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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1915
Page
5
A genealogical jumble lists numerous visits by Levi Armstrong Dickerson, Elliott families, Stoelting, Mathews, Liggett, Welsh, Beltz, Weaver, Cline and others. Weekend gatherings, Sunday visits, and upcoming Easter services are recorded across Winfield and nearby towns with multiple households hosting meals and engagements.
Cole and Cole of Marshall ML offer insurance on farm and city property through the strongest companies at the lowest rates. Write or call for terms.
Favorable spring weather ahead for sowing oats and early chicken incubation. Milo Combs and Shad Thomas shipped fat hogs to Indianapolis. McConoha moved to a farm vacated by Pearl Nicholson. Mary Wood of Casey visits Fred Hutchings family. Mrs. Goeckler of Marshall visits John W. Hutchings family. Catherine Gallatin Martinsville visited Fred Wood and Mrs. Sophia Montgomery. Water remains low in wells due to scant rain. Art Hutchings and family visit Etta Fitzjarrald in Parker township. Will Lowry and wife visit John Ross. Sam Schwartz sells stock and farm implements at auction and moves to Kansas. Claude Newman conducts sale. Bruce Clapp and Will Fitzgarrald seek Democratic highway commissioner nomination. no declared Republican candidate yet.
Farmers plow for corn as Miss Faiy Cline spends Friday with Bonnie Jeffers. Otis Jeffers held a sale on Wednesday while Frank Cropp visited Ed Higginbotham at Mill Creek. Several families, including the Gard and Cline households, plus Miss Adah Gard and Milas Fairy Gard from Grand Turn, are noted as visiting relatives. Rev Buckner to conduct services next week, starting Saturday night.
West York notes show several residents moving to farms and joining new properties. Visitors include Miss Ruth Farrell of Felmouth and Grandma Donaldson of Detroit. Emily Lindley died at 75 with funeral by Rev. Bailiff, interment in West York Cemetery.
Pearl Fancier of Casey visited Tuesday while Mrs. Ellen Blankenbeker remains seriously ill. Residents including Frank Chesser and Pearl Smith traveled to Martinsville. Several neighbors hauled hay and conducted business in Casey and Martinsville. A Butternut church Missionary Society meeting occurred, and local moving and juror service were reported along with a farm sale and various visits.
Brief notices mention Mrs. George Linton’s illness and Mabel Buckle teaching the summer term at Jeff. A timber excursion reports six squirrels in one tree, with a snippet about Mrs. Lizzie Baker of Casey spending time in the area.
The report mentions people like Ben Stevens and his wife moving into a new home after a serenade by local youths. A speeding auto hit the iron bridge banister on West Midway one day that week. Will McKee visited from Kansas to inspect his farm and gather a corn load.
Farmers plow for corn and oats as March weather remains typical. Residents from Dolson, Orange, and Melrose visit the city for business and shopping while reports note good health overall and a spate of minor incidents including a house fire.
Mrs Charles Switzer spent Wednesday with Mrs John Hawker. Fred Hawker and wife of Hazel Dell spent Sunday at Will Bauer's. Ruth Gelsert will teach spring term at Oak Grove. Mrs McDaniel and daughter Beulah spent Tuesday with Mrs Jobo Spangler. John Hawker and wife visited Alfred Junker’s at Black Hawk Sunday. Mrs Frank Seidel of Baggs spent Sunday with Lena Haueisen. Herman and Nellie Saiter visited Miss Anna Welsh at Armstrong. Blanche Goodwin of Oak Grove spent Friday night with Beulah Maurer. Will Saiter and son Herman spent Wednesday with Aaron Hawker and wife of Livingston. Alma Taylor of Oak Grove and Helen Maurer of Baggs visited Maurer home Sunday. Fred Kallanza and wife of English with Fred Kuhn and wife and Miss Nellie Sullivan spent Sunday at Rudolph Kuhn’s. Mr and Mrs Harry Maurer and two children visited relatives in West Terre Haute Saturday. Mrs Maurer stayed a few days. Misses Mattie and Alice English of English, Blanche Goodwin of Oak Grove, and Beulah Maurer spent an afternoon last week with Mary Gilbert at Oak Grove.
Mrs Al Hemphill has been bick for the past two weeks. Frank Lesévre of Danville spent part of last week at Mr Alveys. Harry Minnix spent Sunday at Armstrong with his mother who is sick. Mrs Kirt Burns of McClure spent Sunday with her sister Mrs Al Hemphill. Phoebe Wright of Terre Haute visited over the weekend with home folks. Mr and Mrs Wright spent Sunday with their 500 James and wife at Oliver. Mrs Myles and granddaughter at Stringtown spent Sunday at the home of Harry Minnix. Harold English and bride of north of Paris visited last week with his parents here. Miss Elizabeth Gunder of Rabbit Ridge spent the past week with her aunt Mrs A Hemphill. Ernest Nickle was hurt Friday about the head by attempting to jump from a moving automobile. Leroy Sears and wife of Fishback and Robert English and wife spent Sunday at the home of M M Landers. Some of our farmers are plowing for corn. It is several years since we remember farmers being able to plow during March. If expectations were shaped by good judgment instead of by hope and desire the unexpected would not happen so often. Some persons talk as if they were phonographs with endless records and a self winding attachment.
A fragmented quip filled chatty items from the Youngstown Telegram and Baltimore American. The notes include a chauffeur exchange about Rankin and a joke about husbands and bachelors.
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