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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
4
West York residents share visits with Terre Haute kin and kin in Mineral Point. People attend funerals in Robinson and Grand Prairie, with many traveling to Indianapolis and Marshall. Local health notes, eye treatment, and church events fill the week amid bread sales and farm activity.
Market prices show hens 23 cents, fries 30 cents, roosters 13 cents. Visitors include James Seaton Kickapoo Jess Thompson Moonshine Sam Deahl Moonshine and others. Local notes mention a new mail carrier Ralph Davis, a sick list update, Sunday school plans, stockholders meeting at Martinsville Strate Bank, and road traffic speculation on the National Road. Ten carloads of livestock shipped to Chicago. A farewell notice from Chester Snavely and Henryshler selling and settling the business.
Charley Roberts and James E Barker were Marshall visitors one day last week. Mrs J In Roberts visits her daughter Mrs Chas Snavely of Sullivan. Mrs Fanny Murphy visited Mr and Mrs Leslie Magill in Flat Rock from Saturday to Monday. Misses Leatha Sebastian and Hazel Clark visited near Hutsonville a few days last week. E Johnson and wife spent Sunday with Chas Fowler and family near Fairbanks. A Sunday School convention was held at the ME Church Sunday afternoon. Will Lewis and wife were in Marshall one day last week. Floyd Baker has received his discharge from the service and is expected home soon. I W Eliott and family of Orange, Wallace Elliott and wife of Needmore, Ernest Bartholomew and wife of Martinsville, A J Maring of Terre Haute and J Roberts of this place took dinner with Mrs M Barker on Sunday.
Abbie Clark, Recorder, warns members that June dues must be paid within the coming week to prevent suspension from the Court of Honor activity.
Mrs Alfred Graham visited relatives in Paris over Sunday. John Woods of Indianapolis was here on business from Saturday until. Several from here attended the commencement exercises at Marshall Saturday. Mrs Ella Miller, Mrs Ida Babcock and daughter Mabel were in Terre Haute Tuesday. Henry Millhouse and family of Paris were guests of Mr and Mrs Bird Lucan Sunday. Amos Morgan and daughter Flossie spent Sunday at Wetzel with Mr and Mrs Glen Morgan. Clarence Hughes returned home Saturday after a few weeks treatment at Springfield, very little improved. Mr and Mrs Ray Fox, formerly of this place but now near Pleasant Hill, are the proud parents of a boy born June 30. Everybody is invited to attend the ice cream supper at the Clarksville Baptist church in the afternoon and evening of the Fourth. The ladies are requested to bring cakes and the gentlemen their pocket books.
Westfield rail service expands with a new schedule to improve freight and passenger moves, reducing six mile trucking for merchandise. A large stock shipment from town heads to Chicago markets, plus a quiet wedding unites Mary Nichols and Harley Brunny in Piketown Ohio.
Harry Buckley travels to Kansas seeking oil field work while the area notes visits from Muskogee relatives and health trips to Hot Springs. Dr W H Stoltz dies aged 58 after apoplexy, leaving a large family. several local farm life updates follow, including marriages in Crawford county and a Jamaica anecdote tied to Johnson’s house.
Curio collectors in London recently sought the famed Irish relic the olden bell. Tradition says the bell aided obtaining information when other means failed. A theft once saw saddle bags with 1700 dollars taken, and a priest vowed to swear his flock on the bell. A man later returned saying the money was safe and sound.
Fulmen the pit pony at South Kirby colliery marks twenty years of continuous service since April 1889. Since joining after the Lincolnshire handicap win in 1886, Fulmen has only surfaced once and has never had a day of illness or suffered a vertebral injury.
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