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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1919
Page
9
Thanksgiving observances fill a large city gathering with evangelistic services led by Mr Cotterell and church leaders from the Church of God Methodist and Baptist congregations. Local residents attend gatherings, visits occur, births announced, and housing upgrades noted while a veteran civil war pensioner remains in the area.
Mrs Lucinda Bishop and sons hosted a dinner Thursday. Byron Stoneburner shopped in Martinsville Friday. A mammoth pie supper at Lindsey Tuesday yielded near forty dollars plus pie sales. Sherman McNary bought two horse teams at L. L. Mann sale last week. The Rogers and Watson violin orchestra played at White Oak school last Wednesday. The Parker commissioner adds gravel on West Field and Casey road. rain slowed work. Elza Stoneburner bought a new touring car. A Wisconsin land agent visited Hotel Gridiron Tuesday. The North Fork river rose Saturday, threatening valley corn. Golden Perisha of Rogerville visited M. W. Connelley Sunday. Stella Kelly visits her sister in Flatrock Illinois.
Sunday visits and Thursday gatherings mark a busy period in Ohio and York communities. The notes list dozens of families visiting relatives in Paris Hutsonville Champaign Pekin Mattoon Terre Haute and Georgetown with dinners trips and football games. Local ministers preach and Thanksgiving celebrations color the week with travel from Charleston to Hutsonville and West Union reflecting small town life.
Local residents report multiple illnesses with pneumonia and low spirits. Several families celebrate Thanksgiving with visits to relatives in Terre Haute Monterey Park and Greenup while a funeral is noted for Robert Nicol. A humorous closing quip reflects on family discipline and child manners.
The community shared a weekend of travel and gatherings with numerous residents visiting relatives in Indianapolis Nokomis St Marys and Terre Haute. Local events included a Moose Lodge dance, a 51 to 0 turkey day football rout Casey over Martinsville, and several family visits across Illinois Indiana and Kentucky.
Minnie Morgan suffers tonsillitis. James Richey and family visit from Pleasant Hill with Euphrates Bennett and Mae near Grandview at Timothy Babcock's. Ralph Morgan spends Sunday with relatives. Clarkeville Baptist members gift Rev J S Arvin family woolen blankets and kitchenware. Mae Newman visits Oda Marrs. Elva Morgan works the Clarksville switchboard.
John Sweitzers on the sick list and Bertha Marlowe spent Thanksgiving with Mr and Mrs James Counterman. Walter Brown of Lyons was a Friday visitor in the Counterman household.
Robert Nichol born May 22 1856 Indianapolis died November 24 1919 at his home aged 63 years 6 months 2 days. He married Sarah Kile November 20 1884 and they had nine children six surviving Agnes Harry John Earnest Ralph Ruth. He leaves a brother James Nichol a half sister Helen Barnes and a widow. Funeral conducted at home Friday 11 AM by Rev P Raymond Powers.
An aged rustic questions the health of a strong bearded painter as he works by the roadside. The painter replies he is in good health and not lame, prompting the astonished bystander to exclaim in disbelief.
Angeline Prewett daughter of Stokes and Minerva Prewett was born August 31 1851 at Kinmunday Marion county Illinois and died November 28 1919 at the home of her daughter Mrs Carl V Taubeneck Marshall Illinois aged 68 years 2 months and 28 days She married Simon Cockrell September 13 1881 at Kinmunday and had two children Ave Cockrell Taubeneck and Frank M Cockrell She is survived by her daughter son sister and brother and two grandchildren She joined the Baptist church at 15 and lived a Christian life The funeral was held at the Taubeneck home Sunday at 2 PM conducted by Rev P Raymond Powers.
Weil applied for an attendant post at an insane asylum and was asked about experience with irrational persons. He replied “Some, I was a motion picture director for several years.” He was hired on the spot, according to the Baltimore American Film Fun.
A lively exchange hints at adding a new batter to the roster. The conversation underscores optimism about the player's fit and potential impact for the team.
A terse remark about a person named Oswald Shoke expressing frustration over his financial reliability and reliability in providing coin when needed. The speaker dismisses Oswald Shoke's usefulness in times of need.
A terse exchange notes the bias of hiring by willingness to join. One friend observes people are approved without questions about qualifications while the speaker adds many applicants never show up or last long.
A young woman at a typewriter dismisses spelling reform as unnecessary saying many men would write their own letters if they knew how to spell difficult words.
A manager tells a box office worker to sell tickets without correcting mispronounced opera names. The terse exchange frames a blunt, sales driven attitude toward patrons and performance labels. The dialogue highlights a professional focus on revenue over accuracy.
Mr Dustin Stax quips that success came from selling midnight oil not burning it. The exchange implies clever wit about effort and ownership in a small town talk.
A garbled OCR fragment records a question about satisfaction after a complaint and a partial reply from a clerk. The text includes misspellings and incomplete phrases about someone running a thing and on the road.
The writer notes rising fruit prices with orange groves selling for 2000 to 3000 dollars per acre and shipments to northern markets lasting five months. They describe crops, lakes, alligators, and a progressive county infrastructure with 326 miles of asphalt roads, plus flowering plants, oaks, and clean towns. The account mentions plans to visit St. Petersburg and Fort Myers for fishing and hopes to meet Mayor Dewey and Drs. Mitchell.
A historic manifesto urges every voter to vote in primaries and elections, work for the common good, and dedicate time to public causes. It frames patriotism as more than war, as building a better country through communal effort.
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