Week's Doings Chronicle Local Changes and Births
The column lists social visits and travels among area residents including Miss Kate Keifer in Chicago Rev J S O Neal in Hardinsville and Mr Mrs Whitlocke returning from Pana. Births noted include a son to Mr and Mrs Fred J Decker and a daughter to Mr and Mrs Henry Musselman. A long line of events covers dances meetings sales and club notices across Marshall and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Louise
Henry Musselman
L. Sheppard
Gillette
Wyoming
W. A. Vaughan
Indianapolis
Greencastle
Ind
Thomas Apgar
Knoxville
Tenn
Amy
Mary Weir
Champaign
Frances Reynolds
Carrie Craig
Elizabeth Tudor
Ernest Newlin
Lowe
Hutsonville
Ben LeGore
W. L. Sheppard
Warren Scholfield
Chas
Smittkamp
Montrose
Ill
Virginia Ruth
Asan Davison
Chicago
C. W. Ham
Paris
Mattoon
M. E. Church
Julia Nichols
Phoenix
Arizona
Paris Water System Now Self Supporting Says City Clerk
City Clerk Brubaker said the Paris water works are on a self supporting basis for the first time. A rate cut from 2 cents to 108 cents per kilowatt and meters installed boosted collections from 8,500 to 12,000 then to 16,000 dollars annually under current leadership. Charles Lamb contributed to the change before the city government shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Brubaker
City Commission
Charles Lamb
Lampshade bag becomes the latest fashion novelty
A magazine note highlights the lampshade bag as the new accessory in women’s fashion. It describes converting an inverted lampshade into a handbag with silk lining, a deep body, a hemmed top, cord handles, and tassel weights to evoke an Oriental look.
Waterloo Decision in Flanders Echoes Across Time
A reflective item notes how Waterloo shaped fate in Flanders and warns that friends often speak optimistically about troubles and are usually right in hindsight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
Flanders
Methodist Church Notes And Food Conservation Facts
Sunday school attendance neared 300 despite no rally. Next Sunday services feature a sermon on Jesus and Big Business with business men invited. Epworth League social planned in the church basement Friday for the parish youth. Last week 100 Methodist families reported Food Conservation with 535 wheatless, 1318 meatless, and 2040 wasteless meals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesus
Epworth League
Chas. W. Hamand
Evangelical Church Marshall S S and Prayer Meeting
The Evangelical Church in Marshall schedules Sunday School at 9 45 a m with Wednesday evening prayer. Grand Turn Sunday School also at 9 45 a m and preaching at 7 30 p m by Rev John Craig. Big Creek follows with 9 45 a m S S and 10 30 a m preaching by Rev John Craig.
For sale items and local notices collection
Local classified notes include selling livestock and real estate in Martinsville and Marshall Illinois, loans and markets, lost and found items, instrument purchases, bee theft reward, school desks for country schools, and a memorial and fundraiser event. Names include Roy Miller, Mr Behner, John Marvin, Frank M Drake, Matthews Studio of Music, John Ingram.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pythian Theatre Tonight
Frank McIntyre
Lillian Walker
Fannie Ward
Betty
A Tomance
California
Rob Herron
Keystone
Anita Stewart
Diana
Denstein
Farmers’ Phone
Wabash
Public Square
Chas. Brandenstein Farmers
Joan of Arc
de Laval
B. C
Viste
Kate Keifer
M. E. Whitlocke
Pana
Mrs. J. S. O'Neal
Hardinsville
Robert Porter Decker
Fred J. Decker
Klaszinsky
North Sixth Street
Western Union Telegraph Company
Roy Danner
Sheridan Cooper
Wabash Township
Alice Treft
Marshall
C. W. Hamand
Ed Howell
Gladewater
Texas
Joseph Buyer
Geneva
Carl Buyer
Chillicothe
J. L. Buyer
Nathan Wright
Susan Jones
Jasper Henderson
Leonard Kile
Wm. Fraker
Harry Whitson
Ridgefarm
James Haun
Maude Lewis
Hallowe’en
Margaret Cole
Katherine Turman
Edith Shaw
Miriam Cole
Marian
Virginia Booth
Helen Hurst
Isabelle Robinson
Gertrude Cole
Alice Purdum
Virginia Shaw
Louise Booth
Annd Dee Burnett
Ellen Dixon
Marjory Lewis
Dorothy Ziegler
Margaret Kerr
Lonnie MacLaughlin
Bill Hoey
John Hasson
Daughters of the American Revolution
Margaret le Gore
1D. D. Doll
LeGore
Truman Booth
Nettie Shaw
Jacob Fraker
B. Tobias
Marshall Club
F W Kellogg
J. H. McDowall and Baby
New St. Bernice
Virginia Davis
Henry Millhouse
Caroline Millhouse
Terre Haute
Dewey Mays
Annapolis
Cecil Williams
Martinsville
Stephen Mitchell
Harrisburg
Equality
Cairo
Missouri
Charles Southard
Winfield Scott
Logan, I
Chas. A. Killie
Helen Lesh
DePaulw University
Asher Cox
Xenia, Ill
Rd Cross
Red Cross
Vivian Sullins
Don Winterrond
Rosamond
Pearl Lee
the Wanderer
Hark
Velma Sullins
Ethel Hurst
Hester Shipe
Ll’s
Frank Greenough
Jane Addams
Hull House
Arthur Poorman
Orient
Methodist Church Notes
Evangelical Church
Statesman-Orator
Roy Miller
Martins- Ville
Route 4
Cole & Cole
B. F. Johnson
Bubeck & Gallagher
Edgar Summers
Marshall, Il
Fred Wallis
Eity
Kohl
East Main Street
Mr. Behner
John Marvin
South Sixth Street
Tvo
Narcissus Hunter
Archer House
J. S. Mundy
Black & Hutchinson’s
Big Four
Ernst
Frank M. Drake
North 3Rd St
Matthews Studio of Music
John Ingram
Linn-McCaba Co
Casey, IL
Court of Honor
B. A. Snyder
Los Angeles
Calif
Ter
Old
Jem M.davis
the Dulaney Bank
Foster Martin
Charley Martin
Hurst
Northwest Corner
Marshall, Illinois
John D. Hurst
the City Drug Store
North Side Square
Black & Hutchinson, Grocers
Kellogg’s
Lux
Phome
Zephyr
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