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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1947
Page
9
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Mrs Elmer Short and Mr and Mrs George Barrett with families visited Judy Beachout of Auburn and Sharon Allery of Martinsville. They spent Saturday with Judy’s grandmother and Sharon’s aunt Mrs Margaret Beachout. Din Ross Holler Alma Shipe and Warren Shipe of Marshall were Sunday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Elmer Phillips. Horea Phillips has been ill for weeks.
Crowded Sunday school with Rev H J Kemp preaching at 11 AM. Mrs Kemp and a Martinsville visitor joined. River Wabash rising, flooding low lands. Norma Tingley hosted a Friday dinner with Dolores Tingley Alford McNary and Ivan McDaniel. Local families socialized and traveled to Terre Haute for business. Plowing and potato planting marked the busy week. various visits noted including Martinsville and Rosedale. Major Kenneth Q Paddock and Mrs Paddock from New York visited Darwin en route to Alabama posting.
West Union residents host relatives and church visitors with gatherings at the Scott, Jackson, and Denham households. Attendees include Emma Walker of Farmersburg Indiana, Anna Porter of Mamence Illinois, and Cad Williams family friends. James Nichols and Elizabeth Evans visit Terre Haute and Decatur kin as church events and baptisms draw communities together.
Mr and Mrs Rex Cornwell welcome a son named David Ray weighing 6 pounds 6 ounces born Easter Sunday. Mrs Snearly shows improvement while Esther Wells remains hospitalized in Indianapolis. Zelna Ellington and Dean Thompson visited Rex Cornwell and Homer Parcel families, with John and Jimmie Arbuckle joining relatives over the weekend. Charles Davis visited Saturday with them.
Sun day afternoon references visitors from the Davis and Parcel families. Mrs Amy English of Charleston visited Friday and Saturday with Mr and Mrs Wayne Davis and their children.
Sunday school attendance was 85 with services at 9 30 a m led by superintendent Mrs Frank Morgan. The article lists numerous social visits and hospitality among Snyder residents including families from Withee Terre Haute Walnut Prairie and Marshall plus attendance at a funeral and revival at Ohio Chapel.
Community notes report the funeral for Robert Findley held Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Ryan Funeral Home Terre Haute following several months illness. Burial was at Highland Lawn cemetery in Terre Haute. Findley formerly resided in the county and had many local friends and relatives. Nearby notes mention visits by Harold Walker and Shirley to Westfield and a vacation week for Vernon Conrad and family in Chicago with extended relatives.
Mrs Glenn Withait and Mr and Mrs Rudolph Bell hosted a large crowd for a Wednesday evening wiener roast. Guests included numerous neighbors and relatives from Paris, Martinsville, and nearby areas, with many attending Sunday dinners and a funeral for Wm Blunk at Martinsville Methodist church.
Sunday school attendance was 38. Various visits unfold across families with Bertha Fitzgerald, Sarah Davis, Mary Kester, Belle Garver, Forrest Montgomery, Reva Lee, Roe Davis, Naomi Phillips, Johnnie Blum, Will Walters, and others. A broken knee heals for Blanch Montgomery and Dr. Rogers attends a sick child as Diana Hutchings returns home.
Oda Mallory and family along with Mr and Mrs Russell Veach and Cecil Smith visited with Jesse Veach on Sunday. Allen Burger and Leon Garner were callers. Henry Babcock and Warren Wallace families dined with Roy Wallace. Ernest Wallace and Dale Rhyne families visited. April 25 next gathering at John Garner residence after visits by Virgil Wallace Doris Bender Oda Mallory Marjorie Wallace and others. Hubert Bender and Texie Wallace families spent Monday with Mrs Wallace.unday guests noted.
Bible school and communion each Sunday at 9 45. Rudolph and Mrs Bell were guests at a birthday dinner in Martinsville at the home of Wayne and Mrs Patchett honoring Sheris Anne first birth anniversary. A large crowd attended the community meeting at Jeff Davis school Friday night. Veach were Sunday dinner guests of Paul Veach Mt Pleasant area. Izards who sold their farm moved to Martinsville last week. Bishop Marshall visited with daughter Norman Macke and family Sunday. Chester Linton and children were Sunday dinner guests of Lon Linton in Marshall Sunday.
Elder Dale Rhyne attended Freedom Sunday services, with Mrs Roy Wallace and Miss Nina Ann Kile visiting Marjorie Wallace and her baby. Mr Golden Buckle, George Shaffner, and Martha Elliott were also mentioned in attendance and social visits.
Mrs Jessie Dennon and children from near Linton Indiana visited her brother Harvey Wilson and Ena Sunday. Doyle Rhoads from Paris is visiting his grandparents Mr and Mrs Forest Baker. Mr and Mrs Leonard Smitley and children visited with his brother Murl Smitley and family near Redmon Sunday, guests of Mr and Mrs Foster Propst and son John Hurst of Marshall is helping on his place and visiting relatives. Loren Lee and family called on her parents Mr and Mrs Will Walters and family Sunday evening.
Mrs Roe and Davis name a Sunday attendance of 32 with many local families visiting relatives. Several couples and children are listed as spending the day with Clyde Blagg, Roe Davis, Ted Tiffin, Brenton Montgomery and others. Some health notes mention Shyder and Sarah Davis not well while others visit kin in Paris and Grandview.
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