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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1912
Page
4
Advertisement listing grocery items with bulk and per unit prices including gasolene oil oats mackerel white fish sugar flour and more. Claims high prices for butter and eggs and invites trade in a local market.
Mrs T A Town of Water town D writes that her four children suffer from grippe and she relies on Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. She notes a past severe grippe treated by the product and claims it brought rapid relief, adding she can always depend on it for good results. Sold at City Drug Store.
The city health board orders all bonfires to be restricted to forenoon hours or face enforcement under city ordinance. Property owners are notified that noncompliance will trigger action by authorities.
An essay on How to Make a Pud ding provokes discussion. Mr and Mrs Grant Brown and daughter drove from Paris in their auto Sunday to visit friends. The Marshall Club hosted guests for card games in club apartments last Friday evening. Mrs J We Richards returned from Bedford Ind where she had been visiting her sister.
Mrs. Mein tire McIntyre daughter of Clinton Indiana born 1886 died October 12 at age twenty six in this city. She married James McIntyre in 1903 and they had three children. She joined the Christian church in 1911 and was mourned by husband, children, her parents, three brothers and two sisters. Funeral by Rev. I E Lee October 14 at Marshall cemetery.
Eva Jane Rolliston Nay died October 14 1912 at Terre Haute Indiana after surgery. She was 37, wife of Edgar Nay and mother of Ernest and Bernard. Services were held at United Brethren church with Rev E M Pierson officiating. She was a member of two lodges and leaves a husband two sons father mother four brothers two sisters and many friends.
Mrs Margaret Berry Miller soprano and Miss Mae Jennings mezzo soprano assisted by Miss Winifred Noyes accompanist gave Marshall a fine vocal concert at Congregational church. Miller praised as exceptional artist. Jennings praised for work. Noyes called a rare accompanist. Miller leaves to join Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.
Miss Gertrude Shoot visits relatives in the city while Mr Chas Cole and Mr Harry Fredenberger take a first week business trip to St Louis. Hon B M Davison of Marshall is re elected to the State Board of Agriculture for the 18th District. Mrs Jennings leaves Thursday for Oakland Calif to spend winter with her daughter Miss Frank Jennings and relatives Frank Murphy family, Terre Haute. A few copies of last week's Herald remain available by mail for five cents each. Mrs Nelson Knox recovering well after surgery in Terre Haute. Miss Elizabeth Hagist and friends host a slumber party at Robinson. Chas W Cornwell of Melrose notes attendance at O Hair meetings was misinformed. six Democrats and four Republicans voted at Melrose. The Marshall Herald office notes remodeling and improved laundry service by W L Sheppard, a growing local business delivering quicker, neater work.
A Marshall advertisement highlights a wide range of hosiery for women including gauze risle medium and heavy weights in black and tan with prices from 10c to 25c per pair. It promotes BEAR BRAND stockings for children claiming less stocking to darn and buy and notes two rib styles in fast black.
Wm Morgan travels to Martinsville and relatives host visitors from Kansas. Names include Hedges English Trump, Cornwell, Blankenbeker, Thompson, Meeker, Hedges, Medsker, Hix, Morgan, Hurn, Fuqua, Knoph, and others. Mentions state fair at Springfield and funeral at Island Grove with multiple attendees. Court foreclosure notice from Marshall circuit appears with entities Mattoon National Bank and First National Bank Shelburn.
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