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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1916
Page
4
The article compares baking powders made from alum or phosphate with Royal Baking Powder. It notes alum powders are cheaper but vary in leavening power, risking failed cakes and wasted materials. Royal Baking Powder, made from cream of tartar from grapes, yields finer food and actual savings.
Corn sold at the Applegate sale for eight cents per bushel. Meadows and pasture improved, some fields wet yet as plowing began. Nellie Soughers in Terre Haute taking instrumental music lessons. Tom Fitch hired for Green Moss school at seventy dollars monthly. Walter Davis opens a garage and repair shop near Hornbrook. Executives sale of Stephen Applegate property well attended, Claud Newman auctioneer. Roscoe Wright and wife from Paris visiting relatives here. Wright manages Paris Bell telephone. Several travel and illness notes follow. protracted meeting at M E church concluded with good attendance.
Cole & Cole of Marshall Illinois advertise insurance on farm and city property with strong companies and low rates. The item promotes available terms and urges readers to write or call for quotes.
West Yori residents report a brief weekend few visits as Teayy Bolliday visited sister RuRO Arden last week. M2 Roveré Atthey of sinnapolis attended five services here Sunday. Yee Prink Buecker and children from Marshall were here Saturday.
O F Sandy and Herbert Poulter left for Augusta Kansas to work in oil fields. Miss Harriet N Tobey wed Frederick Gallaher in Springfield on April 22. R W Hall was summoned for a May 1 Federal court petit jury in East St Louis. Mrs Lydia Bennett traveled to Charleston for an appendix operation. Edith Lowry returns to Lake Geneva Wisconsin to teach again this year at an advanced salary. Cut out and mail for a Foley medical sample offer.
Casey reports George Hillard family moved to Mattoon for the summer. Mrs. Mel Payne and son Glen sold a 160 acre farm near Central Avenue. Jack Swift shows left for summer tours around the state. A drilling machine arrived for coal prospecting on Chancellor farm. Harrison residence on west Main torn down. J. B. Philips plans a modern home. Cory Ingle visits Joseph Ingle in town. Vandalia transfer moves WV operator to Terre Haute east yards. Local fundraiser for National Road to Vevay Park raises about 3000 dollars. another 1000 needed. Ruth Gard of West Onton visited Marshall. Mrs. Frank Greenough hosts Wednesday bridge. Lena Hauelsen and daughter buy a Doll & Son piano from C. M. Sullins. Mrs. Minter Thomas of Orlando to visit John Randall family. Amelia Partington returns to Creal Spring after visit with I. Li Gifford.
Mrs. John Coates reports on the Mission Study Club's look at missionary work in northern Mexico. Despite ongoing revolution in Chihuahua and Sonora, missionaries stayed at posts, schools operated, and church life continued while planning new sites for boys and girls schools and a local training college. The report notes rising enrollment, funding pressures, and a resilient church under civil war conditions.
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