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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1912
Page
8
A partial OCR line shows a malware like text fragment claiming a scene at Markle Hill post office with unclear action. The readable words hint at a vandalism or security incident but lack concrete details, names, or a clear date. The item remains a fragment describing a local postal facility event without verifiable facts.
Our correspondents report heavy snow and cold with eight inches of snow and 20 below. Local residents travel, visit, and quarrels are replaced by routine tasks as banks elect directors and towns resume normal activity.
Health is very good in this vicine. We have had a nice snow and the rabbit crop is being put on the market. JW. Lincoln of Cape Girardeau was in this vicinity on business. A large crowd attended the funeral of Mr. Dungan at Plainview cemetery. Charley Masters is going to work for his uncle Dr. P. M. Mayfield at Portageville. W. D. Patton has been sick but is better. Rev. A. J. Lincoln and son G. G. will leave for Arkansas in February to seek a better crop. Henry Burford of Stoddard county visited a friend here Sunday. J. M. Thomason bought a fine lot of second-hand furniture in Cape. Ira Page and Cleve Mungle returned from the lower country last week. Mrs. D. A. Masters bought two fine hogs from G. G. Lincoln recently. Busy Ber.
Union Light Health notes dull business amid severe cold. Rabbit hunting remains popular while neighbors report several frozen feet from the deep snow. Old timers say this is the deepest snowfall in 35 years. Snowdrifts prevented a Friday rural route delivery and a prayer meeting is planned.
A winter features page records visitors and health notes, with families of Johnnie Jordan and Wm. Salyers visiting, and ongoing snowbound school closures. It lists moves by R. T. Devine and others, deaths from tuberculosis and typhoid, sleigh rides, mail delays, and a long school program. The column notes revival meetings by Rev. J. A. Bellon, a youth society program, and various property transactions, rabbit hunting, and telephone company activity amid heavy snow.
A divorce petition filed January 16, 1912 in Bollinger County Circuit Court names Fannie Taylor as the defendant. The petitioner states Taylor is not a resident of Missouri and a publication order in vacation is issued to notify her of the divorce suit brought by A. R. Sie, with W. K. Chandler as attorney.
A legal notice records a defendant’s alleged abandonment of the plaintiff on a December 1901 date and a court order demanding appearance at the March 1902 term in Marble Hill Bollinger County Missouri. It also notes publication in The Marble Hits and invites bids for courthouse alterations with plans on file in St Louis and Marble Hill offices.
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