Teachers Win Honors at County Inservice Meeting
County teachers gathered for a well attended get together day with W S Booth of Springfield delivering the forenoon address. Plans for an interactive school year were discussed including a new feature a mail box at every school house. An honor roll for mailbox acquisition lists Liberty Glenn Clappacher Denison Eugene Chenoweth and Julia Hillard with updates as boxes arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Booth
Springfield
Liberty School
Glenn“ ‘Clappacher
Denison School
Eugene ‘Chenoweth
Jullia Hillard
Sime
Grain and Livestock Market Summary from Chicago and Midwest
August market report shows Chicago cash grains closing mixed with wheat around $1.19 to $1.26, corn near 53 to 58 cents, oats about 81 cents, and winter wheat futures at about $1.23 to $1.26. Livestock prices fell for hogs and beef steers, while lambs and yearlings were steadier. hay prices varied with timothy and alfalfa edges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Minneapolis
Kansas City
New Jersey
Timothy
New York
Cincinnati
Memphis
Atlanta
Prairie
Omaha
Timothy N
Prairie Chicago
Kansas
City
Farmers hold hay soybean show sparks county interest
Farmers in Wabash county gather for a hay crop demonstration focusing on soybeans and clover pastures. The event highlights variety differences, early versus late plowing, and growing interest in soybeans as a leading hay crop with field tours planned in North Wabash townships and connections to the US Grain Growers Inc contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walworth
Orange
Melroge
North
Wabash Townships
L.A. Howe's
Livingston
Aine Wabash
Clark
Farmers’ Marketing Company
Grain “Growers,” Inc
McLean
LaSalle
Farm Bureau
Dlinois Agricultural Association
East US
Tarmera
Chicago
Illinois
Douglas
Civic League Meeting Set For September at Court House
The Womens Civic League will hold a meeting at the courthouse on Monday evening September 5 at 7 30 PM. Members are asked to be present and bring a prospective member. Mrs Sol Handy will read a paper on what the League has accomplished since its organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Womens’ Civic League
Court House
Mra. Sol
League
Grandmothers Scrape to Keep Youngster
Mary Crunkin a 48 year old Marshall Illinois woman jailed on kidnapping charges by Acting Captain Joel Deer under Superintendent Jack Beattie was released last night after her brother W G Broderus appeared and vouched for her. The missing grandson Farris Dean Crumrin three was said to have been kidnapped from his mother in Marshall Saturday evening. The case, described as a family matter, prompted police to locate the child in Terre Haute and release the woman into Broderus custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Crunkin
Marshall II
Joel Deer
Jack Beattie
Broderug
Orth Fourteenth Street
Chicago
Broderus
Beattie
Local Social Roundup Despite Miss Murphy and Mrs Slebensmorgan’s Visit
A Wabash resident Miss Maude Murphy entertained Sunday evening for Mr and Mrs Slebensmorgan of Terre Haute, with yellow and white decor and summer refreshments. Natlie Taubeneck hosted tourist friends en route from Michigan lakes. guests included Magon Gaddis Haley Pabor Jones Bauer family and Prof Harry Smith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude
Wabash
Michigan
Ad “Mrait Magon Gaddis
Zulia
Pabor
Gertrudé
Jones
St .Louis
BH Bauer
Wendell
Bauer
Centralia
Harry
Smith
Swern
Ted Swern
Minnie Chenoweth
Robbic
Hurley
Margaret” ‘Shaw
Beth Pritchard
Gary
Ind
Beeman
Gity: Schools
Beech Street
Ten Years Ago Orchard Harvest and Local News Clip
Ten years ago Col D D Doll planned to gather at least 20000 bushels of apples from a 40 acre orchard this fall if storms do not ruin the crop. The trees were heavy with fruit, branches bending under the load. Also noted were travel and family items including a trip to the West and Grand Rapids Michigan, Clara Schwanecke’s illness improving from typhoid fever, and funeral attendance by Volney Gorham and Mrs Anna Lutz. Visits and chautauqua outings were mentioned for Casey, Merom Bluffs, and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D.-D
Trom
Grand Rapis
Mich
Warrier Link
Charles Gorham
Owen Walker
Maud
Casey
Edwin Booth
Arthur Poorman
Burne Smith
Merom ‘Bluffs
Twenty Years Ago Local Social Notes Reach Terre Haute
Twenty years ago Miss Jeanette Briscoe left New York City to accept a position, accompanied by her sister Mrs Cora Bryan to Terre Haute. Miss Maud Elston returned from Bloomington to Marshall County and Mrs Walter Cote and daughter Mary went to Indianapolis. Cora McDaniel just back from Brooklyn Indiana three weeks. A list of local residents attended a Masonic lodge meeting in Terre Haute Monday evening. Myrtle McDaniel, a Marshall company telephone operator, set a record for consecutive hours worked with no meals taken onsite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeanette
Briscoe
New York
Cora Bryan
Terre Haute
Maud Elston
Frank
Bloomington
Walter. Cote
Mary
Indianapolis
Cora
McDaniel
Brooklyn
Ind
Jake
Terre
Haute’ Monay
Myrtle
Marshall
Nine weeks since no rain visits Miss Shaw’s party
Forty years ago a group of ladies and gentlemen were entertained at the Shaw home on Tuesday night by Miss Marty Shaw and Miss Martha Shaw. DeLance Wallace of Georgetown visited with his parents Sunday. Robert Black of Dougan and Black traveled to Indianapolis to buy stock. Robert Linn and Lewis Kohli went to Peoria to secure carpenter positions. W. B. Hodge and wife spent Sunday at their old home in York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marty
Martha ‘Shaw
Robert Linn
Lewis
Mrs. Whitson Teaches in Clark County Since 1866
Mrs. Sarah J. Whitson began teaching at Oak Grove School in Wabash township in 1866. Her long career, tied to the contract and certificate that opened the first school, adds another name to the 1866 list alongside Adams and Howard Norman who started their school work that year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah J. “Whitson
Clark County
Oak Grove
Wabash Township
Whitson
A Adams
Howard Norman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joan of Arc
Parsons the Grocer
Ath
Bubeck & Gallagher
The
Marshall Herald
Terre Haute Star
Bessie Love
Marion
Indiana
Miss Love
Arshall
Ills
S. S
Civic League Meeting
F “Banta
Ridge
Kadeski
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