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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1929
Page
8
A vintage recipe explains making egg ball meat morsels from mashed yolks with bread crumbs cheese and cream sauce then frying after an egg wash. It also shows a method to remove wallpaper grease stains with alcohol on a soft cloth. The Bedroom discusses using French gray tones with pink and turquoise accents for walls, furniture, and fabrics to achieve a refined look.
Bids soon open for Blue Island Senior High School addition. Jerseyville awards contracts for station warehouse and two 19 200 gallon tanks for Jersey County Oil Supply. Chicago Washington Heights post office addition. Westmont new Methodist Church at Lincoln and Irving. O Fallon Illinois Terminal Belt railroad resume near here. Aviston signals at two crossings by B&O. Cambridge new building for Henry County Farm Bureau. Savanna Fulton route 80 paving surveyed for summer. Argo Manson bridge opened. East Moline Fifteenth Avenue market opens. Bloomington many buildings rising and State Farm office progress. Eldorado sound equipment at Orpheum Theatre. Saybrook $65 000 community high school nearing completion. 14 mile northeast of Bloomington new pumping and filtration plant. Mounds Front Street paving advances.
Hammond Lever Brothers Soap Co announces a 5 million dollar plant project location to be determined. Clinton plans underway for a 70 thousand dollar addition to Clinton Community High School. South Chicago reports a new men s clothing store at 9216 Commercial Ave. Chenoa notes the burned schoolhouse of Yates Center district will be rebuilt.
A homemaking guide explains chou paste preparation for pastries and eclairs. It covers mixing water butter and salt, adding flour, cooling, beating in eggs, and baking in stages. Directions emphasize texture, oven heat, and flour blend for light puffs and various shapes.
Clyde Pratt and family of Sando val visited Patoka on Tuesday. Frank Thompkins of Vandalia visited Thursday. J. W. Alexander dropped by Mt. Vernon on Tuesday. Gene McMackin of Salem was a pleasant caller in Patoka on Wednesday. Plenty of onion sets in red yellow and white at 10c a quart at Altom's.
Local notes report Salem visitors M D Ballance and Bob Walton, Chick feed and oats advertised at Al toms, Patoka Hardware offers flour and oil stoves, and Murmur of staff at shoe factory. Mentioned are numerous Sunday visits by locals and travel between Salem, Centralia, Vandalia, and nearby towns with brief social updates.
The Nattier Brothers bought Cobb Hardware stock and fixtures in Centralia at a public bankruptcy sale Tuesday morning for 680 dollars. They will move as much stock as possible to their other location, with remaining items added to their current stock. It is reported the purchase price was about one sixth of the appraised value.
Senator Epler C. Mills of Virginia proposes a resolution urging immediate action by the Chicago Sanitary District to pay claims for damages from Illinois River Valley overflow. A separate measure seeks home rule for Chicago and Cook County.
The Illinois senate discusses soil management cautions from the University of Illinois agronomy dept and tests for road types with Sangamon county. Bills cover theatre seating postings, school act disbursements, municipal court chief justice election, state conservation bonds, and motor vehicle owner name requirements.
A bill fixing public highway speed at forty miles per hour was read a second time in the house. Representative A. O. Galvin of Chicago introduced the measure.
Governor Emmerson has ordered a biennial appropriation of 616 400 dollars for the divisions of pardons and paroles and supervision of paroles in the department of welfare budget. The appropriation bill has been sent to the General Assembly for approval.
Lewis G. Stevenson longtime secretary of state from 1914 to 1917 and son of Adlai E. Stevenson died in Bloomington on April 5. He served under Governor Edward F. Dunne and was connected to the Stevenson political family.
Attorney General Oscar E. Carlstrom discussed pollution of the Fox river and potential state aid to valley residents in an opinion delivered to Henry H. Kohn, director of the department of purchases and con.
Speaker David E. Shanahan, ill at his Chicago home, is expected to resume his duties in the state assembly soon. The report notes his illness has kept him away for a period, with plans for a prompt return.
The state department of agriculture has authority to revoke a license and handle eggs directly. Attorney General Carlstrom informed Walter R. Kimzey, superintendent of foods and dairies, Chicago.
The Illinois Supreme Court approved Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago to extend the deadline to July 15 for filing his written brief and arguments in the million dollar tax accounting suit brought by the Chicago Tribune.
Senator Earl B. Searcy of Springfield introduces a bill to appropriate 150000 for improvements alterations and equipment for the state house. The measure has been referred to the committee on appropriations.
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