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Newspaper
Marshall Herald
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1927
Page
4
In West York the Church of Christ meetings led by Ed Wiley Mathers and Frank Adamson concluded Sunday night with six new members. An all day Sunday meeting and basket dinner drew attendees from distant towns. Laughing, fellowship, and prayer marked the close as families and friends gathered.
Choctaw Eld Urant French of Mt Carmel will preach here Saturday night Sunday and Sunday night. John Garner and family spent Sunday with Ed Wallace and family at Freedom. Mrs Minnie Cline and children John Ledermann and family Perry Jackson and family Edward Burger and wife Charles Hollenbeck and family William Norton wife and daughter Ida Wyrick and Maude Blizzard attended the homecoming at Freedom Sunday. Arcod Thomason and family are spending a few days with Ed Burger and family. Mabel Jackson has returned home from Chrisman where she has been working. Mabel Siverly spent Thursday night with Gladys Hollenbeck. Mary Ledermann spent Monday night with Mrs Nellie Williams.
East McDaniel Mr and Mrs Alva Wells visited Hutsonville on business Thursday. Frank Malloy of West Union bought poultry nearby Thursday. Mrs A E Francis stayed with daughter Mrs Ethel Willard in Robinson Friday. Fred Stanfield was in Robinson on Saturday. Alva Wells family and others visited near Annapolis. Chalk Railiff of West York visited the Drakes. Mrs Esther Wheeler Frances and A E Francis attended Thomas Wheeler funeral at Bailiff church. Wallace Elliott family shopped in Terre Haute Saturday. Jesse Spraker and wife visited Charles St Clair near Hutsonville Sunday.
Elsie Burman spent Sunday with Misses Nina and Lina Whitman. Noble Coryell and family of Sullivan, Indiana, visited relatives here. J A Hanson and son Jack of Mount Carmel joined Ausby Lowe and family of Robinson for a Sunday gathering with Howard Jackson and family.
The record lists numerous visits among families including the Carpenters Arbuckles Millers Reasors Higginbothams and Willams. Social afternoons and Sunday dinners recur with Henry Miller hosting and several households gathering across the week.
Alex Baggs and family hosted FISHBACK Alex Baggs and family of Terre Haute and Frank Tingley and family of Bethel as guests last Sunday. Mrs Ida Keller hosted dinner with several relatives. Mrs Gwyn Routledge of Armstrong visited Mrs Mollie Sears last Thursday. The Armstrong Missionary Club met with Mrs. Mollie Sears on Wednesday with twelve members present. Guests included Ross Pine Fred Geisert Clyde Pine Henry Coon Amos Beltz Thos Hewitt and daughter Genevieve and Lola Sweitzer. Afterward light refreshments were served.
Mr and Mrs Robert Gard entertained Robinson Sun guests including Misses Mary and Helen Brown Helen Davison and Ruth Arbuckle who visited Miss Bonnie Collier Saturday. Mrs Wal Brown traveled to Pittsburgh to visit daughter and family. Mr and Mrs Ray Tharp of St Louis announce the birth of daughter Mary Jean on September 20.
Sunday activities include a homecoming at Freedom with Roy Scott and family and several Arbuckle and Davison relatives. The community will host preaching by Rev. Godert next weekend with services Saturday night and both Sunday services at the local church.
Otis Williams and family visited Eugene Arbuckle and family on Sunday. Dorsea Reasor and family joined Henry Miller and family at Joe's Fork. John Carpenter and family with Thos Carpenter family and Lucy Chambers group visited Howard Serwise at Avon. Audrey Shaffner and children visited L. D. Coombes and wife. Otis Williams family also called on Carl Carpenter and wife Sunday evening.
The Rocks at Charleston hosted a Sunday picnic with Mae Wood Waneta Ramsey Vera Ellington Irma Wood Ernest Nickles Loraine Ellington Roy Davis Frank Seaton and Bill Wood. E A Davis hosted Sunday dinner for J L Heck and granddaughter Irma, and F MecColvin of Hardinsville.
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A gathering took place Wednesday evening at the Paris residence of Mrs F J James. Details of the occasion are not provided in the accessible text.
Glenn Shinkle spent the weekend with his parents in Muncie Indiana. Don Emrick of Chicago arrived for a two week visit with his mother Sadie Warren. Tex and Mrs Francis returned home after a week in Harvard Chicago and Beloit Wisconsin. Harold Beeson comes home from Oklahoma and will enter Casey high as a senior. Polk Briscoe and his brother Cole Briscoe visited Ross Lee's family. J E Sebring from Bloomington plus Manda DeBoid and M. Ozier hosted visitors. Tod Middleton and family joined J B Middleton at Mattoon. Louis Ferguson and family returned to Sterling from Bellair. Alva Cline and Walter Taggart head to Akron for vulcanizing school. Chas Weaver Harold and Edwin Higbee plan a Texas and California winter trip. Mae Templeton of Paris returns from a visit with Vera.
The passage defines good manners as seeking the best for oneself yet showing restraint. It highlights the ability to stand aside and cheerfully make room for others as the mark of high breeding and a beautiful spirit.
Miss Dorothy Hall of Farmersburg Indiana takes the Avon school post south of Marshall replacing Verna O Caton also of Farmersburg. Alma Shipe Hester Shipe Ela Deaner Eliza beth Hagist and Nelle Warri ner traveled to Champaign Sunday and spent the day.
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