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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1926
Page
2
A detailed election report shows Democrats winning all county offices in Clark County. Walter Cork led Republicans in key races while Frank Smith and others edged into office, with analysis urging informed voting and noting football and civic lessons.
Colonel R W Thompson delivered a lengthy address at the Hall on Tuesday night to a packed audience. Miss Lova Crookshank of Ridge Farm visited the city while Miss Lizzie Wilson hosted her. Judge Harlan and Will Payne returned from Kentucky. Rev Geof Davis recovers from a spell. Clark county attorneys publish a notice urging voters reporters and ballot box safety ahead of election day.
Twenty years ago Pritchard and Gard received a new funeral car said to be the finest ever brought to the county and the first rubber tire. Frank Cole assisted in a musical recital featuring Miss Lottie Duncan in Martinsville Thursday evening. George Davidson and Mrs Minerva Main were married in Paris last Wednesday by Judge Walter Lamon. the bride is the widow of the late Wm Muatn and they will reside on her farm north of the city. Miss Daisy Steadington, formerly of this city, is making a success as a reader and elocutionist and will give a recital in Terre Haute next Tuesday evening.
Albert Sockler has taken the agency for the Dodge motor car and will sell it in connection with the Ford. An alarm of fire Monday afternoon brought the department quickly to the home of Mrs Fassnacht on Eighth Street near the electric light plant. The fire started under a bed, a hole burned in the floor and some furniture burned. Charles Davison's new house near the north side school nears completion and will improve that part of the city. Silas Walker and several Wabash telephone staff attended an Independent telephone employees meeting at Paris Tuesday. The hill east of Livingston has been cut down graded and drained and, with gravel, will become a good road.
Washington reports from the Department of Commerce show 79 964 marriages in Illinois for 1925 down from 81 918 in 1924, a 4 percent drop, with 827 divorces in 1925 up from 13 658 in 1924. Clark County had 334 marriages and 16 divorces in 1925, versus 235 marriages and 1 divorce in 1924.
Washington reports an October crop summary suggests potato prices will be high this season though not at last year's boom level. Production per person is about three bushels, near but somewhat above needed, with good yields and modest acreage increases. Grassroots growers have limited expansion after prior price spikes.
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