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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1917
Page
4
Sunday visits and farming chores populate the record from West Union and nearby towns. Residents like Homer Den Romine Frank Snyder and Charley Johnson engage in oats corn and soil work while others travel to Terre Haute Marshall and Walnut Prairie for shopping church and social events.
Will Hurst lost a work horse last week during heavy wind and rain. Clarence Hughes worked on his farm near the East Liberty school house. Prairie chicken noise noted as hunters did not wipe them out last fall. Oats sowing, delayed two weeks by rain, to resume this week. Mrs. Charity Ross near Filson with daughter Mrs. Lucy Lowry sick with measles. Albert Hammond moved to Martinsville and his newly married son will occupy the farm here. McKinley Turner at State Normal School in Charleston visits home, ill with measles. Ralph Davis also ill with measles after returning home.
Fred English is building a garage. Ova Stanfield lost a valuable horse Monday. Frank Hedges of Allright was here last week. Elmer Snavely has ordered a new automobile. Tennis Shaffner has moved to a farm near Alright.
Otto Ezra Ray Cornwell J R Trump and Roy Medsker joined in Martinsville Thursday for Boom er Day activities. Eschel Beckwith and Flora Newlin wed Saturday evening by Rex Chester His. A Freeman moved his blacksmith shop to Ball's bar after a fire and plans a flour and feed store soon.
Orange John Hull and Jack Tharp visitants and Rev. Bert Rogers recoveries mark a week of local commerce and social calls. The annual spring election looms with five offices to fill while two new office rooms will host the telephone exchange and Martinsville Planet. Comrades Blankenbeker and Moonshine residents remembered, and Boomer Days draw big crowds despite a serious accident to Vol Swallum during stock displays.
Details show Ray Snyder connected to a train car crossing a new bridge near Wichita Falls Texas around 10 p m. He failed to realize the train was on a bridge, stepped off as it moved slowly and fell forty feet into the river. Democrats nominated W L Briscoe for supervisor and W F Strader for highway commissioner. Wade of Chicago visits Prof J M McKinney. C B Drake shipped a car of hogs to Indianapolis selling for 15 30 per hundred pounds. Daniel Stoker returns from Kansas to take a job with a major oil company. A horse is not good until well broken. Dubai differs with automobiles.
West End Grocery lists coal groceries flour and meal. The fragment includes numbers and unclear pricing or codes, with scattered digits such as 7 20 10 223 23 4 2 and 97 2. The readable items are coal groceries flour and meal, typical of a local shop catalog.
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