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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1920
Page
4
Everett Harper and his Marshall family spent Sunday with his parents. Ridgefarm residents Esther Shanks Ella Murphy Gertrude Lovell and several Norton Lovell and Maurer households enjoyed Sunday gatherings with relatives and neighbors.
Wm Leach and friends gathered Sunday at Redman with Myrtle Stevens of Thavilie and Bertha Combs. Claypool’s Emily visited Thelma Newman and family in Terre Haute near Grandview. Owen Hendrix and kin attended a funeral in Marshall. Nancy Claypool stayed near Grandview then visited home folks. Sylvan Richey’s family spent Sunday near Grandview with his father. Hurley Findley hauled lambs to Kansas Station Monday for Sperry Claypool, sold to Mr Pinnell.
Mildred Garner, Wilt Garner, and wife attend sick list updates as Zern Stockwell recovers. Willbert Garner’s family visited Hershel Black and family. Otto Kuykendall’s group visited Willie Kuykendall. Delpha Hewitt summers with sisters Hazel Pauline Freda in Terre Haute. Mrs Ben Stockwell and Rev Hicks families traveled to Terre Haute. Hallie Garner and wife are on the sick list. Revs Heh death and popular appointment noted Sunday night.
Jona Wetherell of Terre Haute visited his aunt in London with four others returning home Thursday. Mr and Mrs Ruskin Mount hosted visits from their Terre Haute friends including Mrisela Wount and Mrs Hubert Hagar family from New York City. Springfield’s Frank Campbell and JA Lindley hosted guests while many locals, such as Henry Irwin and family, welcomed visitors and a newborn arrived for the Guser household.
South Dolson farmers bustle with haying as local residents share weekend visits and church class party memories. Notable items include Cleophas Hornbrook’s new restaurant, Eph Hawkins’s papering work, and farewells from Rev. J Ss Arwin set for Sunday July 25. Dorothy Phillips contracts whooping cough. various neighbors host gatherings and home visits across Clarksville area.
Vera Shearles of Indianapolis visits her father EO Po hoat before returning home. Mrs Rob Kimmel and children of Voireettes visit sister Mrs L E Tolbert. Our moving picture show reopened after months closed. Coryell remodels Poorman building. Gertrude Kelsey of Stegler Oklahoma visits Ora Cline. Chas Denney and Cora from Houston visit WW Fisher family. Dewey Wood welcomed a baby girl Saturday morning.
Robert Lindsey visited his son Herbert in Decatur on Sunday. Rev C W Crissman was unanimously re elected as pastor for the coming year. Local residents hosted visitors from Indianapolis Davenport Terre Haute Gibson City and Chicago. Drought continues to affect vegetation in the area. A child from Will Deahl’s family sustained a broken leg. another was injured in a tree accident. The M E Sunday school plans a July 22 picnic at the fair grounds with basket dinner and speaker.
Residents and guests are listed visiting towns across Indiana Kentucky and Illinois with multiple trips homeward. Social events include a Shriner watermelon feast at the Masonic hall and a country gathering for Stella Berkley with a long guest list from Casey and surrounding areas.
The York column reports widespread whooping cough with several illnesses including Nina Whitman and Grant Daugherty. It notes property sale by John Warner to Mrs Murphy, family visits, threshing progress, farm yields, and social events at Union and with local residents across York and nearby towns.
Mrs Edna Miller and daughter spent Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Enoch Wyrick Curt Gard traded farms with Fred Davison giving 2000 extra This was formerly the old Garwood farm They will move at once Frank Coombes and wife of West Union spent Monday with her parents a William and John Morton and Harry Cunningham of Marshall spent Sunday with Homer and Everett Hollenbeck Frank Johnson and family of Clarksville spent over Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Ed Burger Sylvia Hollenbeck left Sunday for Terre Haute where she will work Mrs Kittle Strohm and daughter
A string of aphorisms on stubbornness pride and persuasion notes that empty stomachs may force policy over talk and that hard work shields from meddling. It critiques travel salesmen social vanity and the perils of boasting while urging prudence in belief and speech.
The Forest of Arden near Lon jon England preserves a May Day procession with parishes gathering to hear scripture under sacred gos pel oaks. Civilization encroaches as railroads cut through trees once so numerous a squirrel could travel the forest without touching ground.
An English inventor named Mel demonstrates a device that filters scratchings and metallic sounds from phonograph music by passing the recording through more than fifty feet of tin tubing filled with peas.
Comic quip from the Galveston News notes a bald man’s edge as hair prushed in the morning refuses to move, staying put all day.
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