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Newspaper
Marshall Republican
Location
Marshall, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1910
Page
8
Style Leaders Hughes Department Store invites customers to view Spring Showings across all departments. The store promises exceptionally clean up-to-date stock, high quality goods, and low prices due to large wholesale buying and Clark County growth.
The store advertises shoes for all ages from Budd's baby shoes to Ohio and Indiana brands. It highlights Grover shoes for women, Reeds and Queen Quality styles, Hoge and Stacy Howard Barker dress and work shoes, Easter footwear, rubbers, and Hughes made shoes.
Bridgeport Oil Co reports a Kirkwood sand well near Lawrenceville reaching 1885 feet with a 30 gravity oil vein at 1885 feet. Tracy Green and McClosky sands show strong output with 500 to 600 barrel wells, while deeper prospects hint at further discoveries below.
Numerous farm and country homes offered for sale including 40 acres near Clarkeville and Marshall, 20 acre bottom lands, 7 to 9 room houses, good land and buildings, near Auburn Westfield and Marshall on Darwin road. Prices from low thousands with several ready for quick trades.
About 40 000 000 poles are in use in the United States by telegraph and telephone companies valued at 5 to 7 dollars each. Replacement requires about 3 800 000 poles annually due to decay. Average life of cedar and chestnut poles is about twelve years, giving depreciation around 6 to 7 percent per year or at least 17 000 000 dollars. These figures from H P Folsom presented to railway telegraph superintendents.
Edith Foreater of Terre Haute Star reports that Leslie Gehman subjected her to repeated cruelty during their marriage begun in August 1908. She seeks divorce and the return of her maiden name Edith Foreater along with restoration of personal rights.
Muss Ramsey and Miss Tulley travel to Chicago to study elephant Gage pattern hats and view wholesale openings this week after touring Indiana firm displays. The Hughes clientelle shows interest in the latest styles and artis tic hat work.
On February 9 1910 the James Millikin University president presented a scholarship to a young woman who presented a loaf of bread as her matriculating credential. He praised the intelligence needed to bake the loaf and announced a Domestic Science tuition scholarship. This event is noted as a historic first in higher education.
R S Lowther of New York City visited the city early this week and Tuesday night staged a fancy and balk line billiards exhibition at the Marshall Club rooms. He performed clever shots and jump plays but lagged in balk line and straight games against locals due to unfamiliar table and cues and a shift in luck. He closed with an engaging finger billiards display.
Activity in Casey Oil Field Timbers and other materials are placed on the ground for a 2,000 foot well in Union township Cumberland county pool northwest of Casey by the Ohio Oil Company. The Associated Producers' Company, which recently bought E. M. Treat Company's holdings north and northwest of Casey, with branches at Westfield, proposes 18 wells in their territory this spring and summer.
The Pythian Theatre offers two reels of motion pictures with two songs and dissolving views each Saturday night at 7 30 and 8 15. Two complete shows.
Arbor and Bird Day are set for April 2 and October 21 across the state to foster tree planting and bird appreciation. The Illinois Department of Public Instruction will publish a 1910 Arbor and Bird Day annual with school materials and essays by Illinois educators and authors.
Mrs. Henry Thompson aged 60 of Lower Wabash township seven miles southeast of the city stepped through a floor hole in the hay mow Tuesday evening. She broke her right ankle with the bone protruding through the flesh. Dr. R A Mitchell dressed the wound and called Dr. Stephen Bradley. Amputation may be required due to severity.
For Rent two farms offered for cash rent with immediate possession. The 40 acre and 80 acre parcels are available. Contact T. W. Clark for details and arrangements.
Seed oats offered for sale and a line of plain and fancy lamps by Doll's. Wheat flour from Maryin's mill is advertised with a beet product mentioned. Mixed fragmentary ad copy indicates local merchant listings and prices for farm goods.
The Burlington Colorado Republication notes the Chicago Tribune poll misrepresents Colorado Republican editors and rejects Democratic use of the slander. Separately, word arrives that Mrs. Rose Osborn of Denver has died and was buried there. Locally, merchants advertise candy from Marshall Candy Kitchen and produce purchases at Snapp’s and Marvin’s mill offer flour and goods.
Ingram, an old soldier and longtime Marshall township resident, is presented as a Republican primary candidate for assessor. He is described as well qualified and familiar with city property values, promising fair appraisement if nominated and elected.
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