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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1908
Page
8
Elmer Baker visited Terre Haute while Alta Baker and Wess Inman headed to North Dakota. Families and friends sent greetings as Sa nday gatherings, band concerts, and picnics filled weekends across Moonshine Charleston Westfield and surrounding towns. A highway paving project was let for Dyer street and several travelers planned trips to Oklahoma Texas and Ireland.
A. S. Nusbaum of Batesville Indiana reports a three month summer cold relief after trying Foley's Honey and Tar. He says standard medicines worsened symptoms until Foley's product provided quick cure. His wife shares the same success with the remedy.
L A Weeden foreman went to Marshall. Twelve hundred attended Riverview Park concert by the Westfield band last Sunday. Mr and Mrs S P Davis returned from Colorado Springs where their daughter is in fair health. Kansas plans a new National Bank with R S Briscoe as president. Shareholders are home parties and men of means including Ray Daugherty and sister Daisy and Mabel Chiff of Cincinnati. A new owl rig was unloaded for use in our field. James Redman of Rich Woods holds 600 acres near Pleasant Hill to be tested by Henderson & Willson. They hold about 1700 acres near Clarksville and will do some wild catting.
An advertisement states most appendicitis victims are constipated people and Foley's Omno Laxative cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels restoring natural bowel action. It claims no nausea or griping and describes the product as mild and pleasant to take. Re use substitutes.
From Commercial Chas. S. Burch and family of Van Buren Ark have been visiting with Casey friends several days. Mrs Frank Howe and daughter and L C Sherman and daughter spent Friday in Marshall. Miss Ethel Cameron of Thorold Ontario visits sister Mrs Hilton Hunter. Mrs A E Bell and son Forest and Mr and Mrs Joe Wolfe left Tuesday for Niagara for a few days. Mrs Mary Nail and children of Flemington arrived Saturday to visit her parents G W Orndorff and wife, Mrs Hilton Hunter, and baby returned Thursday from an extended trip to Ged Rapids Michigan. The boys -
An advertisement touts Foley's Kidney Remedy as aiding elderly people by stimulating the kidneys and urinary system, correcting irregularities and toning the body. urges starting Foley's Kidney Remedy to improve vigor and health.
Claude Newman visited Cleone Saturday while Alice Tarble spends a week in Chicago. Attendees include H. S. Akens at a ball game, Rev. E. E. Robbins preaching, Jessie Wiser and Clara Anderson at a Westfield convention, and Geo Newton Tarble planning Chicago University study.
Mrs. M. M. Davison of 379 Gifford Ave San Jose California praises Electric Bitters as a powerful general remedy for backache biliousness and liver and bowel torpor noting better digestion and health per bottle. Sold under guarantee at Robt. Prewett's drug store. 50 cents.
Lockard sells everything Marshall. Stella Blizzard spent Sunday with Cora Jackson. Jesse Walker spent Sunday with Fred Reese of Ohio. Miss Bettie Wolfe visited her brother John. Rev I C Craig preached a farewell sermon Sunday night. Edna Wyrick spent Wednesday with aunt Cora Eckles. The Blizzards, Kaufmans, Farrs, Ledermen, and others shared meals Sunday. Madge Arbuckle, ten months, died Monday after brief illness. parents mourn a bud cut down and receive community sympathy.
Mrs W Stone of East Poland Maine praises Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for sore feet burns sores cuts and abrasions and says it works well for piles. Sold under guarantee at Robi Prewett’s drug store for 25 cents.
Lockard sells everything. Minnie Barkalow spent Sunday with Golda Wells. C W Cornwell paints his store. Alice Snavaly spent Sunday with Edna Medsker. Chautauqua attendees from this place were at Merom Sunday. Jesse Layman and wife welcomed a baby boy born Saturday. Lottie and Alice Snavely shopped in West Union Monday. Dan Brown and wife visited relatives at Newman. Jessie English stayed with her parents at Grayville. Melrose and Hutsonville played baseball at Hutsonville Sunday. Melrose won 18 to 12.
Fragmentary item list mentions Ollie Macklin home visit, Bayard Cleaver biking to Westfield, an ice cream supper with $29 collected, and a comment on rain. Mentions Flemington and a 85 day reference. No clear single event or outcome.
No. 7 was delayed have all four Tuesday by blowing olt cylinder head. W. F. Romines and Silas Ellege have both been under the doctor's care. Miles D. Lowery was here Saturday arranging for public sale at his mother's. City Marshal T. P. Cleaver and family were out from Martinsville over Sunday. A merry day ride party of sixteen young people came out from town to help eat ice cream.
Lockard sells everything. Oil and gas wells drilled on Poe farm and Scho fields. Neadmore beat Moriah 19 to 2. Barns raised, new paints, and social visits noted. Several residents listed with trades, diseases, and family visits.
Marshall citizen O B Price of 731 North Main Street Paris Illinois describes severe back and loin pains plus kidney trouble. He says Doan's Kidney Pills cured him after treatment in 1901 and notes the cure remains permanent. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York agents for the United States Remember the name Doan's and take no other.
A long list of visitors and residents in Danville and nearby towns. Names include Marshall Anna Opal Termain Lucile Handy I R Alexander Adair Mae Wight Bernice Prust Kearns family John Lowe and a 9 pound boy reported. Canning factory at Big Creek noted. Church and community events referenced with plans for August services and a West Union circuit conference. Picnics, outings, and social visits fill the week across multiple households.
Fragmentary OCR snippet discusses keeping saltcellars dry and using rice pieces as fillers. Mentions bays omin, Homma, Com Wn Fe panion, and September with vague references to holes, covers, adhesive, lamps, and leakage. Difficult to extract concrete facts.
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