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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1932
Page
5
The Illinois Bankers Association launches a series of newspaper messages arguing for strength and stability in the U S banking system. It urges public cooperation with banks, warns against hysteria, and emphasizes better understanding and unity to aid a slow economic recovery. The piece highlights collective progress over individual gain.
Registration at the Lincoln Tomb in March has risen from under five hundred previously to a total of 3680 this year. In 1929 the number surpassed 5000 visitors while earlier decades saw far smaller crowds.
Urbana Illinois April 12 Testing and mapping 250000 acres for acidity and phosphorus by over 10000 Illinois farmers in two years has corrected the belief that soils are alike in growing clovers and need identical treatment. Sweet clover is highly sensitive to acidity but less to phosphorus, while alfalfa needs higher phosphorus and handles acidity better. Red clover is the most sensitive to acidity and phosphorus limits can prevent its success.
The notice notes red clover and alfalfa struggle with phosphorus deficiency on soils of slight to medium acidity. It states that sweet clover performs better under these conditions and can yield well when the soil contains medium phosphorus levels.
A parade of visitors from Decatur Bloomington Carbondale Vandalia and St. Louis visits Vernon families and locals. Lisle Simcox wins school election here. Various residents and relatives are noted visiting and spending weekends with local households amid weekly community notices and a mention of a Carlstrom meeting.
In Lone Prairie several families and neighbors visit and call on each other through the week. Mrs. Mayme Tackett and son Ce cil call on Mrs. Bertha Palmer. Wm. Perkins reports his garden fence is in good shape. Multiple visits occur among Perkins Harmier Jett Pal mers Cozad and related families. Reports mention illness and church attendance as well as a move by Chester Palmer and plans for oats.
The gym reception Monday evening drew a good crowd. Ray Johnson visited with his mother Mrs Lizzie Johnson. Mr and Mrs F M Smith of Patoka spent Sunday with the Frank Hatch family.
Mrs Bertha Palmer visited Mrs Mayme Tackett on Tuesday morning in a brief social call.
Prof. P E Johnston reports a decline in Illinois farm horses with over six percent aged twenty or more and two percent under a year old. State Archives work under Secretary Stratton responds to inquiries on government history while the aeronautics commission lists 571 pilots and 385 aircraft with 36 airports licensed. Illinois corn yields may rise twenty percent with new cross breeding methods, and forestry work by inmates supplies thousands of trees and shrubs for state projects. The silent man is a dead man.
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