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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1917
Page
4
Local residents report frequent weekend visits and family events across Moore, Vineland, and nearby towns. Attendees share church and revival attendance, funerals, farm work, travel to Flat River and Jackson, and community hustle with shoppers, deliveries, and local business changes.
A field of social notes records weekend visits and greetings. Names include Mee Lizzie Goelfmann of Jackson at John Blanken’s, Row Forginay’s Bloomfield trip, and Wes Schreiner’s Morley and Gravel Hill church attendance. Neighbors Ms Minnie Schreiner, Mrs Metcalf, and the Slinkards are noted visiting, with several couples and families seen in town Friday and Sunday.
Crooked Creek area reports limited farming this week due to wet weather. Charlie Welker of St. Louis is visiting hometown relatives this week.
Miss Eutha Bollinger, who went to Los Angeles for health reasons two months ago, died June 3 at 10 10 p m aged 20 years and 20 days Her remains were shipped home for interment with funeral at the M E Church South conducted by Rev J T Evins June 9 She leaves a mother one sister Mrs Cleve Myers Gravelton and five brothers R J of Los Angeles David of Cape Girardeau C L W B and G A of Castor and a host of relatives and friends to mourn her loss She was laid to rest in Kinder chapel cemetery Pallbearers were Misses Maude Shetley and Grace
Ward Bert Bollinger Conte Real Beulah Whitener Wilmer Nita and Kathleen Shetley attended the funeral with many fragrant flowers. Roy Cheek attended Saturday and visited Mrs Cheek’s cousin Mrs J F Rick and Misses Ollie and Valle Lawrence of Tene Creek. Mes Jie Miller CA Shetley and family visited CF Whitener Sunday. David Bollinger of Cape Girardeau attended his sister’s funeral then returned home. Mr and Mrs Cleve Myers spent Saturday night at Geo Bollinger Juse Bus.
The forty ninth Mason district of Missouri including lodges at Cape Girardeau Jackson Pocahontas Millerville Oak Ridge Latin Marble Hill and Zalma will hold a St John day picnic on Monday June 23 at Cape Girardeau fair grounds. Cape lodge plans a fine day with two speakers Rev Dr C D Wood and F R Jesse, pastors and masters of the grand lodge, billed as worth hearing.
Croquet and tennis top local sports as Frank Tallent visits Glen Allen and others make short trips. Miss Faye Cobb visits Cape Girardeau. William Butler travels to the Cape with Farneworth family. Roy Lutes visits a friend near Caney Creek. Phelps and Mouser take a Dongola sightseeing trip. Lutesville Milling expands its grain house as E A Burrow moves into the old building.
A hostile newspaper retorts to Prohibition opponents by detailing Maine savings bank deposits as of June 4 1910 showing 50742705803 across savings banks with 52000 depositors and a per capita total of 21450 across men women and children, arguing Maine's wealth contradicts poverty claims.
Claim that New York troops had the lowest death rate on the Texan border is linked to prohibition of intoxicants. Soldiers could not drink anything not even near beer and could not enter places where liquor was displayed. An army officer quips that the prohibition has made a prohibitionist out of him.
A garbled OCR fragment proposes a numeric puzzle about counting living brothers, doubling, adding a center of deaths, and tallying to 150. The readable content is incoherent and lacks clear entities, date, or location details.
A cryptic exchange questions how to interpret numbers in a puzzle. It states the right figure is deaths of brothers, middle figures living sisters, and left figure living brothers and asks who can supply an explanation.
The Journal of Agriculture notes a blunt exchange where an English militant crusader wanders into a barn and asks a young milker why he is not at the front. The milker replies there is no milk at that end, reflecting rural humor amid wartime talk. A social item mentions a bride with spinach bouquet and cauliflower hair rosette, and a light luncheon of baked potatoes was served.
Farm listing describes LIS acres 4 miles south of Burfordville with 1S acres cultivated 15 acres bottom land and corn. Contains two dwellings two barns two costerms and a spring. land partly clearable. Close to a graded school and two churches. Call for particulars at Jxcom Poor KR 1 How 87 Hurfordville Mo.
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