BlockPearl Township
The complete chapter on this township from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920. 338 words, covering 3 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
3 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
Settlements in this township
3 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. All 3 are named in the chapter.
The chapter
338 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Pearl Township
The Pearl Branch of the Pike County Chapter, American Red Cross, was organized Sept. 6, 1917, with the following officers: Chairman, L. M. Parisho; secretary, Zulah G. Thurmon; treasurer, Mrs. Kate Meisenbach. A report rendered on Sept. 6, 1918, for the first year's work showed that a total of $642.78 had been received from membership dues (the township's share), donations, sales, etc. There had been expended for various purposes $199.41, leaving a balance of $433.37. Up to that date there had been completed and sent to Pittsfield 25 sweaters, 6 pairs wristlets, 1 pair socks, 2 wash cloths, 22 property bags, 2 scarfs, 20 suits of pajamas, 12 hospital shirts, 15 filled comfort kits.
No report has been received for work since that time, but more work was done, and at the time of the report several quilts were being made. The largest number of members at any one time was 294.
The first work done by the Pearl Unit of the Women's Committee, C. N. D., was the registration of women. Nov. 6-7 were registration days, and 286 women were signed up for war work. The registrars were: Miss Bess Stathem, Miss Bess Chandler, Miss Edna Boren, Mrs. Prudence Wetzel and Mrs. Elfie Stathem. The unit was organized soon after this, with the following department chairmen: Registration, Mrs. Zulah G. Thurmon; Conservation, Mrs. Zilfa Lacy; Child Welfare, Mrs. Lou Foiles and Mrs. Kate Meisenbach ; Courses of Instruction, Miss Eloise Meisenbach; Food Production, Mrs. Ada Ferguson; Information, Mrs. Captola Lewis; Publicity, Mrs. Fannie Hayden; Recreation for Girls, Mrs. Effie Dennison; War Savings and Liberty Loan, Mrs. Zulah G. Thurmon; Americanization, Mrs. Lydia Lucas; Allied Relief, Miss Pauline Knox; Soldiers of Song, Mrs. Ruth Albright. School district chairmen were: Bee Creek, Mrs. Josephine C. Fisher and Miss Josephine Roberts; Old Pearl, Mrs. Lena Miller; Pleasant View, Miss Nettie McPherson.
There were not very many babies weighed and measured, but steps were taken to see that birth registration was fully carried out. Funds for the Armenian Relief Fund were
Provenance
Text from With The Colors in Pike County, Illinois, published 1920, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.