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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1914
Page
4
Local residents announce moves to Dennison Terre Haute and nearby areas. A free Thanksgiving dinner is planned at Woodmen hall with music speeches and a Ed Harlan address. A funeral in Indianapolis and political musings amid wartime sentiment are noted.
Armstrong Frank Welsh and wife spent Sunday with relatives. Mrs. Jas Liggett and son Mack visit in Terre Haute. Miss Katherine Wyrick visits cousin Cora Wyrick. Miss Hazel and Flora Elliott spend Sunday with Idella Weaver. League to be held here Sunday evening November 15. Marion Bartram and wife visit David Setzer's family. Mrs. S M Kimble leaves for Creighton Missouri to visit her son. Mrs. W F Shirely and Miss Lulu Elliott travel to Chicago for a relatives visit.
Eggs rise to 30 cents a dozen this Saturday. Chas Bair rebuilding after a recent fire. Rain Saturday night. Bert Amstott and others visit. Residents and visitors frequent the city including Chas Fasig and Comrade Wm Richardson. A church balcony addition expands seating by the Helping Hand class. Martinsville seeks a brick and tile plant. election year sees strong turnout. Ennis Athey resume lumber work with new fireproof plant. Harold Bright recovers from tonsillitis after campaigning. Alexander family funeral in Annapolis.
Vern Finkbiner spent Saturday in Marshall May Weaver visits Mrs Orville Taylor Jane Weaver visits her brother in Jasper county Bonnie Yeargan of Elbridge visits Mable Page Mrs Margaret Kirby visits daughter Mrs Frank Montgomery John Taylor and wife visit Ora Kuykendall and wife John Taylor moving to Dennison Joe Johns to move on Mr Taylor farm Andy Sizemore and wife visit before moving to Kansas Carl Nickles and wife of West Terre Haute visit Jerome Nickles family O C Page Moses Heath Herman Page and son Orin visit J A Page family Sunday evening
Mrs S G Drake shopped in Marshall Monday. Mrs Gertie Poorman visited Marshall Monday. Miss Edith Lindley stayed with relatives in Sullivan last week. Roy Lloyd of Marshall spent weekend with friends here. Mrs Victoria Chadwick and Mrs Elsie Cork visited Mrs Mary Murphy at York Thursday. The Boys club entertained Saturday night. Dick Bailey husked corn near Tuscola. Moriah hardware store changed hands. Allison Bailey visited Jas Ramsey Sunday. Harry Short returned to Kickapop to stay. Guy Pole and son finished shredding corn for Melvin Bartholomew on Tuesday. Joe Claypool motorcycled to Bradford NL Saturday to visit Ada Nidigh.
Community notices list locals laid up with illness John Hazen and visiting Mrs. Myrtle Stephens of Paris. Farm activity includes new George Hurst farm residence and John Hurst Jr moving in. A bridge incident delayed Rev. Marsh from Salem but he plans services this week.
Mrs Amanda Mallory moved to Martinsville last week in the vicinity. A good rain blessed Saturday night. Bert Mitchell and wife and their little daughter of Chrisman visited Lew Lowry's last Thursday. Mrs Charlie Cunningham visited her parents Alex Scott and wife near Freedom on Sunday.
Mrs. Dora Cunningham visits her son Guy in Indianola and returns home. Grandma Smitley of Anderson township dies at her Possum Ridge home, funeral at Mt. Pleasant. Seth Husted moves to Martinsville. Only one Progressive vote cast in Auburn. Second No. 8 runs with twenty coaches. Local chicken hunters trouble old rifles. Fodder shredder crews report corn about 25 bushels. Mrs. Tom Phillips recovers from hernia operation. E N McNary buys Maus property on West Midway after storm damage. Homer Brossman outputs about 4000 gallons of molasses last week.
Meeting concluded at Misner Chapel Sunday. Local residents and visitors include Riley Lingafelter in West York and Lloyd Lingafelter employed by C Crandall. Wm Doran in Martinsville. Steve Custis moved to Martinsville. Preaching planned for Saturday night. Chester Chapman spent days in Palestine. Robert Chapman and son Dennis in Martinsville Friday. Butternut youth held a missionary meeting Sunday. Chas Cooper and family of Charleston in the area Monday. Harrison Blankenbeker of Billings Montana visited his father Wm Blankenbeker for a few days.
A new oil well was drilled in the past week on the Joseph Busby farm north of Annapolis. Archie Reynolds, ten, injured a thigh in a coal shed accident at Draper school. Futurity field trials run west of Hutsonville starting yesterday, Independent trials to begin next Tuesday. larger attendance anticipated next week.
Saturday marked the 80th birthday of Mrs Mary Beltz with children present except son George. Grandchildren, great grandchildren, two sisters and two brothers joined neighbors for a noon dinner followed by psalm, prayer, and a poem read by her eldest daughter Mrs J M Scott. Her eldest son from Nickerson Kansas stood by a large basket of bananas and pears. Beltz received many presents and well wishes for more birthdays.
An American automobile sold to a tea planter in upper Assam rolled into a rain swollen river after six months. The chauffeur vanished and a week later the wreck, found downstream, showed wheels gone and the battered body. Salvaged engine parts were later seen pumping water to the planter’s bungalow on a ridge.
Fog signals at sea warn mariners of rocks and dangers in fog. Large stations emit blasts heard far out, powered by compressed air with engines of around twenty five horsepower. Sirens blow periodically every seventy to ninety seconds, lasting two to three seconds, expending significant power to produce sound.
For rent a two room shop space offered by Bert Hogue with a 44 percent barber area mentioned.
The National Geographic Society states the Panama Canal will shift global commercial geography by shortening routes and boosting trade. It cites gains between US coasts and Latin America, increases in US east west trade, and expanded service to Japan, China, Australia, and New Zealand with substantial reductions in Atlantic Pacific distances and freight costs.
The German cruiser Emden, long feared in the Indian Ocean for raids against British shipping, was sunk on Monday by the Australian cruiser Sydney near Cocos Island in the southern Pacific. Emden had destroyed 25 merchant vessels, a Russian cruiser, and a Japanese torpedo boat during its actions.
The Montgomery News reflects on Thanksgiving as a time for family gathering and gratitude. It emphasizes the nation’s holiday as a moment to appreciate home, children returning, and hope for moderation and sound judgment about one’s birth country.
A cryptic line suggests feigned indifference masks concern. The remark implies underlying empathy or interest, challenging a flat refusal.
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