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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1969
Page
1
The Marshall lightweight squad relies on defense to post a .500 record with 2 wins and 2 losses. Return of Steve Jaeger should boost scoring as Tuitel Strohm Maurer and Mallory lead a balanced attack averaging 5 to 6 points each per game.
The team led by Tom York with a 16.5 point average and Howard Johnson at 15.5 has posted a 4 0 start with wins over Marshall 47 36 Martinsville 25 Hutsonville 25 Newton 25 and a remaining schedule against Oblong January 13 and Neoga January 21. Other scorers include three or four players averaging around 5 or 6 points.
Clark County assessment committee for the 1970 White House Conference on children and youth will meet January 16 at 7 30 PM at First Methodist Church in Marshall. Panel led by Mrs Scoville Groothuis will discuss The Family Unit with members from Marshall Westfield Martinsville and Casey. Public invited.
The Board of Education will meet Friday January 10 at 7 00 p m due to the Wabash Valley Tournament. The session will be in the Central Administrative office at 704 S Sixth Street. County records show 198 deaths per Rev Kemp the clerk. Mr and Mrs Edgar Berner were Monday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs Ben Saiter.
Clarence Hawker reports monthly rainfall for a farm three miles southeast of Marshall in 1968. The year totals 44.55 inches with high month readings in May 9.05 and July 6.95, while other months range from .40 to 5.40 inches. Historical yearly totals from 1955 to 1967 range roughly from 28.95 to 86.65 inches.
Two hundred students and four faculty from the three campuses were initiated January 7 into Phi Kappa Phi at the University of Illinois. John Hancock of 606 North Michigan Avenue was among Marshall initiates. Phi Kappa Phi honors scholarship across all fields, with GPA rules for juniors seniors and graduates.
The Masonic Lodge will install officers on Friday evening January 10. All members are urged to attend the ceremony and support the lodge during this important event.
G C Hallauer considers relocating his ice and power facility from Marshall to Martinsville to supply two towns Casey to provide light and pumping power. Rodney Bell says the National Road upgrade Indiana to St. Louis is planned next year if contractors are found. Surveying teams work on an 18 ft concrete road across the state. Marriage licenses listed: Nathan Graham Melrose township and Mary Sherrowe Terre Haute. R B Boyce and Luetta King Casey. Elmer Matherly Terre Haute and Elsie Earls Darwin.
A list of marriage licenses includes Delphin Lewis and Lucy Murray, Algernon White and Carolyn Padgett, Frank Krise and Juanita Hand, James Jones and Mary Grace Bedore, E. K. Thornton and Armilda Walker, Robert Gunder and Elizabeth Gallatin, and Melton Kirkspatrick and Rosella. A birth notice reports a nine pound son born last week at Union Hospital Terre Haute. Russell Abel and wife of Bridgeport announce daughter Alice Ann born December 29 at Vincennes Hospital. Abel is a former Marshall resident and Mrs Abel is daughter of Harry Tingley.
The new Kirksville high school is brick and concrete and will finish by September. It will house twenty two classrooms a cafeteria a study hall and a library with about 36000 square feet of floor space. In 1948 county records show 80 births 177 deaths and 184 marriages.
Ten years ago in 1959 Marshall residents Mr and Mrs Benton Marrs announced the engagement of their daughter Linda Carol to William C Burnside of Kansas Hi. Also listed are licenses for Lowell Kincaid and Janet Symons both ages 24 and 26, Rex Kemper 19 and Frances Morehead 18.
The Half-Fast Square Dance Club will offer beginner western dance lessons on Wednesday evenings at the Scout Building. Ray Clark will instruct. Interested parties should contact Jerry Broman at 3541 within the next week or two. lessons start soon after.
The first semester of the 1968 69 school year ends Friday January 17 with parent student progress reports to follow. Parents should contact school principals to discuss student progress and guidance staff will outline improvements. The article also notes junior college admissions forms due by July 1 1969 and a cooperative $253 44 Title I related inservice plan for Clark County schools.
Mr and Mrs Rex King and Mrs Maude Thompson return from Christmas with daughter in Hollywood Florida. They visit Neptune Beach to see Lt Larry L King and family. Lt King, engineer officer on USS Harwood, has just finished a second Vietnam tour. New Year Eve dinner guests aboard the Harwood at Mayport Navy Base.
Word has been received of the death of Mrs Sue Montgomery Williamson in Miami Beach Florida. She leaves her husband one sister Mrs Stella Gore of St Petersburg Florida nieces and nephews in Marshall. Funeral and burial were in St Petersburg Florida. She was the sister of the late Clay Montgomery. After spending two weeks at home Mr and Mrs Edgar Davidson Berner and son went to Savannah Georgia. He is taking more helicopter training at Ft Hunter Georgia.
Elementary students in costume at North School celebrate Illinois landmark birthday on December 8. In the front row Teresa Stepp reads a book dated 1850 while Penny Spittler inspects an icon. Eddie Murphy examines a bean pot and Craig McNary grinds coffee. In back, Sandy Tharp pours water, Jane McCormick observes, Cindy Barnhart washes butter, and Ruth Elliott churns butter.
Obituaries list Edna B Bubeck 84 of Marshall died January 2 at Burnside Home with son Wm B Bubeck and multiple daughters and grandchildren. Also noted are Luther M Hurt 75, Etta M Walls 81, See Dennison family, Corry Stocker 73, and Corry Stocker burial details. Services held at Marrs Funeral Home with multiple ministers. burials in Marshall and Forsythe Livingston cemeteries.
The Marshall Lions Club plans its annual Sports Banquet for Saturday March 2 with principal speaker George Blanda longtime Bears and Raiders QB and placekicker. Further banquet details will be released soon.
The Clark County Clerk reports 290 marriage licenses issued in 1968. August was the peak month with thirty three licenses. Couples listed include Timothy Roberts of West Terre Haute and Loretta Fay Davis of Terre Haute. Terry Ray Cooper of Casey and Carol Ann Moody of Marshall. Richard James McClartney and Ruth Evelyn Perkins of Terre Haute.
First baby born to Mr and Mrs John Hutchings on January 1 at Crawford Memorial Hospital Robinson weighs 7 pounds. Tamie Lyon Hutchings declared winner of the 1969 Casey Daily Reporter baby contest. Wabash Valley Association Clark County chapter annual meeting set for January 22 at 6 30 pm in Marshall at the Scout Raiding with wild game dinner. members urged to bring their contribution and covered dish.
Mrs Betty Irwin and Mr Robert Fraker announce the birth of their daughter weighing six pounds fifteen ounces at 5:00 p.m. on the date recorded. The newborn is named Risa Lynn.
Florence Sanders 87 died Saturday January 4 at Glendenning Nursing Home Martinsville Indiana survived by sister Irene Wright Danville two brothers William Hamilton Marshall Orville Hamilton Danville and several nieces and nephews funeral 10 am Monday at Marrs Funeral Home Rev Don Paden burial in Marshall Allan MacDonald 67 formerly of Marshall died Saturday Noblesville Indiana survived by wife Carmel two daughters Rett Clark Terre Haute Lena Gottschalk Greenwood Indiana two sons Victor Fort Wayne Harold Anderson and several grandchildren funeral Wednesday 11 am Moore Funeral Home Rev H V Johnson burial Marshall cemetery
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