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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1914
Page
4
W A Williams Coal and Feed offers a wide line of mill feeds including pure ground wheat or rye wheat shorts bran middlings hominy feed oats and corn mixes. Prices listed for oats feed meal alfalfa feed and calf meal with a note of exchanging flour or meal for corn or wheat and a forthcoming carload of Indiana corn at 75 cents on track.
W A Williams operates Coat and Feed Exchange located at 617 619 East Locust Street in Marshall Illinois advertising supply of coats and feed.
Several residents attended church at Bethel on Sunday. Notices report visits, journeys north and near Auburn, and family gatherings. Uncle Jack Hutchings, 96, ill at his daughter’s home near Grandview with doubtful recovery.
Ora McKeen of Walnut Prairie opens a blacksmith shop inviting patronage. Mrs Wm Liffick and two daughters visited Clayton Higginbotham over Sunday. Georgia Lee starts school at Marshall. Residents attend the revival at Asbury. Nellise Dill of Terre Haute visits her parents Mr and Mrs Dan Quick. Hattie See was in Marshall Saturday. Charles Russel and Carter See went to Terre Bauta Saturday. Dan and Tempa Quick called on.
Clayton Higginbotham Saturday. Miss Blanche Williams returned to her school here this morning. Mrs. Carter Lee visited her parents at Vermilion last week. Ora McHenry and wife called on Wm. Hudson Sunday night. Herman Crawford of Terre Haute called on his grandparents here Sunday. Harry Fawley of Terre Haute called on James Adams Sunday. Sam Barnes will commence on seven miles of the ditch for Lyman Snedeker this week.
Local residents circulate illness and travel updates while noting visits, marriages, and relocations. People mentioned include Mrs Samarius Pickard and Mrs Ciantha Givens of Phillipstown MI visiting John son, and many others from Terre Haute Pimento West Union and nearby towns. Smallpox cases and health concerns surface amid community news and weekend visits.
George Kelley of Marshall made a business call Monday while Al Fraker’s horse remains in serious condition. Silas Elledge has taken ownership of a cream separator. Dan Snyder and wife visited from Martinsville Sunday. Hunters seek word on rabbit populations. Mr Ryan of Greenup worked the third shift at Homer tower recently. Auburn Methodist meeting closed with ten additions. A push seeks Tom Wright of Casey to run for school superintendent. Two strangers arrived Thursday and drew curiosity from locals.
Frank Cox on sick list Mrs Tom Phillip of Oklahoma visited relatives here. Butternutt Shoots to be continued another month. Bailiff filled his appointment at Butternutt Sunday. Protracted meeting at Mount Olive closed Sunday night. Melhin Bennett delivered hogs in Martinsville Thursday. Sun Sam Dell in Martinsville on J Bennett telegram about daughter Mrs Roy Custis of Posey ill with pneumonia. Dan Lingafelter and wife with daughter Mrs Dan Cooper. Tilden Crouch in Casey Friday. Andy Hardway and wife at Harlan Bennett home Monday. W O Doran and family visited Wm Smith Sunday.
English and family spent Sunday with Will Fraker of Oak Grove. Ed M. English battles lumbago. Will Sharkey and family visited John Reynolds of McClure. Mrs Mary Rush and daughter Lil le of St Louis visited Henry Reynolds. Harold English of Chrisman returned Tuesday after extended stay with relatives.
Two capable evangelists Lucas and Fleming preached at MP church drawing growing interest and praise from locals. Rev Billings questions order while Rev Adams remains for another week. A revival at M E church attracts large nightly crowds as more residents attend.
Comrades Lindsey and Mallory remain unable to go out while Henry Athey’s Fairfield trip and D A Garver’s call are noted. The Red Men building is ready for occupancy. Hog prices run 7 to 71 percent with crowd at city Saturday. Blue Grass church revival led by Rev Bert Rogers from Mt Carroll.
Mrs. W H Harrison suffers a painful right hand infection from a bruise but shows improvement. Rev F M Buckner to preach at the Methodist church next Sunday and at Beulah and Darwin on schedule. Rev Readville to attend Tri State Sunday School Conference in Brazil Ind. Buckner returns from two weeks in Falmouth for protracted meetings. Chas Lee decorates Masonic hall in West Union to become a fine lodge room. John Williamson recovering slowly after cancer operation. Frank Bush, former West Union resident now in Kansas City Mo, back to help run the barber shop and is an artist in his trade.
Cardinal Basilio Pompili acting for Pope Pius XI denounces the tango, certain newspapers, theater, and fashions as corrupting souls. He calls for clergy to defend Christian usages and warns parents to shield children from corruption. The letter casts moral danger as a pagan threat and urges strong action.
A group of grieving depositors gathers on the sidewalk before a recently defunct bank. An old colored man with a bandanna speaks through tears as another observer tries to comfort him. The scene captures anger grief and blunt illness of financial collapse in a stark public moment.
The piece notes layoffs at General Electric in Lynn Massachusetts and Crane Company in Bridgeport amid tariff concerns. It also mentions Erie Railroad layoffs and an anecdote about President Wilson having his shoes repaired by Sumner, the White House shoemaker, highlighting public interest in the new administration.
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