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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1921
Page
5
A fragment from the Yonkers Statesman shows a light headed exchange with Penny ante slang. The piece includes remnants of a domestic scene where a woman calls Freddie dear and asks about her head on his shoulder.
Readable social brief listing visitors and gatherings around town. People like Mrs. I R. Smithy and Miss Pearl Lee travel to relatives. Emanuel Claypool returns from Chicago. families host reunions and dinners. school clubs hold picnics. local clergy and veterans group speakers scheduled.
We thank friends, singers, and the minister who assisted at the death of our beloved husband and father Benjamin F. P. Bruner. Signed by Mrs. B. F. Bruner and Chas. A. Bruner.
The children brother and sister of Mrs Erdline Thompson thank kind friends and neighbors for the beautiful flowers and for their kindness and help at the funeral.
Expressions of gratitude for kindness during illness and death of a husband and father. Mrs. Franz Plaster and three children thank friends and acknowledge support though cannot thank each person individually.
Executor Elmer Nay announces an estate proceeding in Clark County Illinois. The July term of the Clark County Court at Marshall will hear claims and obligate debtors to settle with the estate. Probate notices request all creditors and interested parties attend for settlement and payment.
Notice to contractors invites bids by 2 00 PM May 14 1921 at the County Superintendent's office in Marshall Illinois for Stockwell Bridge and Harrington Bridge projects in Wabash Township. Plans viewed at the office. bids may be rejected. Wilber Moore and J M Turner oversee highway work.
The Pilgrims were Separatists who left England and formed an Independent congregation at Leyden before sailing to New England. They landed at Plymouth on December 20, 1620, after binding themselves to a Mayflower covenant to establish a civil state with a religious basis and to create a church without a bishop and a state without a king. A later item notes the first annual Illinois Judging Contest at the University of Illinois stock pavilion on May 13-14, organized by Hoof and Horn with a faculty advisory committee, featuring beef cattle, horses, hogs, and sheep judging and prizes from breed associations and the agriculture college.
Benjamin Franklin Bruner, born 1848 in Vermilion County Indiana, moved to Putnam County as a child and later to Marshall Indiana where he died April 27 1921. He served two years in the Civil War with the 123rd Indiana Regiment and valued his Grand Army of the Republic membership. He married Priscilla Tincher in 1867 and had seven children, all but one son Charles Bruner of Marshall predeceased him. He spent most of life in timber business, retired to a Putnam County farm near Greencastle, and survived by wife, one son and nine grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted Thursday by Rev C E Pettit and the GA R.
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