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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1959
Page
8
Marshall area clubs churches and families share a busy spell of meetings dinners birthdays and visits. Members host deacons and committees with plans for freshmen orientation and a Mother Daughter banquet while residents attend dinners pond-side gatherings and a skating party at Paris.
Miss Mary Lou Gunder daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe Gunder Jr becomes engaged to her fiancé in a family announcement highlighting the upcoming marriage plans and the couple's prospects.
Ruth Boyer opened the Friendly Neighbors Home Bureau unit on May 1 with tips on cheerful living and purposeful daily acts. Betsy Haupt led a teen entertaining guidance segment while new officers were installed and nineteen members gathered at Roxanna Wells home.
The Marshall Women's Golf League held its first meeting at the American Legion course on April 29. Of 35 attendees, 25 joined the league. Chair Dorothy Prevo led a brief business session. Golf lessons for women, free in June, begin Tuesday June 2 with sessions on Tuesdays and Fridays. private lessons with Mr Gattas available for a small fee.
Wm T and Floyza Craig are the parents of a son born April 25. Grandfather J C Craig had his first shave in 25 or 30 years to celebrate. Sam Prevo Jr moves to Lawrenceville to work as a ganger for The Ohio Oil Company. County Superintendent Drake visited Casey to plan a new schoolhouse. Flour prices rise on May 10 raising loaf cost to 5c per loaf or 6 for 25c. Isabel Tibbs hosted 20 friends for her 8th birthday. Martinsville notes a rare May 1 snow day and recalls long memory of such wintery May weather.
Frank Miller Ernest Spires and Ernest Reeley of Clarksville vicinity arrive home after months of service in France. Marriage licenses issued for Milton Shawver Parker township and Virginia McNary Casey. Lawrence Newlin of West York set a world hog shipment record on 35 hogs averaging 532 pounds netting $102 per head. Dr Stephen Bradley returns from Vladivostok Siberia expected late May. Capt Arthur Poorman spoke at Blackhawk and Dennison on Victory Loan.
A social highlight of the season was the Saturday noon wedding of Helen Hurst at her mother Mrs Seymour Hurst home to groom Coyle. The Marshall high school senior class includes Russell Abel Faye Blissard Helen Coldren Helen Craig Rex Cork Ruth Doll Freda Harmon Lois Jones Gertrude Miller Eugene Mattis Lucille Mathews Ettamae Mitchell Lorene Scott Rosemary Weir and James Stevens.
About 175 people attended the spring Chamber of Commerce dinner in the Marshall high school cafeteria. Paul Martin reported roughly 110 members, noted attendance by Robert Flowers and Neal Hollenbeck at a Decatur Industrial Planning Meeting, and said a brochure on regional living and working benefits is in progress. E. J. Kerrigan of the Voice of America spoke on Americas role in the cold war and why democracy complicates summit talks with communist nations. The Marshall High School music department provided entertainment between the dinner and program.
The Home and Garden Department thanks Mrs. Hester Newlin for a $10 prize from last spring's landscape contest. The club will buy Redbud trees to plant in town parks, with a commemorative poem by Pat Berner dedicated to Mrs. Newlin. The item closes with a note on milk comparison study from Olmoin University.
Father J P Walsh of St Marys Church dies suddenly at the Rectory. Ledford Mays known as Snowball is jailed in Terre Haute after police pickup, an old car and 37 hens found in the vehicle. Mary Jane Smiley wed Robert Mott at St Marys by Father Walsh. Bert Hogue dies at Union Hospital Terre Haute last Friday.
Harry Guinnip of Marshall area suffered a broken leg after being thrown from a harrow. Kenneth Cole, longtime Versicol Corp employee, resigns to run his father’s corner pool room.
The Triple T 4-H Club met April 28 with the president presiding. Harold McConchie spoke on Diseases of Cattle, June Norton on Civil Defense, Artie Miller on Tomorrow's Ways of Raising Hogs, and Ann Shotts with Becky Miller demonstrated snake bite care. A skating party is planned for May 13 at Twin Lakes from 8:00 to 10:00 PM.
A report states that consuming between 20 and 80 strawberries covers the entire daily vitamin C requirement. The guidance emphasizes fruit variety and portion control for healthy nutrition.
A study notes Ures can supply up to one third of the nitrogen in cattle fattening rations, offering a significant dietary contribution for feed efficiency.
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