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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
7
West York society notices cover visits from Terre Haute and Chicago residents, soldiers returning home, university commencements, market prices for eggs and hogs, and plans for highway work. Local residents attend events, campaigns, and family gatherings while businesses adjust to road and office relocations.
A truck ran over Gon Gallatin injuring his feet while he worked on a pipe west of the city. Comrade Carson Johnson, Civil War veteran and Martinsville resident, died at his son’s home after a lingering illness. Funeral services were held for Johnson at the ME church with burial in Rupp cemetery. The note lists residents visiting or traveling, farm improvements, and a church convention of the PB EF and missionary society in Charleston with delegates from the local church.
Miss Phivh Murphys of Marstad spent the weekend here with friends attending Welcote celebration activities in Muskogee Oklahoma and other social visits. Terre Haute engineer recovering from winter auto accident returns for work with health improvements noted. Local residents and guests listed include Sophia Keys, James Hanson, A J Maring, I Roberts, Roscoe Wetherell, Fanny Murphy, Theodosia Freeman, Willis Stark, Levi Donescol, and Mocary Ruckon with travels to Washington DC, Greece township, and Quaker Lane.
Mrs H B Phillips and two children depart for Warren Pennsylvania for a summer visit. Katherine Albert of Winchester Kentucky visits Casey friends. Ben C Waterman and son start for Kilbourn Wisconsin due to a relative’s death. Master Jimmy Brooks visits grandparents in Casey from Muskogee Oklahoma. J H Williams heads to western harvest fields via Kansas and the Dakotas. Mrs J P Hillard dies of tuberculosis at age 47 near Casey. David Fasig and Adeline Gardner wed in Toledo and will live in Casey. Harry Estes and Leon Okley wed at US parsonage in Casey. Estes served in Co A in France. J W Etchison unloads a grader for National Road work. cement machinery to arrive. Workers cut hills near Vevay Park to straighten the road west of the bridge.
The passage asserts that no parliament or generation can bind posterity or control future governance. It argues governments should serve the living, past rulers cannot bind the dead, and each era must decide for itself. Also appears a notice to taxpayers about Board of Review hearings in Marshall through August 1919.
The writer describes Maryland farmland near Marshall Hall across the Potomac, praising bumper crops of wheat corn and fruit amid postwar sacrifice. He notes apple and pear trees laden, blackberry and raspberry bushes bending, and a rich yellow loam soil that promises high yields as he reflects on nature and renewal beyond the city.
A brief, fragmentary reflection argues that backers of nations’ peace plans cannot be trusted to keep us out of conflict. The text echoes 1916 praise for Wilson, questioning whether such sentiment would truly prevent war.
Lloyd Baadley as administrator announces before Clark County Court at Marshall during the September Term that all creditors must present claims for adjustment. He requests all debtors to pay promptly. Dated June 20 1919. Craham Sastvely, Aliys.
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