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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1949
Page
1
Next Monday September 12 opens one of Clark county s biggest racing events with 5000 in purses for harness trotting and running races A new half mile track is lighted for a beautiful Illinois scene Admission 75 cents Grandstand 50 cents Bleacher 25 cents at Marshall for September 12 13 14 15 racing nights.
Last Saturday in Marshall circuit court five of seven hearings were divorce cases. Clyde Watters won a divorce from Grace Watters. Joan Greenlee Cooper gained a divorce from Wayne Cooper and resumed the name Greenlee. Norma Hanners Sturts obtained a divorce and restoration of her maiden name. Bonnie Rhoads was granted a divorce from William Rhoads. The term also included the final partition decree in Elsie F. Richey v Charles Fort et al. and a dismissal in Ben Cordell v Lee Greenwell.
Joseph Thomas Whitehead 21 of Danville Illinois Elihu Collins 21 of Batesville Kentucky and Glen Combs 22 of Hazard Kentucky were arraigned in Clark County Court on a charge of attempting to steal an automobile and pled guilty. Whitehead and Collins each drew one year at Vandalia penal farm while Combs received one year on probation. Deputy Sheriff Willie Shawver escorted Whitehead and Collins to begin their sentences.
Dr. and Mrs. Carl A. Tyre of Las Cruces New Mexico visited Rev and Mrs Eugene E Stauffer. The Tyres professors at New Mexico A and M College were returning from study and travel in Spain and Portugal. They learned in Madrid at the American Consulate about Sam Zimmerly of Marshall Illinois on assignment with the consulate staff.
The county clerk issued licenses this past week to John W Stanfield 23 Martinsville and Jeanne Jane Lindley 19 Martinsville Paul Phillipps 24 Casey and Patricia Jane Cunningham 20 Casey Elijah Buchanan 48 West Terre Haute and Maggie Ethel Walker 49 West Terre Haute Richard F Henderson Jr 31 Martinsville and Wanda Medsker 18 Marshail
A rotary rig moves into the Marshall field with an offset to the Cox well in Lower Wabash to be drilled. Surface pipe is set and completion expected in about a week. Standard Oil shifts from Cox as two Edgar county fields develop. Elbridge field shows a second well with a third under way and a producing discovery at 200 barrels per day. The Wernz well in Melrose Township reaches the Devonian at 2600 feet with final pipe string set to test the formation and results due in a week or two.
Fifty five boys report for Marshall High School football the second largest squad in its history. Seven lettermen include captains Fredenberger and Medsker and quarterback Perkins. First game is Friday Sept 16 at 7 30 p m against Oakland on Marshall field with new bleachers to enlarge seating.
Mr and Mrs Fred P Hall and daughter Mary Ellen arrived in Marshall to visit his parents Mr and Mrs Cary Hall. Hall enlisted July 14 1924 and has served about ten ships, over twenty two years on continuous active duty, holding every rating up to Lieutenant Commander. He now works for the U S Government in civil life and lives in Alexandria Virginia. After Marshall they will visit Waukegan with brothers Owen and Arthur and families.
Boyd Lycan, long time Terre Haute employee, purchased Bill and Nell's Grill on North Seventh Street in Marshall and is now operating the eatery.
An evangelistic meeting starts next Sunday September 11 at Five Points church six miles west of Marshall with M. W. Wright of Hume Illinois as evangelist. Services every evening at 7 30 except Saturday. Special music by Rev Wright and his family at various times.
Lists of patients admitted or discharged at Paris Hospital from August 31 to September 7. Notes include Mrs. Robert Cormican Casey medical treatment Willis McDaniel Martinsville Donna Zeigler Martinsville surgical treatment and several patients named Marsh Fount Marsh and Clyde Watters Jr. Casey medical visits mention a Marshall check forger case and local towns Casey and Charleston. Also reports births Russell Eugene September 1 and Marilyn Lee September 1 at St Anthony Hospital with Marshall ties. David Cropp returns from San Antonio air base for ten days before reporting to Scott Field Illinois.
