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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1918
Page
4
John Thomas buys a new Buick and church meetings progress at the M E church. Local families visit kin in Paris and Windor while many attend funerals in Robinson and Snyder. School begins with Harry Prevo as principal and Vera Newlin as primary teacher. fall term teachers listed.
Alpha Claypool started sorghum molasses last week while heavy rain improves soil for fall seeding. Molasses sells for 1.59 dollars a gallon and 35 cents is paid for the making. Weather notes include fewer cars on the road and an electrical storm injuring a hay stack and a cow. Prices on stock hogs are 25 cents a pound amid corn crop expectations. A gas saving request reduces road use, and drilling at Hazen farm halts due to a salt water strike at depth.
Will Seaton of Parker was here on Tuesday as Fraker of Auburn visited last. Daniel Tibbs and wife of Indianapolis spent the weekend visiting relatives. Ovie Stanfield and family of Melrose have located in the city. Joseph Thompson of Auburn passed through on his way to the Greenup fair with a herd of sheep. Comrade Carson of Johnson, residing with his daughter on east Main, was taken ill last week. Levi C Noakes promoted to second lieutenant at Camp Sherman Ohio with the 84th Division. Clark County Farm Bureau office opens near McDaniel clothing store with B. N Walworth as advisor. Auto owners and drivers observed the citywide edict’s effect. Rev Mr Barber evangelist has successful Melrose meeting with 15 to 20 conversions. School bell rang to begin a large enrollment. Roy Hardway returns from Camp Custer for weekends. he praises his soldier duties. Funeral services for Otho Downey of Neadmore, who died in France, held at M E church with Rev J O Lehman. large crowd attended. No latest news from Kil o Fessenbeck since telegram to parents Sunday.
After active service at the front he is missing but judged a prisoner. The new county farmers organization met at the bank room Saturday with large attendance from across the county. Superintendent Walworth attended. The movement aims to advance the farming community.
Miss Evelyn Jordan travels to Bolivar New York to spend winter with her grandmother. Co A soldiers reportedly in frontline trenches in France. Mrs Walter Hutchison visits sister Mrs Roy Goodwin in Marshall. A H Lacey leaves for a month in Kansas City and points in Kansas. Sidell and Olney railroad to drop passenger service August 31 and run a mixed train thereafter. Trout York, aviation trainee at Rockwell Field, San Diego, visits Aberdeen South Dakota relatives. Mr and Mrs William Leonard and family visit Casey relatives plus Cora Neeley of Findlay Ohio. British flyers Hannay and Mathews land near Casey in a De Havilland bomber during an exhibition tour. Fog complicates navigation. Local call to vote for W A Byram for sheriff on September 11.
Edgar Fasig and family of Terre Haute spent the first of the week with H. R. Mank and family. Harold Mank left for Martinsville to attend school. Local residents attended the Choctaw home-coming Sunday. Nina Sims visited Marie Davison on Sunday. Ida Craig visited her sister Mrs. Jesse Murphy of West Union. Goldie Shotwell visited cousin Grace White Sunday. Randolph Ferris and family of West Union were guests of John Davison and family.
Community notes report Geo Claypool and family visiting Terre Haute and the death of Mrs Emma Strupenger killed by a train at Kansas Station. Obituaries state Rev T D Davis died suddenly. funeral at Charleston beside his companion Mrs Georgia Connerton. A German front telegraph describes devastation near Roye and surrounding villages with cemeteries and towns obliterated.
The piece contrasts General Allenby and Hindenburg with Jericho's biblical siege noting Jericho’s biblical fall and the modern view of conquest. It reflects on echoes of duty toward enemies and how Jericho’s legacy frames a struggle between ancient domination and modern brotherhood. The author cites biblical figures and historical ironies to comment on wartime ideals.
An American Woman in Outlook notes patriotic zeal without empathy may alienate soldiers. A homesick Indian soldier seeks comfort, while a local family recalls a Sunday dinner moment when a guest asks to visit the kitchen to see the waitress. A soldier signs a note to a girl with personal details and a playful hint about a hand under the potatoes.
Count Ilya Tolstoy, son of Leo Tolstoy, voices that real Russia lies with the peasants and that leaders have ignored them. He laments misled masses and warns that current changes lack peasant consultation, hinting at uncertain outcomes for Europe and America.
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