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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1908
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR note records two individuals, Manesie and Chandler Pulliser, entered at the Martle Hill post office as second class writer. Details are partial and uncertain due to damaged text.
Wheat sowing leads farming activity in this vicinity. Rev Wo Poston spoke at Union Grove last Sunday. Mrs Florence Matthews is very ill. Miss Lizzie Hughes visiting parents. Pontds school under Alton Cooper reports poor prerecross singing at Union Grove Saturdays. DARLING attended Cape fair. Oct 5 marriage Joe Seabanagh and Miss Valle Stovall. TL AL Perkins of Chatsworth visiting. Eli Hahn and Bertha visited Merchant Faker. S Dewhitt makes molasses. Buckwheat ripening will fix it. Blacksmith busy. Mrs Minnie Cole and Jessie Myers visiting relatives in Gut ox Rice.
Fragmented local notes record visits by Fred Sehlninger to Fred Finke on Sunday and various residents like William Daur, Miss Gertrude Pair, Mere and Mrs Jela Selweek, and Pinckney Robins in a rural community. Mentions moving, cattle sale, timber cutting, and hauling ties with several scattered names and places.
Farmers sew wheat as news items note Beal birth a big boy on Sept 20. Beal school thrives under Miss Lueille de Maanis. Families Shettlew Swan Whitener Haynes visit kin. Miller chapel hosting preaching. Local errands and visits fill the week.
The column records a string of brief notes from Marble Hill area residents. Mentions include poultry farmer Lee Dockins making regular Monday trips, Dr. Martie Hill and Scopis visits, numerous local candidates, John Nitiney planning a storehouse, town vet prospects Misses Angie and Flossie Kim baugh in Scopius, Mully Lubanah selling corn, a Jackson marriage on October 6, and visits by Mrs. and Mrs. M. F. Chestiuer. Also notes teachers attending a Marble Hill association and Laura Cook visiting home folks.
A county political notice urges Democrats to mobilize for the November 4 Bevan year. It praises Bevan, Cowherd, Smith and Lane, calls for turnout, and notes favorable county conditions. Local events include a funeral near Leopold, a house fire near Laflin, and clergy changes. The piece emphasizes a strong Democratic effort and community concerns.
The community mourns the death of Mrs Adelheid Steinnerd wife of John Steinnerd from typhoid fever on Thursday. Born in 1843 in Renee Germany she immigrated as a child and the family will inter her remains in St Johns cemetery after the funeral in the area. Her husband and children survive along with many friends.
Farmers face declining soil fertility while land prices rise, risking ability to cover interest. The Journal of Agriculture magazine offers a booklet on maintaining soil fertility, humus, moisture, and crop rotation, with a special subscription deal through The Marble Hill Press before November 1, 1908. Also reports local wedding news and community notices from St. Bernard's church in St. Louis and surrounding residents.
Perry Baker and family visited in the country Sunday. J. L. Kerns of Flat River moved onto the Sadler farm. Born Sunday morning, October to Dan and wife Walker a boy. Cedar branch resident Nellie Asie Stovall had business in town Saturday. Mrs. J. N. Cook and daughter from Scopus shopped here Saturday. Ke Ford and daughter shopped in town Tuesday. Thomas Brown and wife of Hickory Grove were in town earlier this week. Mrs. Jennie Barbour of Illinois visits her daughter near Zalma. Marshall Hager of Anchor and niece Miss Emma Proctor of St. Louis are visiting. Mrs. S. J. Henley of Lessley ridge visiting here.
The undersigned Bollinger County collector W L Dunn announces tax collection meetings for 1108 taxes and delinquent back taxes at multiple township sites across October and November. Readers in Wayne Zalma Liberty Lorance Whitewater Sedgewickville German Crooked Creek Union Patton Tallent and nearby precincts urged to settle owed taxes to avoid interest.
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