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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1919
Page
8
The Marshall Band, augmented by outside performers, opened with popular and old time tunes blending tradition with modern flair. The Cubs featuring Men ata Ferris offered a thrilling exhibition as local youth joined the fun with a lively street parade and dance. Aerial acts including balloon ascent and parachute drops promised thrills, with rockets and fire effects lighting the spectacles.
A discussion on how national language improves in spurts via new words from theater gambling dens and opium parlors. It notes undergrad slang is weak while returning soldiers may carry field terms like cupties and joint. Education shapes vocab, else clumsy speech prompts pedestry.
A letter from Mi government service directs preparations for a parachute as used in war. It asks Marshall aides to arrange 20 old iron rods 3 feet long and old sheet iron, plus 12 empty sugar cracker barrels for wood. The sender notes civilian service limits access and urges local help for 4th of the month.
Emmanuel Sunday School at 10 00 a m with preaching at 11 00 a m Zion Sunday School at 10 00 a m and preaching at 8 30 p m Marshall: Prayer meeting Wednesday at 8 30 p m Sunday School at 9 30 a m and preaching at 3 30 p m J W Feller, Pastor.
Elder W H Breach of Danville HI will lead Sunday Baptist services at 10 45 in the morning and 8 00 in the evening. All are invited to attend as Eld Breach comes to get acquainted and may locate with us.
The Sun day school teachers and officers meet Saturday night at 910 o'clock to review July lessons. Midweek services are at 8 09 pm on Wednesday with the subject For the Sake of the Church. Sunday school at 9 30 with lesson The Church on its Purpose. Morning worship at 1045 with a sermon The Psychology of Goodness. Public invited by Minister C R Dierlamm.
Scout Francis Coon of Carbondale Pa Troop No 2 age fifteen height three feet ten inches weighs 4744 pounds as he jokes about growing small but adds his war work record is enviable He sold eight Liberty bonds in the second campaign 18 in the third and 217 in the fourth He used 81 red postcards boosting War Savings stamps to about 800 dollars He found four black walnuts during a census including trees eight 15 25 and 85 miles from home He tried another five miles away but the tree had been cut down His method to sell bonds is to grab a potential buyer and hang onto his coat tail until he commits to buy.
Lieut Col Theodore Roosevelt told the national council of the Boy Scouts of America gathered at the Hotel Commodore New York that military training democratizes and Americanizes men and provides great educational value He urged returned officers to offer leadership to boys and to pass on the trained advantage as a patriotic service to the nation.
United States Attorney Stephen T. Lockwood sent a contribution to Edward H. Butler of the Buffalo Evening News for boy scout work. He stated he is strong for the boy scouts and that a physically strong, mentally awake, morally straight city could dismiss the federal grand jury.
Theodore Dreiser, famed novelist, remarks that there are sermons in stones. A Greenwich Village man interrupts with a retort about precious stones being small and needing much cutting, highlighting practical constraints on artistry.
The Illinois Limestone Co advertises agricultural limestone with home industry benefits and telephone delivery arrangements. Customers can call Union plant to schedule shipments and verify car arrival times, noting short freight hauls and potential weather or business delays.
First Methodist Episcopal Church shifts Sunday talk time to 9:30 during the regular service. Fred Abel and his wife, returned missionaries from Japan, will discuss at 8:00 Epworth League devotional meeting instead of 7:00.
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