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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1955
Page
12
A collage of classified snippets lists trucks, land plots, hotel rooms, apples, coal, oats, seeds, cars, hay, pianos for rent, houses for rent, gravel pits, glass work, timber and farm notices. Authorities include Marshall, Il Martinsville Tl Kansas Ill Danville In Paris Il and various contact names and phone numbers.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for support during bereavement. Also includes Democratic notices from Donald Murphy for Road Commissioner and John Quick for Supervisor seeking February 19 convention attendance at 2:00 pm Marshall Township.
Charles McCoy of Fairfield Illinois, stand warden of the Grand Lodge of Illinois Odd Fellows, stayed overnight with Mr and Mrs Frank Roth after attending a Junior Odd Fellows meeting at the Paris lodge. Many local residents and relatives were noted visiting, traveling and returning from travels including Korea and Texas with several to Chicago for family reasons.
Marriage licenses listed for Presley Meeker to Elizabeth Evans Isiah Osborn to Della May Miller William Lickert to Mamie Fawley Zane Arbuckle Jr to Grace Birchfield in Marshall area. School term at Lower Union begins with Wes Mundy as teacher amid cold weather and groundhog day doubts. James Homer and Phoebe Stricker wed at bride’s home. Several other marriages noted including Will Lickert and Mamie Fawley. Deaths: Ray Hewitt age 15. James Snyder remembered as respected citizen. interments at Livingston cemetery. Florida trip plans and local social notes mentioned along with a Valentine party hosted by Lydia Trefz.
A 1925 items roundup notes multiple marriage licenses including Brintnall Hill Merchant and Alice Purdum and John H. Williams and Eliza Schoepfer. It also reports deaths William Hartzer and Mrs Reynolds plus a birth to Mr and Mrs Owen McGee. Charles Cook sells West Union News to H G Crumlin. Clatfelter and Watson wed in Paris. Musgrave obituary.
After a long illness, aged 57. Burial in Oak Grove cemetery on Lamotte's Prairie. Marriage licenses listed for Chelsea Liffick and Kathryn Outright, Kenneth Weger and Maxine Peterson, John Beauchamp and Stella Uhl. A daughter Nancy Jean born to Mr. and Mrs. John A. Wear. Mrs. Charles Figg and granddaughter Mrs. Charles Groose visited. Max Cork promoted to floor sales manager at Firestone, Indianapolis. Local residents shared visits and moves among families in Marshall and Darwin township.
Ten years ago this week Henry Wolverton and Imogene Tracy applied for marriage licenses in Marshall. Harold Bright suffered a heart attack directing the Shrine band in Terre Haute. John Stephen turned 93 near Marshall. Mary Jane Pulver engaged to William J. Guentzer Jr. Paula Jane Volk born February 12. Nancy Claypool’s 18th birthday celebrated. Mrs. Ogle honored on her birth anniversary with a surprise party. Glenn Morgan released from Union Hospital after a stay in Terre Haute.
E. O. and Della Todd convey land in section 17 township 10 range 14 to Forrest E. Thompson and Gwendola M. Thompson by warranty deed dated January 6 1955 for 3500 dollars.
An announcement states a candidate seeks the Democratic nomination for Supervisor of Marshall Township with a convention planned for February 19 at City Hall. The candidate notes supervision of courthouse improvements as a past achievement.
The column riffs on unpredictable weather from shadowed groundhog days to abrupt seasonal swings. It lists garden seeds onion sets lawn grass seed potatoes priced at 1.25 per 50 pound bag apples buckwheat flour and a prompt about refueling cars in cold mornings.
A brief ad claims all Shell gasoline contains T. C. P. and highlights a government released discovery. The note urges trying a few tanks soon and mentions naming it to help locate it.
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