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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1917
Page
4
Melrose residents report light damage from recent events while farmers harvest buckwheat and plan sawmilling. Neighbors swap teams for a Ford and several locals visit Springfield for the state fair. A crane of injuries includes a child’s leg injury and a farm accident with a broken leg.
Ralph Davis visits relatives near Olney. Green Moss cemetery cleaned last Friday. Frank Hurst and wife of Marshall visited relatives here Thursday. Some buckwheat acreage cut. crop looks promising for fair yield. John Ross, Dave Montgomery, Will Davis, Frank Garver, and Truman Ross motored to Decatur Monday. Plowing active. not much wheat, but rye up from last fall. John Hurst Jr. and wife visited sister Cecila Marrs near Westfield Saturday night and Sunday. A frost on the 10th and 11th caused no damage. last year a killing frost occurred Sept 16. Beard family and friends moved east of Parfe. Rev. WH Stephens, former Green Mose preacher, assigned to work here again this year.
Local names discuss arrivals and departures, cattle shipping day, and a sermon at the Baptist church on being a good soldier. It recalls Madison’s Battery formation in 1861 with a portrayal of early soldiers and their movements to Camp Wood.
We urge the young men who served and salute them. If tested in trenches they should act bravely and return with honor. Be faithful to the powers that be and success will follow. May they come home welcomed as loyal, faithful soldiers and commissioned officers.
The article notes continued rain and warm weather as pastures dry rapidly. It lists social visits to Oak Grove Plainview Farm Terre Haute and Vincennes, along with a large harvest update from Huey with 110 bushels of wheat oats and rye each. Paris Reservoir Park hosts a Grisham reunion with several families absent due to whooping cough.
Helen Black left for the Womans College in Oxford Ohio. Ward Black sails soon for France from New York City. Dr H A Simpson of West Union is commissioned second lieutenant in the veterinary corps. Miss Iley Shields to Charles C Rupert announce a Sapulpa Oklahoma wedding. Typhoid cases reported in town and nearby. Water fountain installed by city council. Briscoe Ford car burned near Paris. Death reported of Gary Indiana boy hit by truck.
The southbound Sidell and Olney passenger train collided with Otis Elliott’s car two miles north of the city. Occupants Otis Elliott and his nephew Chris Ryan injured. Ryan has a fractured hip and severe bruises while Elliott is bruised on head and shoulders. Other brief items include motorist travel and local visits.
John Winnett of the area one mile north of Vevay Park lost his barn to a Friday night lightning strike. The remains of Miss Callie Wagoner of Indianapolis were brought here Sunday and taken to George Gilbert's home. Funeral services were held that afternoon with burial in Casey cemetery. Deceased was a former resident of Casey.
Mrs Dean Bradbury of Fairbanks Indiana spent part of last week with relatives here. Mrs Ethel Holwick of Terre Haute visits her uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs George Pritchard. Miss Lizzie McCord of Paris spent last week with friends here. John Barker, who enlisted last spring, will soon go to France. Pearl Fowler heads to Indianapolis to join a navy training camp. Mrs Angie Wilson of Crawford County visited her sister here. Mrs L Roberts returned home after a week in Sullivan. The Ketchum family hosted a fish dinner with Manford Ofsborn and wives Jack Barker and wife John Rowe and wife all from Indiana. Alfred Bierbolt and wife from Peoria and Rollie Madison of Greenup spent last week here. Allie Madison and family and Mrs Fannie Murphy and children visited Greenup for the Madison reunion. Mrs Nettle Blaker of Chrisman returned home after a week here.
Four year old Lilen Grimes and her brindle bulldog Bob wandered mountains near Boulder for two days and nights as 200 searchers with bloodhounds hunted them. Bob protected Ellen from cliffs and saved her from danger while berry eating and sleeping in rock crevices. A miner helping the search was injured after a fall.
Ralph Cahoon Whitenack of Wilmington Delaware is appointed secretary and economic adviser to the maharaja of Baroda India. He is a professor at Keio University Tokyo and a Wilmington High School and Gakley College graduate who worked as a stenographer before pursuing Brown and Harvard.
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