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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1955
Page
4
Clark County 4-H Achievement Night and Corn Show honors 4-H members and local leaders with special recognition at 7:30 p.m. in Marshall High School cafeteria on Friday November 25. The program reviews year long 4-H project work and activities. County 4-H has 13 clubs with 218 members.
Sick or injured animals from Clark County farms can be taken to the large animal clinic at the University of Illinois. Owners pay the cost of treatment.
Illinois farmers expand winter rye acreage since 1951 as the 1955 harvest marks a peak since 1919. Benefits include hardiness and better use of freed land from acreage allotments, plus rye’s value for pasture forage and green manure in corn and soybeans.
Clark County reports on tuberculosis work including fourteen patients receiving hospital care, nineteen suspects or recovered patients treated at home, eighty one x ray payments, five patients dismissed from sanatoriums with three returning to work, all funded by the county TB tax and sale of TB goals. The fund is restricted to patient care and treatment.
The school board states policies on sending pupils home and on grounds safety. Rules require escorts for departures, call home for illness, and no dismissal on telephone requests. Transportation rules demand signed notices for after hours travel, with officials attending upcoming Illinois School Board Association meetings.
Marshall connected on 11 of 20 free throws as the hosts hit 3 of their attempts. The team travels to Sugar Creek for a game on November 21.
Dr and Mrs P P Haslitt welcome their firstborn boy Monday forenoon. In Illinois last week hunters fined for out of season game and licenses. Walter P Doll, age 75, dies in Wabash township near Marshall. Burdette Emerson hosts oyster supper at Miss Edna Bell's home. Henry Kuykendall and Lula Robinson wed in Wabash township with licenses issued for several couples. Ed ward Blair and Jennie Doran, Hilton Osborn and Florence Daily, Thomas Davin and Nancy Brewer, Samuel Bradley and Lucy Moore listed in marriage notices.
In 1915 Dan Spittler completes a two story modern residence west of Marshall. A large gathering marks Mrs. A R Stricker’s fiftieth birthday with many gifts from distant relatives and friends from Kansas Clarksville Dolson Spiketown and Darwin. Three weddings are reported by Rev S C Craig at homes in Marshall Melrose township and Clarksville with couples Gammon Godden Kile Cline and Smith.
A 1925 report notes a thief entered through a basement window at G. O. Frazier on Locust Street, ate a lunch, and left an overcoat. Marriage licenses issued include Sam E. Hewitt and Luke Baggs, both 18 to 20. John Forbeck found a cash register missing from the Dixie Hotel and later saw it in a vacant lot near Ed win Booth's lumber yard. Harold Craig, eleven months, required stitches after a fall at home.
Twenty years ago in 1935 a son George Harold was born to Mr and Mrs Lon L Perkins of Indianapolis. Genevieve Washburn is cited as a former Miss Washburn. Jayne Ellen, daughter of Mr and Mrs Millard Lake of Gary Indiana, was born November 6. The Lakes previously resided in Marshall. A marriage license was issued to Everett Augustus Dennison and Letha Staley Vermilion aged 18.
Miss June Davidson daughter of Mr and Mrs Dick Davidson of Marshall wed Wayne F Amidon son of were married at the home of the Illinois on Sunday at 4 pm The ceremony took place at the bride's parents home on North Eighth Street Also Miss Betty Medsker daughter of Mr and Mrs Don Medsker Marshall wed Wayne E Gordon son of Mr and Mrs Ray Gordon of Paris The report notes Winter rye as the roughest toughest cereal crop per an Illinois agronomist concluding with a brief agronomy remark.
Five Points Mere G Wilholt Bible school attendance was 64 last Sunday. Blakely of Lincoln delivered morning and evening messages and stayed for a weekend visit with the Morgans. Horton navy duties enroute from Florida to San Diego. Friends and relatives gathered for meals and social visits around Paris and Caney. Open house marked Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bradley’s fiftieth anniversary. Navy band concert at State College attended by Martinsville juniors. Over 100 varieties of greenhouse chrysanthemums developed at the University of Illinois in the past seven years.
The ninth annual stockholders meeting of The Federal Land Bank of St. Louis is set for November 21 and 22 at the Jefferson Hotel in St. Louis. Attending from the National Farm Loan Association of Robinson are Glen Dappert and Robert Hollenslee. The association serves Crawford Jasper Cumberland and Clark counties. Also noted is a new large animal clinic building at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.
State of Illinois Clark County Probate Court No P 114 shows Daisy A Patterson estate. Heirs listed include Goldie Grantman and several Shilling heirs. Executor Hazel Copeland will present the administrator final report to the County Court in Marshall Illinois on Saturday December 3 1955.
In Clark County Illinois Circuit Court Gustave Hitter and M L Behner of Marshall Loan Company sue Owen E Muncie and Mary K Muncie over a mortgage on the SE quarter of the SW quarter in Section 7 Township 10 North Range 12 West containing 40 acres. Defendants must appear by December 10, 1965 or a judgment may be entered. Clerk Sophia May opurarous. Attorney for plaintiffs 220 South South 6th Street Marshall Illinois.
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