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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1912
Page
3
Reno guests of the Metcalfs. many visits to Lincoln County Colorado and Michigan points. Announcements include medical operations, a large 72-person Miller reunion, and apple crop prospects. Cattle shipments to Chicago, baptisms postponed due to rain, and farm conditions with oats harvest and corn plowing amid wet ground.
Westfield residents note visits from Jab Baker and family of Winfield Kansas and Miss Dessig Byram of Arkansas staying with L A Rider and family. Widespread changes indicate a shopping stock transfer by Ben & Koehl and impending sale proceedings in the area.
A. M. Nason of Canaan Maine says uric acid in his blood caused crippling sciatic rheumatism. He credits Foley Kidney Pills with a complete cure and removal of visible specks before his eyes. The pills are advertised as a uric acid solvent and effective for rheumatism, sold by City Drug Store.
Little Bethel Cline is sick. Lucile Handy of Olver visits relatives here. Maude Lowe returns from Charleston. Helen and Mabel Medsker were Abbie Colvin’s guests Sunday. Orilla Wheeler visited Hutsonville to see her brother. Iona Reynolds of Flat Rock visited Cecil Miller Thursday. Hortense Keys and Annabelle Newman from New York were in town on business. Rev. T J Wheeler and wife attended a ministerial meeting in Lawrenceville. Alma Highshoe of Paris and Mrs. Delia Shaw visited Mrs. Stella Goss Sunday. Porter Bellers and family of Walnut Prairie and Emma Buckner of Terre Haute were guests of Mrs. JuHa Rader Sunday.
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. asserts in Toledo that the firm will pay 100 dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The oath dated December 6 before a notary public endorses internal intake and claims to affect the blood and mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists with a 0.50 price for pills and constipation remedy promoted.
West York notes report Mrs. Smith visiting Cairo Michigan relatives while Essell Smith of Olney visits her brother Dr. Smith. Lincoln Buckner's cow is killed by lightning and Wes Life’s bull dies in a strike. A Mt. Olive Baptist church basket meeting is announced for Sunday.
A Boston man lost his leg from an insect bite two years before. Bucklen's Arnica Salve should be applied promptly to kill the poison and prevent inflammation, swelling and pain. It heals burns ulcers boils piles eczema bruises and cuts. Price 25 cents at Carl Taubeneck's.
Jesse Blamkenbeker reports a new binder for Tilden Crouch who re-roofed his barn last week. John Geffs and wife traveled to Martinsville on Tuesday. Chas Tyhurst and wife also visited Martinsville Tuesday. J L Dehl and family spent Sunday at Richard Fear's. H L Custis and family visited J W Eliott's. Orpha Spaugh suffered a bad cut from a mowing scythe on Wednesday. Zoar hosted an all day Sunday school convention. Henry Tharp and wife of Yale spent Wednesday night at Dam Custis's.
Tornado and fire insurance on farm and city property in the largest companies at the lowest rates. Write or call on us for terms. Coe and Cole.
Mrs Geo Snedeker is very ill Gwen Rutledge's mother is visiting him J U L Miller and wife spent Sunday with L A Miller Miss Lavenia Finkbiner visiting her uncle Bert Robinson W F Shirely and family spent Sunday with Henry Shirely and family Ed Fairgrief and wife with Mr and Mrs Fred Weaver Mr and Mrs Milton Pierson visited Walter Lackey and family Delbert Shirely and family attended a birthday surprise on John Brown Joe Dickersons daughters visiting their grandparents Levi Dickerson Calvin Miller of Regent North Dakota returned home Tuesday
A heritage advertising note claims 120 pounds of bone and muscle plus health and strength can empower a woman. Electric Eutera is praised for overcoming fainting spells weakness nervousness backache and worn-out feelings. An Eliza Bool of Depew Oklahoma says Electric Bitters helped her greatly. Sold for 50 cents with a City Drug Store guarantee.
A brief rural update describing haymaking by shelvers H. Roebuck from Martinsville and a Wednesday visit by C. J. Beckwith of Melrose. It notes farmers in corn fields with hoes and mentions bee swarms around Tom Hursted’s area, with several details partly garbled.
Reports say men frantically rushed to Charley Armstrong's shore home Saturday when aromas and lightning struck the dwelling, demolishing a flue and causing smoke and alarm.
Elsworth Lowry heads to New York for college. Mrs. Dora Cunningham improves after illness. Vera Wells of Hanniford Illinois visits relatives nearby. Freedom hosts Sunday preaching by Bert Eckles. Myrtle Cunningham visits her parents, Mr and Mrs Scott. Clara Mitchell of Chrisman visits her mother Mrs Lew Lowry. Neighbors attend Aunt Eliza Lowry’s 90th birthday dinner.
Hazel and Catherine Geisert spent Tuesday with Alma Taylor of Oak Grove. Mrs Rudolph Kuhn and daughter Ola spent Sunday with Mrs Daisy Bell of Clarksville. Farmers are cutting oats. Harry Whitson spent Sunday with Dean Houk in Marshall. Earl Pease left Tuesday for Hart line Washington where he will spend the summer. He was accompanied by his friend Henry Dittman.
A Century old Illinois farm near Lost Creek twelve miles north of Centralia sees multiple deaths blamed on milk sickness from impure well water. John Ackerman, the latest victim, drank cistern water earlier but later used pasture milk. doctors identify poisoned well as the outbreak source linking to prior Palm family fatalities.
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