the year 1911
new village ordinances were enacted
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1911. New ordinances were enacted -- board sidewalks were phased out, Table Rock Electric was given a franchise to bring electricity to the town and a phone company franchise was likewise created. The marshal was required to kill any dog in heat running at large. Chickens were required to be restrained, vagrants were fined and had to work off the fine at $1.50 a day or be jailed until the fine was paid, no resident was allowed to wear the dress of the opposite sex, vehicles were not permitted to exceed 10 mph, places where lewd behavior was permitted were deemed houses of ill repute and the owners fined, the owners of billiard and pool halls were given limited hours to be open, and nobody was allowed to work on Sunday unless absolutely necessary or unless they were working for the railroad.
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the graduating class had eight young ladies and no young men.
Photo 46: The Class of 1911. Bottom row: Addie Wier Wilcox, Lillian Strejc, Ada Mort Tillman. Back row: Gertrude Glenn Trump, _____ Jobe Hazel, Hazel Taylor Kuhn, Callie Barrett, and Ella Beck Smith.
Photo 380, Lillian Strejc, daughter of Frank Strejc, graduated 1911, family moved to Washington State by 1913
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Photo 635, at an earlier time -- The family of Lillian's father, Frank Strejc. The Strejc's were one of the first Bohemian settlers to come here.
Photo 635. The Strejc family – These are Antonin & Josephine Strejc with their five children, Jane Strejc Vondrasek to the left, unidentified daughter on the right. In back, Frank, Joseph, and Anthony. As to the unidentified daughter, it would be either Mary Strrejc Wopata (died 1889) or Anna Strec Kovanda (died 1946), which were their other two daughters. Thanks to Bob & Frank Blecha for the names & information.
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an alumni banquet was held at "workman hall."
there was a bandstand in the park -- of wood
Photo 861: the park in 1911. (The trees were planted in 1885, so they were 26 year old).
there were many businesses in town
"Traveling men are kind enough to say that it is the best point of its size in the state."
Photo 696 - Pocket directory about Table Rock
The woods family had its picture taken
the mother, alice, was one of m. h. marble's children
Photo 368: The Woods family in 1911 - Lotta, John, Bernice, and Gerald, front row Alice Marble Woods, Narda, and Edgar
the state bank of table rock
& other buildings on the west side of the square
In this view of the west side, circa 1911, four young ladies pose, as a little boy in overalls stands in the background to the left. The boy is unidentified but the young ladies are Mable Murphy, Lucy Broyles, Myrtle Mort, and Elizabeth Barrett.
This photograph gives a unique look at the west side. In the foreground is the State Bank of Table Rock -- before the clock was added in 1912. Then is the Opera House, then the building we now call the old Legion Hall. Next are two white buildings, the nearest of which later was used by Charlie Harlow for an appliance store. The old fire hall now occupies the space of that building and the next one north. After that is a dark building, which was at one time occupied by the Table Rock Argus. Then a slight alley followed by a short building where the Pioneer Museum (occupying a creamery built in 1914) now stands. Then an alley, and at the far end a photography studio. Here are some of the details of of this photograph:
This photograph gives a unique look at the west side. In the foreground is the State Bank of Table Rock -- before the clock was added in 1912. Then is the Opera House, then the building we now call the old Legion Hall. Next are two white buildings, the nearest of which later was used by Charlie Harlow for an appliance store. The old fire hall now occupies the space of that building and the next one north. After that is a dark building, which was at one time occupied by the Table Rock Argus. Then a slight alley followed by a short building where the Pioneer Museum (occupying a creamery built in 1914) now stands. Then an alley, and at the far end a photography studio. Here are some of the details of of this photograph:
the state bank of table rock
was doing ok
cap'n jennings was still going strong
August 10, 1911 -- the ever popular old soldier of the Confederacy, Captain Richard Polk Jennings, carried on with his junk business.
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Published with his 1923 obituary
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a "ballast engine" was in operation.
This appears to be on the river. Portions of the river were straightened from time to time but the primary work for which we now see the results did not take place until a few years earlier. Is this an operation to straighten the river? A channel next to the river for digging out ballast? Merriam-Webster defines a ballast engine as one used for digging or for bringing up stones or gravel for ballast. Ballast was the material used under the rails. Explanations of this photograph would be welcome. [email protected].
Photo 3917, ballast engine July 24 1911
there was flooding.
This time, Lower Town did not flood as usual. It was "protected by the drainage system."
our neighbor elk creek
had its picture taken.
Photo 1269
at 83, john aylor still goes to
baseball games.
August 3, 1911
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The article says he was 93, but that is a typo. He was born in 1828, and was 83. He married his wife, Eleanor, in 1850, and between 1851 and 1876 had 9 children, identified in his 1915 obituary as Henry, Georgia Irwin, Olive McIntosh, Zella Covault, Ella Mort, Mary Effie Bowen, John, Charles, and Alva Aylor.
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Excerpt from Photo 3155, John Michael Aylor
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In the Table Rock Argus:
