Martinsville notes and town chatter mixed with news
Local items from Martinsville report drought impacts water scarcity and wells drying up. People moving away including Bill Carr to North Dakota and Dan Snyder returning from North Dakota. Fair announcements, church service, a police case and a major bank coordination note with Booth & Company creditors.
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Bill Carr
Kimlin
North Dakota
Dan Snyder
John Rothrock
Indiana
Paris postmaster named Paul G. Shutt
Crawford county grand jury returned 49 indictments last week. Pearl fishers on the lower Wabash River found pearls valued from $590 to $1000 each. I. C. Harwood fatally shot his brother Jesse at Mattoon after a property dispute. Fred Middleton, church sexton, fell 60 feet from a Paris church belfry but survived. Arcola lights up after years with forty arc lights at 37.50 per year each. Joe James, sentenced to hang for the D A Ballard murder and race riot, his lawyers will not appeal. Several incendiaries have burned barns and fences near Arcola. they were seen but escaped. Henry F McDonald, who killed Chief of Detectives Dwyer in Terre Haute, is using insanity as a defense. Felix Blankenbaker is his attorney. Terre Haute manufacturers oppose city saloon domination amid local option fight. Judge Thompson rules Edgar county jury venires improper. new trials may follow. L. C. Porterfield of Philo weighed over 400 pounds. his coffin proved too wide for the church door. Weather and crops suffer across the Mississippi valley with drought, dying fish, and prayers for rain. Wilder Brigade reunion at Lafayette drew 600 veterans. next at Effingham. Dr. G. W. Kemper elected brigade president. Most soft drink establishments at Mattoon indicted for selling intoxicants. guilty pleas led to fines and injunctions. closures follow.
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Roy Buckner
M. D
West Union
Ross
Mart Tarble
Hot Springs
Ark
Chas. Morgan
Hanley Fry
Oklahoma
Sul Rogers
Sul
Hendrix
Church of God
J. S. Richmond
Decatur
Solomon Muller
Roy
Sally
Jin Dolson
Fred Ennis
People
Asal Bennett
Fair Ground
Jesse Blankenbeker
J. Arney
Martin Collier
U. B
Murdock
Greencastle
Ind
Geo
Carl Barr
Barr
Joe
Soldier
Uncle Joe
Paul G. Shutt
Paris
Crawford County Grand Jury
Wabash
I. C. Harwood
Jesse
Mattoon
Fred Middleton
Paris Presbyterian Church
Arcola
Joe James
D A. Ballard
Springfield
Wilder Brigade
LaFayette
Wilder
G. W. Kemper
Muncie
Brigade
Effingham
Pearl shell yields 842 white pearls near Fox River
Elgin Sept 22 while pearl fishing in the Fox river Dr Fred Schidmore veterinary surgeon found a clamshell containing 842 pearls all pure white in color and averaging nearly three eighths of a carat in weight He will take them to Chicago to ascertain their value
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Elgin
Fox River
Fred Schidmore
Chicago
Valie
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