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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1922
Page
4
Martinsville residents report travels and visitors from Kansas Arizona Ohio and Indiana. Families join relatives across towns including Abbey Tarble Wiser Newner McNary Ishler Craemer Stodddard and Husted with Mothers Day plans noted for next Sunday.
West Union residents hosted and visited over the weekend with numerous gatherings. Notable events include Mr. and Mrs Floyd Leggitt hosting Heleine, Mr. and Mrs Giles Bartlett visiting, and Beulah Prust returning from New York City to care for her ill mother. The town’s ball team lost 8 to 2 to Silberman’s Terre Haute squad.
Miss Bertha Graham departs Westfield Thursday to visit relatives and friends in Chicago. A son is reported born to Mr and Mrs.
Willard Moore Friday. Rev and Mrs E V Young daughters of Shelbyville visited Mr and Mrs Joseph Hall Monday. A 20 acre tract near town sold at Westfield post office to Claude Goble for 2000 dollars. WCTU held food sale at city hall for Near East Relief. Robert Endsley of Indianapolis visited family here. Methodist class seven hosted reception for Ralph Ewing and Wendell Simmers recently married. W E Edwards and Son sold restaurant for 180 acres in Hutton township to Wes Mundy, Mundy placing Bob Hurst in charge. H A Briscoe held public sale of household furniture. Ashmore beat Westfield 4 to 2 in baseball Sunday. Concrete road work begun south of town linking the road built two years ago.
Alva Orcutt and wife of West York were guests of Albert Bonesteel and family Sunday. Urban Dixon and family of Dugger Ind are visiting Alice Newman and family. Mrs Clora Barker left for Marshall where she has employment at the Marshall House. Thomas Daugherty and Elsie Bridge water of Terre Haute were married last Tuesday at Robinson. Haline Murphy of Hutsonville spent the week end with Mary Murphy. Reno Baker and wife of Narrows spent Sunday with James Baver and family. Mrs Minnie Hollensworth of Georgetown will preach here next Sunday at 2 00 PM.
Mrs. Herbert Goss dies after brief illness and burial at Mt Olive church. Woodrow Bruner and Burton Leroy Melton burials follow, with services led by Elder J. F. Pease and Rev. T. C. Bailiff. Ray Hand named postmaster to replace George Winters in local changes.
H A Hagar from New York City visited James Lindley and his family along with others on Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs Ocie Shaw spent Sunday at Hutsonville with her mother.
Wabash township schedules a Sunday school convention at Zion church with John Hawker acting as temporary president after the death of township president Grant Crumlin. The meeting aims for broad school representation and will include officer elections with J L May County President and J W Adams Vice President present.
Miss Gertrude Cole plans to return at month end from Washington, traveling home with Miss Alice Purdima. Several local social visits are noted, including gatherings at Casey, Martinsville, Sullivan, and Effingham with families such as the Booths, Shaw, Maxwell, Towell, Matkin, and Richart. Mrs. J. W. Elliott visits Indianapolis.
In Wayside Tales Jones laughs at Blinkville's smallpox quarantine while revealing he has bought a new car and inherited $10,000. His relatives all live in Blinkville, a detail he clips into a punchline. The humor hinges on irony between disaster and fortune.
In a Los Angeles Times anecdote a mother warns Tommy that excessive mince pie ends badly while he denies limits. She retells a legend of a boy who burst from eating too much, prompting a playful counter by Tommy who argues there is no such thing as too much pie.
A superintendent invites a visitor to Sunday school filled with children and delivers a verbose talk. He defines epitome as synopsis and uses Harper's Magazine as a reference while warning on political candidacy and tax season themes.
Mrs. Gadder questions the new neighbors as Mrs. Herdse reveals only vague details. They arrived in one load with six boys, two dogs, and a brass-less bedstead among older furniture. The man is about twenty years older than the woman, and a dispute occurred with the van driver during settlement.
In 1903 New York police solve a murder tied to counterfeiting when secret service chief William Flynn spots an Italian suspect in a grocery store. The victim is identified by a photo and physiognomy, leading to the arrest of Ignazio Lupo and a linked gang member, Benedetto.
Naima reports on the devil fish noting its range from an inch to 60 feet, with sucker armed arms and a sharp parrotlike beak. Despite fearsome weapons it is timid. it can change color, emit ink to cloud the water, and crawl the seabed to ambush prey.
John Burroughs explains his social stance in an excerpt from Harpers Magazine. He describes himself as solitary, preferring farmers and country people to urban professionals, and notes a sense of being out of place in mixed crowds. He muses on a thin shell and the difficulty of fitting in with “birds of a feather.”
A description explains a high altitude air collection device. A vacuum tube ends in a finely drawn tip and uses barometer rise or meteograph clockwork to trigger a hammer that breaks the tube end. Air floods in, another contact heats a platinum wire to red heat, fusing glass and sealing the tube to trap the air.
The Milwaukee Sentinel describes how the word eavesdropper originated from Saxon land rules that restricted building near boundaries. A person who listened from the eavesdrip was called an eavesdripper or eavesdropper, tied to early property law.
The sea is salty because rivers carry dissolved rock salt to the ocean, where evaporation leaves the salt behind. Over years this accumulation makes seas and some lakes, such as the Dead Sea in Palestine, very salty due to no outflow.
A brief note explains how penknives got their name. Ancient writers used sharpened goose quills and carried small knives for upkeep. The term penknife thus arose from daily writing needs and tool use.
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