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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1917
Page
5
Community updates detail visits among residents including Mrs Ed Volkers and Mr and Mrs Scofield. News covers illnesses, farm activity, crop prospects, livestock sales, and local weather with items on roads, property, and a Martinsville bank meeting.
Farm work continues as residents report visits to Terre Haute including John Moke and Miss Margaret Forbeck. Tornado destroyed fruit stocks. residents plan for blackberry crops. Gene Fawley returns home from Springville Iowa, will join Minnesota National Guard and be stationed in El Paso Texas.
Henry Baser bought a new automobile. Miss Sedyth Fox of Paris visited home folks. A Clarksville farmers union meeting was held at a schoolhouse. Davis preached at Clarksville Baptist Church. Miss Nellie Murphy returned from Paris hospital and is improving. Ladies' Aid plans an ice cream supper at Clarksville Baptist on Wednesday night. Wedding reported in Douglas township as Tina Michael wed Abel Babcock with Rev I Huggins officiating. The couple then hosted a dinner and departed to the Old Babcock Homestead for a long, happy life.
Dr J C Baughman traveled to St Louis for an examination for army dentist service. Naomi Wilhoit, Northwestern University graduate, returned home Friday. Hite, son of Mr and Mrs Mike Everhart, was seriously injured morning when run over by a disk harrow. Mrs S E Vanscovh and Miss Gladys Collins attended an Epworth League District convention in Sullivan. Joseph Foreman suffered a paralytic stroke last Wednesday night and remains critical though improved.
The Casey high school commencement was held Friday evening with 14 graduates. Dr Frank Loveland delivered the address. A list of graduates includes Florence Foreman Pansy Green Naomi Shawver Carrie Crane Beatrice Barkhurst June Ameter Lorna Howe Myrtle Hiles Beulah Buckley Briscoe Heywood Dick Gossett George Bernhardt Stanley Young Ralph Brown Ray Greenwell.
A wartime column blends rural life with homefront duties. It praises farmers for feeding the nation, mocks German aggression, and urges diligence despite weather. Notices announce a July 18 1917 school sale, a toy pistol law, and a thank you card from John F. Dougan’s family.
A 51 year old man died and was laid to rest in Casey after services in Terre Haute. Mrs A V Clark and children departed Sunday for a visit with relatives at St Mary's Ohio, traveling by car.
Maxine Lucille Chapman, daughter of Ova and Bessie Chapman, was born February 14, 1915 and died May 31.
After a two day illness a young girl aged two years three months and sixteen days died. She had been a Willow Creek Sunday school Cradle Roll member all her life and offered mite-box contributions. Funeral services were led by PF E Bennett and she rests in Willow Creek cemetery.
President Wilson asks Congress to enact food control laws promptly to manage this year’s crop. The move aims to stabilize supply and prices through wartime style measures.
Senate leaders expect action by week’s end on prohibition amendments after the House passage. The main fight centers on allowing manufacture of liquor while many dry senators oppose extending bans to beer and wines. Debate may also touch government control of basic materials like coal oil and steel.
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