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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1922
Page
2
Sunday services begin at 11 a m with a Wednesday evening meeting at 8 o'clock. A Sunday school for under twenty meets at 9 45. public invitation extended to attend. Ross Culter is listed as superintendent. Preaching at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m.
Congregational Clark S. Thomas pastor will lead a memorial service at 10 45 in the morning. Members of the society will attend the worship and the minister will occupy the pulpit. There will be no evening service.
Sunday school begins at 9 30. Bible preaching at Big Creek at 10 30 and Grand Turn at 7 30. Young Peoples Association at Big Creek at 7 30 led by Helen Mundorf.
Pastor Charles A Curtis of United Brethren preaches at Centenary next Sunday morning. Marshall schedules include prayer 7:30 p[m], Sunday school 9:30 a[m], Junior Endeavor 2:00 p[m], Senior Endeavor 7:00 p[m], and preaching 8:00 p[m]. Studying God's Methods with Man and subject Dispensation of Grace for the evening.
The Church of Christ led by Burl H. Candler lists Sunday school at 9 30, services at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m. A Thursday prayer meeting at 7 30, Loyal women's class Friday at Mrs. Belle Lutz, and an all day Aid Society meeting. Next Sunday the pastor will speak at 7 30 p m on Are You Fit to Live.
Methodist C E Pettit pastor leads a 9 30 Sunday school with grade classes. Morning worship at 0 45 features sermon Fools for the Sake of Christ. Epworth League at 6 30 with Gems from the Epworth Herald. Evening service at 7 30 marks Highway of Life fourth sermon. Third quarterly conference announced for church parlor with Dr Fairchild presiding. Members urged to attend sessions.
Grant Crumrin youngest son of Martin and Mary Crumrin, born August 13, 1868 in Clark County Illinois, died May 4, 1922 aged 53 years 8 months 21 days. He married Iva Sweitzer Sept 8 1897 and spent life on his birth farm. A Methodist convert and active worker, he leaves a widow, three brothers, one sister and many relatives and friends.
Kenneth Woodrow Bruner died May 2 1922 at Union Hospital Terre Haute aged 3 years 6 months 2 days. Burial followed funeral at Livingston cemetery with services conducted by Rev W Russell and Rev D T Black. He was born October 30 1918 in West York Illinois and lived in Marshall with his parents Malcolm and Opal Bruner. He leaves a brother Sewell parents two grandfathers grandmothers a great grandmother and many relatives and friends.
Effie Esther Zellars Goss born April 14 1897 Crawford county Illinois died May 6 1922 aged 25. She married Robert E Goss January 24 1918 and had daughter Louisa Eilen. Survived by husband two brothers Colder and Merle, four sisters, in laws and many relatives. Funeral May 8 at Mt Clive church with Eld J F Pease and others. burial nearby.
A collection of brief quips and maxims satirically noted on manners and morals. Wry lines comment on marriage payments vulgar temperaments and human folly with pithy humor. The snippets evoke a mid century newspaper style of light moralizing and social observation.
In Naples a British nobleman Lord Herbert Sheffield seeks a 450000 franc necklace for his daughter Sylvia. A staged hotel room theft, a wall breach, and an alibi in Rome lead detective Luigi Bonfi to a nine year pursuit ending with Sheffield imprisoned in London after the con is exposed by a diamond with a triangular flaw.
An article explains that raising a flat top radio antenna by five to ten feet can improve signals. It covers adding a variable condenser to primary or secondary, tuning coil sliders, and soldering flexible wire to sliders to avoid poor contacts. Recommendations include using spreader wires of two to four feet, with four to six feet spacing between each wire and neighbor, noting multiple wires offer no real gain.
Radio Inspector I. R. Schmidt urges amateur operators in the Ninth district to follow radio laws and observe power limits. He advises using minimum energy, keeping a 200 meter wave length, and proper signaling to avoid imposing restrictions, with copies of regulations available for 15 cents.
Aerials should be properly grounded with copper wire no smaller than gauge 4, connected to an outside ground. Internal water gas or steam pipes must not serve as the grounding path to avoid fire and loss of life. Grounding turns an aerial into a lightning rod protecting property.
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