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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1926
Page
2
The piece thanks Jim Turner for his service as sheriff and notes support from Democrats while praising his work. It also mentions Harry Coldren's credit for Turner's political success and urges buying Christmas Seals to fight the White Plague, highlighting school participation and charity impact.
George Harper of the Robinson Argus called on us in the city Monday. George A. Hippard moved his stock into the Dulaney corner. The thermometer fell below zero to 15 degrees as Friday night brought severe cold. Two youths firing shotguns and creating noise Monday night were arrested by Marshal Whaley and confined.
Will Kilborn spent Saturday in Westfield. Ed English from Terre Haute visited the city last week. J A Mount of Walnut Prairie appeared in Marshall on Saturday. Canton Dixon of Darwin was in the city Saturday. J B Logan moved his family to Danville Illinois last Thursday.
Twenty years ago Harry Lake becomes freight clerk at the Big 4. The Big 4 started using the new Oliver to Marshall road segment Monday. Local firms in Marshall install gas lights to back up electric lighting. The C. E. club gathered with Mrs. Otho Tibbs Thursday. Judge Snavely wed again yesterday morning to Charles A. Ogle of Darwin and Alice Miller of York.
A routine week of small items: a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bubeck on Saturday. Rufus Rhoads and Marie Flynn receive a marriage license in Paris. several men visited East St. Louis to see Shrine degrees conferred on H. M. Dewey and C. W. Smith. A coroner appoints Dr R A. Mitchell of Marshall as deputy coroner. A man named Louis Fritz Ingram, born October 6, 1861, in Darwin, Illinois, died November 22, 1926, at Mercy hospital Roseburg Oregon after October 14 injuries from a saw mill accident.
The notices recount two deaths, one in Oregon where a man died after a brief illness leaving a widow and several children with burial in River View Cemetery Portland under I O O F auspices, the other Nancy Ann Bostwick Crow born 1840 near Fairbanks Indiana who died after illness aged 86 with many descendants, a brother, a foster child and longtime Christian church ties noted.
Funeral services were held at the Christian church in West Union on Sunday afternoon with Hitler R. C. Mowery of Marshall officiating. Burial followed in Bradburys Cemetery. The text also notes a bank seeking a cashier and includes fragmented remarks about a daughter.
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