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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1914
Page
5
Martinsville residents share Friday visits and business moves while Terre Haute items include a marriage license, new deputy sheriff Jacob Elliott moving to Michigan Avenue, and a charity benefit at Pythian Theatre.
Hans Garbus recalls a slow start on credit, then expanding to 200 acres, and how mail order houses drained his town. He laments merchant decline, reduced town life, and falling land value, noting a $5,600 loss over nine years as the town withers.
The new tax requires a revenue stamp for marriage certificates. After the minister blesses the union the groom must pay ten cents, funding the revenue stamp and the wedding process.
President Wilson's message emphasized need for a larger army and navy, support for the government ship purchase bill, inland water improvements, and greater self government for the Philippines. He was silent on Mexico’s critical condition.
At Carmi on a Friday morning a young man entered a sleeping car on the Big Four and announced he was a bad man and demanded valuables with a revolver. His green appearance betrayed him but passengers teased him and drove him from the car. He was arrested and jailed.
Last Friday Terre Haute police escorted twenty hoodlums to a hilltop area and ordered them to leave. That night two Marshall stores were burglarized. In another item Gilbert Mills learned his brother Charles Mills, long believed dead, had returned home. Harrisburg reports the new Hardabnes Post Office opened costing sixty thousand dollars.
A Chicago notice seeks a girl for housework for Mrs W E MacLaughlin at 714 North 7th Street and phone 108. Joseph Lehale, a Manteno farmer, returns unhappy after a pennies game where he won $15 but lost $400 when his pocketbook was taken by men who grabbed his wallet and fled.
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