18 Mar 1897
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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1897
Page
1
A sparse Newa appears as churches hold revivals at Bollinger’s and residents report illness and recoveries. Jasper Wright and Laura Stone wed, while several others face sickness, travel home duties, and community chatter. plans for more weddings arise as Miss Clara Snyder visits and Miss May Lochlin observes farm life.
Health improving typhoid cases and local sickness share space with court attendance and community events. Miss Inna Sample joins M S academy while the school grows steadily, and Rev W A Davanl leads a protracted meeting at New Salem church as A T Kirkpatrick weds Miss Victoria Grimsley on March 13.
Owing to wet weather the farmer reports little crop progress with wheat looking poor and some farmers considering plowing under for different grain. Several weddings occurred this winter. Local activity includes Hahn Bollinger mill nearing completion, Assessor Hawn building a fine barn, Dr Frank O Kelley visiting, and the Orton boys buying Statler property to erect a blacksmith shop. H F Bollinger traveled to Capd county on business. News is scarce this week.
Glen Allen residents questioned why you missed Thursday prayer meeting as rain hindered attendance. Sunday school reports seventy five scholars. Two weekly prayer meetings announced at Baptist church Tuesday and M E Church Wednesday. Miss Eilie Baker died last week and was laid to rest beside her sister in Glen Allen cemetery.
Health is good in the community. Miss Columbia Yount visiting home from MS academy reports school progressing. Grandma Cole visited F. Page’s family last Thursday. Henry Sehrock moved recently. Miss Lydia Upchurch visited L. Page’s family last week. Upchurch contemplates remaining single due to lack of prospects. Mr and Mrs FH G Upchurch visited R E Upchurch’s family Sunday. Hurricane church held services Sunday and Monday night. Miss Hattie Hembree visiting relatives near Zalma. Best wishes to Tus Press.
Health is fair in this locality. F. M. Cole remains ailing. Fr. James visited Lutesville this weekend. W. R. Farrar adds a new picket fence and works on his farm. H. B. Cole shipped 775 dozen eggs last week. The infant of Mr. and Mrs. DeWhitt remains very sick. A. J. Lincoln visited near Mount Carmel Saturday and Sunday. The Squire has carpenter work planned for spring. George P. Cole circulated among friends after returning from Donklingcounty. Pink and Lee Mayfield and Miss Columbia County MoS. academy returned home Saturday and left Sunday. Cole attends shared regular.
At Nichols chapel, attention shifts from church matters to other issues. Candidates for school commissioner attract little notice, and while the office is not highly paid, it remains one of the most important in the area.
Rival druggists in a San Francisco exchange engage in a stamp contest. One dealer advertised three stamps for a nickel, delivering two two-cent stamps and one one-cent stamp. The other countered with a pie card offering thirteen two-cent stamps for a cent and a quarter, claiming buyers receive thirteen two-cent stamps for 25 cents.
A Tennessee munshiner asserts that he has conducted an illicit distillery for twenty years and has profited, yet insists he has never been arrested by revenue detectives. The remark highlights ongoing tax and prohibition era enforcement tensions without detailing charges.
The elephant acts as a vital draught force in Indian artillery, replacing bullocks for heavy batteries and siege trains. Elephants move four 40 pounder guns with support wagons, require a trained staff, and travel by rail in specially designed cars to prevent injury, forming a mobile little army within the unit.
The Mayhew children, after finishing their Century books, turn to their little library for ideas. On a stormy Mare Saturday they avoid past matters and seek Uncle Jack’s guidance. He jokes that they cannot live on memories alone and urges focus on the present and future.
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