Marshall Fall Festival Showcases Bandstand Acts and Scout Village
The two day festival features free bandstand entertainment, children's games, a Blackhawk District Boy Scouts village with authentic teepees and trading post, and Paris Troop dances. Acts include LaBallerina dancers, Marge Richardson, a male quartet, accordion duets, and the Legion Auxiliary choir. Events run Friday 6 00 to 7 00 pm and Saturday 9 00 to 10 00 pm with games for youngsters starting Saturday at 4 00 pm including bike races, grass hopper race, three legged and sack races, wheelbarrow race, and a pig race.
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Marshall
Indiana Village
Ron Ellington
Ron Waltrip
Homer
Jethro
LaBallerina Dance Studio
Marge Schawler
Sheila Shaffner
Mary Ann Haugh
Ingo County Fair
Marge Richardson
American Legion Auxiliary
Blackhawk
Blackhawk District Tribe of the
Boy Scouts
Court House
Paris
Marshall trooper to join World's Fair security detail
State Trooper Gabriel J Bilderback of Marshall will depart September 15 for a month in New York to guard priceless Illinois Pavilion documents at the World’s Fair. He joins five other troopers named by Police Chief Morris as the September security detail, a role praised as a mark of recognition and goodwill for Illinois.
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Marshall
Gabriel J Bilderback
West Archer Avenue
Bilderback
William H Morris
New York
Illinois
Morris
State of
Ilinois
Arthur F Athmer
Shawneetown
Robert G _ Griese
Lombard
Anthony V_ Gabriel
Chicago Heights
Orson H Huffman Jr
Compton
Louis G Goodner
Stolell
Illinois Commission
Mlinois
Athmer
Battle of the Bands at Fall Festival
The teen center The Lion's Den hosts a Battle of the Bands during the Fall Festival on Main Street Marshall. Several groups compete for a $50 prize judged by four town leaders. WBOW Terre Haute DJs narrate this free event tonight Friday September 11 at 30 p.m. and inviting all residents to attend. Mrs. Fairy Blockinger entered St. Anthony Hospital Terre Haute for a major operation Tuesday.
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Teen Center
the Lion's den
Marshall
WBOW
Terre Haute
Fairy Blockinger
St. Anthony Hospital
4-H Barbecue Near Records in Martinsville Clark Co
About 1876 meals were served at the 16th annual Clark County 4-H barbecue in Martinsville. It was the second largest total, surpassed only by 2050 meals in 1953 at the Casey centennial. Net profit will exceed $1000 and goes to the county 4-H club program.
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Clark County
Martinsville
Warren Bundy
Bundy
Agriculture
Formalite
Marshall Cooperative Association
Clark Service Company
American Legion of
Martinsville Fire District
Martinsville Police Department
McDaniel Locker City of
Rowe Packing Co
Martinsville Fair Association
American Dairy of
Robinson
Farm Bureau
Extension HI-Lights by Mary Lou Meyer
During the last week in August we attended the new workers conference at the University of Illinois. This piece surveys the cooperative extension service dating to the Smith Lever Act of 1914 and highlights its goals to help people identify problems and act from knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Workers
University of Illinois
U S. Department of Agriculture
University of Ilinois
Land-Grant College of Illinois
U of I
Martha van Rensselaer
Cornell University
New York
Home Improvement Association
Home Bureau
Homemakers Extension
Kankakee County
Illinois
Eva Berefiel
Engagement of Alice Scott to James ONeal
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Scott of Mar announce the engagement of their daughter Alice to James Charles ONeal, son of Mrs. Mae Dicken of Fort Worth Texas. No wedding date is announced.
