Clark County Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes
The Clark County Board of Supervisors met at the courthouse in Mar board New. Members listed include Tesse Montgomery, Ray Guyer, and chairmen for committees such as Farm Improvement Insurance Minutes Budget and Finance Claims Rules Civil Defense with names like Harold Turner Dale Veach Fred Schaefer and Glen Applegate.
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Clark County “Board of Supervisors
Court House
Marboard New
Tesse
Montgomery
Ray Guyer
Harold Turner
Richard Cline
Victor Redman
Dale Veach
Fred Schaefer
Hugh Smith
Glen Applegate
Casimer Trefz
William Kile
Lawrence Goekler
C. W. Montgomery
Glenn Tarensteins
Glatt “Applegate
Victor —Brock Chattenan
van Fleet
Dr H E King Attends Fort Worth Chiropractic Seminar
Dr H E King of Marshall has returned from the Parker Chiropractic research seminar in Fort Worth Texas a 30 hour post graduate conclave on drugless natural methods to treat disease Demonstrations and lectures were led by Dr James W Parker a Fort Worth traveler who ran 18 clinics in Texas and studied methods across the U S Canada and Europe
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H. E. King
Marshall
Fort Worth
Texas
James W. Parker
United States
Canada
Europe
Shawver Property Sold in Marshall Auction
The Dallas Shawver home at 412 N.1 Seventh Street Marshall was sold last Saturday afternoon. Dick Devideon was the successful bidder. It was understood that Mr. Davidson bought the property for his son James. The price paid was reported as 9300 dollars.
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Dallas Shawver
N.1
Seventh Street
Marshall
Dick Devideon
Davidson
James
Finneys Return Home After Florida Vacation
Mr. and Mrs. J. Earl Finney returned Friday evening from a three week vacation in Florida. They visited friends including Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Curry in St Petersburg Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. Hill and Mr. and Mrs. Jean Fawley in Bradenton Mr. and Mrs. Lem H. Atkins in Fort Myers Dr. and Mrs. E. O. Nay in Sarasota and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hurst in Hollywood.
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J. Earl Finney
Florida
B. J. Curry
St. Petersburg
Paul R. Hill
Jean Fawley
Bradenton
Lem H. Atkins
Ft. Meyers
E. O. Nay
Sarasota
Lawrence Hurst
Hollywood
Clark County Selective Service Office Hours in Martinsville
The Martinsville office operates on Central Daylight Time with weekday hours from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon CDT. Wes Gallatian is a patient at J Anthony Hospital in Terre Haute.
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Clark County
Selective Service
Martinsville
Wes Gallatian
J. Anthony Hospital
Terre Haute
Educator Delores Maurer Hired in Marshall Junior High
Delores Kirchner Maurer, a Marshall High School graduate from the class of 1955, has been employed by the Board of Education to teach social studies and language arts at the Marshall Community Unit School Junior High School. She will graduate from Eastern Illinois University this spring.
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Delores Kirchner Maurer
Eastern Sinois University
Delores
Board of Education
Marshall Community Unit School
Marshall High School
Real Estate Transfers Notice of Deeds and Lots
A series of warranty and master's deeds record transfers from Harold and Maud Pine to Cliff and Leone Pine in section 33 township 11 range 10 and other filings. Transfers include multiple parcels in Martinsville Casey Marshall and Dulaney additions with prices around 1 to 4100 dollars and dates in 1958 1959 and 1969.
