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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
8
Public notice from Marble Hill area publisher G L Chandler announces Thursday publication schedule and proper post office handling as an entered matter.
Our correspondents note heavy rains and several meetings concluded locally. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Masters and children from Morley, Marvin Jackson and baby near Lopus, plus a group from here attending a conference at Plain View. Dr Vietidlin, recently named captain, will depart for Yale College to work in the densitories for a time. he will be missed as a top local physician.
This fragment reports various family news and visits. Mentions Carmess joining teelay, Mat ty dry days, Miss Fether Phatin with Lone foo chute, Siss Helen Water Missipal Matthews leaving for Alton, a good poem Born Tu Vis, Mrs Grover Miller with a fine girl, Hera9 VcCormick and Herb Sharp returning from Alton, Jah Robins to Colorado, Henry Abernathy to Celinets, Avery Monroe Coover and family going to Alton, and future bone Core on sollier bows with letters.
A string of visits and happenings fills the week as Mary Scott visits Effie King in Senath and others travel to see relatives. Enrollments rise with thirty two youngsters starting school. Rev Harty and family visit, while many attend Plainview church conference. A new baby is born to Isam Wright and wife, and crops prospects look to cotton being better than corn amid good health and recent rains.
Community snippets from Lutesville recount daily life names places and events. Visitors church meetings rain and farming notes mingle with a long list of youths registered for military service at Camp McArthur in Waco Texas including Hatin Cunningham Overbeck Williams Zetick Reynolds Baker Wilfong Shrader Hahn Ossig Peters Bland Crites Acord Shell Fletcher Shell Sitze Hahn Fry Bitterman Hembry Alexander Myers Angle Strong Arnzen Lim lbaugh Long Robinson Yount Stevens Casey Bolinger James and others.
David Heory Willie Holt and others qualified for limited service will be sent to Camp Greenleaf Georgia from now until September 6. Additional names including Croder Hess Smith Devenport Jackson Bollinger and Pifir entrain Friday August 5 for Camp Dodge. Some rejected for general service were re examined and assigned to limited service while others called later for examination. A total of sixteen arrived to be registered August 24 and the questionnaire letters were mailed. prompt response urged to aid the war effort.
A Saint Louis Navy official warns of the cold season ahead for U S sailors and coastal communities. He notes the Navy keeps sea routes open to Europe and urges Americans to provide warm clothing for sailors and families, as North Sea weather mirrors stiff winds and damp, chilly conditions nearby.
Amid harsh northern France conditions troops face cold damp and trench frost. Home knitters urged to send gray yarn sweaters helmets wristlets and socks to boost morale and comfort for sailors and soldiers while guardianship notices record appointment and estate matters in Missouri court documents dated 1918.
A light shower passed through last night as John Hill works on the schoolhouse. Dan Fishax will teach this year. Mr and Mrs W W Perry were in St. Louis last week buying fall and winter goods. Emily Perry went to Puxico on business for her father. Dan Bess hosted a dance and ice cream social last Saturday. Several local youths plan to attend a summer camp next week. Willie Krews and Stella Phelps attended a tent meeting in Leora. Mrs James Kinder has returned from Poe visiting her son. Normal Kirs is working for SG Bedwell and Sons at the mill. Mrs Parks of Cave Guerdeau had business in town Monday.
Palmyra Michigan resident Mrs. Chas T. Fubler recounts a long period of illness with sharp pains and weakness since 1911. She credits Cardui with rapid improvement, building health and strength within a month, reducing bed spells, and eliminating the need for doctors or further medicine.
Miss Dora Sheil of near town is visiting friends at Laflin. Charlee Leadbetter went to Oran Tuesday to work. Rev. T. L. Bess is clerking in D. W. Burford's store this week. Ed Butler of Irondale visits his cousin William Butler. Mrs. Sadie Crites has repairs made on her property. D. W. Burford went to St Louis Sunday to buy fall merchandise.
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