The Marshalls Believe in 



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The Creed of This Pike County Family Is To Help One Another 



^^I^TOW. what I really enjoy," said 

 _1_^ RoUlie Marshall with great en- 

 thusiasm, "is a good old-fash- 

 ioned waltz, where you dance to the 

 music. Take these young pin-tails 

 these days. They don't waltz. They 

 have just one gait and they dance in 

 between the music." 



lone Marshall, aged 21, looked her 

 father over thoughtfully, "What he 

 really does most is pick up the paper, 

 sit in the rocker and go to sleep. He 

 spends half the night asleep in the 

 rocker," 



Gerald, 18, just grinned. He'd n-.issed 

 the most of the first conversation hav- 

 ing been doing his chores. But Mrs. 

 Mary Marshall, small and pretty, 

 nodded her head at the man and the 

 boy that were her care, and said, 

 "These two run out on us occasionally 

 and take in a movie over at Hull or 

 New Canton and then come back and 

 tell us about it." 



You're entitled to ask what all this 

 conversation is about. The answer is 

 merely that the RoUie Marshall family 

 in Pike county. Levee township, just a 

 few miles from the Mississippi river. 

 were giving out a little information on 

 the daily doings of their menage and 

 trying to figure out why anyone should 

 consider it interesting enough to 

 write up. 



RoUie Marshall has been in Pike 

 county 12 years. Before that, he 

 farmed in Adams county. With the 

 exception of the first year he was in 

 Pike county, he has been a Farm Bu- 

 reau member ever since there has been 

 such an organization. "I joined the 

 Farm Bureau because I felt that farm- 

 ers needed a strong organization of 

 some kind. In fact, I didn't expect to 

 get any material good. But it seemed 

 to me that in a world so well organ- 

 ized farmers were in a weak posi- 

 tion trying to go it alone. Industry is 

 organized. Labor is too. Farmers have 

 to deal with organized groups in mar- 

 keting their products and only organ- 

 ization can give farmers a break. Now 

 that the Farm Bureau has all these 

 fine services, I get more money return 

 from the use of them than it takes to 

 pay my dues. But that's not the reason 

 I belong. I figure the savings I get 

 through Farm Bureau services as being 

 good measure and something to boot." 



The Marshall farm is composed of 

 five tracts of land — three 80's, a 96 and 



another of around 125 acres, all total- 

 ling around 460 acres of good, rich 

 bottom land. This last season, Rollie 

 raised wheat, rye, oats and a little corn. 

 The power to do all the work is fur- 

 nished by one tractor and six husky 

 mules. Said RoUie, "I get a kick out 

 of training mules" which he immedi- 

 ately amended to, "not a regular 'Kick' 

 but a lot of fun." 



There are eight grade Jersey cows 

 and a bull. The herd is completely 

 free from Bang's disease and T. B. The 

 cream from the herd goes to the newly 

 organized Producers Creamery of Mt. 

 Sterling. By and large Marshall is an 

 out and out grain farmer. "When I 

 ship in carload lots it goes thru Illinois 

 Grain and Farmers National," he said. 

 "But we haven't had any carload lots 

 the lasr'<;ouple of years so I haven't 

 had an opportunity to co-operate with 

 the grain set-up." 



Rollie says he isn't much of a hog 

 man but-he does get around and in- 

 struct neighbors how to vaccinate their 

 pigs. He doesn't do any feeding to 

 speak of and while they have a good 

 flock of chickens they're mostly for 

 home needs. 



"I can't figure out just what descent 

 I am," said Rollie. "My father never 

 spoke much about it. But I do know 

 that my grandparents came originally 

 from Maryland by boat. They came 

 down the Ohio, then up the Mississippi 

 and settled in Adams county. I don't 

 know how many years ago that was 

 but I expect it was well over 15 years 

 ago as I'm 47 now. From all I can 

 gather I guess the Marshalls are of 

 English or Irish descent." 



Mr. and Mrs. Marshall were married 

 in Adams county 23 years ago. Mary 

 (Brown) Marshall, the Missus to you. 

 is the kind of person you immediately 

 decide is "sweet." She's little and has 

 a charming shy way about her. But 

 don't fool yourself that she hasn't a 

 mind of her own and the deternTina- 

 tion it takes to see that she has her 

 way when she wants it. You get the 

 idea that when she sets her foot down 

 and says "no." she does it in her quiet, 

 smiling way. means that it's final and 

 by gosh you're tickled to death to go 

 along the way she wants. 



And then, lone, who is 21. She's a 

 lot like her mother but with a bit more 

 of the volatility of her father. And if 

 any of you young bucks want to see a 



ROLLIE MARSHALL 

 "What I enjoy it • good fast walti.' 



lONE AND MRS. MARSHALL: 

 "We kaap house together." 



ROLLIE AND GERALD MARSHALL 

 "Gerald lilct to tinker with machinery." 



voung lady with a swell sense of 

 humor, a level gaze and a firm hand- 

 clasp to back up beauty and good 

 health, you'd better take the family car 

 and hightail it to Pike county. There 

 isn't much to do socially around the 

 community lone says. Over in another 

 township the young people get together 

 and have parties. She and her beau 

 manage to make out pretty well with 

 those occasional get togethers. perhaps 



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