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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1911
Page
2
Correspondents report many residents traveling this week including Neeley to Denver and Huston to St Louis while Garrison heads to Beaumont for teaching. Community updates cover visits, local births, injuries, road work, school hires, and plans for September relocations in Clarksville area.
Tornado and fire insurance offered on farm and city property. Largest companies quoted at lowest rates. Write or call for terms. Cole and Colo.
From The Review Mrs W O Shuey welcomed a daughter born Monday. Twelve carloads of cattle and two of hogs and one mixed hogs and sheep were shipped from Westfield Tuesday. Mrs Mary Sullivan of Spencer County visits relatives here. Briscoe Lee reunion planned for the 24th at the maple grove on the old Henry Briscoe farm. Mr and Mrs N R Bennett and others went to French Lick Springs Tuesday.
A historic ad touts Electric Bitters as a blood purifier that boosts health by regulating stomach and kidneys and expelling poisons. It claims white blood cells attack germs, while noting skin issues and weakness improve with the tonic offered by Robt Prewett.
Fragmentary notes indicate Gooflell Carnival plans a week away in Hutsonville in early September. A word of the event reached Sentinel via Monday report referencing Mrs Let se Penal and local connections.
The report notes corn failing due to lack of rain and calls for a Sunday prayer meeting. A Terre Haute business matter by John Snedeker is mentioned from Saturday. Social visits include David Setzer and family, Wes and Al Weaver, and a funeral in Livingston for W H Barton. The Livingston cemetery cleanup is planned next Friday with a Ladies Aid free dinner being considered.
Mrs. Chas. Pease visits Clarksville as Ola Anna and Otto Kuhn spend Sunday with Beulah and Harold Maurer. Harry Maurer and family join at Ben Maurer’s home. Harry Whitson travels to Allerton to visit Ben. Brown relative returns home to West Terre Haute after visit.
A compact yearbook of rural happenings: farms sold and bought including Charley Johnson purchasing the Cooper Welsh farm, a new bridge at the foot of a hill near Isaiah Buckles, and Joe James farm hosting a coal drill move. Miles Lowry traveled from Douglas Friday for baled hay while Clarence Beachout and Ed Beachout visited Terre Haute Tuesday for apples. Rev. Sneed preached his first Baptists sermon, well received. Auburn Dolgon and Martinsville commissioners met Saturday to decide which water should run.
They mock English society notices showing weddings announced with farcical names and titles. The piece contrasts simple American notices with extravagant Parisian era style lists of clergy, relatives, and aristocratic titles.
In New Guinea, tribes along the river headwaters drink fermented palm sap causing daylong orgies and nighttime fights with arrows and hostile noise noted by observers. The second item: John Klinger's estate in Clark County Illinois appoints an administrator with the will annexed, with claims and debts to be settled at the October term in Marshall.
An old time medical ad urges readers to treat backache and urinary issues as kidney distress. It claims relief from a victim who recovered after using a named product, citing night symptoms, frequent urination, and general fatigue.
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