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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1929
Page
3
Dean Bennett in Mississippi shares a family of twelve living on a rocky 40 acre tract. He underscores a key lesson: the great restlessness of modern life stems from not learning to do without certain comforts. The narrator notes drought of stockings and expresses critique of material envy amid modest means.
Hillsboro Pana Produce plans a large wholesale house. Mokena Tinley Park Cash Market & Grocery opens. First Burlington line out of Aurora. White way lighting in Dallas City. Stickney sees several building projects. Fairbury repairs water tower. Pontiac Masons choose site for new temple. Lyons opens New National grocery. Pekin High School adds new wing soon. Chicago awards paving contract for 120th Street.
Carpentersville opens A W Squires cash store. Auburn installs sound equipment at American Theatre. Chicago plans May 1 opening for Winsberg's Fourth store on Morse Street.
The bride, Kinmundy High School graduate and local teacher, and the groom, youngest son of the Stevens family of Salem vicinity, wed in a quiet ceremony. A sumptuous dinner followed and photographs will serve as keepsakes. Friends later gathered with cow bells to herald the joyful union.
Kinmundy and Alma mail customers grumble after a train schedule shift, as carriers depart the office over an hour before the new arrival. Result: letters and papers arrive a day late and daily papers seem like ancient history. James Walker and Miss Martha of Wood River attended a sister’s wedding the previous day.
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