Forrest Gain
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 19 Aug 1882 - Iuka, Marion, Illinois, USA
Christening:
Death: 3 Aug 1972 - Salem Memorial Hospital, Salem, Marion, Illinois, United States
Burial: in Iuka Cemetery, Iuka, Marion, Illinois, USA
Cause of Death:
Find A Grave ID: 103839376
Events
• Soc Sec Num: 346-01-9009.
Parents
Father: William Jesse Gain {FGID: 99620888}
Mother: Mary Anna Cunningham {FGID: 99620726}
Spouses and Children
1. *Bessie Holstlaw {FGID: 103839026}
Marriage: Abt 1905
Children:
1. Leota Gain
If You Rember Iuka Bee, You Can Recall William Jennings Bryan, 1st Plane Flight: 6 Jul 1964, Illinois
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel July 26, 1964
If You Rember Iuka Bee, You Can Recall William Jennings Bryan, 1st Plane Flight
IUKA -\emdash In Iuka, if 3 reference to the "Bee" brings to mind something you read instead of something to get stung by, then you remember William Jennings Bryan and the Wright Brothers' first airplane flight and are much too old for sandlot baseball.
The Iuka Bee was a weekly newspaper. which started publication in May of 1899 and lasted until about 1905. It carried the motto "Persistent, Patient and Intelligent Industry is the Key Note of Ultimate Success."
Mrs. Nellie Luttrell found an April 29. 1904. edition of the short-lived newspaper among a stack of old papers. in a desk belonging to her father, Charles A. Parks. who lives near Iuka. She gave it to her son, Douglas Luttrell of Salem.
Interviews with some of luka's oldtimers revealed some of the following information about the newspaper.
The newspaper was owned by George E.'Daniels, who also operated general stores in Iuka and Johnsonville and was associated with the telephone company which installed the first telephone lines in Iuka and surrounding area.
Daniels, judging from an advertisement in the paper, also served as a banker. He also owned considerable property in Iuka and adjoining farming area.
The newspaper originally was published in the old I.O.O.F. Hall building south of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks and east of the old Daniels home. Frank. "lied" Wnorowski of Salem was editor.
Forrest E. Gain, 81, said he used to "hang around the newspaper office," when he was a young man. He recalls that Wnorowski rode the train from Salem to Iuka each morning and returned home in the evening.
Type'for the paper had to be handset, and Gain recalled that after each issue there was just time enough to "tear up" the pages and put the type back into the cases before starting to set type for the next week.
Wnorowski later moved from Salem to Fairfield, Iowa, and Daniels with the aid of his daughter, Bessie, took over the editing operation.
The original printing plant burned, and Daniels began publishing the newspaper on one of the upper floors of his three-story general merchandise store, just south of the B. & 0. tracks. This building has since been torn down, and the site is a vacant lot.
Daniels died in 1905, and part of his estate is not yet settled. His son, Guy Daniels, lives in Flora and his daughter, Mrs. Bessie Rudesill, lives in Johnsonville.
H. H. Cheeley. who will be 101 years old next month said he read every issue of the Bee. It was printed on Fridays.
The four-page Bee had local news and advertisements only on its front and back pages. The two inside pages were "ready print" with national news feature stories and patent medicine ads. Ready-print was newsprint sold to small newspapers with one side already printed with feature material and national ads, so production costs for the papers would be less.
Mrs. George McGuire of luka has a large collection of Iuka Bees in good condition.
The issue. which Mrs. Luttrell found was published while Daniels was acting as editor. Apparently he was his own chief purchaser of advertising space, since most of the local ads were for items on sale at his store or job shop.
One large ad offered a combination year's subscription to the Bee and the American Farmer magazine for $1. Scattered throughout the personal items in the paper were one-line ads for items which could he purchased at Daniel's General Store. Among them were dress patterns, seeds, oyster shells, wallpaper, and evaporated apples.
Bold black letters proclaimed that Daniels had plows for sale "at old hard time prices."
Another advertisement, placed by E. D. Cramer, proprietor of Rose Lake, announced topening of Rose Lake on the first day of May and predicted an excellent season of swimming, boating and fishing at his resort.
C. A.Neff, proprietor of the Neff House, had an ad saying his hotel had ample accommodations for the traveling public.
Advertising rates listed in the paper were $60 for a one column ad running for a year; $30 for a half column ad for a year; $15 for a fourth of a column ad for a year; $53 for business and professional cards yearly, and local notices were five cents per line for each issue.
In addition to ads, the issue contained a long column of editorial comments and a few columns of personal news items from Iuka, Bee Branch and New Bethel.
