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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1917
Page
4
Sunday gatherings and visits from Indianapolis to Palestine and West Union mark a busy social week. A funeral for Mrs Eliza Jo Chiddix and a 20 year postal service note frame community memory, with fundraising for Christmas kits and Red Cross toward soldiers and neighbors.
Terre Haute visitors John Mundy wife Bonnie Mundy and Pearl McCrory joined relatives for a week in town. Mrs Nichols and Miss Dolson hosted family gatherings while Brann of Terre Haute attended the funeral of Mrs James Brann. A Malloon speaker addressed Saint Louis churchgoers and over $100 was raised for work. An Allendale visitor with Harringtons spent Sunday with Mrs Harrington. A hard times party is planned at Craig's Hall Thursday evening.
Will and Roe Davis hauled baled hay to Adeomoor at 22 dollars a ton. Families from Coles and nearby counties gather for visits, weddings, and funerals as local life unfolds with farm work, a pig litter, a spelling contest at Dolson, and plans for Davis telecom succession.
A corn shredder was in the vicinity last week Rob English and wife spent Sunday at M M Landers A P Fawley and family spent Sunday at Will Spotts Mr and Mrs Wright spent Sunday with their son James at Oliver Otis Landers of Terre Haute came Saturday to spend a few days with his parents M M Landers and wife Harry Grisham and family of As bury and Bob Becker and family of Oliver spent Sunday at H C Grishams Mrs Frank Austin and three children of West Terra Haute spent the past week with her parents Robert lcdson and wife The Deep Valley Coal company has moved a carload of coal and drill to their 80 acres nest of Mr Wrights where they have begun drilling Uncle Tom Whiteon and wife of Oak Grove MIa Susie Jones and her children and Miss Phoebe Wright spent Sunday with Allen Wrights
Housewives bake cookies and pumpkin pies sweetened with sorghum amid sugar shortages. John Huey was sick Wednesday night and kicked by a horse last Friday. he is able to move around cautiously and is recovering steadily at home.
Local notes report eggs at 48 cents with expectations to rise, hog sales at 1575 and 316 per hundred, and a general stabilization of produce markets. Reports mention soldiers returning home, Red Cross speaker planned for December 2, YMCA fundraising, and a shift to wartime timber procurement for gunstocks in Marshall county.
Bruce Wiley an employee in a Tulsa drug store for four years came Wednesday for a visit here. Mrs Rebecca Desebaugh departed Saturday for Gedarvale Kas where
Ruth Beachout improves as Mike Reeley loses a good work horse. Several families report illnesses and injuries including Mrs Silas Murphy and Mrs Chas Hickson being the sickest, Ella Beck injured at home, Elsie Claypool bruised after a wagon mishap, and many others visiting relatives or traveling for business. A Prairie husk corn outing, a Sunday gathering, and an MCA meeting set for Friday night November 23 are noted along with multiple visits and travels among local families.
Miss Ada and Hettie Briscoe visit Paris hospital with Ada ill from malaria fever. Westfield High plans two courses of high class entertainments for fall and winter. Lois Evelyn Bunch, 4 1 2 months, daughter of Charles and Mrs. Bunch, died Friday after short illness. Mrs Samuel Partenheimer of Huntingburg visited her relatives the Briscoes. Mrs J H Barnes of Havana and Mrs B D F P Shotts of Georgetown visited their mother Mrs Elizabeth Allen and son Charles last week.
Special meeting at 7 30 this evening for all Master Masons to be present to work in the M M degree. W T Platt W M B D Smith Secy.
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