DOLSON NEWS

 

 

 

MARCH 30, 1910, MARSHALL HERALD

 

Some of the wheat looks bad and needs rain.

A number have planted potatoes and made garden.

Some of the young people enjoyed an egg roast Saturday night.

Murphy and Claypool and Hornbrook Brothers have started their huckster wagons.

A little son of George Hutchings and wife has been suffering with measles.

John Ross has 115 acres of oats sown; some others have 40 to 65 acres.

Mat Snyder was sick the latter part of last week, but is now able to be out again.

Dave Montgomery and family went to Rabbit Ridge Sunday to visit Bruce Brainard and wife.

Ed Beabout, wife and daughter, Daisy, of near Homer, were here Sunday to visit her brother, John Heimer and family.

Quite a large acreage of Oats is being sown.   A few are already done sowing and most all will finish this week is the weather remains favorable.

AUNT JUDA COONS, WHO BROKE HER HIP ABOUT FOUR WEEKS AGO, HAD A PARTIAL STROKE OF PARALYSIS LAST SATURDAY  AND IS VERY BAD, WITH BUT LITTLE HOPE OF RECOVERY.

Mrs. Dora Clapp, who has been in very poor health for some months, was again taken to the hospital in Terre Haute last week and under-went another operation.   She was reported Sunday evening to be getting along as well as could be expected.

 

APRIL 6, 1910, MARSHALL HERALD

 

Nearly all finished sowing oats in March.

A few were plowing for corn last week.

Some of the first sown oats are coming up nicely.

We had a nice rain Sunday which the grass and wheat needed.

Some good corn was hauled last week that was bought for 53 cents per bushel.

Our assessor, John Ross, has received his books and began assessment this week.

Mat Snyder and Scott Flenner sold their hogs last week at eleven dollars per hundred.

Those who have stock hogs to sell can name the price about as long as the breath can be held.

Peach blossoms are rather scarce.   Charles Goekler’s trees have more bloom than any we have seen.

Emanuel Clapp was called to Marshall the first of next week by the sickness of his daughter, Mrs. Maude Peck.

It is rather uncommon for the weather to be above summer heat in March as it was a part of last week.

The roads that were dragged some time ago are still nice and smooth; those that were not are rough and bumpy.

AUNT JUDA COONS IS NO BETTER.   IN ADDITION TO HER OTHER AFFLICTIONS SHE SUFFERED WITH HEMORRHAGE OF THE LUNGS SUNDAY NIGHT.

Mr. Harwood, of Janesville, Coles County, who now owns the Beals farm, was here last Thursday looking over his property.

Pink Clapp and his little son, Kenneth, accompanied by his sister, Mrs. Isabel Perry, went to Terre Haute Saturday to see his wife, who is in the hospital there taking treatments for an affliction of the lungs.

GEORGE COONS, of Washington, Indiana, who was here about four weeks assisting in waiting on his mother whose hip was broken, left last week for Missouri where he is superintendent of a dredge boat crew that has some contract work to do in the North part of the state.

 

APRIL 13, 1910, MARSHALL HERALD

 

The apple trees are now giving promise of a better yield.

Polk Daughhette and Mike Snyder each planted five acres of corn last week.

The Soughers orchard of twenty acres is being trimmed and put in better shape.

Joe Fitzjarrold and Miss Etta Hutchings were married Wednesday last.   We, with their many friends, wish them a happy and prosperous journey through life.

JOHN M. COONS, wife and son, Clifford of Yale and George Coons of Washington, Indiana, John and William Miller, Mr. Gadbury, Mr. Douney and wife, Mrs. Frank O’Day and son and Mrs. Malissa Dunzing of Cumberland County, Rev. Coons of Mountaintown, Indiana, Hurley Duzan and Mrs. Ed Duzan and son of Coles County and a number from Marshall and Paris were here to attend the funeral of Aunt JUDA COONS.

AUNT JUDA COONS who it will be remembered fell in February, breaking her hip, died April 8.   The shock from the wound affected her heart and afterward she was partially paralyzed and gradually grew worse until death relieved her suffering.   She was 90 years and 7 months old and was one of the pioneers, having come here from Clark County, Indiana, with her husband, Jacob Coons, in 1846 and settled on the farm where she died, having lived there continuously for 64 years.   She was married to Jacob Coons in 1838 who died in 1881.   Four children are living, John M. of Yale, George H. of Washington County, Indiana, Mrs. Catherine Duzan of Marshall, and Mrs. Eliza Nicholson, who has lived on the old homestead with her mother for some years, 27 grandchildren, 81 great grandchildren and 10 great, great grandchildren.   She also leaves three brothers and one sister, John and William of Cumberland County, Solomon and Emanuel Miller and Mrs. Sallie Hurst who resides here and a very wide circle of relatives and friends.   She was one of seven charter members of the Methodist Society at Dolson Chapel, then known as Green Moss when it was organized in 1848 and still remains a devout and faithful member until called to her reward.   The funeral services were conducted Sunday at Dolson Chapel by her pastor, Rev. J.B. Munson, assisted by her grandson, Rev. William Coons of Mountaintown, Indiana, and the body was laid to rest beside that of her husband in the cemetery nearby.   The other charter members of the Society the Sister Coons assisted to organize were Emanuel Miller and wife, John B.Beadle and wife and William Towns and wife, all of whom are now dead but Emanuel Miller who is in his 93rd year.

Submitted by;
Cindy McCachern