Martinsville News Roundup Shows Local Visits and Events
Auburn residents Blankenbeker and Phillips appear in town notes while James Rush and Ed McNarlan undertake trips and a deputy postmaster is installed. A Masonic lodge meeting, a funeral, and Civil War veteran events shade a busy period with school reception, veterans’ dinner, and community updates on weather, commerce, and Christmas shopping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsville
E. J. Blankenbeker
Auburn
James Rush
Marshall
Unesday
Ed McNarlan
Elmer Phillips
James Tibbs
Tibbs
Miss
Wes Miller
Terre Haute
Rainy week marked by visits and obituaries
A rainy period is noted as locals visited friends including Floyd Shirely with Harold Maurer and Beulah Maurer at Oak Grove. Lidy Hudson, born 1840 in Ohio, died November 25 1914 after long service to Hatton church with a large survivor group. Funeral conducted by Rev J C Craig at Hatton church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Shirely
Harold Maurer
Louise Buehler
Charlotte Schad
League
Oak Grove
Beulah Maurer
Frank Miller
Rudolph Kuhn
Ottis ‘ Bell
Marshall
Frank Saiter
Frank Gelsert
Hazel
Henry Saiters
Alfred Junker
Black Hawk
Lidy Hudson
Ohio
Mahlon Calvert
Wm. J. Calvert
George Milton Calvert
Louisa V. Calvert Brann
Hatton
J. C. Craig
Zeigler
Martinsville Church Scandal Sects in Local Talks
A series of Baptist church meetings began Monday evening in Martinsville amid disputes. Visitors from Danville arrived for a Groves farm trade, while fair directors Will Devlin and Silas Elledge were chosen. Miss Gussie Gibson was hired to finish the Phillips school term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martinsville
Newman
Baptist Church
Danville
Groves Farm
Willard Wilson
Springfield
Will Devlin
Silas Elledge
Phillips School
Gussie Gibson
Spiketown
Killing Cooking Odors In Homes And Linens
A Kansas City Star suggestion says scorched orange peel and cloves placed on a tin plate eliminate cooking odors in homes or apartments. In rural settings dried sweet clover and lavender sachets provide fresh scents for linens and closets at low cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Star
The Post of Danger and the Castles of Montlheri and La Rochelle
Agnes Repplier in Atlantic Monthly recounts Sieur de Joinville discussing temptation and counsel from a Paris bishop named William. The bishop compares Mountl’hery as a safe castle and La Rochelle as a front line fortress, noting the post of danger is the post of glory and that wounded combatants are honored by God and man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sieur de Joinville
St. Louis
Paris
William
William of
Mountl’hery
France
la Rochelle
Poitou
Montl’hery
Agnes Repplier
Atlantic Monthly
The Fourth Officer Perspective on Life at Sea
In this excerpt from Flandran's Essays a veteran sailor speaks of a lifelong calling aboard ships. He describes the discipline of a fourth officer, the rhythm of watch, sleep, and solitary time with sea and stars, and the sense that the career is sane, useful, and demanding despite loneliness and low pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flandran
Local notes from South Dolson area
Marshall shoppers visit. Jim Melton visits daughter Anna in Paris. Charley Fox and wife spend time with wife’s father Robert Anderson who was hurt falling from fodder. Alonzo Allred attends Indianapolis funeral. Charley Weiland works at Redman. William Nicholson sustains jaw injury. Revival ongoing at Clarksville Baptist church invites all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall
Jim Melton
Anna
Paris
Charley Fox
Robert Anderson
West Union
Alonzo Allred
Indianapolis
Charley Weiland
Redman
Wm. Nicholson
Clarksville Baptist Church
Martinsville High Seeks Active Boy Scout Participation
Mack Rolson and Rev Zeigler invite all High School boys to an evening meeting in their rooms to promote the scout movement. Miss Sylvia Wallace joins the Freshman class, Oxford College scholarship awarded to a Senior girl, and Martinsville High prepares for first basketball game Friday night with box social to follow. New janitor Harry Stover replaces Dan Stover who moves to the county courthouse. Dancing lessons offer Hesitation One-step Maxixe Half and Half and Fox Trot by Mrs J B Kerr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. J Deahl
John Andrews
Poplar Bluffs
Clark Lodge No
F. C
W. K. McDaniel
North Mill Street
M. EB
Croslin
Shouse
Bright
McNary
Taggart
Wm. Pickering
John Elliott
Jackson Lindsay
Elisha Hart
Lewis Lowry
B. R. Blankenbeker
Joshu Smith
Amaziah Murphy
P. P. Beachout
James Tucker
Isake Ishler
Richard Kellar
A. R. Jones
J. P. Byram
Garrett Burkett
J. M. Wilkin
J. L. Newman
B B. Tarman
Jacob Netzler
George Watkins
Jeremiah Ishler
G. W. Carper
Herrod B. Curtis
Perrin
Marshall
Sylvia
Genevieve Ralston
Lola Archer
Martinsville - High
Martins
Ville
Harry Stover
Dan Stover
Court House
J. B. Kerr
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Frank Geisert
Jed Gard
Harry Maurer
Mr. Maurer
Farmers’ Institute
McKeen
al Dow
Chas. Russel
Clayton Higginbotham
Walter Douglas
Cyrus McDaniel
Mervin Chapman
Portersville
Vern Davis
Homer
JT. A. Morton & Son
Beau
Sears
Dickens
Hull
Imiorton
S _N. Side Square
South Dolson
Santa
Burt & Burt’s Variety Store
Burt & Burt Variety Store
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