Wanda Newspaper Articles
NEWS FROM WANDA
Source: Alton Telegraph, May 20, 1886
The Sunday School of Edwardsville, consisting of two car loads of
people, arrived here Saturday morning. The day was spent in croquet,
baseball, Copenhagen, and swinging. After dinner, the most of the
Wandaites made their appearance. The storm the night before blew
their fences down, and they had to put them up before they could
picnic. The city folks, especially the young, seemed to enjoy
themselves, but the country people thought it a rather cold affair.
Baseball - The Wanda Boys went up to T. W. L. Belk’s last Sunday to
do up the Stump Town Clod Hoppers, but failed. We stated last week
that they would do them up in good shape, but we only made a
mistake. Owing to their catcher being indisposed, our boys allowed
them to take a catcher out of the Bethalto nine, and that is what
beat them. They’ll have a chance soon to try us again, and will say
this time for a fact that our boys will do them next time. The score
stood 32 to 37.
WANDA - 100 INDIAN SKELETONS FOUND
Source: Alton Evening Telegraph, May 18, 1916
One hundred Indian skeletons have been unearthed and there may be as
many more in an Indian mound that was dug into on the Hugh Poag farm
near Wanda yesterday. Hugh Poag, the owner of the land, was digging
away some of the dirt of the mound to do some grading, when he came
on to the skull of a human being. He dug further and found the
entire remains of this and many other skeletons. Today Mr. Poag gave
the alarm and there are over fifty persons who have been digging in
the mound all day and up to noon today. They have taken out over a
hundred Indian skulls and a great pile of bones that are the
remainder of the remains of the Indians buried in the mound. John R.
Sutter of Edwardsville, a local Edwardsville archeologist, visited
the mound this morning and stated that the bones were the bones of
Indians without a doubt. He believes that this is a burial ground of
a large number of Indians, killed in battle or by some disease, and
he states that the way the bodies seem to have been thrown into the
mound in any form and just covered over indicates the burials were
very hurried. The scene where the Indian remains were found is on
the old Charles Sebastian farm, and Mr. Sebastian now residing in
Edwardsville, has many Indian specimens that he found in the mounds
of the land when he owned the land. St. Louis archeologists visited
the scene today and the find all in all has caused much ado in the
ranks of the archeologists of the district.