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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1931
Page
5
Sheep shearing offered at 20 cents per head by Paul Williams of Patoka Missouri. Senator Dunlap strawberry plants for sale by Arthur L. Irvin of Patoka Illinois. Fourteen 17 two time two times? 100 bushels Virginia soy beans for sale by Walter Chandler of Patoka Illinois.
Local classified ads offer Burpees head cabbage plants power washing machine and two extra butter supply. trade for shoats or car. Requests rent for homes or rooms for small family. Seeds yellow straw berry mixed yellow dent corn at $2 a bushel. 4 door Ford sedan for sale. Hall used car lot advertises 40 cars at low prices. Also walking plow and car overhaul service nearby.
Vernon social note reports Miss Dot Doolen hosting the Entre Nous club last Tuesday with guests Miss Wanza Doolen and Miss Melba Hathaway. Three tables of pinocle yielded prizes to Miss Marion Epps and Miss Helen White. birthday cake centerpiece and pink white decorations described. Next meeting set for April 28 at Miss Marian Epps’s home. Russell Norris has gone to Bloom.
Misses Lillian and Frances Livesay of Salem visited C. O. Livesay and family. Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Horn and daughter of Clinton visited E. E. Morgan and family. Mrs. J. W. Epps and daughter Marian spent Sunday in Mt. Olive with Elmer Wortman. The Pope sisters from Patoka were guests of Mrs. Mary K. Smith. The high school baseball team lost 15 to 7 to St. James. About twenty five young folks enjoyed a weiner roast at North Fork. Many residents made local calls, shopping trips, or visited friends around Salem and Patoka.
Two farmers meet on the road and compare cures for distemper in mules. One says turpentine killed his mule. the other confesses his mule died after the same remedy, both noting a failed diagnosis and a grim lesson.
Dialogue excerpt shows Curiosity pressing Domestcity for practical lessons on economy. Domesticity confesses a personal goal to quit smoking as a result of the discussed lecture.
A hopeful athlete tells a reporter about a chance to join the football squad while another person asks if the opportunity is being raffled off. The exchange hints at competition and selection processes within the team.
During combat a Highlander was killed when his head was blown off. A fellow soldier relayed the grim news to a Scotsman who quipped that the fallen man was smoking his pipe, highlighting the dark humor amid the tragedy.
A humorous exchange centers on a joke about balloon tires. One person teases another for owning such tires, prompting a playful reply about the ownership and character of the speakers.
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