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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1919
Page
8
A notice from Chandler & Company announces candidates Mary L. Metelloeh for Hallinger County public schools and WM. Welker for Roatlinger County superintendent posts. Both seek voter action at the upcoming annual meeting.
The piece notes various local visits and social calls. Mentions families such as Mrs Stevene and Mrs Alana Senhausehy, plus Frank of Glen Allen and Dre father near Sedge ok ville. A fire or closure at Lone Glove Selma is referenced.
Fragmentary OCR text lists names and brief mentions of people visiting Sikeston Marjoumedt Ridge and Sarquand. Several lines refer to missing context, with mixed phrases about attendance, distances, and personal notes.
Freemitty pS phon Harveys filed his appoint ment at the chapel. Sunday Melvin Farmer left for Dastiville Tenn to study bookkeeping. Will Miller of Girassy and Mrs Mary Privkey united in marriage last Sunday. Mrs Ben Vance and children visited at John Whitener's Saturday and Sunday. Cortie Harris, recently ill, is reported better. Miss Agnes Cooper visited Dora Myers Friday. John E Cooper purchased a fine flock of sheep from Will Liley Saturday. Mrs John Brower returned home from Kentucky Sunday. Arthur Liley and Miss Lora Vance invited in holy matrimony last Friday.
The mud is drying as farmers prepare to sow. Will Wagner is putting up a new fence this week. Charley Schenke ran errands at Bury. Joe Rea visited brother Jake Sunday night. Mr. and Mrs. Rhodes called on T. Chibb Sunday. Walter Campbell is employed this period.
Sunday gatherings featured John Younger, George Wilfong, and Miss Rade Yount engaging with locals at George Abernathy's. Jeff Clubb hosted carpentry work at the site. GW Kerr sold a five mule team. Eva and Mamie Rew visited Miss Roth and Nellie Club. Charley Gibbs led local business. Rev Joe Shrader conducted the regular appointment.
The piece lists local families affected by a hurricane including Bertha and Clark Masters Aton Welker and the Widow Riding and notes Tecof WA Masters children visiting relatives in the hurricane week Henry Masters bought a mule from Louis Zillmerman and made a toothache remedy trip to Dr Reynolds Roy Davenport Fred Long J H Ridings farm new neighbors JB Welker Charley Bland Long J P Limbaugh fences and farm work Fiza Ridings returns to care for flu stricken at home oats sowing will begin when grain freezes end of Poy news
Health is reasonably good in this vicinity. Mrs George Mouser and her daughter Miss Altha visit relatives here. Mrs Charles Newell and family visited her parents the Mus Myers. Jasper Myers recently returned from U S service. Miss Altha Mouser and Miss Ora Matthews visited Saturday. Will Rhodes and family visited Mr and Mrs Myers Saturday night. Avery Abernathy and babe visit R M Abernathy this week. Audrey Choate attended a sugar eating at Willard Burke’s Saturday night. Mrs Ode Smith visited her parents Silas McCormick Saturday. Edgar Harrold and Miss Altha Mouser visited Miss Audrey Choate Sunday. Jeff Miller and family visited his brother Jake Sunday. Mrs Silas McCormick on the play list this week. Mr and Mrs Will Miller moved on Castor last week. Mrs Dalph Scott and babe visited her parents Seth Hill Sunday. Harry Shetley and Miss Ora Matthews attended the wedding at Cascade Thursday of Harry Ward and Miss Bertha Bollinger. The writer.
Mr Mary Kirkpatrick visited home folks Sunday. Hest withes to The Presse Essex Eves.
Lutesville notes a string of family visits and relocations. Chas Miller returns from Des Moines after a funeral for Uncle Anrette Robertson, a former New York military policeman, while Leroy Robertson and J J Robertson visit kin in Charleston and at home. Mrs Omer Lutes comes back from St Louis, and plans to move as WoOA Leoller family prepares to relocate to Dexter to run a hotel. PJ Baker to move into a newly purchased dwelling. RC Ricketts returns from Morley and Earl Swan from Buchanan visits.
Inquest into the death of Frank Whitechurch found the automobile collision last Wednesday unavoidable and no blame was placed on anyone. The proceeding was held Thursday morning under Coroner Burro of Mine La Motte with a full jury and witnesses heard before delivering the verdict. The report also notes Norman Hapgood of New York being nominated Minister to Denmark, succeeding Dr Maurce Egan. It outlines Hapgood’s career from Harvard to Collier's Weekly and Harper’s, plus a piece on burning corn stalks in Missouri and a eulogy for Leverett Philp Lehreiner, who died aged 20 in Kansas City, with a devotional obituary poem by his sisters.
George Begley Jr of Dudley and Fisk Missouri, a leading rice grower, praises Missouri rice lands as superior to Arkansas or Texas by a large margin in letters to Jewell Mayes, secretary of the state board of agriculture.
Figures show West grown rice potential with 21 000 bushels and 120 acres. Expected value around 4264 after sale, with plans to plant 600 acres. Missouri rice value rose from 10 000 in 1896 to 45 000 in 1918, per acre earnings up to 81 in 1918. Day wages rose faster than month wages, and farmers find day labor harder to obtain outside harvest.
Farm wage rates in 1918 rose sharply across the United States, with pay for laborers up to 3492 per month with board and 4707 without board, and harvest day wages at 263 with board. The increases since 1902 range from 43 to 64 percent across classes, led by the far west, reflecting a 53 percent general rise in farm labor wages when adjusted for purchasing power.
The fifth Liberty Loan will be called the Victory Loan and floated in April. It marks the last large popular subscription loan from the world war era. The amount interest rate and exact date are not yet announced, though more funding may follow.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports improved drought resisting varieties of sorghum millet alfalfa and broom frass. These plants show uniform rarities and are adapted to climate and soil conditions of the northern Great Plains.
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