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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1916
Page
8
The Marenr HInn Press issues a weekly edition released every Thursday from its Marble Hill office. Publishers Hill and Chandler are listed as the responsible parties.
Corraspondents report a week of illness visits and community events in Madison County Missouri. People like Miss Misty Hale and G A Venable are mentioned along with church services at Union Ridge and the Union Grave church. Local happenings include school entertainment, telephone line expansions, sawmill moves, and bridge repairs with minor injuries.
Indiana man Anthony Wilson of Loogootee recalls a lifelong delicate liver and malarial fever. At age 10 he began Thedford's Black Draught, using it into adulthood to cure his condition. He now 27 says the remedy restored health, needing only seasonal toning otherwise. He praises the product and its long-standing efficacy.
SedQowickville reports show Mrs A J Lincolln visiting daughter Eddie and Mr and Mrs J D Wallis hosting training in Liilesville last Friday. Recent rains damaged farms along the creek washing land and fences. Mrs Eb Bess remains poorly as her parents visited. Stephen Rankin and family plan a move to Illinois. Mrs Henry Abernathy ill several days. Mrs Cora Cameron visited Lizzie Burton. Coy Lincoln traveled to Flat River last week.
Visits among Schreiner, Bollinger, and Limtough families span Wednesday to Sunday with other relatives in attendance. Proffer and Bollinger households report weather troubles. bridge talks with Jackson contact boost hope for a Bit Whitewater crossing. Local farm notes include sheep losses, hens, and livestock trades. Statler house work and a Burned child case are mentioned.
Health is reasonably good as residents send few maple syrup items. Claude Whitener, recently discharged from a St Louis hospital, returned last week. Gav Ollinder, away in California, came home Friday to help with his mother’s farms. Mr and Mrs Will Senter visited Mr and Mrs TF Pridy Sunday. Reverend Twilwell planned to fill an appointment at Mill on Saturday and Sunday amid mild bat weather. Nelle Pridy and Esther Pridy visited Otto Pridy in Latersville on Thursday through Sunday. Aspens are scarce locally.
Buchanan Health and school updates bound local life with Will Hughes entering Lutesville and Miss Cora Bess enrolling in Fredericktown. Burk brothers purchase and plan farm life next summer, while spinel illness eases for Pen McCullough’s daughter. Various residents report health, work, and moving activities in the area.
A church update reports regular services and finances in good condition with pastor paid in full, church improvements by Brother Kiser, and a strong prayer meeting. A December 1 death notice lists Addie Ray and heirs, with probate and estate settlement notes and required claims under a court administrator.
An expert claims the fleet is ready while another says passage through the Panama Canal is possible to deter the Western Coal invasion. Congress contemplates a lower army and hurried antiaircraft guns. Women enlist as men are drafted, and military plant expansions loom amid rising hostilities.
An affidavit from a notary pledges that Frank J. Cheney of Toledo will pay $100 for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice touts the remedy as a blood and mucous membrane agent taken internally. It advertises Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Halle’s Pills, urging readers to take them for constipation as well.
The piece laments looming conflict as ships coaling for action and bugle calls sound. It recalls that actual war would require facing an enemy, with quips about kings and fallen crowns attributed to figures named Albert of Belgica Peter of Servis and Nichols of Montenegro.
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