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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
8
The item notes Chandler publishers placing notices at the Marble Ent post office as second class matter. It records a postal designation affecting distribution and filing status. The terse line suggests a mailing preference or mail handling decision impacting the publication's public notice.
Sunday school and Young Peoples meetings held at Castor Valley Church near Moore chapel every weekend. Heavy rains caused Castor River flooding damaging local crops. Mr and Mrs Fred Sitze and son visited Mr Shetley. A Moore visited A F Moore. Moore trip to Lutesville. Trace Creek Health is good. Crops badly damaged by thigh water. Myers preached at Old Trace Creek church. Charles Goodson visiting Oak Ridge and Charlestot. A J Beal held a surprise dinner for about 100 relatives and friends.
The report describes significant flood damage from high water affecting Castor river area. People like Adam Sitte lost twenty five head of sheep and a cow. Local residents Mrs Ren Vance and family visited Jeff Thomas, with visits by Mrs West C Myers and child, and many others noted as water bound or traveling to relatives. Recurrent mentions of visits to Mrs Wagner and Cane Girardeau, and towns Marble Hill Lutesville referenced in travel.
After storms brought the heaviest rain in years with a long downpour, top damage to trees and crops is noted. The piece also records local visits, church events, a newly organized cornet band, farm activity, and community notes from Birds Point to Bloomfield with many named residents and places.
Health is reasonably good at this writing. Heavy rain last week aided farmers by enabling fencing work, but damaged corn crops across the county. James Greene traveled to Daisy last Monday. Charles Bollinger and family visited W. D. Mayfield last Sunday. R. A. Mayfield bought a fine milk cow from Alonzo Mayfield last Monday. A revival meeting is underway with much good.
South Missouri wheat farming benefits from fertilizer on most soils, especially rolling limestone sands and prairie soils. Black lands south of the river show poor returns unless farming is highly intensified, while barnyard manure can substitute where available. Missouri Agricultural Experiment Station reports strong results from experiments with fertilizer lime and manures on southern fields.
Practical farm guidance on using 150 pounds of fertilizer with 10 to 14 percent phosphoric acid and 2 to 5 percent potash on varying prairie soils and uplands. It warns against fertilizer dependence, stresses crop rotation and green manuring, and references bulletins Nos. 119, 12, and 130. Also includes a Good Roads Day proclamation for Bollinger County with dates, prizes, and enforcement details.
The Missouri State Normal School in Cape Girardeau Missouri announces its opening on Tuesday September 14. The school invites the people of the Normal School District to inspect its facilities and learn how it provides for college and professional education in languages literature mathematics sciences history government agriculture home economics music manual arts business practice and social education for teaching. Interested students should request the catalogue from President V S Dearmont for information.
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