Winter weather and local notes dominate Twe Herald
Beautiful winter weather across town with a roundup of local items. Hogs market prices, people visiting town, health notes on diphtheria, typhoid cases, and residents improving after surgery. A car of horses shipped to stock yards. Homer Blankenbeker sells a spring mule. plans for a new house east of town.
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Martinsville Items and Local News Notes
Last Thursday a woman was thrown from a buggy on the way to the city, breaking her arm, and Geo Reader visits his old home in Greenup, amid unease about acquaintances. Carl Towell and Miss Bessie Lamb wed last week and moved to Lawrenceville oil fields. A buggy whip theft craze continues. thefts from other buggies are common. Mrs Lovina Hardway, widow of Andrew, died at her daughter’s home and was buried near Island Grove. A mission begins at the Episcopal church Nov 24 with services daily and an organist for a strong choir. Comrade Grimes and family visited, tracing roots to Crawford county. A young man east of town worries over a leap year dream, and old sayings about courting resurface. During a Mattoon trial, Mrs Sallie Blake called a witness a dirty liar and was jailed ten days. Eastern Illinois Normal at Charleston plans a January meeting with high schools in fifteen eastern counties to organize athletic and declamatory associations.
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Geo Reader
Greenup
George
Carl Towell
Bessie Lamb
Lawrenceville
Lovina Hardway
Andrew Hardway
John W . Busby
Island Grove Church
Hardway
Martinsville Township
Episcopal Church
J. Chandler White
Springfield
Fitzgerald
Grimes
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Samuel Conrad
Osborn
Kaw
Crawford County
Kansas
Conrad
Mattoon
Sallie Blake
Craig
Eastern Illinois Normal
Charleston
Eastern Illnois Athletic and Declamatory Association
Robinson District
Wabash
Lawrence
Clark
Oil field drought stalls progress and water costs rise
Heavy drought hampers oil operations across Crawford Lawrence and Clark counties with water scarcity driving up costs, pipelines operating at sixty percent capacity, and most rigs idle until rain restores supply. Some districts report fewer workers and higher rentals while pipes wait on water.
Travel Opportunities Big Four Route Promos
Richmond and return trips offered by Big Four Route under Home Seekers and Winter Tours. Tickets available November 11 to 15 for routes west northwest southwest including Michigan Mexico and British possessions. Spokane to National Apple Show tickets sold December 1 2 3. Agent contact H J Rhein G P A Cincinnati.
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