Equal play was given in the news columns to such divergent stories as "Chas. Simer and best girl were out, driving Sunday afternoon," and "Prince Pu Lun, of the Royal House of China passed through here yesterday
en route. to St. Louis."
A few of the other local items were; "'The Board of Supervisors of Marion County met last week and elected M. Michaels of Romine, Chairman of the Board." "Just before going to press we learned of the death of Judge Tunis A. Spitler at his home. Obituary later."
"How the news did fly the latter part ol the week when the Hull and Farmer's Telephone lines were connected."
The editorials commented on many matters, including "Banks and schools will not forbid marriage when teachers and clerks show that they can support themselves on small salaries."
Another paragraph chided "The Lord and Order League should now make its appearance and take up a Collection or the legal traffic in liquors may knock out the "boot-leg" interests in Iuka and vicinity. We do hope the dram-shops people will dispense with the sign "Saloon" as it has been decreed that the "Saloon" must go. So
boys, put up some other sign if you want to furnish the sacramental stuff and fill the Deacons' bottles \emdash of course we all take it for medicine."
In another paragraph was the following comment: "When two trustees who know but little about; the duties of the school treasurer, appoint an inexperienced treasurer over the protest and advice of a member of their board well experienced, what, can be expected \emdash will the services be better?
In the same issue a news item announced the appointment of Herschel D.Holstlaw as school treasurer to succeed Petta P. Farris, (Apparently Daniels' misgivings about the treasurer were unfounded because Holstlaw later became president of Iuka State Bank, and served in that position for several years.)
Another editorial paragraph: "There seems to be growing sentiment throughout the United States in favor of the reestablishment of the whipping-post for wife-beating and other moral diseases. There certainly are some offences which imprisonment in a state boarding house does not seem to reach."
A March 1, 1910, edition of the Bee owned by Mrs. McGuire offered The Prairie Farmer magazine free for a year to anyone who paid $1 to subscribe to the Bee for a year.
Also in that issue nearly two news columns were devoted to a story about a masquerade party. One humorous local item in the issue was, "Ed Widdows while cutting ice on the Lake Wednesday morning had the misfortune
to fall in and a ducking was the result thereof."
Below the masthead in both issues was a glowing description of luka which concluded: "In short, Marion County is the land of health, wealth, wheat, corn, oats, hay, fruit, peace and happiness. Anyone desiring a desirable location should come to Iuka where good schools, churches and last but not least, enterprising people are to be found."
Using today's prices as a yardstick, it's hard to realize how Daniels could afford to offer a year's subscription to both his newspaper and a popular magazine for only $1. But with prices like that. the Bee's subscribers apparently never got stung.
Notes
General:
Per 1900 US Census: 6/14/1900, Stevenson Township, Marion County, Illinois
Head of household is 47 year old white male William J. Gain, born April 1853 in Illinois, his father in Virginia, his mother in Ohio. William is a farmer, and owns his farm free of mortgage. He has been married for 23 years to Mary A. Gain, 41 years old, born in June 1858 in Illinois, as were her parents. Their 17 year old son, Forrest Gain, was born August 1882 in Illinois, and is a farm laborer. Their 11 year old daughter, Estella E. Gain, was born in September 1888 in Illinois. The Gains have an adopted daughter, 14 year old Pearl Y. Gain, born May 1886, in Nova Scotia. Origin of parents is unknown.
Per 1910 US Census 4/16/1910, Iuka, Marion County, Illinois
Head of household is 27 year old white male Forest Gain, an R. F. D. carrier who owns his home free of mortgage. He has been married for 5 years to Bessie Gain, also 27 years old. They have a daughter, Leota, age 4. All were born in Illinois, as were their parents.
Per WWI Draft Registration:
On 9/17/1918, Forrest E. Gain registered for the draft. He was 36 years old, born 8/19/1882 in Iuka, Marion, Illinois. Forrest is white, native born, and a R. F. D. Carrier for the Federal Government is Iuka, Marion, Illinois. His nearest relative is Mrs Bessie Gain-coifr. Forrest is medium height, slender build, grey eyes and dark hair.
Per 1920 US Census: January 3, 1920, Iuka Township, Marion County, Illinois
Head of household is 37 year old white male Forrest E. Gain. A mail carrier on a rural route, he owns his home free of mortgage. His wife is 33 year old Bessie, and they have a daughter, 13 year old Leota, who attends school. All were born in Illinois, as were their parents.