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Earl Scott
Mar
Alice
James Charles O'Neal
Mae Dicken
Fort Worth
Texas
Class of 1924 Holds Anniversary Banquet
The Marshall High School Class of 1924 marked its 40th anniversary with a Sunday banquet at Tom's Dining Room in Marshall. Marian Maurer Beeson presided, with Sue Turner Shearer and Manford Buckner assisting. The event included speeches, telegrams from absent members, prize awards, and plans for a 1969 reunion and a 1974 golden anniversary. Special guests included Albert Sockler and several sponsors and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall High School
Tom's
Marshall
Marian Maurer Beeson
Sue Turner Shearer
Manford Buckner
Alora
Phil Brown
Palm Beach
Florida
Louise Lickert Ullemeyer
Fern Cleny Casteel
Joe Connelly
Walter Clatfelter Hale
Richard Strohm
Nellie Newlin
Fenton Fraker
Howard Hannon
Genevieve Perkins
Otto Kuhn
Roy D Beeson
Russel Clafelter
E. J Ullemeyer
Harold Imle
Farl C LeFever
Mary F Hall
Mary Hawker Finkbiner
Loren F Paddock
Francis Staub
Thomas O'Gara
Walter Termain
Selma L. George
Leland Routledge
Fern Casteel
Albert Sockler
Terre Haute
Board of Education
J R. Hornbrook
Ward LaRue
Magmie Lickert
Temple to Speak at First Methodist Church
Dr Claude M Temple of Decatur Illinois will be guest speaker at First Methodist Church on September 20. He will discuss the Preachers' Aid Society of the Central Illinois Conference and deliver the sermon titled Tough and Gentle.
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Claude M Temple
Decatur
Ilinois
First Methodist Church
Temple
Mattoon
University of Minois
Boston University School of Theology
Peoria
Preachers’ Aid Society
Edward Campion
Olsen
First Methodist
Deaths and local notices from Marshall area
Harlan Hutchens aged 62 of 2nd Street Marshall died Sunday at home. Survived by widow Bessie and four sons Harlan Jr Martinsville Herbert Dill City Oklahoma Wilbur Satellite Beach Florida and Douglas at home three tinsville Herbert Dill City Oklahoma Illinois Frances Kraemer Dallas Texas Jane Silverberg and two brothers Chat Hutchens and Fenton Hutchens of Marshall. Funeral 2 pm Wednesday Greenwell Funeral Home Martinsville Rev H J Kemp officiating. Burial Auburn Cemetery. Lisa Lynn Yeske daughter of Mrs Thomas Yeske Casey crowned queen of 6 to 11 year class at Jaycee Town and Country Fair Casey last Monday. Lisa is granddaughter of Mrs Thelma Murphy Marshall. Denise Jones daughter of Mr and Mrs Dennis Jones Marshall was first runner up. Mrs R A Mitchell fell Monday and broke hip scheduled for surgery at Union Hospital Terre Haute.
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Harlan Hutchens
2Nd St
Marshall
Bessie
Harlan, Jr
Martinsville
Herbert
Lisa Lynn Yeske
Thomas Yeske
Casey
Lisa
Thelma Murphy
Denise Jones
Dennis Jones
Local Notices and Marriages From 1914 Illinois Archive
Fifty years ago Mont Taylor a 20 year old near Oak Grove school house was kicked by a horse breaking bones in six places. Marriage licenses issued for Everett Desmond and Nellie Farris Dennison, James Wright and Ethel Forsythe, Clyde Elliott and Nellie Beltz, Elzie Chapman and Hazel Goodwin, Robert Murphy and Anna Worrell. Marshall fire destroys farm residence. two weddings held in Marshall. Indiana bound student to Indiana Central College. American Legion delegate named for St Paul convention. multiple couples wed in Marshall area.
