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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1948
Page
2
The Marshall Herald is published by Wabash Valley Printing Co. in Marshall Illinois with Mark Stewart and Carlos Stewart as editors. It notes the paper is handled by the Marshall post office as second class mail matter.
Sun day school drew 31 attendees last Sunday. June 13 is the next preaching service by Bro. J. B. Norbeck. Wednesday prayer meetings begin at 8:00. Numerous residents from Ohio and surrounding areas are noted visiting, hosting, and attending memorial services, with family gatherings at Hollenbeck and related households in Marshall and nearby towns.
Memorial services were held at the cemetery Sunday morning at ten o'clock. Rev. H. J. Kemp spoke and Mrs. Ernest Junker gave a reading. Various family members visited cemeteries and attended dinners with relatives. notes mention Prairieton and Old York areas, and references to the old cemetery being about two hundred years old.
Attendance at Sunday school last Sunday was 67. Mrs. Emil Fox and family visited his hospitalized brother Henry in Danville. Mrs. Charles Walsh of Kansas Station visited her sister Mrs. Lafe Marrs and joined Mr. and Mrs. Harry Harbor for Sunday dinner with Donnie. Mrs. Walsh then went to Union Hospital Terre Haute to see Bruce Spires, injured in a tractor accident, who is reported much better. David hosted company at home last Sunday. Lyman Newman is improving. Mrs. Laura Fancher and daughter visited Goldin Harbor last week. Mrs. Eliza Nicholson entertained guests last Sunday.
Mrs Maude Miller notes the Daily Vacation Bible School at Mill Creek church begins Monday June 14 at 2 00 pm and runs for two weeks for children ages up to 16. Several local residents visit and host calls include the Fisher, Hollenbeck, Miller and Snearly households with community announcements and past week visits.
Mrs Maureen Pickering and Mrs Julia Sackrider visited Miss Ruby Guyer Monday. Roy Drake family from Terre Haute spent Sunday with the Drakes. Wm MacDowall and daughter Essie called in, Lena Artman visited Ruth Wells and Iva Wilbert Wednesday. Lenora Reynolds of Evansville stayed with Aden Reynolds family. Sarah Lenard Ruby Guyer and Frances Drake attended Oblong vacation Bible school Tuesday night.
Bible school and communion each Lord's day at 9 30. Sermons on 2nd and 4th Sundays. Bible study Wednesdays at 8. God's Acre corn planting by men. Lloyd Hendrix family at Brown's Valley. Veach attends Mt Pleasant rally. Lyman Morgan injured planting corn. treated at Paris hospital then home. 431 club met at Nancy Stricklett's Martinsville home.
Eugene Morgan and Walter Mansell of Cincinnati visited with Morgan family in Martinsville during the weekend. Ted Kaufman and children of Newton joined relatives for Sunday dinner. Raymond Finley and daughter from Chicago, visiting Coleman Finley and Billy, attended the Marshall High School commencement where Harold Morgan was among the graduates. Rev W M Weaver and spouse are vacationing in Ohio and Kentucky. News arrives of Julia Closson’s death in Chehalis Washington. she formerly lived in Martinsville and funeral services were held there after relocation.
Regular preaching service at Freedom next Sunday. Elder C. D. Newsome of Casey, pastor. Vacation Bible school runs all week with teachers Gertie Kile John Garner and Mary Nina Kile. Memorial and family visits noted among local residents and kin.
Mrs. A S Coryell hosts guests including Mrs Jack Hutchison of Indianapolis and George Prust from Decatur plus the Coryells and Prusts. Marilyn Prust, Indiana University graduate, visits parents. Many local families welcome relatives from Danville Hutsonville and Decatur over the weekend.
Two week daily program starts last Monday at the West Union Baptist church. Visitors from Chicago Lake Geneva Danville Terre Haute and Effingham joined local residents over the weekend for family visits and gatherings. A soil conservation note explains water erosion control by keeping soil cover diversions terraces and contouring to reduce runoff.
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