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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1916
Page
4
A busy Martinsville weekend features pleasant weather for pleasure driving, street cleanup, and local business activity. residents report rough dirt roads, upcoming decoration day, a new church Sunday school, and various visits, with ringling's circus stop and Mothers Day plans noted amid crops and health updates.
Tornado and fire insurance offered by Cole and Cole in Marshall Minnesota. Coverage includes farm and city property with strong companies at the lowest rates. Write or call for terms.
Leoide Doolittle and Cecil Colvin have measles. Dolly and Flo Bowen also ill. Ray Hill of Annapolis visited Friday. Homer kept his Mt Olive appointment Sunday. Roy Dugan works for John Geffs. RuUcy Busby in vicinity Saturday buying cattle. Cag Read seen in area Monday buying cattle.
Wm. Fox loses fine work horse Charley Wieland. a cow sold for $80. Lucan Bros. cutting at Claypool log yard. Allen Claypool traveled to Terre Haute on business. J F Hornbrook and Ed Findley own new automobiles. Alonzo Allred and family visited Allen Claypool Sunday. Veach sale attended by locals. Fred Covert did plastering for Oda Marrs. Emily Meloy and son Emmett visited relatives at West Terre Haute. Emil Fox sustained a mule kick above the eye needing stitches. Mrs. Silas Murphy returned from Paris hospital and walks at home. Clarksville Baptist Sunday school progress. 182 attended Sunday May 7. All invited to come and bring someone. Mrs. Mary C Hensel of Terre Haute and Mrs. Margaret Brege of Wetesh and Mrs. Elizabeth Arnett of Seattle were heard last week.
P E Whitson purchases the Dr J J Hinkley residence. Mrs Lydia Bennett undergoes appendicitis surgery in Charleston. Mr and Mrs Charles Timmons visit from Grand Plain Michigan. Eugene Wilmot returns from Annapolis Naval Academy. Mrs M M Hoover travels from New York City to stay with her father James Dawson. A H Garver hosts a soldiers’ supper at the Garver home. The Board of Local Improvements advances plans for a Westfield sewer system. The Lower Wabash Branch Woman's Missionary Association meets at Westfield U B Church May 31 to June 2 with 100 to 200 delegates expected.
Mrs Frank Monts of Douglas hosted Rob ert Gillepie and wife Monday and Tuesday. Mrs Bisbee of Chicago visited brother Sam Husband. Chas Sturdevant of St. Louis visited his mother and brothers. Rev W A Fuson and family moved to Pana. Pure Oil Co. drilled a dry Rimer man farm well west of town. Mrs Nan Quinn and daughter Josephine depart for Indianapolis. R H Gordon, longtime former resident, dies in Fort Scott Kansas.
Friday night Ruby Volkers spent time with Opal Scholfield. Sunday visits included LaVern Finkbiner with Ruth Volkers and Elba Swinford with parents here. In Terre Haute J. A. Page and daughter Mabel studied Monday. Families of Nickles and Volkers gathered with relatives, and James Liggett visited his wife and baby. Farrington Aletha Martin visited Harold Hall. Grace Yeley and Campbell from Asbury visited James Lurber. Warren Sanford and West Terre Haute relatives spent Sunday with John Kuykendall’s family. Charley Weaver Ora Kirby and families from West Terre Haute visited their mother here. Jennie Kuykendall and son Harlan spent Monday in Terre Haute. Leo Fasig of Martinsville visited Ed Weaver’s sister.
In Hatton community reports indicate minimal corn planting this season with farmers delaying due to unreliable conditions. Local agronomists note area variability and ongoing weather concerns affecting field work.
Misses Agnes and Remonia Batley shopped in Marshall Saturday. Several from here attended Ringling Brothers circus in Terre Haute Monday. Mrs. Alice Ogle and her daughter Gladys spent Sunday with Mrs. Abe Good. There will be preaching at Hatton Saturday and Sunday night. An outbuilding belonging to Charle Ogle burned by lightning Sunday morning with nothing saved. John Downey and family of Bellair, Dave Downey and wife of Kirksville, and O. P. Tharp and family visited Sunday afternoon with Joe Tharp and wife. Scott Flenner has a new automobile. Oats are beginning to show up well. Ernie Ross had a horse badly cut by barb wire Saturday. A good rain Saturday night benefited small grain and grass. The personal property of the late Ben Veach was sold at public auction last Thursday. Mushrooms are few and far between for mushroom hunters. Dave Montgomery and John W. Hutchings will use commercial fertilizer on part of their corn crop. John Worst Sr. was first to use a corn planter this season. he planted last Thursday. Hunters did not get all the plastic chickens last fall because of the noise they make this morning. Allen Claypool, in poor health, went to Terre Haute Monday for medical advice. Mrs. Cora Murphy, who underwent a serious operation at the hospital in Paris, was able to return home Saturday. Lineal descendant of the man who sawed off the limb of the tree on which he was slung is the man who smokes on his own town.
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