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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1910
Page
1
Casey and nearby towns report visits from relatives and travelers, church and mission activity, births and deaths, and local outages. Notable items include arrivals from Indiana and Oklahoma, a big Home Coming and Race Meet planned in Case, and community gatherings amid cold weather.
Announcements note a Briscoe Lee family reunion near Westfield on Aug 25 with Miss Mary Phillips visiting friends in Chicago and Captain H Black off to northern Wisconsin for months. Mrs Bla Walker from Richmond visits her mother and sisters as James Waters funeral is held. Waters, 38, dies of tuberculosis. other notices record travel and family updates.
A readable fragment notes Foley's Honey and Tar as relief for hay fever and asthma symptoms. The item highlights discomfort and misery, suggesting the remedy brings comfort to those affected.
An old time advertisement urges readers to try Dr Bell's Pine-Tar Honey for coughs colds grip or bronchial trouble. It promotes quick action and notes the product is sold everywhere with the bell logo on the bottle.
Notes from Clarksville report scarce ripe blackberries and a finished oat harvest with some hay cut. Charley Wieland suffered a severe finger bite from a hog while others feel unwell from heat and overwork. An ice cream social by the Methodist Society drew a good crowd. Local onion grower Dave Hughes reports 0 bushels sold at Terre Haute for 1 dollar per bushel, with 7d bushels grown on a small plot. A visit from Joe Bartmass, long-time resident of Oklahoma, occurs with old acquaintances Bradley Babcock and Lon Allred. Bradley Babcock and Lon Allred narrowly escaped lightning and were struck near a wire fence amid oat-field storms. Meetings at Dolson chapel begin August 8 led by Rev Munson with a District Superintendent Rev Parker Shields expected August 18 for an all-day service. A July 15 rain is blamed for crop damage, estimating six inches yields about 1,629,250 gallons or 672 tons of water on ten acres, a figure that may be corrected. A wake at Clarksville cemetery marks a bereavement of a local resident who leaves a husband and young son, with many relatives and friends extending sympathy. Ads note 24-hour work and King’s New Life Pills at 25 cents from Robt. Prewett’s.
Heavy rainfall Sunday affects farm work in Asbury region. Jim Adams traveled through Terre Haute between trains. Mrs. Walter Adams visited her son's family on Wednesday. Harold Adams, Joe Adams' son, was ill but improving. Everett Hedges and wife visited Marshall on Friday.
Sutherland offers Eagle Eye Salve as a painless cure for sore eyes. Guaranteed and harmless, the product sells for 25 cents a box and is available everywhere.
Mrs Jane Porter improves at home Geo Tyhurst and Chas Grubb visited Martinsville Friday Farmers worked haying and plowing corn Abel Bennett plans to start his thresher this week Bennett ill. Church services at Misner chapel Sunday Ohio Oil Co drilled a 300 barrel well on Walton Part low farm last week Second sand will Roscoe Deverick celebrated 24th birthday with friends Sunday afternoon. Everyone reports a good time.
Advertises Dr Bell's Antiseptic Salve promising to yield readily to treatment for all skin diseases. Claims a 25 cent box price and notes it is sold everywhere.
A jumble of visits and social happenings from Casey and nearby towns. Persons named include Levi Inman, LBeaskby, John Hassen, Cleve Connelly, Marion and Dan Roderick, W T Hollenbeck, Roy Newlin, Patsy Madigan, Joe Connelly, Bass Lowry, and Martin Sinclair with Mrs Chas Newlin. Community church attendance, excursions, and church social plans are mentioned alongside casual notices of disease, farming activity, and fruit crops.
The Melrose Sunday school session announces a devotional at 10 a.m. with G W Thompson and L B Anderson. Programs include Bible teaching in public schools, adult classes, teacher training, temperance, Christian citizenship, and state convention echoes. Bring Bibles and song books. an offering supports county work. C C Hodges press A W Wright secretary.
State of Illinois Clark county guardian John R Johnston guardian of Edna Dill and Herbert Dill minors seeks sale of their undivided interests in lots in Jones and Peters additions Martinsville Casey Illinois. Sale set August 4 1910 at 2 p m at the Marshall courthouse with all cash terms. Everett Connelly solicitor.
Public notice from Clark county Illinois courts in the 1910 probate action of Amanda Rollings estate. J K Black administrator seeks sale of real estate to pay debts. summons issued for Myrtle Rollings Henry Pruitt George Pruitt and Lizzie Pruitt to appear at the September term and plead to the petition.
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