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Harold and
Maud Pine
Cliff
Leone Pine
Alma Ellington
Layle
Reba Cunningham
Martinsville
Nellie Danbury
L. H
Nora Johnston
Dulaney
Casey
Harry A
Audrey Glynn
Frank
Catherine Hardway
Edwin
Mary Ann Zackary
Mary Cole
F. B. Cole
E. P. Daly
Jon
Cole & Cole
Edith Wagner
Stanfield Homes
Woodford Dulaney
Marshall
Patricia Jean
Gaddis Barr
C. H. Goble
Ralph H
Florence O. Swearingen
F. R
Sarah J. Marshall
Florence O. Swearengin
Malcolm K
Helen K. Badger
Omer Shawler
Patchett Land
Delbert
William C
Kathleen Sue Anderson
Wayne
Flossie Clatfelter
Campaign Planned for Wabash Valley Membership Drive
A Monday meeting at the Clark County Courthouse organized by the Wabash Valley Association aims to boost membership for flood prevention efforts. Speakers Wm. Prather and Earl Allen outlined the group and need for support as regional water conservation funds return little to the community. The drive targets wider local backing in May with participants from five townships across Indiana and Illinois.
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Clark County
Wabash Valley Association
Wm. Prather
Earl Allen
West Union Area
Indiana
Illinois
Lincoln Trail State Park Opens With Concession Plans
Today May 1 Lincoln Trail State Park near Marshall opens for the season. Ray Buechler and Famer Haingti return as concession managers. Improvements are underway including a new concession stand north of the boat dock. Read page three for more thoughts on the park.
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Lincoln’ “Rail State Park
Marshall
Ray Buechler
Haingti
The
Herald
Lancoln Trail State Park
Former Marshall Man Retires After 45 Years with Company
Former Marshall man Smith retires today after a 45 year career with Ohio Oil. Born in Terre Haute, he began as an office boy in Marshall in 1914, worked across Wyoming and Utah, led San Joaquin Valley production, and rose to general superintendent of production before retirement. Chen F Bish elected vice president and manager to succeed Smith.
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Los Angeles
Walker announces engagement of Anna Walker to Albert Kile
Mrs Loretta Walker of Paris Illinois announces the engagement of her daughter Anna Cathern Walker to Albert Jr Kile son of Mrs Gertie Kile of Marshall Illinois No wedding date has been set
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Loretta Walker
W. Arthur Street
Paris
Ilinois
Anna Cathern Walker
Albert Jr. Kile
Gertie Kile
Beech Street
Marshall
Two Students to Receive College Scholarships
Ruth N Volkers daughter of Walter W Volkers and George W Haughton son of Frederick B Haughton are among 60 Ohio Oil Company employees' children to receive scholarships for 1959 60. Volkers returns to Eastern Illinois University as a senior in English and has won the scholarship four years running. Haughton will be a freshman at Rose Polytechnic Institute in Terre Haute Ind studying chemical engineering. Rose Polytechnic will get a $500 direct grant from the Ohio Oil Company Foundation. Fred Adams sustained a severe cut to his left arm while removing a storm window last Monday requiring twenty four stitches.
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Ruth N. Volkers
Walter W. Volkers
George W. Haughton
Frederick B. Haughton
E&. Ash
Ohio Oil Company
Ohio Oil Company Foundation, Inc
Miss Volkers
Easternllinois University
Charleston
Ohio Oil
Independent Student Association
Haughton
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Terre Haute
Ind
Marshall High School
Ohio Oil Company Foundation
Two High Awards For John Strohm West Union Journalist
John Strohm son of Mrs Nelle Strohm of West Union has received two major awards for his reporting from Red China He earned the Overseas Press Club Award for best reporting from abroad at a Waldorf Astoria ceremony and Sigma Delta Chi top award for distinguished foreign correspondence His Look magazine article on Red China and pieces in Reader's Digest and Farm Journal accompany the recognition.
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John Strohm
Nelle Strohm
West Union
Red China
Overseas Press Club
Waldorf-Astoria
Sigma Delta Chi
U. S
Red
China
Lhe
Quemoy
John
Look Magazine
Reader’s Digest
Farm Journal
Deaths of several residents in Marshall area announced
Obituaries report the deaths of Maggie Redmon James Frederick Reece and Mary E Kendall in Marshall Indiana area. Surviving relatives include children stepchildren grandchildren and brothers. Services were held or announced at Marrs Funeral Home Prust Hooch Funeral Chapel and Moore Funeral Home with burial in Ferris Ohio Livingston cemeteries and conducted by Rev J Kemp and Loyal Order of the Moose American Legion Post No 90.
