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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1917
Page
9
Local residents recount visits and events from Homer and surrounding areas. Mentions include Miss Sarah Bartlett and Reba Spangler visiting, Martinsville game of 15 to 4, and numerous relatives sharing Sundays and birthdays across Oliver, West Terre Haute, Danville, Fairmount, Gary, and Marshall.
Eh Shawser and David Cline visited the city while families gathered for a weekend. The fair opened with optimism and a 2 percent city levy passed to fund public improvements. A child burial, church pulpit changes, coal fetching efforts, and irrigation needs were noted alongside local visits from George Bechtold and Rev Will Johnson. Dwight Newlin, son of A O Newlin, was tragically killed by an astomadiic last week.
Our people will remember him for leading a series of meetings in our city years ago. The school opened Monday with Supt. D. E. McCash, teachers including Elden F. Keith Jane Crow Estelle Kahle Lottie Duncan Roy Hardway Grace Tucker Dora Statler Jewell Ferguson and South Side Primary Gertrude Peyton Essie Tyhurst Nona Francis among others.
Local items include P F Dodd re roofing, Clark County fair prep, and community visits. Notes report chicken thefts, rye planting plans, Chautauqua attendance, winter term starts, and a Terre Haute trip. An editorial voice laments coal shortages, high taxes, profiteering, and calls for price regulation as war demands press on farmers and merchants.
Mrs Jesse Lathrop is very low. School opened Monday with Mrs. Ethel Hutchinson as teacher. Mr and Mrs Scott of Charleston visit Will Gard and family. Ray urkeyhile and family of Auburn spent Sunday at Jay Garwood's. Ralph McNabney of Gary Indiana spent Sunday with grandparents here. Mrs Chas Ogle and daughter attended the funeral of Mrs Will Clatfelter at Walnut Prairie Sunday. Leonard Lathrop and daughter Gaynelle of Darwin and Rachel Lathrop of Indiana spent Sunday with Clarence Tingley's family. They were joined by Mr and Mrs Pan Day and daughter Bonnie. Mrs Martha Lichtenberger and Miss Mattie Spangler returned last week from Indianapolis.
Grandma Buehler remains very low as familiar names like Minnie Morgan and Edna Fox plan winter study in Marshall High. Clarksville Baptist church roof repaired for first time in twenty four years. Alonzo Allred hosts neighbors with Clara Fox Cecil Babock and Mabel Babcock providing music. Frances Ott and children of Little Rock have departed after weeks visiting. Flora E Graham and Charley Graham accompanied them home. William Wallace resigns after thirteen years as mail carrier on route. neighbors note the dog Trip misses him.
In a London account a soldier recalls near encounters at the front naming McDougall from his battalion as a close comrade. The reminiscence highlights the peril and personal bonds formed amid battle.
Yonkers Statesman notes that Bevlahb-Well faces a social matter as Belle-Ghe presents herself to the public gaze. The piece pities the person who will be entrusted with the outcome.
Readable fragments describe a cultural note on pleasures and a named figure. The item mentions a person and a place in a historical context, with sparse details. Further specifics are not clear from the fragment.
Casey itemizes family departures to Akron Ohio and visits by guests from Los Angeles California. Albert Ewing an eight year old boy suffers a dangerous groin bite by a large dog on Sunday. Manuel R. Dixon obtains a wireless operator post on a New Orleans Genoa steamship. Slusser retires to join officers training camp. Porter Dodds and Wayne Emrich join navy after spring volunteering. Oil price surge of 20 cents per barrel impacts the city. Illinois oil price cited as record high.
Mr and Mrs George Fuller left for Boston Massachusetts. Isaac Lee died at the Ashmore almshouse aged 84. Stephen Stevens of Yale died at home. P M Lacey and children plan to settle in Eldorado Kansas. Eugene Wilmot from Annapolis Naval Academy returns home for vacation. A quiet home wedding united Walter Polk Briscoe and Bertha Yenewine in Oakland. W H O Drewel named local representative of the State Food Commission for parts of Coles and Clark counties and nearby townships.
Rev Neal McClain born July 23 1841 in Shelby county Indiana died August 28 aged 76 years one month married Nancy A Wiles October 11 1874 no children survived by wife a brother Arlen and step-daughter Emma Beachout ordination 1886 preached in southern Illinois conference funeral at Auburn M P church conducted by Rev A Darnell burial in Auburn cemetery
Deputy Sheriff Elliott and State's Attorney Clements arrested Jack and Tom Daugherty in York last night on conspiracy to assault Jackson. Jack also faced a separate charge of assault with a deadly weapon after shooting John Coryell in the heel. The brothers were captured before reaching the Indiana shore.
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