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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1915
Page
5
LocalResidents and visitors are listed with recent activity in Neighbonwood Martinsville and nearby towns. Names include Sly Shawver Will Mallory Elder Deter George Petry and Rev O O Tracy. Church meetings births marriages and social events are noted amid weather and road conditions.
Tornado and fire insurance offered by Cole and Cole Marshall at low rates. Grain remaining in shock. Mrs Phena Lowry moved to Joseph Ax farm. Mack Beachout and wife from Casey visited. Homer Haun and family from Kansas IL visited. Web Little and wife from West York spent Sunday with relatives. Grandmother Cleavers on vacation visiting Martinsville friends. Harmon brothers from Georgetown Indiana visited and bought apples. Charles Wells drove oil tractor to assist on west side. Arrangements for an addition to the state aid road to begin next spring. Oliver Mr and Mrs C Craig in Marshall Saturday. James Wright worked as editor in Marshall Wednesday. Do not forget Oliver Pals event on Osh 2 and 2 Miss Ellays Meyanne visiting relatives. Mr and Mrs Barium spent Sunday with James Forsyte and family. Mr and Mrs B Shively and family also noted.
Westfield News reports Mr and Mrs Louis Colgrove will soon open the Westfield Hotel. Miss Carrie Goble traveled to Elgin to visit relatives. Mr and Mrs W H Drewel visit Missouri to be at the bedside of Mr Drewel's seriously ill father. Miss Nora Briscoe leaves for Decatur to attend Millikin University. Edith Lowry departs for Lake Geneva Wisconsin to teach this year. The H and D railroad was sold last week to stockholders of the old C and W road with plans for improvements. Heber Briscoe bought land from Dr J J Hinkley to build a brick room south of the Merrick building.
Mr and Mrs Claude Vickery left yesterday on an eastern tour of about ten days. Mrs Harry Lewis of Los Angeles visits her father J W Johnson. Floyd Ralston and wife depart for Columbus and then Fort Wayne. Dr Lamb family heads to North Dakota for a month. Wayne Johnson returns to state university at Champaign. Walden Hancock left for the week. Charley Albert injures arm cranking a car. George Kerr moves to Martinsville. Robert Cormican Jr goes to Detroit for Continental Motor Co. employment.
Miss Madge Miller returned home last week from Paris visit. Hurley Rollings and friend from Marshall joined Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bohn for Sunday. Mrs Elmer Horner and daughter Frances Dee of Indianapolis visit her parents here. Mrs Chaud Paddock and sons from Walnut Prairie spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs John Paddock. Mr and Mrs J W Hartzler have returned from Indianapolis after attending a funeral.
Small ad notes large sheets for transferring embroidery and other patterns available at the Herald office.
The London Chronicle notes Canadian cash markets mix British and United States coins with equal value. In Canada not all money is tightly supervised as American reluctance to handle Dominion coins contrasts with broad acceptance. A coin collector recalls finding a George III farthing and an old Irish balfpenny within a day’s change.
A historic anecdote shows King Victor Emmanuel visiting the foreign office after Signor Prinetti asked for staff augmentation. He finds hours 8 to 12 with colleagues arriving around 11. The king suggests ensuring current staff attend to duties rather than adding clerks.
The piece cites Samuel G Blythe on Japanese curiosity and recounts a quarrel between Mike Hogan Casey and O'Brien. A courteous stranger in a frock coat tries to halt the fight, but Casey misreads the remark and escalates the dispute in a Louisville Times style anecdote.
A famed New York essayist attended a Washington Square tea with artists, poets, sculptors, painters and horologists. Ladies wore green burlap djibbabs. gentlemen, sandals. The vegetarian collation accompanied a remark on artistic longings as long hair teeth faces but few purses.
The Romans, termed the first to make war an art, allegedly began trench warfare. Their main line extended across southern Germany from the east bank of the Rhine toward near present Stuttgart.
A compact quoted exchange contrasts a confident philosopher urging certainty with an unmarried man urging humility and forgiveness. The dialogue sketches a moral tension between certainty and contrition in a brief literary fragment.
In a Baltimore American quote, a heated exchange mocks the idea that diet shapes character. The remark about sour Miss Tart cappuccino humor is noted as a facetious aside.
A playful fragment from the Kansas City Journal shows a quote about beating gogs with a yolk club and a humorous aside on excretion and compassion. The text reads as a quirky, oblique excerpt from a sports page.
A garbled text fragment presents unclear names and phrases about persons and a world or life concept. Readable items are scarce and no coherent event or outcome emerges from the OCR snippet. The lines resemble a broken multilingual stylization with potential names like Franzis Racon amid mixed terms.
Rain paused threshing and delayed fall seeding across the area. Martha Claypool of Branch visits son George in town while Elisha Claypool battles rheumatism at Milo Clays home in Marshall. Church elders gather in Blue Grass and preachers attend with keen interest. Local social notes record numerous Marshall visits and family arrivals including births and weekend trips.
Jack Barker and wife moved across the river last week to work on a farm. Mrs. E. Ketchum spent Sunday with friends in West York. Revival services draw many from the area to West York. Dean Bradbury and wife of Fairbanks Indiana visited relatives here. Miss Susie Stark returned home in Terre Haute after a visit there. The ice cream supper hosted by the ladies of the O E S chapter Saturday night was a success.
German forces renew assault toward Constantinople as vilna captured by Germany. Russian army allegedly surrounded yet hopeful of escape. Bulgaria mobilizes for armed neutrality. German submarines active in Turkish waters. Berlin claims British transport sunk. Black Sea actions reported.
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