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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1915
Page
8
A fragmented OCR item from Chandler Publishers mentions Marble and a postal related notice. Limited readable words indicate a Marble post office or office posting, with unclear date or details. The readable entities include Chandler and Marble, suggesting a local notice or ad about mail or publishing at a Marble site.
Crops mention illness of Mrs Roxie Hale and George Bess killed in chicken yard. Henry Huffain visits Fredericktown with sister. Miss Anna Whitener spent the Fourth with friends at Phi River. Many attended the Glen Allen plank celebration. LC Griffiths family visited Frank Crooks. Mr and Mrs Charley Abramster of Bunker visiting here. Silas McCormick visited Seth Hill. Ball game at Matthews well attended. Mrs Melvin McCormick shopped at Chaper Haynes. Miss Opal Matthews visited Miss Delia Newell. Picnic at Haynes July 17 urged with promise of a good time. Request from Sank and Dog tole Grassy Gi.
Our people are busy with plowing corn stacking wheat Denman and Tallett near Tallent are in the county buying sheep at high prices Mr and Mrs Byron Rockwell welcomed a fine boy June 27 Mr and Mrs Silas Green visited Will McCormick's Sunday Several young folks spent the end of July at Zalma picnic Mr and Mrs AA Purnsworth of Martie Hill visited Henry Cooper's Saturday night and Sunday Mr and Mrs J J Murray of Hahn visited PM Deck's Sunday Joan Myers rode to Marble Hill Avery Myers visited Lutesville last Wednesday A series of meetings is in progress at Palmore church Rev Wilburn is preaching some fine sermons Buay Suspay
Health is good and garden plenty with corn looking fine. Mr and Mrs Geo Kerr visited W S Fox Sunday. Area residents attended the Zalma picnic July 3. A J Jackson threshing wheat. W D Hinkle logged 425 bushels. Wm Nichols hired to carry mail to Zalma. Visitors at Hinkle’s included Marvin Hinkle and family Isaac Ritchey Ruth Criddle. Ritchey and Ruth Criddle rode the Zalma flyer to North Carolina last Monday.
Health is good in this locality. Leo Bollinger, who has been working at Oran, came home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Huskey Jr.
Mr and Mrs Sam Kaby visited Sun Roscoe Nanney and George Schreiner. Rev and Mrs Frank Shanks visited Mr and Mrs Joe Crader Sat night and Sun. Ava Crader returned from Blodgett to home Monday. Alpha Croft visited Lola and Ethel Nanney Thursday. George Schreiner, formerly with J A Overbeck, wounded foot midweek. Wesley Schreiner, employed by J A Overbeck near Jackson, visited parents Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs Cora Bell Crader visited Mrs Minnie Schreiner Friday. Miss Deal Bazzell called on Miss Mary Fox Sunday. George and Roy Schreiner traveled to town Saturday. Hubert Crader from near Gravel Hill attended Locust Grove church Sunday. Likely courtship notes conclude with two sweethearts.
After the Fourth the community reports frequent showers and promising crops with wheat and straw good. A quiet wedding united Lee Null and Miss Lou Beel. Ben Elfrink promotes nursery stock, Frank Elfrink and Mrs Krussel returned from St Louis, Anna Bonkamp visits Cape Girardeau, GF Ellis of Patton passes through en route to his Advance farm.
Local residents report travel visits to Lutesville Marble Hill and nearby towns. Families including Slinkard Formway Proster Morrison Patton and Schreiner are noted with church events basket dinners and services planned for Hurricane New Salem and nearby communities. A newborn girl Yolnne Deore is listed along with farm equipment updates and local farming successes.
Rev. G M Mouser conducted regular services at Hurricane Saturday night and Sunday with a healthy turnout. Health is described as reasonably good. Wille Lincoln and sister Miss attended, among others, at the recent gatherings.
John F Winters administrator announces final settlement of Kate Pittman estate in Hollinger county probate court Marble Hill on August 4 105 J F Wilviers administrator creditor and others are notified to appear at the proceeding
Creditor notice for Andérson Headrick estate shows administrator W K Chandler will seek final settlement at the upcoming Bollinger County Probate Court term in Marble Hill on August 11. Jennie F Clarkson Slagle estate named with executor James A Boone aiming for final settlement at the next Probate Court term. J F K Funke administrator plans final settlement for the Funke estate at the Marble Hill term on August 9 with FR France as administrator.
Trust deed default leads to sale at Marble Hill courthouse doors on Saturday in July between 10am and 5pm. The property, described as southeastern quadrant of the southwest quarter and north half of the southwest quarter of sections in township 28 north range 9 east, totals 120 acres in Bollinger County Missouri. Notice records Nancy Watkine and Able P. Watkine, with Charles Linville as trustee, for repayment of $100 and interest. sale by Sheriff Starling P. Powell with deed dated May 4 1915.
In a courtroom exchange from the St Joseph Observer, Attorney Louis Stigall presses a foreign-born witness Lazky with a string of questions about his factory work. The man’s answers reveal confusion over terms such as brick factory goods and best quality, ending with the lawyer declaring, I give up.
A young in veteran cigarette smoker arrives at a rural town seeking a smoke but finds no store open. He asks a boy for a cigarette and then for help making a roll. The boy offers a match and quips about the man’s habit as a joke exchange ends.
A Puck quip mocks a character claiming self hatred. The speaker explains mixed English and German parentage, highlighting ethnic tension and humor in a brief exchange. The line reflects satire on identity and nationality.
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