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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1885
Page
8
From Our Then Correspondent reports a busy village scene with weddings, farm news, and several incidents. Farms expand with new projects while lamb losses and fence-timber shortages puzzle locals. A collision injures a horse, and a wedding’s next evening ties families together amid community bustle.
Edna Buckingham teaches at the Marshall school while Sarah Hackstaff visits Mrs Myron Weeks in South Walton. Frank Wilson heads to Iowa to settle there, Villa Jewell returns from New York, and Prof Estabrook of Olivet College leads revival meetings with students. Remodelling at Bom AUCCRAS, M Dedrick stores, and shopping at Lee Center are noted. Funeral of Mrs Dale of Tonia County held at Nichol Schoolhouse. Officiating Rev J Hills. A son of Mr and Mrs J S Jewett dies at 22 from diabetes. Protracted meetings conclude. more planned at Lee Centre. Chas L Walker family mourns five-year-old son. Port mortem confirms bowels grown together. Albion notes: Chapwao & Perrine dissolved, new school building, city officers seated, large election turnout, first baseball game on campus, mills idle due to wheat shortage, daylight supper, speed trials between Gale and Lookwood, The Spy of Atlanta profitable. Supreme Court case Sheldon v Holmes, no continuance granted. Nearly 900 voters. population around 4,000. Baptist Sunday school convention in Albion April 28-29. City charter debate reflects political fault lines. College field day features many events and medals, open to Michigan college students.
A Detroit court case tests the validity of a promised marriage entlement to a woman then Miss Anale Meredith, alleging funds given to her fiancé before a broken engagement were for the daughter's benediction. Mrs. Annis M. Percy seeks $8,075.07 from the estate of the late Horace Perrin of Marshall, amid other similar claims.
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