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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1912
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR hints at talks involving shares and rates with references to Chandler and a publishing entity. Details are unclear but imply financial terms or stock-like arrangements amid unspecified parties.
Our correspondents record a string of short notes about illnesses visits travel and social events. Names include Miss Myrtle Whittenburg Linus Matthews Hattie Edminston and Josie Gray with references to Alice Deck Zalimia Marble Hill and a Will Mayfield College student.
Health is reasonably good though roads are in bad condition. The ground boy may have seen his shadow on February 14. Lacy improves his farm with a new building. John Sutherland bought a fine mare from Harry Fowler last week. Dolph Lacy often hauls freight for W. D. Hinkle and makes two trips daily. Misses Lucy Gibson and Grace Gibbs attended an entertainment at Zalma Friday night. A. J. Jackson has the mill building nearly complete. M. M. Hinkle has been puny but is improving. Miss Stella Dunn is visiting W. D. Hinkle this week.
Health is good with a few exceptions. A fresh snow Saturday night and cold weather keep people busy making fires and gathering wood. Mrs. Rudolph Hunziker is in poor health this winter. Herman Blanken, in poor health for some time, has been
A crowded local update reports health issues including grays fever and a mad dog scare. It notes visits by families to relatives, road work, upcoming events at Roe school, repairs by Dr Statler, and new farm purchases including Cleve Crites buying Henry Bollinger’s farm. Reuben Statler rents, and J Hartle’s farm changes hands.
Health report notes a J M Chestner child ill with pneumonia and a small James child dying from whooping cough. Vester Angle, a local resident, died Saturday morning of kidney trouble. Visitors John P Nations and Alfred Floyd of Kennett called on residents and visited Burfordville over the weekend.
In snowy weather, a birth is announced for Mr and Mrs Jesse Angle a fine boy. Mother and babe are reported in good health.
The report lists residents visiting relatives and friends including Jesse H Janes, Avot Jaye Welker, Mary Welker, Ellen Welker, Ivy Welker, Jacob Welker, and Mra Felon Brown. It notes infant deaths near Seppa and community movement with Gilbert Green, CE Deuzlass, and JOA Thoulass among attendees and workers in distant locales.
Local items report Elmer Posten recovering from illness and visits by family members. Winters returns to activity while Mias Filia Rose and WH Roses travel to Bink Mo to visit Mrs WJ Poston. George Hales improves after neck issue. Sam Hutson plans move. Charles Huffman treated for sore throat. Obituary notes Mrs Mary Batehler (nee Kegley) at 60 years in Dexter, with burial at Walker cemetery two miles east of Bloomfield. reaper incident referenced.
Reports from the area cover health mishaps, road conditions, and winter work. Miss Myrtle Glasener needed stitches after a cut from broken glass, while Amos Fulbright and Marsh Langston begin new ground projects this winter. Local residents like JB Welker, Will Abernathy, and Charley Welker plan road work when weather allows, and several neighbors prepare monuments and phone projects.
Rain and melting snow fill the Castor River causing heavy mud that halts hauling and travel. Rev. Jones arrives as the new Methodist minister assigned to the circuit and local mail service experiences delays.
A damaged OCR fragment references a January Ded day and a court proceeding in Missouri involving parties named Joe, Jeawins, and Aden rerretee. The text is fragmentary and unclear, but hints at a petition or decree and a retire action amid a civil matter.
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