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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1922
Page
4
West Union social notes list visits and travel among Gilles Bartlett Ona and Frances Bartlett Mrs Ruth Gard Bayes from St Louis heads to Detroit then Houston. Marshall visitors include Miss Virginia McClure and Miss Martha Crowe. Local ball team edges Robinson 7 6 in eleven innings.
Miss Mary Lindley returns from Urbana to spend summer vacation. Mrs. Mary Murphy and Mrs. Priscilla Mount host and visit relatives from Terre Haute Cincinnati Hutsonville and Martinsville with neighbors at West Union. A fall on a sidewalk injures Mrs. Leander Guyer. Earl Bradbury returns from Wyoming after two years. Several families visit relatives in Terre Haute Champaign Robinson and Martinsville as spring to summer visits continue.
Reverend E J Sloan will preach at Fishback next Sunday morning. Kenneth Gelsert bought a new car. Mr and Mrs James Pickens and Harry Pickens spent Sunday in Terre Haute. Mr and Mrs Charles Wernz and family of Terre Haute, Walter Hutchingon and family of Marshall, and Reverend E J Sloan and family of Armstrong visited Lewis Kendall and wife. Mrs Elnora Black spent the weekend in Terre Haute.
David Claypool of Casey visited Sunday afternoon. Alma Tate stayed with sister Mrs Margaret Wilcoxson in Martinsville last week. Sperry Claypool shipped hogs to Indianapolis Friday. Murphy Bros. had repairs in their store. Homer Hendricks plans to attend teachers college in Charleston this summer. Albert and Mrs Jones welcomed a daughter born June 8 at home. Elijah Claypool family and Mrs Allie Veach visited Robert Findley at Marshall. Allen Claypool and Virgil Claypool of Marshall with Silas Claypool of Findlay, Ohio, were guests of Zenas Murphy Sunday. Ethel Heimer of Martinsville visited Ruth Hendricks recently.
Charles Snyder and family visited with his parents here along with Mrs. and Mrs. Homer Snyder. Garrett guests include Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Clayton visiting Mary Smith. Mae Barbour returns from Findlay Ohio. Jennie Boothe visits relatives in Westfield and others host Frank Burger family. June Tingley from Terre Haute visits. Mrs. Herbert Lindsey and child visit Altamont with Rhodes family. I. O. O. F. district meeting held in town with talks and refreshments. Greenfield and Newcastle visitors stay with Winters. Fred Tarman of Champaign on business. James Phillips east of town sick with pneumonia fever, reported not better.
Choctaw Mrs John Coldren of Marshall visits daughter Lola Norton. Margaret Hollenbeck spends Sunday with Alma Freeman at Allright. Bernadine Irmogene Miller Mabel Jackson visit Wilma Carpenter and Wayne Cline. Ohio relatives visit the Whitakers. Carl Norton and Russell Farris spend Sunday with William and John Norton. Otis Williams family visits Charles Williams at Allright. Estella Burger and Margaret Lindsey of Ohio visit Sylvia and Gladys Hollenbeck.
Westfield residents Reuben Hornbrook and Ted Pendell returned home from Greencastle Indiana where they have been in school. Ashmore defeated Westfield 9 to 1 in Sunday baseball. Dr H C Houser visited Charleston Saturday. Miss Sophia Malcolm returned from Onargo where she taught in city schools the past year. Mrs Ray Phillips hosted the W I H O club with guests Mrs Clarence Reeds and Mrs John Stevens Rex Walden injured by a horse, taken to Charleston hospital and improving. Children’s Day observed at United Brethren and Methodist churches with program and large crowds. Dr and Mrs D R Seneff left for Ohio Tuesday. T O O and Rebekah lodges held memorials in city park Sunday. Masons had A F and A M initials carved on their building front last week. H Lewis and D C Moore shipped stock to Indianapolis last week. C G Hall seriously hurt Thursday falling from a telephone pole. He landed on a post auger, broke his collar bone and bruised several places. Manson Nichols will graduate from Otterbein College this year.
Local Casey Rays beat Greenup 10 to 4 at home as Trenton Rock Oil and Gas reports its first Martinsville pay sand well at 1356 feet. Numerous residents attended the well turnout and Casey leads the E I league.
York Floyd Baker and wife of Indianapolis returned home after visiting James Baker and family. Cy Burnett and family of Sullivan spent Sunday with Will Whitman and family. Albert Gray and Charles Baker of Martinsville visited John Bishop and Jack Hanson of Mt. Carmel. Mrs. Lewis Whitman went to Sullivan to stay with Cy Burnett. Dorothy Dudley visited her sister Gertrude Harris in Indiana. Willie Dudley of Terre Haute spent the weekend here. Mrs. Cliff Whitman is improving after a serious indigestion attack.
Pawnee Rock in Kansas has been made a state park with clean up planned for summer and access road improvements. The site recalls the Santa Fe trail era and hosts a monument and pavilion for tourists to stop and camp while exploring the rock named for the Pawnee Indians and visited by travelers including Sherman and Sheridan.
W. H. Smith of the University of Minnesota discusses breeding pigs and feeding strategies. He warns that fattening rations may disappoint breeders when used for growing stock and recommends forage and ground grains with tankage for breeding pigs. He also contrasts home grown feeds with ready mixed products and notes the economics of protein supplements for higher milk production.
The American Marine Insurance syndicate, formed over a year ago to carry 2.5 million risk on a single American vessel, reports 77 members have accepted 2 million coverage for the Leviathan on the New York to Newport News voyage. The liner also carries 2.6 million coverage while under repair at a southern port. Additional insurance has been written abroad.
Thirteen University of Wisconsin women organize the Alpha Pi Epsilon club pledged to perform at least one social service act each semester. The move is encouraged by the sociology faculty and stems from a group of senior women specializing in sociology.
Nels Pierson of Mascotte reports his Anaconda hen set a world record by laying 839 eggs in one year. A second hen of the same breed produced 335 eggs in 1921. The birds were bought from a Berea Ohio breeder who drove north to collect the record roosters for exhibition.
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