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Newspaper
Marble Hill Press
Location
Marble Hill, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1915
Page
8
ALL and CHANDLER publish self as local publishers who claim the Marble Hill post office foinered over second class matter. The note cites mailing status and official handling, signaling potential dispute with postal authorities. Local residents are urged to watch for further notices and official statements.
Our Correspondents report farmers sowing wheat and harvesting corn while residents travel for family visits illnesses and recoveries pace the week. Thomas Hawn visits daughter Mrs J D Wallis. Miss Winnie Long and Miss Geraldine Pair are among weekend visitors. Stella Burton returns from Will Matiekt College. Flora and Mamie Winters teach at Togo visit sister Mrs EH Bess. Mrs K Tf Bess slowly improves. Dr Daveult visits his uncle Rhodes. opossum hunt noted. J D Mo Shrum runs errands in Lutesville. Mount Zion station gathering attended by several locals. Rev Asa Aldrich preaches at New Salem. Rachel Drum visits Mrs Stephen Rankin.
A long column of notes details neighbors Harrison Crader and wife plus Mrs Mow Barrett on Sylvan Ridge. illnesses including Mrs Crites with typhoid fears, Herman Rustl ill, and Ralph Collins death connected to Emma Huskey Collins. Mentions fishing trips, travel to New York and Persia missionary work by Lenore Schoebel, farm updates like Percheron stallion purchase, gas engine, and goat business.
Cloudy wet weather lingers around Greenbrier. Corbin & company sawmill runs part of the week with Ben Hatfield working there. A quiet Saturday followed by Sunday visits from N Sipes to Roe Frazier and Ben Hatfield with family at Bert Corbin's. J J Wiggins has been active.
Local notes recount visits from Kendall Proffer and Kinder families near Marble Hill with church attendance at Hahn chapel. Residents and visitors include Schreiner, Formway, Bollinger, Nanney, Proffer, Kinder, Crader, Welch, and others from Lutesville, Oran, Mayfield, and nearby towns. Community members attend church, transact business, and travel to the southern counties. farm work and market activities noted along with an oyster and chicken buoy fundraiser at the farmers institute.
Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. W. Oster, Thos. Myrick bought a Nordike & Norman corn mill and will grind corn at home. He is a capable miller and expert at good meal. Rev. Ash Aldrich of Leadwood conducts revival meetings at the Baptist church here.
Charlee reports a fine week with healthy residents and many returning to work. The school enrolls five hundred fifty five pupils. Families visit relatives in Greenbrier Tennessee St Louis and Malden while others adopt a baby from an orphan home.
A Golden Jubilee Sunday School Workers event is planned in St. Louis on November 16 to 18. The piece recalls the first convention in 1886 in the old First Methodist Episcopal Church South at Eighth and Washington, led by Hon. E. O. Stanard and first president B. A. Kellogg, with 68 delegates from 25 counties and 148 from St. Louis, and mentions leaders William M Reynolde and Stephen Carson. It notes the twenty-fifth convention occurred in Sedalia in August 1860 under president D R K Wolfe, with 40 delegates from 38 counties and St. Louis represented.
A torn garbled excerpt outlines plans for the Golden Jubilee ceremony, naming William b Genferth as president and Levaies vice president. It mentions a “lumber Wing” of Kanear, a treasurer, and various society officers. The text references printing under MP pware eam and notes delays before a September timetable, with conferences and loadminer roles discussed.
International head WC Pearce of Chicago leads the Adult Bible Class Movement as it grows from 1 to 61000 organized chasers since 1897. Other leaders include John H Engle Kansas, Antoinette Lamoreaus Des Moines, John L Alexander Chicago, Katherine W Eddy Kansas City, McDonald Savanna, John A Rice St Louis, Mary Poster Byrne Chicago, Frank G Smith Kansas City, J D E Columbia, George Platt Knox St. Louis, Meyers Detroit, Dean Walter Williams Columbia, plus many others. Any Sunday School member may attend without credentials. main headquarters at Third Capitol Church. Further information via the Missouri Association.
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