Holiday notices and community life in Marshall county 1917
Marshall county notes chronicle Christmas prep at stores and windows, local weddings and anniversaries, soldier letters and enlistments, Liberty bond interest payments, and civic updates. Mentions include Leonard Barnes, Frances Smith, Ed Kaiser, Corinne Smith knitting for Red Cross, Cornenha the youngest knitter, and Corbin Baker’s death. also reports on weather, school events, and Masons and Eastern Star fundraising for Illinois soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou__Shultz
Peoria
R. M. Tremain
John Sullivan
McNabb
County
Gregory
Lacon
Ed Kaiser
Anna Whettal
Christ
Lloyd. Hunter
University, of Illinois
St. Champaign
Putnart
Merritt Onyun
Marshall ‘County
F. Hunter
A. P. Wallace
W. 5. Wallace
Savanna
Bevern Airs
France
Camp Grant
West Front
Europe
Corrine Smith
Charles H. Smith
Red Cross
Soldier
Cornheta
Ned Croa
Marshall County
George Baker
Atkinson
Henry County
Mr. Baker
Gertrude Fordick
West Side
Chenoa
Vivian Lawless
John Lawless
Saratoga
Vivian
Center School
Margaret Wallace
Springfield
Henry
Ilnois
State Public Utilities Commission
Fiftieth General Assembly
Mike
Pat
Minonk
Ed Hoover
Grand Master
Illinois Grand Lodge of Masons
U. S. Army
Order of Eastern Star
Masons
Bome
Christmas Program at Presbyterian Sunday School
The Christmas Eve program by the Presbyterian Sunday School on December 24 begins at 7 30 p m. Readers and soloists named include Gordon Downey Mary Downey Marion Seitz Florence Williams Haddon Perdew Imogene Newell Vir ginia Bills Dorothy Newell Esther Hunter John Hardin Florence Nichols Ruth Downey and others with pianists violinists and vocal numbers featured throughout the evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Sunday School
Presbyterian’ Sunday School
Gordon Downey
Hilda Blankenship
Jim Good
Maxine
CIA
Harold Morse
Richard Downey
Lawrence‘Donahues
George’ Hatton
Haddon Perdew
Marion Seitz
Frances Segraves
Rosalind Hall
George Nichols
Edna Hajpen
Jeans
Edwane ‘Newell
Wilford
Wright
John Hardin
Hall
Latha
Bauter
The
James Howard Kirby
Harold Kaiser
Rodney Brown
Santa Claus
Gwendolyn Fowler
Esther Hunter
Baldiera
Florence Williams
Mary Dow
Florence Nichols
Imogene Newell
Virginia Bills
Bethlehem
Dorothy Newell
Marguerite “Crouse
Theelma Donohue
Mazella Haines
Junior Tableau
Elsie Carpenter
Christmas Mass Schedule at St. Joseph's Church
St Joseph's Church announces three Christmas morning masses at 6 7 30 and 9 o'clock with high masses at first and last. Sermons will be delivered and confessions held Monday afternoon and evening starting at 2. Parishioners urged to receive the sacraments on the holy day as choirs under Mrs William Monahan rehearse then perform. Rev M J Brennan pastor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph's Church
Bethlehem
William Monahan
M. J. Brennan
Ey Pa
Christmas Tree at M. E. Church Seeks Gifts
Christmas at the M E Church includes a Monday evening tree with activities starting at 7:80. Congregants are urged to bring private presents in the afternoon for children. Older classes forgo treats and will donate their exchange gifts to starving Armenian Christians. Each class plans an original offering as part of the program.
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M. BE
M. Church
Christmas Sermons at Methodist Episcopal Church
The Methodist Episcopal Church outlines the week with Sunday school at 9 45 a m morning worship at 11 Epworth league at 6 30 and an evening service at 7 30 The Sunday morning sermon is Christmas and the evening sermon titled The Man Who Pitched His Tent Toward Sodom There is special music but no evening service due to the Red Cross union meeting.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Epworth League
Sodom
Red Cross Union
St Marys Church Christmas Day Services Schedule
On Tuesday December 26 the feast of the nativity of our Lord. Services begin 6 am high mass and English sermon. 8 pm mass with communion of the different societies. 1 0 6 pm high mass and German sermon. 2:30 pm vespers and benediction followed by a Christmas celebration for the children in the hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Mary's Church
Sunday School to Meet at Presbyterian Church With Union Service
Sunday school sessions proceed as usual next Sunday at the Presbyterian church with no preaching service. The congregation will unite in a union service held at the opera house in the evening.
