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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1950
Page
5
A dense collage of wants and sales from a Marshall Illinois area listing includes help wanted at Nell’s Restaurant, farm and house for sale near York township, a 1947 Chevrolet and various farm equipment, rental notices, an auctioneer ad, and household items for sale or rent. Names, locations, and contact details pepper the page.
Mrs Russell Junker and Janet arrive home from Phoenix visit. En route they tour Espanola Hospital New Mexico where nurse Miss Marie Miller works. Numerous Marshall residents and area families are noted visiting relatives in Indiana Illinois Ohio and Florida with dinners, church events, and trips to Chicago and Danville.
Paris Hospital records show admissions from March 22 to 29 including Mrs. Ernest Brandenberg Casey for medical treatment Dean Harlow Marshall for medical treatment and Mrs. Minda Lee Martinsville for surgical treatment. Shell Down Martinsville medical patient returned home. Mr and Mrs Robert Edwards Marshall 307 South Michigan Avenue welcomed a baby boy Robert Curtiss born March 28 at 12 15 pm.
Multiple obituaries report the deaths of Elizabeth Connelly 89 at her daughter's home Maude Perisho and Hattie Holscher 68 in Decatur with funerals at Moore Funeral Home and Olney cemetery. Others include two month old David Beltz Paris hospital and William Twilley 82 with services at Moore Funeral Home. Survivors named include children, grandchildren, and siblings across Casey Terre Haute Decatur Paris Olney and Marshall.
The notice touts garden seeds and produce including onions, potatoes, tomatoes, and apples at low prices. It promotes tractor tire service repairs and tire trade in deals. It lists tools such as wrenches, pliers, chisels, vise grips, hammers, brushes, and a bench grinder with contact Manford Buckner at 602.
A district election notice announces a caucus for school director nominations at 1 p m on April 8 1950 and an election at Ohio School House in Clark County Illinois for one full term director polls open 1 p m close 3 p m. The board requires notices 10 days prior and public posting in three places and newspaper publication. Carroll Gard president Leroy Wells jr clerk.
Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church in Marshall led by J E Vanney and Floyd Moore schedules Sunday school at 9 30 preach at 10 30 with Holy Communion then Youth Fellowship at 6 30 and evangelistic service at 7 30 Prayer meeting is Wednesdays at 7 30 with Friday cottage prayer at 7 30 This Friday the home of Mrs Ida Kile 714 South Sixth Street hosts the gathering Public invited to attend all church services Also note ice cream and cake given to Mrs Louise Pheanis second grade on Gene Pheanis birthday party
John Bartlett of Great Lakes Ili Nois spent the weekend in Marshall visiting relatives and friends.
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