Monticello area notes and farm updates
Mrs Al Fraker's tree near Monticello and Mrs Elsa Linn visiting relatives are noted. Prairie chicken nuisance, Brosman sorghum plant at Auburn yields 100 gallons daily. Apple pickers paid six cents per bushel. Frost damaged 80 percent of the corm crop. fall plowing hindered by dry weather. Fodder gathered. school in Terre Haute. baptism and floral visits. entertainment planned at Melrose school with a Rip Van Winkle play and pie supper. Winter frost and near-silage efforts, scarlet fever cases quarantined. relief from labor shortages as winter approaches. Zach Medsker injured in silo accident. family visits planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Brosman
West York
Grace
Helen Romine
Terre Haute
Hall
Brosman
Auburn
Abasha Ennis
Martinsville
Sophia Wiontgombery
John L. Hurst
Charleston
Mike Schwartz
John Niciffer
St. Louis
Mr Nelson
St. Louls
Roe Davis
Art Hutchings
Felton Miller
Brenton
Dave Montgomery
Ben
Howie
Melrose School
Hmit
Unclear fragment reports mobility and shipment notes
Fragmentary note mentions John Alybott visiting iCharteaton Fred English poll and Scutter for Bara Cornwall MEEVEE with apples mauled to West Unlor for shipment. Dates unclear and text appears corrupted with several garbled terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Alybott
iCharteaton
Fred English
Bara Cornwall
West Unlor
Weet ‘Union
Parish updates and social visits fill Marshall area
Will Gard fills his silo Saturday and a church will be held Sunday night in Marshall. Many locals attend meetings in Charleston and Terre Haute. A community fair in Marshall NM is planned and a box supper at the schoolhouse is scheduled. Residents visit relatives in Martinsville Livingston Gary and Broeton while farmers and families gather for parlor and parade events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Gard
Fred Huffington
Charleston
Ethel Hutchison
Marshall
Helen Blair
Emma Gard
Golda Thompson
Near Here
Elmer Oxendine
Darwin
Fred Bohn
Modest Bohn
Esther Goodwin
Terre Haute
Fenton Taylor
Clarence Tapscott
Jas. Pine
Wilford Pine
Leroy Crumlin
OM. Landers
Otis Landers
Amanda Kesler
Livingston
Gary
Ind
Hedson
Susis Jones
Phoebe
Arthur Wright
Parcais
Sundsy
Elvis Thorpe
Broeton
Mra
Pat Madden
Mra. Huey
Lote Grey
A. P. Fawley
Terre Haute Visit and Hen Business Commentary
Roth English and wife spent Sunday in Terre Haute as guests of Frank Syester. The local hens begin their yearly vacation while housewives switch from winter supplies. The piece argues competition helps curb extortion by corporations affecting egg and butter prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roth English
Terre Haute
Frank Syester
Local notes from Martinsville and surrounding towns
A compilation of town news from Martinsville and nearby areas. Updates include residents visiting, travel to Detroit and Chicago, a highway support stance, a homecoming at Willis Chapel, church assignments, a car accident with minor injuries, military furloughs and a Vicksburg reunion, a birth in 1853, and a family obituary for Mrs. Harriet Tingley Cleaver detailing survivors and church affiliation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Barkalow
Melrose
J. T. Spraker
Orange Township
Joseph Hardway
Sherman Conklin
John Elliott
Os Keller
Terre Haute
Amos Cleaver
Detroit
Cleaver
Maud Neer
Chicago
Clark County
John Taggart
West Union
T. P. Cleaver
Bert Rodgers
Church of God
Isaac Ishler
J. P. Byram
Vicksburg
Harry
Cappy) Johnson
Fargo
S. Oak
Harriet Tingley
John
Anna Tingley
Roscoe T
Stella
L. H. Wright
Arkansas City
Kan
Amos D
Martinsville
L. E. Sutton
Bethel Church
Westfield Visitors and Local Well Tests Reported
Bigelow visited Chicago last week as a business guest. W H Wilmot of Trenton N J stayed with his son R T Wilmot. Frank Burnsides of Payne Ohio and wife visited locals. A Deem and partners drilled a well on the M L Brigcos lease southeast of Lown. the well was cleaned and pumping by Wednesday and reportedly yielded fifty barrels in five hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Co. BE. Bigelow
Chicago
W. H. Wilmot
Trenton
N. J
R. T. Wilmot
Frank Burnsides
Payne
Ohio
Alex Burnsides
Lown
Mo i
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marshall State Bank
Bank of the People
Homer
al Fraker
Monticello
Elsa Linn
Dolson
James Harwood
Wm. Barter
Broadlands
Sophia Montgomery
Zach Medsker
Harry Craig
Roy
Charlie
Oak Grove
Allen Pinnell
Freedom
John Tapsecott
Whhl McDonald
Audrey
Carl Clements
Lamont Taylor
Will Spotts
Walker
Harry Maurer
Westfield
Mattress Sale
Crown
Kingston
H.m.dewey &Co
Columbia and
Brunswick Graphophones
Doll’s Grocery
North Side Square
Marshall, Illinois
United Brethren Church
Y. P. GC
Grace Chapel
Armstrong
H. D. Hudson
National Daily Show
Columbus
Hoover
Herald
Black & Hutchinson, Grocers
Home of Good Eats
Zephyr
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