IGA Stores Score Record Sales Gain
IGA Super Markets in central Illinois and western Indiana, served by J. M. Jones Company, posted a 20.3 percent sales increase for 1959 over 1958. Dick Jones cited lower prices and friendly service as drivers, noting the gain exceeds industry averages and marks the third straight year of outsized growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IGA
Illinois
Indiana
J. M. Jones Company
Dick Jones
Mr. Jones
Marshall Iga
Foodliner
53 Minute Marchers raise funds for cerebral palsy drive
United Cerebral Palsy of Eastern Illinois conducted a door to door drive in Marshall to raise 300 dollars. The campaign counted contributions from Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers local 7641 and Marshall Moose Lodge and Clark County Health Improvement Association. Funds support a local school and equipment while 70 percent stays in Clark Edgar and Coles counties and 30 percent supports national research.
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United Cerebral Palsy
Illinois
Marshall
Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Local 7641
Marshall Moose Lodge
Clark County Health Improvement Association
Bardin
Eastern
Clark
Edgar
Coles
Clark County
Faculty Suggestions Report on Educational Needs
The Citizens Advisory Council presents the second in a series from the faculty suggestions committee led by Mrs. Martin Tarble. It highlights overcrowding and inadequacies in facilities across three elementary schools and calls for progress to meet changing educational demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Tarble
Don Able
John Edwards
R. H. Miller
Harold Newlin
Gene Tingley
Arthur Welsh
Citizens’ Advisory Council
Clemente
Day To Remember For Wabash Unit
Agnes Welsh and Edith Mae Cooper chaired a Wabash Home Bureau educational tour in Terre Haute on May 10. The group toured Columbia Records, Eastern Express, the Neon Block program on WTHI, and visited the Federal Penitentiary, with lunch at the Goody Shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Welsh
Edith Mae Cooper
Wabash Home Bureau
Terre Haute
Columbia Records
Eastern Express
Motor Express
United States
WTHI
Goody
Helen Tingley
Jessie Welsh
Roagla Jones
Phyllis Cooper
Clara Bartram
Betty Hansel
Ruth Lawrence
Beverly Welsh
Winona Higginbotham
Ruth Sweitzer
Elizabeth Macke
Loutrell Setzer
Emily Zschau
Carol Welsh
Judia Pickens
Ella Fikuart
Mary Taylor
Joan Turner
Marie Cooper
Gertrude Elston
Farrell Savage
West Union Bank Failure Tops Week in 1940
Fifty years ago a bank in West Union failed to open its doors. The week also carried marriage licenses for Abel Bennett and Minnie Bennett in Orange township and Alva Janney with Marinda Atkins of Martinsville. Illinois fruit crops survive the freeze with reduced tree fruit output. Three Terre Haute boys aged 9, 12, and 16 ran away to Oklahoma then returned after three days. A new ditching machine was deployed on the west side sewer project aiming for a rapid completion.
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West Union
Abel Bennett
Orange Township
Minnie Bennett
Alva Janney
Marinda Atkins
Martinsville
Illinois
Terre Haute
Oklahoma
West Side
Fortieth Year Note on Gypsy Leaders and Local News
Forty years ago Mattie Cooper head of the Cooper clan of gypsies was brought from St. Louis for burial Monday. He was the father of the gypsy queen who was buried here a few years ago. Gladys Allison left Monday for Chicago. Miss Allison has been music teacher in the grade schools the past year. Golda Thompson has joined the census bureau in Washington and left Friday. Mary Brown hosted a miscellaneous shower Friday for Faith Pritchard who will marry George Somerville of Paris.
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Mattie Cooper
St. Louis
Gladys Allison
Chicago
Miss Allison
Golda Thompson
Census Bureau
Washington
Mary Brown
Faith Pritchard
George Somerville
Paris
Goldia Graham wed Clifford Macke in Marshall ceremony
Thirty years ago Mrs. Charles Graham announced the marriage of her daughter Goldia of West Union to Clifford Macke of Oliver, solemnized in Marshall Saturday evening. They will reside on a farm near Oliver. Also announced are the birth of twins, a boy and a girl, to Mr and Mrs Earl Ellishoff of Marshall. A group picnicked on the Wabash near Darwin. Charles Bush, Marshall High student, placed second in a district track meet at Mattoon and will compete in Champaign.
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Charles Graham
Goldia
West Union
Clifford Macke
Oliver
Marshall
Earl Elilshoff
Wabash River
Darwin
J. E. Millhouse
Louise
Otto Glatfelter
Raymond Millhouse
Elisa Ashley
Edward
Flora Hagist
Elizabeth
Elmer Fawley
Otto McVick
Anna Lutz
Terre Haute
Charles Bush
Marshall High School
Two Decades Ago Local Births Marriages and Deaths
Announcements from Marshall dated twenty years prior report the marriage of Willa Sheridan Burns Fishbeck to George Francis Taubeneck in Detroit on June first. A daughter labeled Curran was born at St Anthony Hospital Terre Haute. Glen Fredenberger plans a new home. Harry McDaniel age 75 dies at his Orange Township home. Marriage licenses list Huey Ellington, Cook Ashby Ellington and Mire. Prof L W Williams, former Marshall High School superintendent, dies suddenly in Champaign.
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Marshall
Andrew Burns Fishbeck
Willa Sheridan
George Francis Taubeneck
Detroit
Michigan
Charles Curran
St. Anthony Hospital
Terre Haute
Glen Fredenberger
Harry McDaniel
Orange Township
DeWayne Huey
Mildred Jean Ellington
Donald Wayne Cook
Greenup
Betty Ruth
Ashby
Casey
Andy L. Ellington
Martinsville
Obituary Lucinda Lichtenberger, 76, Marshall resident
Lucinda Lichtenberger, 76, died Sunday evening May 8 at home 410 North Sixth Street Marshall after a six month illness. Born September 15, 1883 in Milligan College Tennessee, she married Harry C. Lichtenberger on October 19, 1904. Surviving are her husband, four children, Mrs Joy Miller of Marshall Illinois, Mrs Mae Grant of Hobbs New Mexico, Mrs Helen Broussard of New Orleans Louisiana, one sister Mrs Sally Graham of Westlake Ohio, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Services were held at Moore Funeral Home Wednesday at 2:00 pm with burial in Marshall Cemetery.
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Lucinda Lichtenberger
North Sixth Street
Marshall
Mae Grant
Hobbs
New Mexico
Helen Broussard
New Orleans
Louisiana
Sally Graham
Westlake
Ohio
Moore Funeral Home
Marshall Cemetery
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C-2
New South
T Hs
South School
THE
Herald
Citizen's Advisory Council For Educational Needs
James Lashbrook
Jerry
Trinity Eub Church
Barbara Lashbrook
Janet Hills
Rita Ferris
Terry Howard
Diana
Gloria Simpson
Sharon Lashbrook
Keith Myers
Drexel Howard
Johnny
Lois Fay
Alma Lashbrook
Mike Lashbrook
Paris High School
National Honor Society
Doyle Rhoads
Henry Rhoads
Forrest Baker
Ella Rhoads
Tom Dorr
Syou
Oisala Aa
Marshall Herald
Vertie Q. Scholfield
Marshall, Ill
Clyde H. Knowles
Pere Pree
OuTside
Grid
5Th ST
Pittsburgh Paints
Herald Advertising
Danville
Bruce Waldorf
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