Local Notes From Martinsville Township and Surroundings
A Martinsville area update notes births baptisms and illnesses. Ernest Hall and wife welcome a baby boy and Grace Kettling undergoes surgery with recovery underway. Many locals visit sales attend church and travel to nearby towns. Harm on Sargent. a man known for jovial nature, dies by suicide at his home, leaving family and friends. Funeral services held at Bethel church with interment at Ridgelawn. Also reported are military discharge for Sgt Harry Dill and road survey work on a Casey road state aid project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wright
Ernest Hall
Harry Johnson
Marshall
Art Boyer
Grandview
Frank Stephenson
Earmest Hughes
Jane Clapp
Wm. Fox
Sherman Walters
Clarksville
Ham Clapp
Clapp
George Claypool
Martinsville
E H Walworth
Farm Bureau
Alfonzo Murphy
Paris
Everett Cooper
Orange
Will Seaton
Willis Chapel
Chas. Callahan
Casey
Martin Sinclair
Parker
George Beachout
Auburn
Ira Taylor
Colfax
Harmon Sargent
L. D. Pasig
Vandalia Railway
Jerry Tshler
Bert Sandoe
Hammond
Ind
Wiseman
Effingham Hospital
Grace Kettling
Globe Democrat
Robi B. Pence
Belvedere
Pence
Nashville
John Scholfield
Uving
Aso
Patty
Missouri
Ida
Eliza Taylor
Ill
Woodmen of America
Red Men
Bethel Church
C. W Crissman
Job
Harmon
Ridgelawn
Harry Dill
Camp Travis
Texas
Arthur Swope
Willard Hawkins
Richwoods
California
Mattoon
Ada Pearl Poulter
Thos and
Mary Poulter
Rider
A C
Work of Bureau of Standards Tests Magnetic Compasses
The Bureau of Standards advances a project to test government compasses by a standard method. It collaborates with the Naval Observatory and boards of specifications, and a magnetometer form is being developed to measure magnetic moment. A rotation pivot friction test is under development. Thousands of compasses are expected to be tested this year.
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Bureau of Standards
Naval Observatory
Joint
Army and Navy Board of Specifications
Shipping Board
Australian named Llan fairpwllgwyngyllogogogoch found on camp poster
At Camp Lewis American Lake Washington a camp poster lists a man with an insufficient address. The Australian used an assumed name and was connected to Llan fairpwllgwyngyllogogogogoch in Anglesey, North Wales. He later claimed residence at Waenarlwydd near Goverton, South Wales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Lewis
American Lake
Wash
Dexter Statesman Ponders Royal Riches and Ridicule
A Dexter Statesman jokes about a genial chauffeur addressing Mrs. Hohenzollern as your royal high ness as they fall through a cloud. The cracked humor contrasts wealth and unhappiness with a million a year.
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Dexter Statesman
National thrift urged as key to U S war effort
Officials warn national thrift is essential for victory and reconstruction. The war loan drive urges economy and saving by all, expanding war savings societies, with Illinois singled out to lead among savers. General Horne, famed for the creeping barrage, is noted for battlefield tactics and Old Contemptibles service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
United States
War Loan Organization
Frank A. Vanderlip
War Savings Movement
War Savings Societies
Illinois
Middle West
America
Henry Horne
Douai
Fricourt
Mametz
Doual
Horne
Cronje
Archaeologists Probe Wakusan Shrine Site for Ancient Clues
Tokyo Imperial University researchers excavate at Wakusan shrine in Toyama prefecture. Dr Shibata says findings may reveal if ancestors came from Corea or Saghalien. Excavations uncover bones of women and children among the ruins.
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Tokyo Imperial University
Wakusan Shrine
Toyama Prefecture
Shibata
Tokyo University
Corea
Saghalien
Clemenceau the Playwright in Paris The Prime Minister's Theatrical Interest
Clemenceau, like Waldeck Rousseau, frequents Paris theaters as a pastime. He has written plays and two of his works, Les Requins and Le Valle du Bonheur, have been staged.
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Clemenceau
Monsieur Clemenceau
Waldeck-Rousseau
France
Boston Transcript
Nisco Manure and Straw Spreader for Auction
L G Archer offers a Nisco manure and straw spreader at a discount at public sale to clear stock for spring goods. A spring wagon is also offered at a discount. The sale is four miles south of Dennison Iowa tomorrow Thursday February 20 featuring 25 cattle 8 horses and mules 10 goats 100 bushels of corn and various farming implements auctioneers Hal Kesler and H A Dulittle.
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L. G. Archer
Dennison, I
Public Dairy Cattle Sale at Marshall Farm
Public sale announced by Clyde Knowles in charge of auction with Harry Ramsey as clerk. The sale features heads of first class dairy cows and 16 calves at the dairy barn one half mile west of Marshall on the Bryan farm. Auctioneers note the move from the dairy business.
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Marshall
Bryan
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Dan Fitch
Johnson
Westfield
Homer Roush Elomelr
Smousnh
Chicago
Kirchner & Williams Lumber Company
Libby
Doll
North Side Square
Bird
Boy
Manchester
N. H
Edward Lassonde
United States Heavy Artillery
Lassonde
Lassonder
Nisco
H. A. Dulittle
Hal Kesler
Bryan & Ramsey
Clyde Knowles
Auc
Harry Ramsey
Clork
Black & Hutchinson
Layton’s
Farmer’s
Davenport
Mr. Dewey .& Co
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