Per 1930 US Census: 4/7/1930, Iuka, Marion County, Illinois
Head of household is 47 year old white male Forest Gain who owns his house, valued at $1,500. He is a R. R. Carrier for the U. S. Postal Service. Forest has been married for 22 years to 47 year old Bessie Gain. Both were born in Illinois, as were their parents.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel February 14, 1911
Iuka
Mrs. Forrest Gain is quite sick.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel February 14, 1911
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Holstlaw took Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel October 7, 1936
NOTES OF INTEREST FROM IUKA DISTRICT
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain Spent Sunday ln Mt. Vernon with a number of friends.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel October 7, 1936
Iuka
Mrs. Lucy Holstlaw of Farina dined on Friday afternoon on Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kelly and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel August 2, 1957
Iuka
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain went to the Flora Clinic and on their return to luka they visited with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Daniels of Flora Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain were dinner guests with Mrs. Mary Hoistlaw and Miss Ruth Bowman, Sunday.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel May 22, 1958
Iuka -
Mrs. Forrest Gain is slowly improving at her home.
Nolan Bartiey and Forrest Gain visited with Otto Metcaif Tuesday.
Callers at the home or Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain Sunday were Miss May Stevenson from Champaign, Mrs. Bill Freese from Colinsville, Mrs. Walter Stevenson and Mrs. Mamie Booker.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel June 2, 1958
Iuka -
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Connelley of Ironton, Mo. was here to attend the funeral services and burial of Jack Connelley in the luka cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. Connelley were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel September 26, 1958
Iuka -
Mrs. Forrest Gain returned home from the Flora hospital Thursday.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel October 24, 1959
Iuka
Guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Beard of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Baldwin and Mrs. Vera Cox of Fairfield, Mont., and Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Kneemyer.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel December 17 24, 1959
Iuka
Mrs. Forrest Gain is a patient in the Salem Memorial Hospital for the past several days.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel October 19, 1962
Iuka -
Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Jones from Marshall, Mich, were Saturday afternoon visitrs in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain.
Those from Iuka attending the annual homecoming at Old Bethel were Wesley St. Clair, Earl Linder, Mr. and Mrs. Dean Gordon, Forrest Gain, Mr. and Mrs. John Linder and Leslie, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thommas, and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thomas. Jr.. and daughters from Cisne.
Sunday afternoon callers with Mrs. Forrest Gain were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tyler and daughter, Donna Sue, of Fairfield, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baldwin of Fairfield, Mont, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Kneemever and Orville Porter.
Miss Bee Borsenberger from Salem was an evening visitor with Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain Sunday.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel October 25, 1962
Iuka -
Miles Sanders of Centralia, a former Iuka resident, visited Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain Thursday.
Turner Maynor and daughter, Jane, from Mt. Vernon called on Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Gain Friday night.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel February 4, 1965
Iuka
Rev. and Mrs. C. I. Heflin and Mrs. Grace Stevenson were dinner guests of Forrest Gain on Sunday. They visited with him in the afternoon and called on several other families later that evening.
Those who called at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Bartley Sunday were Forrest Gain, Mr. and Mrs. John Chapman, Rev. and Mrs. C. I. Heflin.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel June 24, 1965
Iuka
Forrest Gain visited George O. Donald at Springerton Sunday.
Forrest Gain went to Mt. Vernon to attend a retired rural carriers meeting at the post office building Monday.
Per Centralia Sunday Sentinel July 11, 1965
Iuka
Forrest Gain visited relatives in Ironton, Mo., recently and returned home Tuesday.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel June 2, 1966
Iuka
Those from Iuka who attended the annual meeting of the Old Bethel Cemetery Association at Old Bethel were Forrest Gain, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thommas, Memorial Day.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel August 25, 1966
Iuka
Forrest Gain visited with Mr. and Mrs. Grissom of Kinmundy Sunday afternoon and attended the dedication of the Methodist parsonage.
Forrest Gain was among the many who attended the Golden Wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Fatheree of Xenia Sunday afternoon.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel January 19, 1967
Iuka
Mrs. Mary Holstlaw and Forrest Gain were guests in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Myers and family of Cowden Sunday.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel June 1, 1967
Iuka
Leslie Connelley of Ironton, Mo, was a guest in the home of Forrest Gain several days this past week.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel November 26, 1967
Iuka
Leslie Connelley of Ironton, Mo., was a guest with Forrest Gain over the weekend and attended Sunday School with Forrest Gain. Mr. Connelley returned to Ironton Monday.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel February 16, 1968
Iuka
Mrs. Mary Holstlaw and Forrest Gain visited with Mr. and Mrs. John Wham of Centralia Sunday afternoon.
Forrest Gain, Mr. and Mrs. Grove and Mrs. Mary Holstlaw were in Fairfield, and visited the home of Mrs. Holstlaw's sister, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tyler, near Fairfield. Mr. and Mrs. Groves were business visitors near Fairfield, Tuesday.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel March 21, 1968
Iuka
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Myers and daughters of Cowden, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tyler, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Whitter of Fairfield, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hudson of Golden Gate and Forrest Gain had dinner Sunday honoring Mrs. Mary Holtstlaw's birthday in the home of Mrs. Holstlaw. Mrs. Holstlaw received a long distance call from Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tresslar of California wishing her a "Happy Birthday."
