Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, 28 Jun 1884 On Sunday last the Riversides of Ste. Genevieve downed the Actives of Perryville, at St. Mary, by a score of 16 to 28. The Ste. Genevieve boys were not up to their usual standard, several inexcusable muffs and errors were scored against them. Whether this [...]
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Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, 28 Jun 1884 Harvest hands are in demand. Mr. Jules GUIGNON is having his house repaired. Prof. FLYNN’s school closed for this term Wednesday. Don’t forget the picnic at GROBE’s Grove on July 4th. On July 4th the Riversides will play a match game with a St. Louis [...]
Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, 28 Jun 1884 HOTEL ARRIVALS For Week Ending June 27. MEYER’S HOTEL E.H. STUNTZ and family – H.C. HOMAN – Jno. A. KELIAR – E.F. SCHMID – Gid NOTHHELFER – Saunders, NORVELL – C. JALKUT – C. KUPFERER – J.C. ROBERTS – L. BRANCH – L.C. JUDAH, St. [...]
Ste. Genevieve Herald Ste. Genevieve, Mo. Saturday, 28 Jun 1884 LIST OF LETTERS Remaining in the P.O. at Ste. Genevieve, Mo., June 27, 1884. ANDERSON, C.D. – BUCHHOLZ, F. – COURTOIS, A. – HEINS, Aug. – LANPHER, Dr. – RENDLER, A. – SPROUT, Matt – SCHNEIDER, A. – WILSON, Lon – WILL, Andrew – WELLS, [...]
GUETHLE – HAGUE. Mr. Henry Guethle of St. Marys and Miss Florence Hague, of this city, were united in marriage in the Catholic church in Desloge. Rev. Father Shields officiating, at high noon Tuesday of this week. The immediate family and friends of the happy couple were present, and following the wedding ceremony all repaired [...]
Farmington Times, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Thursday, September 1, 1910. RUN OVER BY FREIGHT TRAIN AND KILLED. William Hunt, an Aged Farmer, Meets With Death Under the Wheels at Sprott. Mr. William Hunt, an old and respected citizen who lived near Sprott, a station on the Illinois Southern railroad, was run over by a [...]
Thank you to Sue Resinger for this clip From the Ste. Genevieve Herald, Saturday, Dec. 9, 1882 About two weeks ago, there died at Chicago a Negro woman named Louise C. ANDREWS at the unusual high age of 103 years. She was born at Potorloo(?) on the island of Haiti, came to the United States [...]
Josephas Coonrod joins the list of frontier Indian captives whose descendants later settled in Ohio. The Coonrod family came to the New World in 1742 from Switzerland or Baden, Germany, and settled in Maryland on the north banks of the Potomac River. About the time the arrived in this country, Josephas was born. Eventually they [...]
Tornadoes Ste. Genevieve Herald March 12, 2003 February 19, 1888 – a category F3 twister (winds of 158-206 mph) touched down north of St. Marys and destroyed barns in the area before crossing the Mississippi River near Kaskaskia. No one was hurt in this county. March 27, 1890 – a category F2 tornado formed one [...]
122 Years with the Ste. Genevieve Herald The Ste Genevieve Herald April 30, 2003 100 Years Ago – 1903 A floater was found in the river Thursday morning and landed near Little Rock. The body was that of a boy about 13 years old and rather refined looking. As it was perfectly nude it is [...]
REFLECTIONS ON WEINGARTEN POW CAMP By Peggy O’Farrell Daily Journal News Editor Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. April 24, 1987 in a supplement "Reflections: View of the Past – A Look to the Future." A few lonely strands of barbed wire and the remnants of a chimney are all that remain, but to [...]
BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY OF COMPANY B By Peggy O’Farrell Daily Journal Staff Writer Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, Fri. April 29, 1988 in a supplement "Back in the 40′s When You and I Were Young." "Some day, I’m going to kill the bugler, Some day, I’m going to shoot him dead…" Suffice it [...]
Local WWII Hero Wolf Remembers Days As POW The Ste. Genevieve Herald August 6, 2003 Melvin Frelix There is a hero living right here in Ste. Genevieve – an everyday Joe. Corporal Joseph William Wolf, who currently resides at Riverview Manor Nursing Home, was a prisoner of war for 3 1/2 years during [...]
LEAD BELT NEWS, Flat River, St. Francois Co. MO, July 13, 1917 INMATE OF ASYLUM VISITED FLAT RIVER SUNDAY AFTERNOON Mr. and Mrs. James Melka entertained for a short time a rather unusual guest Sunday evening in the person of Gus Bowling, an inmate of the Farmington asylum. Gus is a native of Ste. Genevieve [...]
123 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO March 31, 2004 100 Years Ago – 1904 On June 1st passenger trains were put on the Frisco between Memphis and St. Louis. The trains pass here daily, running north and south.
123 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO March 10, 2004 100 Years Ago – 1904 Lost, between Dr. Robert’s residence and the post office, a gold brooch in the shape of a dragon, with opal setting; also two pairs of prayer beads in a leather case, between Catholic Church [...]
122 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO August 13, 2003 100 Years Ago – 1903 Several persons in town noticed two earthquake shocks following close upon one another Wednesday about noon and another Thursday morning at five
122 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO May 21, 2003 100 Years Ago – 1903 Two men were put into the cooler the early part of this week under the information that they acted like crazy men. One of the must certainly have been bereft of his sober senses, [...]
122 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO May 14, 2003 100 Years Ago – 1903 Last Tuesday evening a premature explosion took place at the Donoghue Camp near the mouth of the Establishment and according to reports one man by the name of Bailey was killed and several others, [...]
122 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO March 12, 2003 100 Years Ago – 1903 The new church organ is done and is now being set up in St. Louis to be tested as to its tune. In two or three weeks it will be ready for shipment to [...]
122 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO March 5, 2003 100 Years Ago – 1903 Since Thursday workmen have been busy putting up the cable which is to take the place of the many wires of the telephone line. It will do away with entangling alliances and disordered or [...]
122 Years with the Ste. Genevieve Herald, The Ste. Genevieve Herald, Ste. Genevieve, MO February 5, 2003 75 Years Ago – 1903 Friday morning of last week a three-room frame house came floating down the Mississippi River and lodged on the sandbar opposite the County Poor Farm nursing home. Parties who discovered it, and rowed [...]
121 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO Dec 3, 2002 100 Years Ago – 1902 The report of the parish of Ste. Genevieve for the year 1902 has the following items: Baptisms, 86; marriages, 10; burials – adults, 20; infants, 10; communions during the year, 7,035; persons confirmed, 220; [...]
121 Years With the Ste. Genevieve Herald; STE GENEVIEVE HERALD, Ste. Genevieve, MO Nov 13, 2002 75 Years Ago – 1927 Last Saturday night several men invaded the crow roost near here and fired a number of volleys of shots into the robber birds that roost in the willows at night and all day rob [...]