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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1928
Page
1
A column praises Senator Jim Reed who plans to leave the Senate next March to practice law. It argues he embodies strong truth telling against international schemes and urges car ownership for independence, claiming autos improve health, freedom, and time to work for self reliance.
Miss Kathryn Baird of Shreveport Louisiana married Thomas Cecil Norman Jr. in Marshall Texas on Monday July 2. The bride, noted for music and art, wore a shell pink crepe ensemble with white chiffon coat and pink hat. Mr Norman, from Little Rock, attended Centenary College and the University of Oklahoma. They reside at the Hotel Youree.
Rear-Admiral Bradley A. Fiske urges stopping all auto traffic after a robbery. He says police should sound whistles to halt cars and search drivers. He compares the plan to naval discipline by sounding attention to curb mutiny.
The passage critiques Bolshevism’s land reforms and crop controls, noting peasant resistance and wheat shortages as Russia seeks cash wheat. It pivots to a broader meditation on hope, human selfishness, and societal progress, citing figures on automobilism and a celebrity divorce in Reno with comparative prosperity remarks.
The Clark County Farm Bureau committee plans the August 9 picnic in Marshall. President J. Q. Snedeker names O. K. Allen as chairman with Sol Handy Robert Dawson Arthur Guinnip and Lloyd Pulver on the committee. Featured events include a baseball game horse shoe pitching milking and hog calling contests.
Springfield officials were informed of a public hearing on July 31 about telephone rate hikes by the Wabash Valley Telephone Company. Commerce Commission mis sent the notice. Company officials say no rate increases are being considered.
Charles Blundell Jr owner of the American Cafe plans to relocate from the Do A Dixon building on Main Street to the Wallis building formerly Liberty Variety Store two doors east by August first. The Wallis building is being painted and remodeled with a new front installed.
Mrs. George Farris sustained multiple severe cuts to her right arm Sunday evening when a car emerged from a side road and collided with Fred Keifer’s Dodge as they returned from Flora. Mrs. Keifer suffered bruises and scratches. all others were uninjured.
Liberty Variety Store relocates from Wallis building on Main Street to the Odd Fellow building on the north side of the square. The new site has been cleaned and papered recently.
A garbled ad blurb touts classified listings promising fast results. It invites readers to buy a pup hire a housemaid rent a garage store a car trade a shotgun for a radio sell an old box and borrow money to locate lost keys. The tone mimics a lively, persuasive sales pitch.
Emery Vanfleet leads the June payroll for the Marshall Milk and Cream Company with a check of 13 498 pounds of milk. A total of 133 farmers earned more than 25 dollars, 17 above 100 dollars, with Clark County residents well represented.
Robert McKane aged about 65 died recently in Vancouver Washington. A former Melrose township resident, he moved about 28 years ago. He was cousin to James Morton of Marshall and brother to Perry McKane, who was elected county superintendent of schools about 50 years ago.
Miss Loraine Nelson was the weekend guest of Miss Edna Brown at Carbon Indiana. Miss Brown entertained to a birthday dinner Sunday in honor of Miss Nelson. There were twelve guests.
Miss Berniece Gard 21 of Marshall died in Alexandria hospital after a Friday night accident near the city. She worked in the Court of Claims in Washington and is survived by her parents, a brother Jacob, and relatives. Funeral plans include a Marshall cemetery burial with Rev. D. A. Kroft officiating.
A list of marriage licenses shows couples including J I Riebsomer and Mildred Tate of Connersville Indiana, William Twilley and Flora Asher of Fort Riley Kansas and Indianapolis Indiana, Ray Hackney and Faye Marrs of Dolson township, Harry Larrison and Esther Bennett of Terre Haute, and others across Indiana and Illinois with ages and hometowns.
Standard Oil Company agents from Marshall and nearby towns were hosted to dinner Thursday evening at the Marshall House. Attendees included Burns Hurst and EB B Hurst of Marshall, John Shadow of Decatur, Neal Reddick of Oakland, A A Nay of Kansas, Hassler, George Ditken, Floyd Tobias, Ed Zimmerly of Paris, EB Ferguson of Robinson, Dave Hill of Casey, Roacoe Steward of Weatfield, A A McClain of Newton, and Ben Crocker of West Union.
More than 100 relatives and friends gathered at the Hodges home nine miles south of Martinsville to honor Mr and Mrs Charles Hodges on their 50th wedding anniversary and to celebrate Mrs Margaret Cowden 87th birthday mother of Mrs Hodges The noon meal featured 21 cakes including one with 87 candles Rev Jesse Stout spoke in the afternoon Attendees included numerous Hodges and Bartlett relatives and friends from Olney Gary West York Champaign and Danville among others.
Week's transfers show B H Pinnell and wife to C B Parker and wife for a Westfield lot at 700 dollars, Flora Stewart to Mart Reed et al for land in 32-10-14 at 270, multiple sales in Casey and Martinsville ranging from 1 to 450 dollars, and a visiting Azusa California family, the Williamses, leaving after several days with local friends for Kansas and Tuscola.
Members of the 4 H Pig Club toured Clark County farms under Farm Bureau supervision led by R E Apple. Nearly 100 miles were covered and 14 homes visited with 25 boys on the trip.
Approximately 126 people attended the afternoon program and 15 dined at the annual Wyrick Weaver reunion held Sunday at the Pleasant Hill school house east of Marshall. The program featured songs, invocations by John Beltz, solos by Margaret Irwin, readings by Maxine Weaver, Bobbie Parrish and Lila Wyrick, and addresses by Rev. F O Coffin and Mrs Ada Yents, with benediction by Rev. Coffin.
Mr and Mrs Walter Fawley of Casey spent Tuesday evening in Marshall and were accompanied home by his mother Mrs Kittle Fawley who will visit them.
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