then killed himself. He had fallen in
love with the woman’s picture in which she was attired in a
bathing suit. And, now Mrs. Jones, who was Miss Zilla McEvers
has her divorce.
Installation of a free city
mail delivery in Carrollton costs the Patriot $40 extra a year
for added postage rate.
Recent deaths of interest in
Carrollton are those of John H. Gehlhausen, age 82; Alexander H.
Aulabaugh, age 76, a Mason for 55 years, dying in Granite City,
and Capt. Elihua Jones of Patterson age 87 years, an old
soldier.
President Wilson’s world peace
plan was called impracticable by Supt. E. A. Doolittle of
Carrollton in a paper read before the Current Topic club.
J.D. Rowe of White Hall has
bought the White Hall Republican subscription list and hereafter
the Republican will be published by the White Hall Register
under contract. A Republican and Democratic paper will be set
up and printed by the same machines in White Hall.
Miss Myrtle Fisher of
Roodhouse applied at Carrollton for a license to marry Harvey
Rice of Roodhouse who was too busy to get the license.
TRI COUNTY
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Society
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