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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1950
Page
7
The piece contrasts early Jewish Christians with Gentile converts and portrays Paul and Barnabas challenging the need for circumcision and Mosaic law. It cites Acts 15 style council as a model for resolving church disputes openly and by scriptural fact, emphasizing faith first, obedience afterward.
Weekly review by L H Simerl discusses farm price supports and the push to raise them beyond peacetime levels. Chester C Davis, ex Agricultural Adjustment Administrator and current president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, critiques price levels, acreage controls, and the need for flexible market-based adjustments. He advocates a new national monetary commission to study the banking system and monetary policy.
Mr and Mrs Phil Glick moved into their new home on state line road. Christina Waldon married Richard Glick at West Terre Haute on February. Henry Stoelting celebrated their eighth wedding anniversary on February 7. Herman Stoelting is improving and Rev Walters Volkers led a Dunlap church service with five new members joining. Attendance was forty eight.
The notice lists Emmanuel Church at 708 Popular Street with services including church school at 9 30 am and evangelistic service at 7 30 pm led by Rev E C Kunce and Wilma Gefsert. Zion Church on the same street offers 9 30 am school, 10 30 am worship with pastor and Holy Communion, and Tuesday prayers led by William Abel. Also notes a bank safecracking crime with toe-scale details and a taunting line.
L H Simert reports several thousand farm folks attended Farm and Home Week at the College of Agriculture. Professor Norton noted Germany has replaced England as a top export market while Europe’s postwar demand shifts and dollar constraints may reduce some farm exports. Prices and farm income trends are discussed with caution about future adjustments and Congressional policy effects.
Henry Griffing Carpenter 92 died February 1 1950 at his Marshall home after a life rooted in Jasper County Illinois and Indiana. He married Mary Lilian McNair in 1888 and had ten children with eight surviving along with four granddaughters and four grandsons. Survived by siblings and numerous relatives, his family mourns his passing with a poetic farewell from Crossing The Bar.
Health Talk from the Illinois State Medical Society explains that despite known transmission methods typhoid remains a danger. It spreads via contaminated water milk and food and through carriers and flies. Prevention focuses on sanitation vaccination and public hygiene with boosters for lasting immunity.
Clark Center Home Bureau met on February 7 at Norma Cline’s home with Lois Cline Ruth Veach Ethel Fraker Vada Shaffner Anna Cline Golda Brosman Lola Jones Madge Galey Thelma Claypool Rachel Bright and Helen Patchett present. Three new members Grace Richey Wandalee Veach and Mrs Christian attended along with visiting children and guests. The group planned a sewing machine attachments lesson for February 21 and a full day meeting at Golda Brosman’s with hostesses Thelma Claypool and Helen Patchett.
A reflective verse fragment recalls a traveler facing the sea. The speaker hopes to meet the pilot upon crossing the bar, using nautical imagery to ponder mortality and reunion beyond time and place.
Veteran groups may seek record analyses through the Illinois Veterans Commission in Springfield. IVC notes many veterans are unaware of factors affecting dividend payments and overpayments deducted. In Clark county assistance is available at Hotel France in Paris and at the Marshall Court House on Wednesdays. Veterans in GI Bill on-farm training must report 1949 earnings by March 1, 1950 to VA for subsistence adjustment. About 13,000 veterans are involved.
Reports on institutional on farm training in Tilinois show 93 percent operate their own farms. Veterans must file with the VA and Illinios Veterans Commission service officers assist to meet deadlines. In Clark County contact the IVC service officer at Hotel France in Paris Illinois.
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