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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1921
Page
2
Route 1 notes residents visiting relatives from Flymouth to Pekin. Farm activity dominates with harvests under way and storms causing limited damage. Quarantines lifted, trees split, and fields show damaged corn and blown oats as locals adjust to a busy season.
Carrier Lance takes vacation rest this week with Curt Greenup substituting. New patrons Mr and Mrs James Jackson moved to the B B Butterfield farm, vacated by John Pestle and wife. Sunday night and Monday storms damaged crops across the route with wind from NE then SW snapping stalks and scattering withered hay. Chas Charter hay barn torn apart and debris blown high.
A new patron moved out on the route yesterday whose name is not learned yet. Ed Johnson is building a new front porch. Mrs Lizzie K Tarlan is in Champaign this week for a Sunday school convention. Thomas Maupin of Blackwell Missouri visits his brother Walter Maupin. Wheat on the route has largely been cut this season with many tractors in use. Dave McMillan of Macomb is on his annual vacation, cutting on his farm and driving a binder. Mrs B W Raby travels to Table Grove due to her brother's wife's sudden death.
Route 4 notes show Mrs. Orville Cuba improving slowly in Macomb hospital after illness. Roads rough from early week rains and bridge south of Rev. Mullan’s house gets a new covering. Greer Walker and W. D. McMillan first to cut wheat on Route 4. Clover timothy oats and corn damaged by Monday storm. George Provine suffered most.
Joseph Little reports Matthew Jack travels to Peoria for a summer technical school term in manual training. Teachers Virgie Plassman Lena Jack Martha Wilson and Ruth Jack are noted. Wilson will teach next year at Center Point, Ruth at McNair. Weather: Monday rain left mud and dust, but no storm damage. oats damaged, berries scarce due to winter kills.
Thad Allison has his hand bound in bandages but the injury details are not learned. The binder and mower hum nearby as wheat and corn reach shock by week’s end. Roy Ruebush shipped 50 head.
Macomb reports heavy rain on Sunday with Grindstone Creek rising over a foot within an hour after the shower. A house on Oscar Ellison’s property was struck by lightning as a post nearby was energized by the bolt. Boots Runkle plans to play for the Macomb Independents this summer amid local baseball chatter. Alice Ellison returns from Madison Wisconsin to visit family as road grading by Eastin continues.
Captain Edward S. Williamson, 76, veteran river pilot and current captain of the John S Hubbard, recounts a 62 year career aboard the Ohio toward 8 million miles logged. He notes perfect health with no accidents aside from ice stoppages and Civil War gunboat service during Morgan's raid era.
Mansfield Om Henry Lobell and Clara Lobell seek a divorce after clashing over meals and differences in outlook. He describes his wife as poetic and impractical and says he paid for her books while craving cooked meals. He estimates he had to pay for 90 percent of his meals.
Washington reports President Harding prefers polite orchestral and operatic selections over modern jazz. He enjoys Erminie and Robin Hood, with occasional heavier works like Aida and Madame Butterfly, but rejects brass and syncopated jazz. The piece notes his past as a band player in New California.
A druggist offers a small bottle of Freezone that removes hard corns, soft corns, and corns between the toes with no pain. The product is inexpensive and promises quick relief, allowing immediate lifting of the corn.
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