City Schools Close as Eighth Grades Prepare Diplomas
Forty four eighth graders will graduate Friday with diplomas at 7 30 PM in the Methodist church. The program includes an organ prelude, class song, history, address titled In Heather Time, valedictory, and diplomas presented by Supt. F G Edwards and President Lloyd Pulver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Hurst
C. A. Curtis
George Taubeneck
John Black
C. E. Pettit
Heather Time
Eleanor Snately
Virginia Prevo
F. G. Edwards
Lloyd Pulver
Burl Candler
Lst
South School
Booth Poorman
Harry Sockler
Sarrah Lowry
Virgil ‘Claypool
Pearl] Baker
Eugene Malloy
Druccilla Deaner
Gladys Phillippi
Hershel McCarty
Bessie Drake
Fred Pennington
Garnet Elston
Lucile Thompson
Mary Casteel
Carrie Henderich
Elsie Walls
Another Citizen Gone In Marshall
Orlando LeGore an 84 year old Marshall resident died at his home Sunday around 2 PM after a yearlong illness. He leaves a daughter Marjorie at home and a son Dan of Indianapolis. his wife had predeceased him. Funeral services were held at 3 PM yesterday at his residence with Rev Clarke Thomas presiding. Interment followed in the city cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlando LeGore
Marshall
Marjorie
Dan
Indianapolis
Clarke Thomas
Marshall Board of Health Typhoid Orders Sealed
The Marshall board of health with Illinois public health backing issues typhoid prevention orders. All homes on or near sewers must connect immediately and abandon old privies. Privies must be sanitary and fly proof to avoid pollution of ground and surface water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Board of Health
Illinois State Department of Public Health
Marshall
City urged to ensure safe water and sewer access for all
Citizens demand immediate completion of water supply at pumping station and universal boil water advisories until safe drinking water is guaranteed. They call for city grants to fund sewer laterals and connections and insist on universal, safe city water and sewer access to prevent typhoid and other infections. Each resident should act as a committee of one to push compliance.
Dennison Social Notes Include Visits to Vermilion Friends
Day Swinford moved to Dennison on Monday. Elwood Rollings of Terre Haute spent Sunday with family. Mrs. Mary Rollings and Juliana Hard of Casey visited Mrs. Rollings’ daughter Mrs. Ralph Fair at Vermilion. Mr and Mrs Ed Weaver and daughter Myra visited Mr and Mrs Joe Augustus at Vermilion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swinford
Dennison
Elwood Rollings
Terre
Haute
Mary Rollings
Juliana Hard
Casey
Rollings
Ralph *Fairgrief
Vermilion
Ed Weaver
Myra
Joe Augustus
Avon and Freedom families share Sunday visits
Christina Zeigler and son William of Avon visited with the Ledermann, Walker, and Thompson families. Ruth Walker and David Walker joined Jesse Walker at Freedom. Elsie Strohm of Avon visited Hattie Blizzard’s family. John Garner stayed with his father at Allright. Alma Johnson of Paris visited her Burger relatives for a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christina Zeigler
William
Avon
John Ledermann
Ruth Walker
David Walker
David Thompson
Jesse Walker
Freedom
George Strohm
Elsie
Hattie Blizzard
John Garner
Allright
Alma Johnson
Paris
Edward Burger
Memorial Day Mention Of Robinson Pastor Rev Jane W Welsh
Memorial Day note references Rev Jane W Welsh pastor of the Christian church at Robinson. The fragment records a tribute or observance connected to her church community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane W. Welsh
The
Christian Church At
Robinson
War veteran to lead principal services and cemetery tribute
A wounded World War veteran will be the principal speaker for the day. The program includes a forenoon service at the Catholic church and an afternoon ceremony at the city cemetery. A complete program will be published next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lidre
Woman Pleads Guilty to Child Abandonment Charge
Mrs Grace Huey, brought from Indianapolis on a child abandonment charge, pleaded guilty in county court before Judge Edward Pearce. She was fined three dollars per week for one year to M W Coyle, who has the children, and released to return to Indianapolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Huey
Indianapolis
Edward Pearce
M. W. Coyle
Two Boys in Collision Near State Line
Lester Higgins and Harold Crowther both 18 were struck by a fast oncoming car while turning off the National road near the state line. The horse died, buggy damaged, and the youths suffered only minor injuries as the car was repaired in town and the occupants left for East St Louis after agreeing to cover damages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lester Higgins
Harold Crowther
Lester
Lucinda Higgins
Wabash Valley
East St. Louis
Quotations on Habits and Ambition in Common Sayings
The piece reflects on social attitudes in familiar phrases about dogs, royalty, heroes, money, and laziness. It notes how laughter follows folly after a man declines, and remarks that easier habits could lift unemployment, while poker and romance color public views.
Sherlock Holmes in Bucking 19th Precinct Justice
Detective Brennan uses a lamp rim, glass fragments, and a paint smudge to trace a fatal hit and run on Sixty-ninth Street. The clues narrow to a gray 1908 Packard and its owner who confesses, yielding manslaughter conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E
Brennan
New York
Sixty-ninth Street
Park Avenue
John
McHugh
Ham Lamp Company
Rochester
Sherlock Holmes
Packard
Willin
Billy and Betty Run From Wedding To Find Love
In a 1922 tale Billy Shadower seeks to wed his late aunt’s fortune, only to discover Aunt Bolliver’s bequest hinges on marriage by his twenty eighth birthday. Betty Blair runs from her wedding to James Weldon, confesses love for Billy, and they plan to claim the aunt’s estate together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy
Tate
Agbul
Sutterndon
Ingardéen
Drew
Billie
Bill
Betty
Fulier Blair
James Weldon
Weldon
Betty Fuller Blair
Berry Island
Shadower
Torr
Blair
Judge Weldon
Aunt Bolliver
Betty Blair
Bolliver
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Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Methodist Church
Arm
Marshall Auxiliary
Minnie E. Wilson
Shelbyville
China
Marshall Church
Harmony
Board OF Health Acts
Allen’s Sanitarium
Illinois
Allen
John F.cane ‘Dry
Dante
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