Milk price rise as production drops in St Louis dairy region
Dairymen in the St Louis Milk district report higher returns from milk due to market demand aligning with production. January and February 1935 show 12 percent less total production than the same period a year earlier, while February butter prices rise 37 percent from 1934.
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St. Louis
Clé&s I
M. E. Bone
Sanitary
Office of Sanitary Milk Producers
St.Louis
United States
Middle West
Livestock Market Study Shows Higher Returns With Fewer Carloads
Producers Co-Operative at National Stock Yards reports January and February results: 1,622 carloads this year vs 2,243 last year, yet revenue rose from 1,567,233 to 1,926,787.60 dollars. Fewer cattle and ongoing meat price pressure raise questions about future price levels.
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Producers Co-Operative
Purity Bread Wins Trophy at National Contest
Purity Baking Company earned top honors in the Better Bread Contest. Purity Fine Bread captured the silver trophy as Quality Bakers of America scores the entry from Purity’s New York headquarters. A Purity representative exhibited the trophy to local dealers in town.
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United States
Purity Baking Company
Quality Bakers of America
National Cooperative Organization of Wholesale Bakers
New York City
Manday
Christian Church to Present Easter Pageant on April 21
The Christian Church plans an Easter pageant on April 21 with an open invitation. The program details will be printed later for parishioners and guests.
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The
Christian Church
Mrs Crosby Visited Vernon with Niece Mrs Freyer
Mrs B V Crosby spent time in Vernon recently visiting her niece Mrs Fred Freyer. The social call highlighted family connections and local courtesy among residents.
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B. V. Crosby
Vernon
Fred Freyer
Birthday Dinner Given Sunday at Belcher Home
A pleasant surprise birthday dinner was held Sunday at the Harold Belcher home east of town for Isaac Belcher Carson Chandler Harold Belcher Lulu Belcher and Walter Chandler. Guests included Mrs Beatice Black and family Wim Ballange Ethel Long Robert Arnold and families and others. A bountiful repast followed games running races and singing in a cheerful community gathering.
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Isaac
Belcher
Carson Chandler
Harold Belcher
Lulu Belcher
Walter Chandler
Beatrice Black
Wim, Ballange
Ethel Long
Robert Arnold
Wen Belcher
John Thalman
Fred Meyers Sand
Floyd Britt
Isaac Belcher
Doc Deffenbaugh
Decatur
Jim Belcher
Peoria
Sunrise Easter Morning Prayer Service Planned
The Christian Church will observe an annual Sunrise Prayer Service Easter Sunday at sunrise. All Christian denominations are invited to attend and participate. The service program will be published later.
Emergency Crop Loans To Be Made Available
Emergency loans from a 60 million dollar fund will be available within a week to Marion county farmers. Applications go through county committees via the Farm Credit Administration. Loans range from 10 to 500 dollars and are for seed, fertilizer, feeds, and financing but not for livestock, taxes, debts, or equipment. Eligibility requires inability to obtain credit elsewhere and cooperation with the AAA production control program.
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Congress
Marion County
W. S. Myers
Goveror
Farm Credit Administration
Fred Blackbourn
Myers
Minvis
Lattre
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Fed
Eaglin School Holds April Fool Program
The pupils of Eaglin school presented an April Fool program Saturday night to patrons and friends despite bad weather a fine crowd attended and numerous laughs and applause indicated strong reception. The school and Sunday schools plan an elaborate Easter pageant at the school house on Good Friday night all are invited to attend.
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Eaglin School
Wesley Black Moves Family to Doty Farm East of Town
Mr. Wesley Black and his family have relocated to the Doty farm east of town, taking over the property vacated by Jim Devine.
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Wesley Black
Doty Farm
Jim Devine
Adams Family Fete Honors Jett Adams Eighty Fifth Birthday
Friends and relatives gathered at the home of O Y A Adams to celebrate Jett Adams’s eighty fifth birthday. Attendees included CG A Adams and several Adams family members led by Claude, Dayne, Eldon, and Donald Adams with Anna Belle and Doris Mae among the grandchildren. Other guests came from Fairman Cen tralia East St. Louis St. Louis and nearby areas.
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Adams
OY A. Adam
Jett Adams
Jett “Adams
CG. A Adams
Claude
Ris
Annabelle
Dayne
Eldon
Donald Adams
Morris Adams
Claud Adams
Wiley Adams
Fairman
Homer Adams
Centralia
R. J. Kaisey
East St. Louis
V. Freeman
St. Louis
Walter Adams
Doris Mae
Denver Adams
Oscar Davis
Womans Club Meeting Planned for April Thirteenth
Program for Saturday afternoon features Music by a Ladies Trio and a poetry roll call. Elizabeth Limecox performs a solo. Rev. Cady speaks on past versus modern literature. A Needle thread and jabber society playlet involves six club women and one girl. Members bring cup spoon and plate for self and guest. Belle Beckemeyer Muusic¢ chairs. Elsie Gray literature chair. Emma Smith leads Music Literature and Art.
