High School Opens Next Monday Students Learn Local Supply Store
High School students prepare for a new term starting Monday September 7 at the same time they note a convenient local store supplies their small school needs.
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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1908
Page
15
High School students prepare for a new term starting Monday September 7 at the same time they note a convenient local store supplies their small school needs.
Community mentions include illnesses of MecNatt & Cook J Closson and Alf Cowden, Labor Day reflections, Fair at Clark County starting next Tuesday, university visits by Everett Wells and Jake Stricklett, and Joe Warren as postmaster. Reports cover weather, farm activity, and local services with civic notices, church events, and political cautions amid a busy county scene.
A scattered scattered OCR style item list recounts deaths and incidents in Terre Haute and nearby towns. Reports include Mrs. Ellen Nay’s death in Kansas heart disease, a fatal fall in Terre Haute, a Paris shooting, and a Vincennes wedding on the river. It notes population, local industry, crop conditions, a glass factory reopening, a big fish tale, and a potential race tension with guards at a Negro workers camp.
McNutt and Cook Lockard sell everything with new buggy for Marshall resident Ed Higginbotham. Jeff Brewster loses a fine horse last week. Thomas Walker near completion on his new house. Preaching drew large crowds Saturday and Sunday nights. Miss Emin Craig spent Thursday with Misses Marie and Elva Clark. Miss Anna Craig of Marshall visited her sister Mrs Joseph McCollum. Miss Sarah Liffick of Big Creek visiting cousins Hattie and Mattie Higginbotham. Grace Mae Blizzard and Pearl Cannady of West Union attended Blizzard Grove ice cream social. Homer Walters, away with Uncle Sam three years, returned home with bride Bert Eckles. Edna Wryick joined dinner with Rev Craig’s Marshall family. Telegram received. illness of Mrs Eckles’s sister mentioned.
Families represented owe mowing fees for Ziegler Cemetery for 1908. Please remit the amount to the treasurer, Sophia Ziegler, to settle dues.
Marvin Markle, head of F. F. Markle of Marshall, has closed his connection with the Terra Haute Y M C A as physical director. He recently returned from an eastern trip to New Haven Conn where he was offered the position of physical director there and the offer remains under advisement.
Obituary style note lists Edmund J. Miller 86 Orange township Walter A. Perkins 33 Casey Mary McCoy 24 Casey Effie Bailey 19 Greedville Ohio and others Charley Graham 28 Melrose township Millie Cornwell 18 Melrose township Floyd Baley 24 Cumberland County Lacey F. Swope 22 Orange township.
An old clipping describes a home visitors excursion on a Pennsylvania Lines route to Louisville Dayton Springfield Xenia Cincinnati and Columbus Ohio with a special through service and ticket details. It also mentions an excursion to St Louis on September 6 and passenger tips from a ticket agent.
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