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel October 10, 1968
Iuka
The Marion County rural letter carriers held their October meeting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Storment and the Ladies Auxiliary were present. Dwight Day of Alma, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Caudle of Vernon, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Eagan of Patoka, Jerry Fitzwater of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thommas and Forrest Gain of Iuka, Mr.
and Mrs. Calvin Barbee of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Burdette McCarty had supper together before the business meetings. Mrs. Calvin Barbee was elected president, Mrs. Jesse Thommas, secretary, Mrs. Robert Eagan, vice-
president, Mrs. Burdette McCarty and Mrs. Dwight Day pianists, Mrs. Ellis Storment, ways and means chairman. The next meeting will be the Christmas meeting and you will receive your card as notice for it.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel December 26, 1968
Iuka
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thommas and Ralph Holstlaw were among those who visited Forrest Gain at Bryan Manor in Salem Saturday evening. Forrest Gain has already received over 120 Christmas cards.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel April 11, 1972
Forrest Gain of Bryan Manor is a patient at the Salem Memorial hospital and is reported to be very poor.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel August 6, 1972
Forrest Gain
IUKA - Forrest Gain, 89, of Iuka, died yesterday in the Salem Memorial Hospital.
He was born in Iuka, son of William and Anna (Cunningham) Gain. He was a member of Oddfellows, Modern Woodsmen of America, and the Methodist Church.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Bowman Funeral Home in Salem.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel August 6, 1972
Forrest Gain
IUKA '97 Funeral services for Forrest Gain, 89, of luka, will be held today at 3 pm. in the Iuka Methodist Church with Rev. Lee Parks officiating. Burial will be in luka Cemetery.
Mr. Gain died Thursday in Salem Memorial Hospital. Funeral arrangements are through the Bowman Funeral Home in Salem.
Per Centralia Evening Sentinel November 16, 1972
PUBLIC SALE
I will sell at public auction at the residence of the late Forrest E. Gain, in Iuka, Illinois, commencing at 11:00 a.m. on Sat., Nov. 18th.
Chrome breakfast set; Refrigerator with freezer across the top; Dining room table, 6 chairs, china cabinet,
and buffet; 2 mantle clocks; 2 mirrors; Rockers; Knee hole desk and chair; Stand and end tables: Beckwith player piano and bench; Brass fire place set; Hoffman T.V.; 3 rugs; Music cabinet; Chest of drawers and cedar chest: 2 piece bedroom suite (complete): 3 piece bedroom suite, (complete): Large flat top trunk; Set of china dishes for 8; Several other dishes and silverware; 1 lot cooking utensils; Pillows, bedding and linen; A lot of items, too numerous to mention.
REAL ESTATE
room modern dwelling with full basement. City gas and water. Two corner lots with good shade. Legal
description - 55 feet off west side of Lot 4 and all of Lot 5 in Block 31of the original town of luka, Illinois.
Terms of sale:
Personal Property -- Cash
Real Estate - 20 per cent day of sale. Balance on delivery of deed and abstract.
Lunch on ground
RALPH HOLSTLAW, EXECUTOR
FORREST E. GAIN ESTATE
Harry Michael, Auctioneer
Not responsible for accidents
Per Findagrave.com Forrest E Gain
Birth: Aug. 19, 1882 Iuka, Marion County, Illinois, USA
Death: Aug. 3, 1972 Iuka, Marion County, Illinois, USA
S/O William J Gain & Mary Anna Cunningham
Md Bessie E Holstlaw 5 Apr 1905
Family links:
Parents:
William Jesse Gain (1853 - 1916)
Mary Ann Cunningham Gain (1858 - 1943)
Spouse:
Bessie E Holstlaw Gain (1883 - 1963)
Children:
Leota Gain (1906 - 1927)*
Sibling:
Forrest E Gain (1882 - 1972)
Pearl Y Gain Beaver (1886 - 1932)**
*Calculated relationship
**Half-sibling
Burial: Iuka Cemetery Iuka, Marion County, Illinois, USA
Created by: Roxie
Record added: Jan 20, 2013
Find A Grave Memorial# 103839376
Per Social Security death index:
Name:Forrest Gain SSN: 346-01-9009
Last Residence:62849 Iuka, Marion, Illinois, United States of America
Born:19 Aug 1882 Died: Aug 1972
State (Year) SSN issued:Illinois (Before 1951 )