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Elizabeth Limecox
Cady
Belle Beckemeyer
Muusic
Elsie Gray
Emma Smith
Perfect attendance and an operetta planned for April at the high school
School lists perfect spellers for Marett month across grades. an operetta The Awakening is set for Friday night April 19 in the high school gym with 10 cent admission to support purchasing a press for various events. The article names many students with perfect attendance in March across grades and lists many more spellings by grade.
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Ressons
Marett
Don Griffin
Conway Malan
Sonny Talcott
Mary Selvier
Junior Kidder
Betty Jeam
John Richard Wasem
Bobby Howell
Evalena Jennings
Connie Meador
Emil Nattier
Chro Dclag Ipent
Evelyn Easton
Alavon Walker
Joy Barnes
Pansy Wasem
Dale Elis
Wu. E. Green
Dean Mead
M E Church South Island Chapel and Zion meeting notes
The South Island Chapel Church School opens at 10:00, with sermons on The Fatherhood of God and The Voice of Temptation Eden in the morning and The Voice of Obedience Gethsemane in the evening. A Zion Church program on Education in Religion is praised, with Mrs Erie Knight on Christian Growth and Edith Hines leading. The Woman's Missionary Society of Patoka Church meets April 10 at 2:00 pm at Mrs Effie Smith's.
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Island Chapel
John
Eden
Gethsemane
Vyline A. P. D
The
Zion Church
Edith Hines
Erie Knight
Woman’s Missionary Society of the
Patoka
Effie Smith
Prominent Patoka Farmer Carson Chandler Dies at 66
Carson Chandler, a longtime Patoka area farmer and esteemed community leader, died of heart failure at home after collapsing Monday. He served as director of the Patoka Telephone Exchange and Farmers Cooperative Elevator, leaves widow Addie Chandler and seven children, funeral at M E Church South with Rev H M Cady, burial in Patoka cemetery.
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Patoka
Clirson Chandler
Patoka Telephone Exchange
Farmers’ Cooperative Elevator Co
Pinochle Party At Schroeder Home
Mr and Mrs Orville Schroeder hosted a pinochle party Saturday night with guests including Mr and Mrs Homer Potts Mr and Mrs L D Altom Mr and Mrs Ingvald Settem Mr and Mrs Elston Green and several others High men score went to Mervel Willett High women score to Eva Potts and floating prize to Dale Altom
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Orville Schroeden
Homer Potts
L. D. Altom
Ingvald Settem
Card of Thanks from Pa toka Township Highway Commissioner
The writer thanks Pa toka township voters for electing them as Highway Commissioner and pledges to perform duties to the best of their ability.
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Patoka Township
Birthday Surprise for John Jennings
A March 30 surprise party at the Ballance home honored John Jennings as he seeks re election as School Director. Guests included Col Jonas A. Jon and Prof E L De Lay who led a questioning routine about school affairs, yielding a grade of 85 plus and praise from educators present. The event featured games music refreshments and a large gathering of family and local officials.
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Jonas A. Jon
Famil
Jennings
Vna
BE. L. Delay
DeLay
Troyer
Anderson
D. W. Troyer
Thelma Pugh
J. R. Wasem
F. B. Ballance
John A. Jennings
John Jr
Alderman
E. L. DeLay
P. M
A. M
B. N. Griffin
Chas. Swift Anderson
B. Ballance
L. W. Ballance
Helen Troyer
Elizabeth Simcox
Bettie Ballance
Mrs Elston Green Hosts Vernon Club Quilt Event
The Chatter and Stitch Club of Vernon met at Patoka at the home of Mrs Bilston Greene. Guests pieced quilt blocks for the hostess and then shared a pot luck noon meal with attendees including Mrs Isabel Pratt and daughter Shirley Mrs Chas Moore Mrs John Epps Mrs Bob Foltz and several others.
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Vernon
Patoka
Bilston Greene
Quilt Lock
Isabel Pratt
Shirley
Chas. Moore
John Epps
Bob F
Shower for Newly Weds Held by Friends
A miscellaneous shower was given by friends for the newly married couple Mr and Mrs Leste Walker on Tuesday evening at the home of Mr and Mrs Forest Cothern. The couple plan to reside there for the next ten months. Guests received many beautiful and useful gifts and enjoyed an evening of merriment.
