15 Dec 1915
Page 6
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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1915
Page
6
Martinsville area and Dolson residents are noted in a broad weekly update. The report mentions visits by N Daugherty, Arthur Swope, Samuel Brosman, H Clapp and wife, and others. several surgeries and illnesses. weather with rain snow and sleet. community events at Bethel church and Clark Lodge. farm activity, corn and fodder, and ongoing coal land leasing. Aunt Mary Ann Coons dies at 95 in Newman after long ties to Dolson community.
Cole and Cole Marshall DL offer insurance on farm and city property with strong companies and low rates. Rev Mr Hall was unable to attend Sunday. Mrs Ed Beabout hosted Sunday guests including Mrs Minerva Beabout and John Reed family. Social gathering noted for Friday evening with the flag contest and several local residents listed among attendees.
George Ecabout builds a new chicken house as a young Baptist minister makes many friends. Lou Romine and wife visit Seeleyville. Yvank Church travels from Mackoville Evidar for a short stay. Gult growers mobilize a car of iapales on holiday. Mrs Amanda Sayder travels to Pierce City Missouri to stay with her sister. John Philitpe plans a big work road move. Amos Johnson relocates to Virginia. Sarder nocas assists his farmer. Jease moves to live in. Mrs Getflusted returns home.
Dewey Craig was in Marshall Saturday shredding in this neighborhood about finished Ernest Carpenter returned from the north last Saturday Rev Mr Jones preached here Saturday night and Sunday Several of the young folks attended church at West Union Sunday. Mr and Mrs Joe Tharp of near Scotland Ill moved here last week. Mr and Mrs Ovle Draper spent Sunday with the formers parents. Joshua Walls and Mrs Henderson Hilbert are among those who are sick. Miss Emma Gard spent Monday night with her aunt Miss Myrtle Gard Rev. Mr Jones O P Tharp and his children spent Sunday with Joe Tharp and family.
A discussion arose over the use of the word kick in English usage. Critics note ultra purists view it as ignorant, while others point to Justice Holmes who used kick in a Washington oral opinion. The piece traces how language shifts between American and British usage.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger piece traces how the word kick used in a figurative sense dates back to fourteenth century justice Holmes and later scholars. It notes Chaucerian roots, references early biblical usage, and argues critics should understand historical English usage before judging.
The article lists highway conduct rules with penalties from three to fifty dollars for offenses such as leaving bottles on roads, obstructing paths with hedges or debris, leaving horses unhitched, failing to yield, blocking or delaying others, and driving intoxicated. It also warns against running engines unattended and not using lights after dark.
New York dispatch reports Samuel Long, head of a film company, died leaving about 1.5 million dollars from an original investment under 1000. He entered movies at the right time and earned vast wealth as the industry expanded. The piece argues opportunity grows with the nation and inventions create vast new industries and needs to be supplied.
Engineers plan to lift the Charles M. Schwab homestead near Loretto Pennsylvania over a belt of trees to avoid cutting them. The Immergrun house must be moved intact to allow a new summer home, with the route requiring the structure to clear over 22 trunks en route to the road.
Burglars visited Price's lumber yard Appleby's elevator office and Watts' feed store Wednesday night taking little cash. Bailey Watson long-time Cumberland county resident near Vevay Park died Sunday aged 176. Doctors Buckmaster and Wettstein Effingham operated on Byron Shinkle E L Shinkles youngest son for appendicitis. Mrs Erma Dibble Oil City Pa arrives to visit parents the Lees until after the holidays. Rev Mr Burnett Westfield travels to Mussel shell Mont to organize a Baptist church. A petition circulates asking Dec 15 election to form a new high school district for Casey township and adjoining Cumberland county districts.
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