Lacy S. McDonald manages the Genealogy & Local History Library branch of The Hayner Public Library District in Alton. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Carleton College as well as a master’s degree in Library and Information Science and a Graduate Certificate in Rare Books and Special Collections Librarianship from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The Alton Playground and Recreation Commission announced in a December 24, 1925 Alton Evening Telegraph article that it had worked out a plan with the City of Alton to reserve four “good hills” for coasting when there was sufficient snow that winter. Superintendent John E. McWherter...
Richard Herman Schenke, founder of the Engraving Shop, died unexpectedly on December 14, 1925. An article in the Alton Evening Telegraph that day announced that he had succumbed to intense pain, causing shock, after a short illness (likely gallstones). He was only 53 years old. Mr. Schenke...
A December 10, 1925 article in the Alton Evening Telegraph announced that a “school traffic force” composed of older students at each city school would be created to handle automobile traffic near school buildings (and attempt to keep the younger students out of the street) under...
A December 4, 1925 article in the Alton Evening Telegraph announced that “Jake Schneider of the Broadway Market has a whole Buffalo on display at his market.” He had received it (already slaughtered) the day before. Schneider had purchased the buffalo (technically an American bison)...
An American Cancer Society film, titled “Breast Self-Examination,” premiered locally on December 2, 1950, at the Stratford Hotel’s Alton Room. The Madison County Chapter of the American Cancer Society hosted the showing and invited leaders of Alton area women’s organizations....
JERSEYVILLE - Orchardist Charles Godar’s Jerseyville cooper shop suffered catastrophic fire damage on the night of November 16, 1925. For the past few months, there had been multiple break-in attempts, and Godar had replaced broken padlocks several times. No one connected with the cooper...
Distinguished English poet Alfred Noyes performed a number of his poems at Monticello Seminary on Saturday, November 14, 1925. A pouring rain did not deter a large audience, and many people drove in from Alton to attend. Monticello Seminary principal Harriet Rice Congdon introduced Noyes, who...
ALTON - On November 6, 1925, 16-year-old Helen Hamer gave a recital to mark her completion of a course in expression and elocution under Mrs. Margaret Slifer-Lancaster, head of the Lancaster School of Oratory. Hamer had been “a favorite reader in Alton for a number of years,” and several...
ALTON - The East End Improvement Association hosted the annual Halloween parade and grand masquerade dance on October 30, 1925, as they had done every year since 1916. The first Alton Halloween parade and dance in 1916 was held to celebrate the completion of the long-drawn-out East Broadway street-paving...
ALTON - The Alton public schools began serving milk and graham crackers to undernourished students (as determined by student weight) on Monday, October 19, 1925. Mrs. Daisy Creswick Rice, health supervisor for the schools, had just completed the fall student health assessments and encouraged all...
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