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Newspaper
Macomb Daily By Stander
Location
Macomb, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
2
Rural mail carriers on seven routes out of the Macomb Post Office contribute a By-Stander news feature. Readers may send additional notes via Rural Editor. This column improves with neighbor route input and offers news in return.
Lewis Anderson and Rey Gustin recover from mobility issues without aids. Mrs Thowes Anderson visits at the Thompson home during the past week. Horse training by Hunt. Welch owns a saddle horse near Seieta. Elizabeth Wagenman returns from St. Louis. Henry Haulk builds a new hoy house. Wettengel fulfills plant and bulb orders. Alters of Milnea visits Bowen. Griffith paints farm residence tenanted by Albert Johnson. Sticklen to hold public sale Oct 11. Ladies of Guy will serve dinner. Robert Martin recovers from bronchitis. Jerry Sullivan stays with sister Callahan. Miller new on route. Riggins hosts household science club and ties comforts. Rally Day at Guy church Friday. exercises Sunday. Woven wire work and hedge cleanup by Bert Randolph. Chatterton farm occupied by Wayne and family. Corn fields hogged down amid rot from September heat.
Route 2 reports wheat sowing as principal work with early ears looking healthy and clover hulling resumed after clear weather. Roads are improving and Tra Cromer improves drainage by opening tile at the Tyron Bagby Tim Sullivan Robert McCutcheon and William Ingram farms mudhole long standing. Mr and Mrs Robert McCutcheon return from Davenport after daughter injury last year. A M Stickle pulls hedge and clears eighty rods.
An old advertisement promotes Gascarets as a cure for sickness biliousness and constipation. It urges readers to take a ten cent box for a thorough cleansing of liver and bowels to end headache dizziness and stomach misery with no griping and claims it is the nicest physic on earth.
Arthur Bugg notes roads in great shape with Howard Sadler using a one man grader. Bert Eddington sown about 75 acres as farmers anticipate a large acreage this year. Route 3 participants plan Industry Horse Show attendance and ex service men report a big Legion smoker and oyster supper at Macomb.
Route 4 reports describe Fred Suannard tending a cherry tree with ripe fruit and blossoms and plans for cherry pie with affidavits for those unable to witness. Miss Addie Toland improves after infantile paralysis. Deep well drilling at the County Home proceeds slowly in soapstone. Harold Bown celebrates nineteenth birthday with friends and gifts. Dean Barclay sowed the first green wheat. many acres remain to be drilled. No corn husking yet except for feed. Roads on the route are the best in memory, enabling easy driving with occasional chains. Ebenezer Church announces Sunday school at 10 a.m. and services at 11 a.m. Evening programs include Christian Endeavor events and a World Christian Endeavor talk by Thomas Kennedy of Uniontown, Pa. October 9, 1921. Topic How to Improve the Meeting of Our Society. Matt 18:19 20 John 4:23 24 Ss. Leider Alleyne Taylor encourage bringing a new method to the meeting. Junior Notes topic What Can We Learn from Joseph Gen 45 1 15 Leader Genevieve Mullan. Please Note Dont forget the j
The article notes changes in the Endeavor route and reports on road maintenance in Bethel and Chalmers townships. It highlights unpaid work on certain road segments, subside subscriptions funding most repairs, and resident reluctance to drag and maintain improved roads. A Camp Creek bottom bridge washout threatens mail delivery.
Route 6 notes moving a house to a farm on the route and a slow grain and stock market with many sowing wheat for a large acreage. A public sale at the farm is planned next Tuesday and attendance is expected for the Norse Show at Industry. Route 7 reports a light potato crop after early yield hopes, Jerusalem church services, and local club meetings with sewing for the orphanage and a pleasant gathering.
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