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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1922
Page
5
Westfield residents attend religious and social events from Halloween night to Sunday gatherings. A gas explosion damaged the Charles Lee home injuring none, while the community notes church meetings visits and family happenings through Robinson and Terre Haute.
Elder E. Stivers of Sumner fills his appointment here Sunday morning and evening and plans services every night this week. Mrs. Emma Burson and daughter visit Mrs. Carrie Nidey. Alonzo Draper returns from Minnesota. Bert Thatcher and children visit John and Mrs. White. Jet Mount and his wife visit as Priscilla Mount’s illness prompts calls.
Fellow gave a motion picture show at Cross Steads schoolhouse. The first scene was a kissing moment so long it felt like the showman might be trying to fool the audience with an old magic lantern illusion. Magic lantern reference to roseline's grandfather.
Many local families visited and hosted Sunday events including Mr. and Mrs. Cleo Murphy with daughters Thelma Marie and Bonnie, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wyrick. Numerous dinners and pie suppers featured residents such as Parker Davison and family, Clara Miller, Ruth and Russell Abel, and Vern Tyler, with social visits from Paris and Terre Haute members. The Kohl school Halloween party and a late October pie supper raised about 24 dollars as Vern Stewart hosted activities.
Mrs Earl Cummins was taken to Robinson hospital Sunday. Bert Walls, working in Indiana, spent Sunday with his wife and daughter. Mrs Jake Fauver visited Marshall for dental work. Mr and Mrs Adam Liffick of Chrisman spent Sunday with relatives here. Several families including the Cornwell Collier Craig and Waits clans visited Mr and Mrs Virgil Wallace. Mrs Ethel Hutchinson was a Marshall visitor Saturday. A note on a musician being called jazz music.
U S Forest Service uses red squirrels and other rodents as seed caches to collect cone bearing pines for reforestation. Squirrels store high quality cones in caches, allowing foresters to harvest seeds later when cones on trees have opened. Red squirrels provide eight to ten bushels of seeds in many holes, with an average cache around two bushels.
Dutch farmers rely on nesting platforms for storks, but a new hazard has emerged as storks winter in South Africa. Poison bait spread to control grasshoppers in the Transvaal is killing storks, threatening Holland and Transvaal with a storkless future.
A Folkestone salvage tale describes a ship set fire and sunk near the quay turned upright by five land locomotives pulling wires. In another case a sunken vessel was cut in two underwater, raised, fitted with bulkheads, and brought home to be reassembled.
A brief exchange shows a man anxious to meet Mr Grabcolo and asks what to do next. The Birmingham Age Herald notes the subject as a golf fan and suggests shouting Fore.
Frank C. Haddock urges optimism over doom saying prophecy is unreliable. He dismisses doleful forecasts as lies and asserts that true evil will not befall those who mistrust such predictions. The devil is no prophet.
The Kitchen J Cabinet column discusses raw food advocates claiming all diseases begin in waste in the body and fatigue is caused by poison in the blood. It describes a main dish of peas, corn, raisins, dates, honey, olive oil, and nut cream, arguing raw food is easier to obtain, cheaper, and can reduce meal prep time while promising better health.
A collection of vintage recipes highlighting honey as a healthful sweetener. Instructions cover Honey Tea Cake Soft Honey Cake CrackerJack Potato Cake and Honey Ginger Snaps with measurements for honey butter sugar flour spices and baking times. The tone echoes traditional kitchen guidance.
Sealed proposers will be received at the County Highway office in Marshall Illinois up to 2 00 pm November 18 1922 for the following construction proposal details to be opened publicly.
Chas Lowe, a landscape and animal painter, works in the window at H. M. Dewey & Co's store. His pieces are priced at 98c and 198 dollars, claimed to rival high priced works. The ad urges visitors to view his progress this week only.
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