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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1914
Page
4
W A Williams Coal and Feed promotes a wide assortment of feeds with prices per unit and special items like Pure ground wheat and rye, oats, corn, alfalfa hay, and various seed oats. The notice also mentions stock remedies, wheat buying, and seed oats at 50 cents per bushel amid community updates.
W A Williams operates a coal and feed exchange at 617 619 Locust Street in Marshall Illinois offering coal and feed supplies. Contact details note the Marshall Illinois location for inquiries and purchases.
Revival services start Jan 25 in town. Clyde Elliott returns home. A new grocers store opens. Local residents visit family and friends on Sundays. Several residents travel to Terre Haute and Marshall for work or care. A house fire west of town destroys a dwelling insured. Local transfers and illnesses noted.
Elsie Thigies and Flezza Magill were visitors on Wednesday. A prayer meeting drew many at Grandma Beltz. Box supper planned at Hall school Friday night with boxes for ladies and pocket books for boys.
A rural community reports tax complaints and a halt on a proposed new road due to a faulty petition. Farmers husk corn on Monday. Mrs Husted travels to Terre Haute on Friday. John Kettling seeks a patent pend ing for a site roof. Mrs Boeny under doctor care. John Brosman receives a car load of corn. Wesley Snyder involuntarily confined to Anna hospital Thursday. The commerce commission orders Van to build a depot and place an agent at Adenmoor.
Mr and Mrs James Turner welcome a nine pound baby girl. Flora Ponder of Kentucky and Har o of Kentucky visit. Lafe Newell visits brother John Newell at State Line. Miss Mary Wells guests of Everett Wells and Ora Kuykendall. Ernest Griffith’s wife visit in West Terre Haute. Terre Haute visits by Frank Montgomery family. Elble Swinford and Rev Mathis attend funeral in Australia. Various locals host guests and travel to Paris Terre Haute. Several small gatherings and outings noted among residents.
West Union and nearby towns report residents visiting relatives and collecting taxes. A home on the county line burned with loss, while a revival met with light attendance due to bad weather. Nelson Cornwell married Cercla Harris at home, and obituaries note the deaths of Chas Burdett and Mrs. James W Cox with funeral details. Comrade Cox and family long pioneers of the county.
Matt Snyder and Will Davis visited Thursday through Tuesday as mornings stayed frigid near eight to ten below. Revival services at the ME church draw interest. stores close at 7 p m for the week. Sheriff Jesse Gallatin in town to escort Wesley Snyder to Anna. Comrades II O Mallory and J Lindsay improving. About twenty Martinsville residents attended the Hix trial as witnesses. Visitors Miles Lowry and Peter Blankenbeker and others called on locals. Parker township farmer Chas Burdetts died suddenly.
Arthur Chambers and wife relocated from Annapolis to Hutsonville. Bert Fawley of Eaton visits en route to Marshall to see his parents. James Odell loses a horse, death from a dog bite days earlier. Mrs J D Trimble travels to Temple Texas for her ill grandson. Mark Melvin returns from California to visit his mother Sara Melvin. Mrs McDonnall, living with her mother east of town, breaks hip in fall. Dean Bradbury and Miss Goldie Coryell wed in Danville on December 23. About fifty men work on a new pipeline laid by the Ohio Off Co with many more at work.
West Union reports a baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McCrory on Sunday morning. Mrs. Sophia Keyes of York visits her daughter Mrs. Helgie Anderson in West Union. Revival meetings at the Methodist church continue with strong attendance and daily services at seven in the evening. Dr. Burnside performed a cancer operation on Mr. John Williamson Monday morning. the operation was successful and recovery is hoped.
The Evangelical Association Marshall Church posts Sunday school at 9 30 a m and preaching at 10 30 a m on Sunday. Thursday prayer services at 7 p m. Protracted meetings at Zion Big Creek church to be continued led by Pastor Leo J Dhrhardt.
It is requested that every member of Seminole Tribe be present Monday night January 19 to decide on buying a home for the tribe. If you cannot be present share your views. J A Sweet C of R announces the plea. The congregational church annual meeting is set for Wednesday at 7:30 in the Sunday school room and all members are urged to attend.
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