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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1918
Page
5
Louise Glaum stars as the vampire in Love or Justice while Triangle Comedy presents His Marriage Failure. The double feature runs at Tuesday Triangle listings with the film girl famed for villainous roles.
Local notes report visits by Foster Martin in Chicago Ham Cooper from Melrose town ship in town yesterday Will Rector and Indianapolis trip Friday a birth announced for Ed Stepp family A daughter was born Thelma Dodson Terre Haute weekend visit Grendel Bennett ill with appendicitis Bailey Eagleton Robinson guest Lawrence Newlin J N Lindley West York in town Saturday Marshalls club invites dance News and many social visits plus post office notices about postmasters and war savings stamps
Joe Davison went to Indianapolis on Monday to sit for an entrance examination to join the aviation corps. Frank Hippard reports from Watonga Oklahoma that they have been enduring minus five degrees. Frank plans to move to Blackwell to assume management of a Hockaday Company hardware store.
The official board designates Sunday January 27 as Master Day when every able member should attend and register. The Sunday school adopts A 100 per cent school as its motto. Rev E Robb Zaring D D editor Northwestern Christian Advocate to speak. Morning sermon The Church and the World Crisis. Evening sermon An Inverted Prayer. Pastor Chas W Hamand.
The Marshall Mutual Fire Insurance Co. reports an accounting slip during account transfers to printers Nxt. Several amounts were omitted causing a missing total of 96.50 dollars and a corrected assessment No. 18 of 407,896 instead of 4,078.14. Signed A Hatley Secretary.
A playful column explores merino sheep noting their folded hides and wool quirks. It contrasts merinos with Southdown Oxforddown and Shropshire-down breeds and jokes about bustled fat rumps at Brookings College.
Koriyama in Japan is famed as a great goldfish market with Tokyo ranked next. Eggs hatch in four to five days in April with starter diets of boiled eggs and later mosquito larvae. The prized Lion Head goldfish can fetch 5 to 20 dollars for three year olds. Fish kept in glass bowls or wooden boxes. ponds preferred for development.
Money to Loan on real estate and personal property offered by B. F. Johnson and Cole & Cole with low rates. Nearby ads promote a large farm loan fund, fresh meats from Fred Wallis Market, and various goods from Bubeck & Gallagher. Also listed are 77% acre sale near West Union with house, barn, orchard, and timber. additional land parcels near Olena R. Clements, Marshall Illinois.
A local ad proclaims a clearance sale on Clogts ogts silk and wool dresses Georgan crepe crepe-de-Chine and Volle waists and millinery. Highlights include silk dresses at 1.1 Wool dresses at 14 8 sale of Georgette crepe chine waists at 4 96 and Volle waists at 148. The retailer warns prices will rise next fall and urges buyers to act now. It notes store stock will shrink and other goods like blankets and underwear may rise 50 to 100 percent later. It also warns customers with three months of delinquent accounts to settle costs.
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