Front row lists teachers Bertha Kammacher Geneva Murphy Mildred Hutchens Patricia Molter Barbara Eigin Gertrude Kelly Rachel Griffiths Carolyn Ralston Florence Kocher Irene Manhart Georgia Connerton James Arnold. Other rows include Edith Kammacher Weslie Siverly Meria Melton Florence Newport Wilma Cetlsert Mary Jane Goble Edith Ralston Mildred Bush Louise Phearis Carl Holler Edna Wankford Mabel Travior Jennie Brown Margaret Pheads Violet Baker Marty Irwin Ruth Murphy Cecil Buckner Charles Bush Sihei Hutchison Mary Curran Sylvia Sweet Ann Kuhn Elsie Jane Marrs Irene Cline Arnold Tyler Vaughan Amey Elsie Travoli Rosa Smith Irene Bennett LaFern Adams Helen Jane Fredenberger Ruth Fredenberger Genevieve Perkins Truman Spittler Edward Marks Virgil Roth Paul Goble Francis Adams Mr. Roberts Kenneth Brumm C M Hadley
Elmer E. Lounsberry of Terre Haute and Miss Fannie Kukendall of State Line married Monday evening. The bride previously wrote for this paper. Eddie Lovell injured in a shivaree when a firecracker burned his face. A Clark County teacher is “double blessed.” John S. Strohm and Miss Clara L. Holzworth wed yesterday near Ernest. A crowd joined an excursion to Chicago to mark the wedding season with other local names attending a West York reunion.
Marriage licenses issued to Harry Harbor and Goldie Spires of Dolson township. Dolson high school opened with 110 students and city schools 480, split evenly north and south. Enrollment expected to rise next week. Several residents abroad and visiting relatives, including Tom McClure in Chicago and Harry DeVol's family visit. Local social notes mention visits, typhoid illness of John Rademaker, and birthday gathering at Mt Pleasant.
At the fourth annual West Union homecoming on August 31 officers for the coming year were elected: Claude Blizzard president Perry Jackson vice president Maude Blizzard secretary and two Mrs Machlan posts. Ruth Scholfield wed Arthur Cromwell in Washington DC. Locust Street fines were paid in a small case and work on the national road progressed with track completion up to Au DaFE and concrete mixers soon to operate.
In an event from twenty years ago, Miss Virginia Knipe suffered injuries after a Sunday automobile collision on the south side of the courthouse square. Miss Dorothy Moore drove the car with Knipe aboard. they collided with a vehicle driven by Jack Cline, leaving Knipe with seven stitches in her arm.
Nora Bennett publisher of the Clark County Democrat died Monday at 12 42 p m in Union Hospital Terre Haute from injuries from a fall a week earlier. She was 76. Survived by three sons Grendell Tarquin C and Caslon K of Marshall five brothers and one sister. Funeral from Marshall Methodist Church Wednesday at 2 00 p m with Rev Eugene E Stauffer officiating. Burial in Marshall Cemetery.
School opened on Wednesday August 31 in Marshall Community Unit Schools serving nine rural and three city attendance centers. Total enrollment across all twelve centers reached 1179. The following lists the individual school enrollments.
Bonnie Rhoads and William Rhoads seek divorce. John E. Bushart v Lona A Bushart also seeks divorce. J J Hinkley files petition to dissolve a trust with Florence M Chambers listed as respondent.
The fourth annual Beachout descendants reunion met at the Christian Church in Porterville on Sunday. The next gathering is planned for the Clark County fairgrounds in Martinsville.
Names of residents entering Charleston Teachers College listed for Clark County. includes Margaret Louise Marshall Emma J Craig Nolan Crum James Millhouse residents and others. Social notices follow with Sunday picnics and gatherings at Clarksville Lower Wabash Sha kamak Park and East McDaniel locations detailing attendees.
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