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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
5
Melrose brief items cover Martinsville visits, a West York appearance, election turnout, and wartime enlistments. The piece notes Sylvia Shaffner and Herman Pendleton wedding, local board of education election apathy, and youth drafted from Dolson township. It references air raid concerns and balloon sightings, plus family visits, harvest, berries, and a corrected obituary detail for William Clapp neighbor Jane Hurst.
The Colled Drethren Society at Sa loh held an ice cream social Saturday night. The Methodint Society at Green Mess plans an ice cream supper Saturday night. Mrs Maude Allred is improving after a lung hemorrhage, hay remains to be saved this week, and labor is scarce unless neighbors swap work.
Will Devlin is no better George Kerr of Casey was a business visitor Tuesday. Baptist folks hosted an ice cream social on the church lawn Saturday. Chas Tyhurst and wife and Albert Cooper and wife of Orange were in town. Mrs W O Creaver of Kansas visited her parents. Mrs Harry Conrad near Turkey Run road is very sick. Oliver Ishler of Chickasha Ohio visited with relatives. Mrs Nancy Mescot left for Weston West Virginia after a month here. Hal Trussell and Mr Russell of the M B H circuit spent time here. Sidewalks used for coasting questioned. Opera house ran two Alms for Red Cross Drift and cyclone pictures. large crowd attended.
Community invites all to an Aug 11 ice cream social at Willis Chapel to raise funds for charitable purposes. Also notes local produce prices and reports of a rattlesnake killed on the Gil White farm near Rocky Hollow. Death of Berry Sallee in Bergen, Ky, and obituary remarks for T M Sallee's brother.
Local notes show Elmer Phillips and family traveling to Olney. Mr and Mrs Gilbert of Charleston visited. Vandalia reported a train of thirty five loaded oil tanks. Terre Haute’s Josie Husted spent a week with relatives. A Sunday sermon on baseball drew little enthusiasm. A farmer used a mowing machine to clear his garden. About forty youths gathered at Miss Helen Romine’s home to honor local boys joining the service. An enjoyable evening concluded with refreshments.
Westfield reports county supt Harold Bright of Marshall on official business in town. J E Hardesty of Indianapolis visited with his parents. Mrs Anna Green of Logansport visits sister Mrs Alva Biggs who is in poor health. Mrs John Merrick mourns death of a brother in Mason City Iowa. Delene Stewart visits relatives in Ohio and Michigan. L A Brown returns from Springfield Colorado after farming. Mr and Mrs HB Gilbert and Mildred Gilbert join a riverboat show troupe bound for Missouri.
Sealed proposals will be received by the Commissioner of Highways of Wabash township Clark County Illinois until two P.M. on Thursday August 23 1917 at the office of Aaron Spencer town clerk for furnishing all material tools and labor for National Road Marshall and Baggs Road Darwin and Terre Haute Road and the Dennison and Five Points Road in Wabash township. Contracts include Contract No 1 beginning at the fast end of Hawks Creek bridge East 1200 feet gravel 676 cu yards estimated. Contract No 2 beginning at East End of Crooked Creek bridge East 1030 feet gravel 490 cu yards estimated. Contract No 3 at the Marehall and Read.
The notice details gravel requirements and estimated amounts for multiple road contracts in Wabash township Marshall County Indiana. It lists project terms from various starts near the Indiana Illinois line to Macklin farm and Dennison Five Points Road with exact gravel yardage and distances. Separate bids must include a $20 certified check and open at Weaver's store on National Road. bids may be rejected.
In The Woman's Tome Companion a writer notes that church weddings typically begin with Lohengrin and end with Mendelssohn while a softer interlude plays during the ceremony. A bolder option suggests Tannhäuser for entry and the Swedish Wedding March for exit.
The New York State College of Forestry reports 20000 miles of streets in New York able to support 5000000 shade trees, potentially boosting property values by 100000000. Trees improve health by purifying air by absorbing poisonous gases. Also notes care tips for houseplants and cautions against extreme temperature.
A Detroit Free Press fragment questions the fate of the old fashioned kitchen and the servant girl who entertained her beau there. The line plays on nostalgia for a bygone domestic scene.
Fragmentary quote notes the new clerk and his observed habits. An offhand remark mentions cigarette disposal in another's wastebasket. The passage hints at workplace behavior and economy as a factor in decision making.
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