Annual Athletic Banquet Planned
The PTA sponsored Annual Athletic Banquet will be in the school gym Friday evening April 3. Families bring a pot luck and table service. supper at 6 30 with coffee and drinks for children. Awards for high school and junior high players and cheerleaders will be given, with guest speaker John Strahl, Greenville College athletic director.
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Patoka Elevator
O. C. Schroeder
John Strahl
Greenville College
Diseases threatening baby pigs in peak farrowing season
Livestock guidance warns farmers to watch erysipelas and virus pig pneumonia. Erysipelas causes joint and skin damage with potential rapid death, while virus pig pneumonia hits pigs around three weeks old with coughing and poor feed use. Vaccination and vet diagnosis are urged to minimize losses.
History of Patoka Illinois Central town growth and early trades
Patoka owes its birth to the Illinois Central Railroad with the depot and bunk house as origin. James Clark and Brigham laid out the town on July 4, 1854 and additions followed in 1855. Cyrus Walker built the first house and ran the depot and post office, later guiding early commerce with a general store and first physician Dr Beach. Incorporation occurred April 15, 1869, and early Patoka boasted multiple doctors, general stores, druggists, a hardware and furniture shop, a livery, blacksmiths, and its first industry Snyder and Harrison blacksmith shop producing farm equipment.
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Illinois Central Railroad
James Clark
Brigham
C. F. Jones
Crawford
Tne
Cyrus Walker
Walker
Fosterburg
Beach
Snyder and Harrison
Sanitary Milk Producers convene 34th annual meeting in Belleville
Patoka residents led attendance at Augustine's Restaurant for the Sanitary Milk Producers 34th annual meeting with over 1200 participants. Sen Stuart Symington spoke in the afternoon session while local families made visits in Belleville and Centralia. Public liquor consumption figures cited for San Francisco referenced 3,000,000 gallons yearly.
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Sanitary Milk Producers
Stuart Symington
Centralia
Frank Heinzmann
Historic Industry Highlights of the Area
The town’s major industries included an early evaporator used to dry apples before canning. A subsequent cannery processed locally grown tomatoes. The village also hosted a brick kiln in operation, marking its varied industrial heritage.
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