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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1944
Page
2
Editorial note from Calvin Coolidge on printing news and guiding public opinion. Gerald rates listed: subscription two dollars per year, advertising thirty five cents per inch display, ten cents per line reader.
Mrs Rosa Statesman reports a Sunday dinner hosted by Mrs Bella Gilbert and family with Rev Bob Graham and local couples as guests. Families traveled to Terre Haute shopping. Lashbrook reunion at Casey park. Baptismal service at Westfield Baptist church attended by locals. Various families visited, dined, and celebrated birthdays and gatherings in the West Liberty community.
Sunday school begins at 10:00 o clock with an open invitation to all. Visitors listed include Warren Baker from Oklahoma and several Collier and Cornwell relatives visiting family in the area.
Mrs Maude Miller reports a large local homecoming at Freedom Baptist Church on Sunday. Families and neighbors including Ernest Shotts and sons, John and Golda Blizzard, Alvin T Miller, Floyd Cunningham of Paris, and others are mentioned visiting or staying with local residents across the weekend and midweek.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Jenkins attend the Moose Lodge banquet in Terre Haute for members and friends. Mrs Maude Paddock hosted uncle Chas Figg and granddaughter visiting from Terre Haute. Frakes visited Marshall with Raymond Low family and Hilda. Tingleys and Hilberts joined relatives at the Myles reunion in Marshall.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Jenkins welcomed weekend guests Mr and Mrs Jesse Strohm and their children from West Union.
A revival meeting will begin at Mt Olive church on Monday night September 11 led by Rev F M Sparling. The notice lists local visitors including Mr and Mrs Ray Drake and daughters and mentions arrivals and visits among Stogsdill Wells and Sackrider families with Chicago guest Catherine Wells and Griffin Indiana contact.
Mrs Lucy Chambers hosts and guests include Imogene Coutts and sons Marjory Poorman and Stephan Wells. Effie Jane Chambers returns from Paris hospital after appendectomy on Aug 23. Numerous calls and visits weave through Jackson and Carpenter families in Martinsville and Robinson with extended kin.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Smitley welcomed a baby boy Friday at 8 30 am at home with Mrs Sam Izard aiding. Hammond Indiana visitors Herschel Ogle and family dined with Charles Anacker on Sunday. Ralph Burkett and sons Kenneth Wilhoit family Wayne Patchett Carrol and Daisy Bell hosted. Lloyd Hendrix welcomed a 10 percent pound girl last Tuesday night. Evansville visitor Jane Montgomery stayed with Albert Jones Harvey Wilson Verlyn Molle and Glen Wilhoit households. Joe Burkett and daughters called in the afternoon. Edward Ellington and Carrol returned to Ft Belvoir Virginia after visiting relatives. Marshall area guests visited Lola Tingley and Karen Sunday.
Mrs Imogene Coots and sons from Detroit visited the area last week with sister Mrs Annabell Wells and family. Mr and Mrs Wayne Davis and children visited Sunday with her mother Mrs Amy English and daughter Jeanette. Mr and Mrs Ralph Washburn and son had dinner Sunday with her parents Mr and Mrs Hershel Weir and Erma.
Bill Smith called on Mr and Mrs Charles Davis on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Leon Dodd and Mable visited with Mr and Mrs Olen Wells Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Roy Crumlin spent part of last week near Melrose. Mrs Doris Parcel visited Mrs Ruth Davis Friday. Mrs Annabell Wells and son and Mrs John Poorman and children visited Tuesday with their father E Jackson and their sister Mia. Imo gene Coots and children.
Miss Alpha Walker daughter of Mrs Katherine Walker Clarksville became the bride of Glenn Morgan Jr son of Glenn Morgan Sr near Clarksville in a single ring ceremony at the Baptist parsonage Clarksville Rev J W Bennett officiated Relatives attended as best man and bridesmaid Wayne D Clapp and Miss Helen Hornbrook Others from Hume Paris and Dennison joined family gatherings and a Twin Lakes Park reunion in Paris for Faye Randall and Larry’s visit.
Attorney General George F. Barrett told an overflow Vandalia audience that Roosevelt is not the only man to lead victory and peace. He argued 4th term advocates overstate indispensability, citing Roosevelt’s 1932 pledge that no president is indispensable and urging voters to remember at the ballot box on November 7. He noted Roosevelt’s statements that the fate of America does not depend on any one man and pressed the need for diverse leadership beyond a single personality.
Samples of the 1944 crop of clover and alfalfa seed harvested should be submitted to the Seed Testing Laboratory in Springfield for grading. Payments for harvesting under the 1944 AAA program hinge on test results. Samples may be brought to Farm Bureau for mailing to the State Seed Laboratory.
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts selected and copyrighted through International Council of Religious Education. Used by permission.
The lesson notes God judges the heart, not outward appearance, as Samuel anoints David. It explains a storehouse of people ready for God’s work, the need to seek the right leader rather than wait for self-promoted figures, and the Spirit’s enabling for service through David.
Clark County farmers are urged to attend the annual Livestock Outlook Meeting on Wednesday evening September 13 at 8:00 in the Farm Bureau office Marshall. Overflow crowd will move to the Courtroom. Dr Norton of Extension Service will discuss demand prospects feed balance 1944-45 and factors for each livestock class. Scott Meiks of Indianapolis Producers will cover fat cattle hog market and lamb feeding.
The Farm Bureau Farm Management Service expands to Clark county from January 1, 1945, and shows profitability for both tenant and landowning farmers. In 37 northern Illinois counties nearly half of 1250 cooperating farmers are tenants, with tenants earning on average $16.25 more per acre on rented farms than other tenants, totaling about $3800 per year on 240-acre farms. Each participant learns how their farm income compares and where to strengthen the business today.
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