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Leste Walker
Forest Cothern
Wwedy
Religious Study Passages Highlight Unity and Omnipresence
A Lesson Sermon cites Philippians 4 8 and Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy. It emphasizes thoughts on virtue praise and lovely things and teaches God as all inclusive, omnipresent Spirit reflected by all that is real and eternal. Christian Science Churches.
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Mary Baker Eddy
Christian Science Churches
Lesson Sermon Theme on Reality in Churches of Christ, Scientist
Sunday March 31 features the Lesson-Sermon with the Golden Text from Psalms 102:12 asserting divine endurance. The Bible citations include Paul’s exhortation to focus on truth honesty and justice among other virtues.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Farmer offers stock trade for truck with stock frame
Louie Wasem advertises his truck with stock frame and new tires for sale or trade for stock. He asks interested buyers to see him at once.
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Louie
Wasem
Obituary of Patoka Resident Clarita Phillips 1853 1935
Clarita Phillips born January 22 1853 in Kentucky came to Patoka as a child. She married FOG Lett and had eleven children with six surviving. Funeral at M E Church followed by interment at Patoka Cemetery with Rev Story officiating. Survivors include Lett and Roach families and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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I Clarita
Phillips
Kentucky
Finois
Patoka
T. JW. Walker
Warrensburg
C. S. Nichols
Urbana
James
Decatur
I. M
Mahomet
L. H
Fletcher, S. Oak
M. E Church
M. E
Rev. Story
J. C. Lett
T. W. Walker
Warrensburt
Vioyle Roberts
Rorchman
Maren
E. M. Lett
Rosene Roberts
Indianaples
Harold Gye
Uow
Obituary of Thomas D Towler
Thomas D Towler born October 24 1869 near Patoka died March 27 1935 aged 6 years 5 months 3 days married Clara Davidson March 20 1895 father of seven children Ellen Murray Clifford Albert Ralph Fred all of Patoka with two sons Clarence and Harold predeceased him he leaves wife children twelve grandchildren three sisters Mrs Lady Pohling Denver CO Mrs Nannie Oates Vernon and Mrs Henry Pugh Patoka and one brother Joe Towler Patoka.
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Addie Chandler
M. E. Church
South
H. M. Cady
Carson Chandler
Augustus
Eliza Chandler
Marion County
Chandler
Addie Jackson
Josephine Starbody
Harold
Wilburn
Walter
Paulise
Esther Fredericks
Sterling
Ill
Leo
Tonica
Til
Ethel Robb
Woodman’ of America
Mr. Chandler
Thomas D. Towler
Susan
Towler
Bor
Patoka
Clara Davidson
Ellen Murray
Clifford
Albert
Ralph
Fred Towler
Clarence
Lady Pohling
Denver
Colorado
Nannie Oates
Vernon
Henry Pugh
Joe Towler
Valea
Township election results by precincts and offices
Patoka Township results show Paul Protz 343 votes and C L Wadkins 333 for highway commissioner and supervisor. School trustees elected Fred Garter T W Oates Democrat and Bob Eaglin Republican for constable. Pope, Foster, Carrigan and East Fork townships report party winners and office totals.
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Patoka
Paul Protz
C. L. Wadkins
Protz
Fred Garter
T. W. Oates
Bob Eaglin
Constable
Pope Township
Belcher
Geo. Doodin
Orvele Jones
Alva Herrin
Luther Paine
James Phinney
Foster Township
Tom Garrett
Ed Moeller
John Shaw
Carrigan
Jim Him
James Meredith
East Fork
Vernon DivGomb
R. N. Christian
Community thanks for support after loss of Albert Meadow
The family of Albert Meadow thanks neighbors and friends for their help and support during the loss of their father and brother. Children, brothers, and sisters express heartfelt appreciation for kindness shown.
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Albert
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Womans Club Meeting
Norma Wickersham
Cyril DeLay
Stanley Cady
Emil’ Nattier
Wayne Belcher
Freda Watkins
Iris Belcher
Dayin Jones
Betty Ballance
Nancy Simcox
Brooks Meador
Marie Speer
Robert Nattier
Marshall Aady
Neil Potts
Elaine Wickersham
Irene Belcher
May Field
Faye Field
Patsy Spurgeon
Kehth
Betty Altom
Evelyn Mis
Wallace Gray
Lavonne Jones
Jack Kay
M. E. Church, South
Pacoka
Schroeder
John Jennings
Mrs. Elston Green
Vernon Club
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