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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1918
Page
4
Lindsey district residents report social calls and visits with families in Lindsey Clark and nearby towns. Marshall prepares for draft examinations while local volunteers anticipate training camp calls amid wartime mobilization. Suspected injuries from a wagon accident are noted and a student sustains a scalded shoulder from spilled coffee.
A rural roundup reports soft corn still in fields and $1 per cord wood. Hogs sold to a Martinsville shipper at $16 per hundred. Warmer weather spoiled recent sledding. Mrs Leota Wright visited Paris relatives. Farmers discuss sowing spring wheat or speltz. Hutchings of Turman left after visiting relatives. Ladies society to serve Yonch at a church dance. Gedreé Buahlaz returned home improved from hospital. Jeane Hurst moved to property near Patrice school. Kannamacher sawmill operation mentioned.
The Baptist church selected Rev J W Ullom as pastor for the coming year. A service flag honors three: Dr Ed Brosman of Chicago, Arthur Beachout of Camp Taylor, and the late Solomon Buckle, who died after training at Camp Pike. Buckle’s death led his father to retrieve the body for funeral in Martinsville.
In Hutg onville Mrs and Mr C B Everingham celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last Saturday. Henry Lowe reported three yearling calves suffocated in a straw stack overnight. Alicia Foster broke her right arm after a fall on ice Saturday. Henry Johnson was injured when his wagon struck by an early train on the Big Four Friday. horses uninjured.
Taxpayers alert regarding a matter at a family store in Auburn raising questions about ownership. The notice cites Walter McNary Colacior and references the Auburn location and unclear tax implications.
Local brief items report elder Cuppy preaching at the Church of Christ in Kemp, visits from Miss Jessie Rook to Terre Haute, and James Weldon from Walnut Prairie visiting old friends. Residents move to farms near Olney and Walnut Prairie, tax collector visits, and family trips to Terre Haute. Ralph Lindley undergoes appendicitis surgery, Edwin Chenoweth and family relocate, and Earl Bradbury in France thanks Hutsonville Red Cross for a comfort kit amid cold weather.
Will Davis of Dolson and Samuel Brosman Sr and wife of Auburn shopped in town. A small fire at H V McNary’s home caused little damage. Comrade Elisha Hart’s illness lingers. Abraha Buckle, died at Camp Pike, honored by Red Men and Boy Scouts at his funeral in Martinsville. He was 23, survived by parents and many friends.
Ovie Good of Iowa visits friends here. Beulah Tharp spent Sunday with Mabel Serwise. George Sweitzer of Hall spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Crumlin. A pie supper is planned at Hatton school Friday night February 22. Mrs. Dover Craig and son visited Wm. Collier's family. Naomi Bohn spent Sunday with her grandparents, Afr and Mrs. James Bohn of Darwita. Corp. Russell Elu Mogtor of Camp Logan, Texas, is here a few days with his sister, Mrs. Fitel Hui.
There was no church service Saturday night due to bad weather. Services will resume on Saturday night the 23rd.
Several residents suffer colds as Emery Davis wraps a successful term at Jeff Davis school. Lewis Smitley relocates from West Terre Haute to Roscoe Glovio2's farm. Mrs Kate Hornbrook buys the Bird Lycan farm and will move in soon. Mr Lycan buys Mrs Anna Wright's farm near Pleasant Grove. Ora McHenry’s body reburied from Lindley to Clarksville cemetery after a prior interment.
B A Davidson will hold a sale of live stock and farm implements and household goods at his farm one mile east of Marshall on Thursday February 21. B M Cummins will hold a sale of live stock and farm implements at the Mrs Marvin farm one mile east of Snyder on February 22.
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