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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1965
Page
5
Local families report visits and outings across Centra lia Vandalia and Vandalia area hospitals. Events include picnics church programs a bake sale and a bridge club gathering plus a Easter sunrise service ahead of a birthday shower for Joyce Ann Hollowell.
Shobonier residents Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wolff plus their son stayed with East St Louis relatives over the weekend. Vandalia resident Mrs. Ella Olmstead visited her daughter and family in Kinmundy. Centralia shoppers included Mrs. Vera Metzger and Mrs. Mildred Green. Amy Towler visited sister Mrs. Anna Jones in Kinmundy. Ray Edwards hosted a Sunday supper with his sister Mrs. Mildred Moore. George Snow and family spent Sunday in St Louis visiting his mother Mrs. Janie Snow. Lela Linton spent weekend with John Anderson Sr. and family.
Wayne A. Johnston, president, highlights a rail freight revival driven by piggyback and tri level auto cars. He notes Illinois Central average cost of 1.1 cents per ton mile versus truck 6.2 cents and air over 21 cents, calling railroading the first chapter of a growing future as transport laws modernize for public good.
The Elmer Berry family thanks friends and neighbors for cards flowers and words of comfort during illness and death of husband and father.
Alma residents including Rev and Mrs Pennington spent Sunday with the Bullards of Salem. Joyce and Janice Ruddell visited their mother Opal Ruddell in Alma. Norma Fox returned from Texas after a brief relatives’ stay. Kathryn Mosley and husband Jim traveled to Mobile Alabama for a business trip. Larry Ruddell and wife visited his mother in O Kinmundy.
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