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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1915
Page
4
Wheat and rye harvest begins while rain halts fieldwork. Dolson Chapel hosts Sunday services. social visits connect Clarksville, Dolson, and Terre Haute. Hog buyers active, road work expands at low cost. Obituary notes Mrs. Margaret Phillips of Terre Haute dies of blood poisoning aged fifty nine. burial at Dolson. Local schooling upgrades and new teachers hired. a fatal shooting in Crawford county ends with a coroner’s jury verdict.
Tornado and fire insurance on farm and city property in strong companies at the lowest rates. Write or call on Cole and Cole in Marshall Indiana for terms.
West Union residents report social visits across Marshall with Mrs. Walter Cork and children visiting Mrs. Elsie Cork. Lenore McKinney dined with Nina Carlyle. Belle Miller travels to Lafayette Indiana to visit her daughter. Smallpox deemed eradicated locally. Chas Wright and family spent Sunday with S. D. Drake and family. C T Shawler and E A Snyder families visited L A Shawler and family.
Mrs. Alvina Layton visits her daughter in Terre Haute. Mrs. Belle Turner and sister visit Arthur DL relatives. Miss Beulah Dickerson of Flat Rock stays with Miss Wanda Holiday. John Clow of Terre Haute visits friends here. Miss Norma Bell returns home from state university for summer. Church group plans repainting the M E church. Mrs. T J Wheeler and others visit near Caryvin. Mrs. Mary Athey of Terre Haute visits daughter Mrs. Will Lickliter.
Sunday callers include Homer Walter Kendall and family while Mrs. McKee drove from Kansas. Miles Lowry is seriously ill at his mother's home. County commissioner approves change on angling road. Farmers plant corn last Friday. Mays children visited from Indianapolis. Cora Church and Mrs. D. C. Cleaver visited Danville. Baptist church calls Rev. Mr. Smith of Smithsboro as pastor. George Beachout elected president at Sunday school convention. Vandalia stone arch at West Mill Creek cracking. Ethel Brosman Josie Husted Opal Patchett attend Charleston Normal summer term.
Wheat harvest is ongoing this week and fruit crops are gathered. Mr and Mrs Wright spent Sunday with Fred Kallansa. Orpha Martin of Anderson visited Plainview Farm. The Fawleys hosted Mel Fawley at Sassafras. New cabbage beans beets peas and potatoes are plentiful. Mooney and Otis Landers families from Terre Haute visited M M Landers. Phoebe Wright returned from Terre Haute for a few weeks then will visit Town Harlan and Catherine English of Redman returned home after weeks with grandparents.
Fred Beltz joined Aaron Weaver for a Saturday visit. Miss Nora Chaffee of Chicago visited relatives here. Several local residents attended a circus in Terre Haute last week. Delbert Shirley and wife were Sunday guests of E J Shirley. Columbus Robinson and wife visited Mrs Meele Wyrick Sunday. Mrs Frank Henderson operated last week and is recovering well. Virgil Shirley and grandparents E J Shirley and wife hosted him last week. James Weaver and family were Sunday guests of Fred Ligget and family near St MaryBe. Misses Hazel Elliott Lillie Beltz and Fred Beltz visited Sunday with Mary and Aletha Weaver. Alvan Fraker and daughter Helen, Nora Chaffee, Lulu and Flora Elliott were Sunday guests of Will Shirley and wife.
Mrs Bert Miller left Tuesday for Devil's Lake North Dakota to visit her father W S Lowry. Mrs J D McCoy longtime Casey resident died Friday with services Sunday. Mrs B F Ward departed Sunday for St Louis to visit Fred E Moore's home. Her granddaughter Miss
Monday shipments and carload move describe hog day and wheat harvest. Residents include Dan Cooper and wife from Orange and Dan Lingafelter of Yale with Mr. Kidwell of Johnson. News covers visitors, funerals, farm activity, building renovation, and upcoming state Sunday School conventions.
Miss Lydia English of Marshall, visiting Miss Leila Quinn near Olver, was guest of honor at a Sunday afternoon picnic for a group of young people held in the Quinn grove.
The text traces armor and weaponry from Waterloo where cuirassiers failed against agile English horsemen, to Pavia 1525 introducing muskets, noting Crecy 1346 already used artillery. It argues gunpowder soon ended the era of armored melee combat and the armored noble class.
A Richmond Times-Dispatch excerpt presents a debate over choosing between two housing options. One follows a young lady from a piano conservatory while the other features a five year old boy with recitations. A mother asks if the boy is a good influence as a reward for good behavior.
An assortment of quoted snips from newspapers shows critics scolding husbands for paying too much attention to visitors and young men. References to a husband who dotes on guests, a man waiting on a guest, and a barber shop belt-cutting joke illustrate social comedies and gossip about family roles.
The Baltimore American hints that the earliest use of nutmeg was by someone with a great mind. The fragment suggests curiosity about who first recognized nutmeg’s uses and value.
A brief comic exchange shows Cholly declaring love to the old man as proof of his prospects. The father questions the seriousness, and Cholly affirms the engagement. The vignette captures a humorous stage tone.
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