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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1917
Page
8
Fragmentary OCR mentions weekly events at Chandler and a publisher at Marble Hill postoffice with Elise referenced. The readable items suggest an occasional notice or public notice related to post office matters and local publisher activity.
Our letter from Wesley Iowa notes good health and crop conditions with corn picking due in about three weeks. Mentions of soldiers, local families, church events, school progress under Miss Beulah Deck, Epworth League organization, and various visits and moves around Whitewater, Daisy, Sedgewickville, and nearby towns.
Rev Bowers visits old friends and is warmly remembered for three years of service. The community welcomes Rev Badgely as new preacher arriving Thursday and preaching Sunday. Bro Hill leaves as editor with best wishes. other church happenings include meetings by Rev James Miller and a wedding performed by Bro Badgely.
Sedgewickville reports Frank Seabaugh shifting his flour mill from the creek to town and purchasing Dan R Seabaugh’s property as he moved to the Cape last week Miss Hinote lectured in Sedgewickville Thursday on cooking and women’s work demonstrating 3S war bread making and sharing thoughts.
Gipsy Health is poor in dry weather. The Hinkle babe is very sick. Williams and Gribble are making fine sorghum. Miss Mayme Scott and Jim left for Senath. Joe Barnes left for Camp Funston on October 3. Charley Stilts sowing wheat near Lodge. Elbert Shrader employed as carpenter near McGee. Miss Elois Puryear ill and with parents near Lutesville. School will begin Monday. Ike Richey and family back in Bollinger County. Ike favored farming over stockings. Many local boys named noncommissioned officers at Camp Funston. Bollinger County has long protected the country. Remember the Savior’s words.
A satirical poem by Walt Mason laments Germany's ruin and isolation as war drags on. The speaker recalls past arts and friendships, now replaced by gore, dirks, and alliances with Bulgars and Turks, ending with a grim self-deprecating farewell.
A prison visitor and inmate exchange a wry caution about crime. The inmate professes already seeing the error of his ways, while the visitor notes opportunities in more daring second-story work. Birmingham Age-Herald report captures a sly humor amid crime themes.
State Highway department calls attention to Section OS page 464 of the 1917 Session Laws requiring every overseer to erect and maintain legible finger boards at road forks or crossings directing the way and noting distance to the next important place. Up to one dollar may be paid from the district road fund for each such sign. Few Missouri counties have properly marked roads, and compliance is urged. Also notes Oregon California railroad grant lands revested to United States and opened for settlement under homestead laws with sale terms and timber lands, film of soil and climate details, via Grant Lands Locating Co., Portland, Oregon.
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