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Presbyterian Church
Opera House
Episcopal Services at St John’s Next Sunday
Services at St John’s church next Sunday morning at eleven o’clock. No evening service. Rev Saunders, rector.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal Church
St. John’s Church
Saunders
A Splendid Idea Promotes Cheer for Soldiers and Families
A poem encourages sending cheer to soldiers at war and gifts to boys in camp to show they are not forgotten. It thanks those who assisted during illness and death in a family, signed by Mrs. Mary Newman and family, with a final note of gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lea
Blegs and
Cechem
Red Cross Notes On Knitting Drive And Fund Drive
Eighteen members attended a Red Cross session led by Mrs Grieves of Lacon to learn surgical dressings while sweaters and socks were prepared for soldiers. The group shipped a third knitting box to headquarters including twenty five sweaters and twenty four pairs of socks. A membership drive was announced with a goal of fifteen million by Christmas, urging a town canvass and service flags in every home. A dance for Red Cross benefit was set for January 1 1918 at the Henry Opera House with Wagner’s orchestra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mra Hunt
George Burt
Henry
American Red Cross
Red_ Cross
Red Cross
The
Mabel L. Steimle
Henry Opera House
Wagner
Henry township spelling contest and school activities noted
Miss Stevens room hosted a Friday spelling contest with Roy Debault from Union school and Orville Ball from Quinn school. Dale May and George Sivell posted top scores in grades eight and seven. The high school sold 85 dollars in Red Cross seals. crusade pins were awarded to top sellers. Christmas break runs to January 2 with teachers traveling home Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Miss Young
Ivan Kaiser
Margaret Bowers
Mary Downey
Paul Stelmle
Mildred Traver
Wilson
Henry
Union
Miss Long
Orville Ball
Quinn
Rose—Stndel
Dale May
George Sivell
Roy Debault
Orville
Debault
Clift
Dale
Marjorie Duke
Helen Zenor
Infantrymen Carry Over 9 Lbs Steel
The ordnance bureau furnishes infantrymen with iron and steel totaling 914 pounds per man excluding uniform gear. Items listed include bayonet scabbard 2 ounces, bacon can 0.04 ounce, bayonet 16 ounces, front sight cover 2 ounces, knife 1 ounce, meat can 0.038 ounce, pack carriers 0.03 ounce, rifle 107 ounces, and shovel 9 ounces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ordnance Bureau
War Department
Quartermaster Corps
Carlson postpones optometrist visit to December 27
J. E. Carlson special notice states the regular visit to Henry of Optometrist J. E. Carlson is postponed until Thursday December 27 due to an optical convention. Office and hours remain the same. December 27. Advt. 12-13 2w.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Carlson
Henry
Optometrist
Capture of Jerusalem End of Turko German Threat
The capture of Jerusalem relieves the British from aTurko German threat to Egypt and the Suez Canal. After 400 years of Turkish rule, the loss shows the strategic end of a German dream of empire from the North Sea to the Persian Gulf and signals a shift in Middle East power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Holy City
Egypt
Suez Canal
Bagdad
North Sea
Persian Gulf
Card of Thanks from Mrs Clark for sympathy on brother Fosdick
The Ladies Ald society and the Eastern Stars join in thanking all who sent letters of sympathy after the death of my brother Fosdick. Mrs Clark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies’ Ald Society
The
Eastern Stars
g-Fosdick
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Edwin-Charles-Barry
Gretta Vogel“gang
Alta
Bred Wend
Tolucs
Normal
Colehower
Taylor
Jemma Orwell
Cincinnati
Mra
Ferris
Cornell
John Slattery
Tolueg
Charles Burgess, Sr
Wariona
American Shire Horse ‘Asteciation
Chicago
American Shire Horse Association
Charles Burgess
Emmerson
Institute Union
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Newport
Henry, Ill
Red Cross News
Republican
Christmay
Schmitt & Williams
Cash Grocery
Busby’s Minstrel Company
Jerusalem, Falls
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