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Ware A
J. Kemp
Ferris Cemetery
The
Loyal Order of the Moose
American Legion
Marshall
James Frederick Reece
West Union
West Terre Haute
Indiana
Rose
Jof
Golda Hammond
Mia
Fannie Thompson
Aleene Kerr
May Crane
Santa Barbara
California
Charles Johnson
Prust
Mary E. Kendall
Wabash Township
Sherman Liffick
North Fifteenth Street
Terre Haute
Walter H. Hutchison
Moore Funeral
H. J. Kemp
Livingston Cemetery
Purchased Home in Marshall by Mr and Mrs Walter Craig
Marshall residents Mr and Mrs Walter Craig recently purchased the H C Bohn home on Archer Avenue north side, four blocks east of the courthouse. Charles E McMorris of Marshall is a patient at Union Hospital and will celebrate his 83rd birthday next Sunday in room 506.
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Walter Craig
Marshall
H. C. Bohn
Archer Avenue
Court House
Charles E. McMorris of
Union Hospital
Celebrated 59th Wedding Anniversary at West York Home
Mr and Mrs Gu Bonesteel of West York marked their 59th wedding anniversary with a Sunday April 19 gathering at their residence. Dinner guests included Marl Bonesteel and Chicago relatives Jane Pinkston Tressie Correll Vesta Wilkinson Terre Haute relatives Ruby St John Vance Bonesteel Carl Pinkston Virgil Bonesteel Albert Bonesteel Marvin Dale Bonesteel Robinson relatives Jean Murphy Marshall area guests. Afternoon callers extended the list with Bonnie Clements Herman Morin Shelburn Indiana Dorothy Bone steel West Union Lucille Nash Jesse Spraker Marie Ryerson Ella Ryerson Nora Barkalow Fred Stanfield Elsa Miller.
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Gu Bonesteel
West York
Marl Bonesteel
Chicago
Jane Pinkston
Tressie Correll
Vesta Wilkinson
Terre Haute
Ruby St. John
Vance Bonesteel
Carl Pinkston
West Union
Virgil Bonesteel
Albert Bonesteel
Marvin Dale
Fifty Years Ago 1909 Marriage Licenses List
civil service exam notices for post office clerks and mail carriers to be held next Saturday. Licenses show Ira Bacon and Josephine Whitson both of Paris Illinois. John Shields and Ellen Sanders of Auburn and Marshall. William Cosby and Mary Frank of Dennison. Local births reported. gas flow struck at John Mitchell farm well in York township at depth 700 to 800 feet.
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Ira Bacon
Paris
Illinois
Josephine Whitson
John Shields
Auburn
Ellen Sanders
Marshall
William Cosby
Dennison
Mary Frank
Herman Fawley
Wabash Township
L. A. Gilbert
Anderson Township
The
Herald
John ‘Mitchell
York Township
Forty Years Ago 1919 Marriages and Notices From Terre Haute
Benjamin F Setzer and Mondella M Norton wed in Terre Haute on April 6. Marriage licenses issued to Raymond Bays and Tila Gemmaka, Staley and Hazel Nideigh, William Sandiford and Easter Galey, and Marshall’s Wright with Ona Maurer. Judge Connelly cherishes a German iron cross from World War I. Miss Virginia Shaw and friends depart Paris for Culver to attend a military academy dance.
