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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1921
Page
4
A West Union bulletin records residents traveling and visiting relatives in Terre Haute Akron Gary and New York City. It notes deaths of Robert Jackson and Mrs. William Handy with details of burial and funeral services in Ohio cemetery and York cemetery respectively.
Mrs. John Higginbotham and Ormal visit relatives in Upper Wabash. Ben Setzer family from State Line drop by. Mr and Mrs Wm Norton host a gathering. George Lederman entertains guests Saturday night. Paul Morris from Terra Haute joins Thelma and Mattie White near Melrose at Hershel Cline’s. Wm Carpenter family visit with Herman and wife. Homer and Everett Hollenbeck visit Amos Haddix. John Blizzard calls on Geo Strohm. Carl Norton visits Marshall over Sunday. Mrs John Garner and children spend Sunday with Ed Burger’s mother.
DOLSON reports several locals attended Dollar Day at Marshall on Wednesday. Sperry Claypool and son Ophir attended the Charleston fair on Thursday. James Grover cut his hand last week while cutting broom corn. Sperry Claypool and wife visited Mr. and Mrs. Sam Brosman on Sunday. Elva and Della, two sisters, stayed with Laura Helmer and daughters Sunday. Charles Burkett and daughter of near Kansas spent Saturday evening at Marlin Claypool’s home. Walter Davis and wife of Casey were here Saturday on business.
Ollfela and Sylvan Richey and family visited Melton and wife Sunday. J. W. Hutchings and wife visited Bruce Anderson near Mt. Pleasant Sunday. Zenas Murphy, wife, and Diana Murphy spent Sunday with Clarence Waller and family. Hamilton Clapp and wife, George Claypool and family, and John Kirchner and family were guests of Louie Heiss and wife Sunday.
Rev W H Guyer of Findlay Ohio spoke at Willis Chapel addressing the Sunday school about the college and its Christian advantages. Homecoming at Willis Chapel drew large attendance in connection with the Eldership session. Oliver Ishler of Chickasha Oklahoma visited family here before returning home after stopovers in St Louis. A Christian church revival continues in the new tabernacle at Maine and Union. Highway paving work through Martinsville progresses with substantial headway. Ed McNary and son Fred build a new garage at York and Vine. Everett Carper buys N Toledo street lot to finish existing improvements. M E church basement work nears completion. cool Sunday morning noted. Otho Fasig leaves for Harvard College after vacation here. Mrs Chas Armstrong and mother James Snyder in poor health. J P Byram and Jerry Ishler to attend G A R encampment in Indianapolis next week. Busy Saturday afternoon and evening with medicine vendors auction salesmen and Volunteers of America and two Sal.
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John W. Eliott and Ralph were in York Thursday. Virgil Denning and Lewis Whitman returned from near East St Louis where they had been working. Andrew Merring plans to move into his repaired property soon. Allen and Charles Jackson and Helen and Scott Babera attend Hutsonville high school again this year. Orphabelle Stephens and Dorcas Winters of West York and Frances Fowler had dinner with Mrs Pearl Murphy and family Sunday. Charles Johnson and wife and Charles Murphy and family spent Sunday with Guy Hand and family of Quaker Lane. Alva Orcutt and wife had Sunday dinner with her parents Mr and Mrs Albert Bonesteel.
Joseph T. Epperson of Westfield died at 12 30 Wednesday. The Westfield team beat Inclose nine 2 0. Miss Gladys Collins becomes head nurse in Madison Wisconsin hospital. Various locals make visits, moves, teaching posts, and assignments across Indiana and Wisconsin.
Mrs Henry Reinoeh returned Friday from a visit with her daughter Mrs J J Dunn in Lawrenceville Leon Brewer returned to Chicago after a two week visit with relatives here Miss Margaret Schiver went to Charleston Friday to visit Fern McMillan and attend the Coles County fair Mrs Lillie Kasserman left Thursday for Daytona Beach after visiting her mother Mrs BE Heath Mr and Mrs William Cheno wet and daughters went to Charleston to visit relatives and attend the Coles county fair Allan McMillan and daughter motored to Vandalia to visit her father Torrence Mrs George Luby and family returned to Palestine after a visit with her sister Mrs Nora McKibbin Misses Mary and Annette Emrich went to Chicago to visit sister Mrs H L Lee Annette will enter Chicago University for the coming year Rogens Mitchell of Martinsville was a guest of relatives Friday Shirley Kally of Casper visiting relatives here Andrews Lee returned from a week’s visit with his cousin Dr Lee A Brown in Charleston Mr and Mrs W P Fancher and others attended the Coles County fair in Charleston Beatrice Zerkhurst returned Friday from Paris Haute where she
A fragmented town notes social visits and church events. The piece lists residents and guests including the McMorris family, the Brandenburgs, and the Emrichs, with travels to Urbana and Indianapolis. Obituary details recount Mrs. Handy’s long service to her community and family.
Fragments describe a store scene inviting to passers by and a clerk on display. A Mrs. Jobin Black travels to Mattoon morning visiting relatives, accompanied by her sister Warren who has been visiting Thettle daughter of W Hodge. Lee Reed of Auburn buys a spring wagon from Archer and fears riding it home.
Twenty years ago thousands of quarts of peaches were canned with hundreds more expected this month. A young woman and her mother peeled and canned many quarts in a day. Grocers report high peach demand and empty shelves. Clarence Prevo of Darwin won a piano premium from a West Union merchant. Henry Knipe leads a Syndicate planning the Parle Terre Haile electric railway, with Will Hogue slated to speak. Nearby moves include Mrs Mary Howard relocating to Terre Haute and Chris Coons moving his family into Mrs Anna Keditski’s house.
Benjamin Goble, long time resident, died after a stroke at night, aged over fifty. Hannah Talley of LaPere Haute and Mary Meehiling and Glens Thompson resume roles at Hughes millinery. Joe Mitchell left St Louis for Urbana to resume college. Mrs Lloyd Pulver, Mrs Joan Craig, and Mrs Will Craig hosted a surprise birthday dinner for Mrs Will Pine at 1085 Lower Wabash. Earl Mitehall went to Blooming ton Indiana to enter Indiana University medical course. Harry Duncan of Terrs Etaute spent Sunday with Gilbert east of the city. A reader comments on unsettled Earth theories and daily sun observations.
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