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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1939
Page
2
Sworn statement by L. I. Green, cashier, declaring the listed deposits and liabilities true and matching the Auditor of Public Accounts report as required by Illinois law. The document records total deposits amount and grand total liabilities for the named bank.
Vernon and surrounding area residents share visits and illness updates. Ada Dolly spends week in Peoria with relatives while Ned Easley and son Bob visit from Evansville. Several families note hospital, recovery, and baby birth, plus community events like a chili supper raising about 12 dollars. Local moves include a Telephone Exchange relocation and new home occupancy by Thurby Meador.
Nineteen friends gathered Saturday afternoon April 8, 1939 to celebrate Marie Crawford's fourth birthday. She received gifts, played games, hunted Easter eggs, and enjoyed ice cream and cookies. Guests included Nellie Mae Crawford, Jimmie Wasem, Darlene Ballance, Sonny Boy Garcia, Don, George and John Davis, Dennie Hopkins, Kenneth Easton, George Leighton Wasem, Bobby MacNichols, Dale and Dicky Adams, Lou Simcox, Rachel Adams, Anna Belle Adams, Betty Ballance and Pansy Wasem.
By decree of the Marion County Circuit Court master in chancery John L. Kagy offers Lots 15 and 16 in Tier B Walker's Addition Vernon Marion County Illinois for cash at public sale on May 13 1939 at 11 am. Attorneys Matheny and Welker represent the plaintiffs B F Woolsey Leslie Woolsey and administrator Sarah Woolsey deceased? indicates.
More than 80 New York World's Fair 1939 restaurants will feed millions of visitors. Their combined seating capacity exceeds 42 000 at once. The Turf Trylon Cafe tops the dining options with searchlights.
Mrs. I. A. Pfeffer of Centralia spent Sunday afternoon here with her sister Miss Marian Epps, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Arnold of Decatur, Mrs. Lida Jarrett and children of Villa Grove, Mrs. Isabel Pratt and children of Vernon, Mrs. George Clump of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gregory, Mr. and Mrs. Orville Arnold of Alma, Mrs. Lou Bates east of town, Mr. and Mrs. James McNichols and children of Patoka, visiting east of town with Mrs. Effie Arnold.
Millions plan trips to the exposition in New York with free access to most main exhibits and nightly $1,000,000 fountains. Admission to grounds costs 75 cents for adults and 25 cents for children with weekly 10 cent kids days.
Mollie B Murfin executes the will as executrix of Charles C Murfin of Marion County Illinois. She will appear before Marion County Court in Salem on the first Monday in June to adjust claims and requests debtors to pay promptly. Attorneys William A Miller and Alfred S Pfaff are listed at 1118A West Main Street Salem Illinois.
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