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Benjamin F Setzer
Wabash Township
Mondella M. Norton
Marshall
Terre Haute
Raymond Bays
Tila Gemmaka
Hilton
Staley
Hazel Nideigh
Johnson Township
William Sandiford
Easter Galey
Hurley Ll. Wright
Ona Maurer
Anderson Township
Connelly
Argonne Forest
Millard Lake
Virginia Shaw
Paris
Culver
Indiana
Military Academy
Marriage Announced for Grace Hunt and Louis Ferris
Grace Evelyn Hunt and Louis A Ferris, both of Marshall, plan marriage after a 21 and 25 year old couple from Marshall. The announcements note April 20 as the wedding date and list the families Mr and Mrs Ira B Hunt and Mr and Mrs Harry Ferris as parents. Also mentioned are vows for Alice Malloy and John Heminghouse in Teutopolis and other local marriage licenses, with Glenn Clapp ending a seven month school term at Green Moss.
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Ira B. Hunt
Marshall
Grace Evelyn Hunt
Louis A Ferris
Harry Ferris
Alice Malloy
John Heminghouse
Teutopolis
Dolson
Glenn Clapp
Green Moss
Evelyn Hunt
Lloyd Baker
Auburn Township
Violet Johnson
Oil well on Miller farm abandons dry hole in Marshall area
In 1939 the Miller farm well near Marshall reached 26 feet and was abandoned as a dry hole. James A. Medley, 80, died instantly after being struck by an eastbound Pennsylvania train at Dennison. Louise Genevieve McCauley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mc Cauley of Marshall, married on Sunday afternoon April 23.
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Jacob Miller
Marshall
James A. Medley
Pennsylvania Railroad
Dennison
Louise Genevieve McCauley
John McCauley
Births Roundup in Terre Haute and Abilene
Mr and Mrs Philbert Elledge of Terre Haute welcome Kimberly Kaye a nine pound thirteen ounce girl born Wednesday at Union Hospital. S/Sgt and Mrs Paul Wallace of Abilene Texas announce their fourth child a seven pound one ounce girl Billy Joan born April 23. The Wilson family and others in Iowa California and Marshall report births of sons and daughters in recent days.
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Spop
Philbert Elledge
Terre Haute
Kimberly Kaye
Union Hospital
Elledge
Kathryn Bumpus
Paul Wallace
Abilene
Texas
Billy Joan
Mr. Wallace
Chas
Ferris
Clifford H. Reed
Liscomb
Iowa
Marshall
Marshall Adult Group Attends Purdue Cattle Feeders Day
An adult education group from Marshall visited Purdue University on April 24 for Feeder Cattle Day. They toured the feeder cattle experimental farm, reviewed feeding trials including the twin calves from 1908 and 1958, and heard about future beef cattle plans. Visitors could contact program organizers for full results.
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Marshall
Purdue
High School Ag Department
Purdue University
College Ag
Clark County
Martinsville
Larry Wells
Don Able
Harnett Wright
Richard Eubank
James Curran
Harold Moore
Howard Murphy
Raymond Reedy
Truman Spittler
Morgan Dwelling Sold in Marshall Public Auction
The Mrs. Goldie Morgan dwelling at 603 South Ninth Street Marshall was sold at a public auction last Saturday afternoon. Douglas Dewey of Marshall was the winning bidder.
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Goldie Morgan
South Ninth Street
Marshall
Douglas Dewey
Oil Well Drilled on Cush Farm in Lower Wabash Township
The Cush farm oil well in Lower Wabash township is being swabbed and prepared for pumping. William Cork, 71, died suddenly at his home just east of Marshall last Sunday.
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Wabash
William Cork
Marshall
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Ugo
Rules
Glenn Throneburg
Civil Defense
John van Fleet
Shawver Property
Marshall Hili
Delores Kirchner
Maurer
Re and
Aalin
Smith
Findlay
Anna Catherin Walker
Fred Adams
Maggie Redmon
Aden Redmon
Elizabeth Marquis
Janet McDaniel
Pearle Carpenter
Bath
Gary
Joan Sensenbrewer
Acer Oy
Wilfred Nelson
Whittier
Eeti
Dorina
Jean Rolson
Morgan Dwelling
Harmon
Eugene Schmalhausen
Robinson
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