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Newspaper
Marshall Statesman
Location
Marshall, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1896
Page
7
A fragment celebrating autumn's beauty from Marshall Michigan dated October 6 1898. It reflects on the season as unrivaled and fleeting, noting leaves colors and the cycle of life from summer glow to frost. The piece lacks concrete events or people beyond a location and date.
Local notes cover politics, meetings, entertainments, business openings, and community updates. Tim Tarsney talks at the opera house while Gen. Low Wallace appears next Thursday. Miss Fannie Codley improves from typhoid fever as scheduling and election chatter fill pages.
Community notes recount Mrs Bartholomew addressing teachers in Marshall, a mob incident in Albion, Chas Gill praising silver sentiment, and the closing of Bagdad Temple No. 63. Also listed are a funeral for Harriet Frazier, a marriage weld in Marshall, a political talk by Hon. Charles Townsend, and the Calhoun County Agricultural Society bill audits.
A report circulating that Edward Austin of this city, a popocratic county clerk candidate, was facing a divorce petition by his wife is formally denied. The denial notes the circuit court calendar shows Mrs Edwin M. Austin seeking divorce, but asserts family relations are happy and that the rumor lacks credence among acquainted residents.
The county teachers exam will be held in Athens next Thursday October 15 with enrollment by 10 am. A joint teachers association meets in Athens October 24 with a program to be announced. Officials W M Werner, Johnson and Swain are expected to attend. A 52 name petition urges repeal of the institute fee for teachers and candidates. Lena Lusk reports scarlet fever limits, while admonitions urge tidiness and property care on school grounds and winter prep.
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