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Mont Taylor
Oak Grove
Everett H Desmond
St Louis
Missouri
Nellie Farris Dennison
Charles McKinney
ON City
Pennsylvania
May Leigh
Casey Leon Dodd
Celia Welsh
Melrose Township
Paris
James R
Wright
Ethel Forsythe
Oliver High School
Robert Nightlinger
Marshall
Robert Smitley
Robert E Murphy
Anna Worrell
Steelville
Indiana
Terre Haute
Elzie Chapman
Johnson Township
Hazel Goodwin
Crawford County
Squire Craig
Clyde P Elliott
Denver
Colorado
Nellie Beltz
Arthur Poorman
American Legion
St Paul
Minnesota
Gene Washburn
Indianapolis
Indiana Central College
Marshall High Plans 1964 Football Schedule and Staff
Coaches Carroll Bennett and John Veltri lead 96 candidates as Marshall High announces the 1964 varsity schedule with Sept 18 Arcola away and Nov 13 Casey away. Sophomore and freshman schedules list games through November with start times. Also noted are staff bios, a farm purchase, an arm injury, student enrollments, retirement announcement for Don Medsker, and local family updates.
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Carroll Bennett
John Veltri
Bennett
Veltri
Marshall
George Gattas
Martinsville High School
Eastern Illinois University
Clinton
Indiana
Indiana State College
Wabash
Seiger Memorial High School
Marshall Lions Open 1964 Practice With 96 Candidates
The Marshall Lions began the 1964 season with 96 football candidates at opening practice on August 26. The squad moved to a one a day schedule with night drills on Tuesdays and Fridays as they focus on offense and defensive alignments ahead of a September 18 non conference opener at Arcola and four home games versus Cumberland Palestine Newton and Paris.
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Marshall Lions
Lions
Arcola
Cumberland
Palestine
Newton
Paris
Also Mentioned on This Page
Trooper Bilderback OF
Battle OF the Bands
Mary Lou Meyer
Dr, Temple
Methodist Church
Casey Queen
R. A. Mitchell
Union Hospital
Ouril
Elmer Fawley
Spotts School
George Beuhler
North Sixth Street
Lucy
George King
D F Silives
Glenn Wells
Mvria
Hammond
Lucy Beuhler
Lester Parson
Baltimore Maryland
Nettle Dawson
Marshall II
Eugene Kuhn
Ruth Endres
John S Tudd
West Union
Lula
Stringer
Dorothy Kannmacher
Harry Kannmacher
Carl Tingley
Harry Ting
Charleston
Garfield
West Vigo
Leg
Zion Evangelical Church
Thomas S Brosman
Pomona
California
Dawson Farm
Marshall Owen Lee
Andrew Liffick
Marshall Township High School
Don Medsker
Don
Marshall Post Office
Was
Continus
Chester Irwins
St Anthony Hospital
Steve Bennett
Tim Duke
Bill Hansel
Ray Stone
Larry Montgomery
Don Samford
Dennis Reed
David Gagen
Brent Kile
Gerald Monk
Bill Duke
Duwayne Stepp
Leslie Batey
Darrell Beard
Dick Clatfelter
Allen Jones
Steve Macke
Steve Shawler
Darrell Sanders
Gerald Knapp
Doug Duran
Ron Turner
Gary Thompson
Tom Parke
Bruce Jones
Ron Graves
John Malinak
Melvin Titus
Kenny Cannady
Don Warner
Jerry Raisner
Dale Finkbiner
Clark Prevo
John Howard
Steve Waller
Mike DeBlois
Larry Davis
Terri Jones
Ron Eitel
John Spangler
Dennis McConchie
John Noyes
Gary Morgan Carro
Baggs
Steve Reltz
Duane Dity
Sam _— Tones
Jack Barnhart
Jim Kuykendall
Mike Spittler
Larry Vanoven
Roh Murphy
Tim Cork
Albert Wernz
Roh
Robert Gary McGee
George Smith
Jerry Helman
Far! Warner
Gary Rector
D Smitley
J Smitley
Jerry Malone
Benny Johnson
Steve Davidson
Tavid Morgan
John Pearce
Kenny Simpson
Virgil Macke
John Triveh
Jerry Brosman
Don Burk
Weist
Jim Waugh
Steve Thompson
Jim Bayadim White
Darrel Cooper
Tom Hendrix
Tony Cork
Ralph Prevo
Steve Lucan
Charlie Rose
Rick Wilson
Henry Murphy
Jim Smiles
Loren Cannady
Norman Hawker
Steve Gard
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