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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1949
Page
2
A midwestern newspaper notes postoffice second class mail status and quotes Calvin Coolidge on preserving rights while printing news. It outlines newspaper goals to inform, entertain, guide public opinion, and prevent commercialization of American principles.
Thirty six attend Sunday school last Sunday in Ohio. Regular preaching service planned for January 23 with Rev. J. B. Norbeck. Sunday school at 9 30 and prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 00. Local visits feature Mrs Grace Gard Evelyn Mary Scott and many neighbors visiting, with birthday dinners and a revival at Cooper Chapel. Mrs Walter Crumlin is in Allen Sanatorium Robinson. Russell Gray led Melrose revival services.
The Junior H. H. Club met at the school house with leader Mrs. Richard Strohm. Members included Virginia Strohm Joyce Strohm Betty Bum pus Sue Crumlin Doris Ingle Joanne Chadwick Harriet Hoffman Sandra McKeighon and Joyce Fienner. Guests included Mrs. Geneva Red of DuQuoin Illinois and visiting families connected to local residents.
Mrs. Mary Bowen spent Monday night and Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Mike Smyser and cared for their sick baby. Rosa Arney helped at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis for her brother Luther Spittler. Daisy Ellington returned from Bloomington after visiting her ill aunt Grace Tucker. Fred and Mrs. Miller were Sunday guests of T. J. Watson and family.
Mrs Susie A Johns reports regular church services by Rev James Kelley at Dennison and Armstrong. Numerous visits fill the week as family and friends call on J H Johns, H E Johns, the Bland and Gallington families, and other locals. A birthday surprise gathers many relatives and neighbors for a dinner. Weather anecdotes contrast mild January warmth with an approaching blizzard.
Eld. C Weger of Flat Rock will preach at the Mill Creek church Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs Alvin T Miller and John and Golda Blizzard attended a band concert at the American Legion home in Marshall Monday. Several families including Ledermann, Miller, Blizzard, and Garner attended services and a Stanley Party at Mrs William Garner’s home.
Several neighbors and friends attended a farewell party at the homes of Mr and Mrs William Garner Thursday evening. The Garners will move to the Fred Kammacher place they recently purchased. Alvin T Miller visited Wednesday afternoon with Leon Bender of Kile and Thursday afternoon with Ferry Shotts of Kile.
Social column records weekend visits among local residents including Hilder C. D. Newsome guesting with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Kile, John Garner joining in, and visits by Hubert Bendér, Terre Haute, and others. Funeral news notes the sudden death of Charles Burger. Illness prevents attendance at church for Mrs. John Garner and LuHilen Kile. Roy and Samuel Wallace make calls.
Sunday school attendance listed at 78 with a collection of 69.89 dollars. Notes of cold, icy weather and various visits: Aunt Eliza Nicholson in town with sons Pearl and Charley, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clapp and Linda of Marshall visiting, Emil Fox visiting daughter Helen Jane Murphy, Sam Carney hosting company, Lafe Marrs and Goldin Harbor in Marshall, Maria and Mrs Harbor dining with Ruby Spires, birthday club to meet with Ella Reeley, and several trips to see relatives in Indianapolis Ulysses Kansas and Los Angeles. Households wired for electricity and letters received from relatives in Kansas and California.
Illinois farm folks will attend Farm and Home Week January 31 to February 3 at the Illini Union on the campus. The opening night features an open house with social hour from 8 to 9 in the ballroom and travel tours of Mexico Guatemala and the Holy Land through movies slides and talks. Exhibits include crafts weaving and glass blowing with a possible dog show puppet show or portrait sketches. The rural chorus that toured Canada last summer will reunite and show their films.
iWeek offers music and drama events with social recreation sessions four times this week. Bevier Hall hosts evening activities in the gymnasium with two film periods. Home economics open house occurs Monday and Tuesday.
Ithois College of Agriculture researchers analyzed about 500 farm records from eastern and central Tinis for 1945 47. Grain farms showed higher profits but poorer soil fertility and eroded topsoil, while the 100 most efficient farmers earned about 30 dollars per acre more than the least efficient. Beef cattle and hog farms outperformed dairy and poultry for returns, due to higher beef and pork prices and labor costs in dairy and poultry. Some cooperators rely mainly on livestock for net earnings, while others could profit by shifting to grain with a soil management program. Field staff compare cooperators to identify strong and weak spots and show how others improve profitability.
University of Illinois agronomists report corn yields rising from eight to 27 bushels per acre when alternating rows of corn and soybeans are planted. The 1947 Babb Farm test in Champaign County used 40 inch rows, 13 500 plants per acre, no fertilizer, producing 85 bushels. Further work needed to confirm exact recommendations.
The article details trials yielding 77 to 103 bushels per acre under alternate corn and bean planting, 35 inch rows, and different fertilizer mixes. It notes higher per acre yields than standard plots, plus ongoing harvesting and farming considerations when implementing alternate planting.
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