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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1912
Page
5
Obituary notices and community briefs from Marshall area detail deaths of Mrs. Wagner and other residents, marriages license issued in Paris, local legal suits, social events, church notices, and school and farm news, including fence promotion, Boy Scout formation, and local business ads amid a winter storm impact.
A natural ice gorge five miles north of Mt Carmel drives the Wabash River to cut a new channel through the bottoms toward the White River.
An advertisement from Archer & Casteel promotes the American Fence as heavier and stronger than competitors. It urges buyers to verify wire size by weight and claims the product lasts longer and outtests rivals. The shop cites the largest stock and variety of field and poultry fence and barbed wire in eastern Illinois.
Will Norton attended Andy Lowery's sale Thursday. H C Grisham and family spent Sunday at John Mokes and Charles English Jr. and family of Sassafras visited Plain View Farm. Noah Landers and wife left Friday for Leadville Colorado to settle there. Mrs Fred Kansas s mother Mrs Kuhn died Friday. Mrs M F Landers set two 100 egg incubators and Mrs Alvey a 150 egg incubator. A Tuesday night and Wednesday snow storm was described as the worst ever. Mrs Landers picked two pound lemons from a tree now with about 30 small lemons expected to ripen in December. Ike English of Danville visited here last week en route home from the East.
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