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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1929
Page
8
Miss Minnie Simcox is reported poorly. At Altom's prices on onion sets flour and feed, seeds, plants, and groceries. numerous local visits, illness updates, and family notices. Vendors tout rugs, hardware, and fuel. community updates include births, fall illnesses, and travel between Patoka and nearby towns.
Mrs Ida F Wilson and family express gratitude to friends and neighbors for support during the illness and death of their husband and father.
Sincere thanks and appreciation are extended to friends and neighbors for comforting words and kind deeds during a sad bereavement. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Kinney and Mrs. Geo Kinney, Mrs. Gilla Hopkins and families express gratitude for support.
The Bilek family thanks friends and neighbors for help and sympathy during Mary Bilek’s illness and death. Signed by Joseph Bilek James Bilek Emma Bilek. As the Register goes to press the local school board is in session to settle the winter term teacher question.
Tuesday reports Cyrus Nichols and daughter Thelma transacted business in Vernon. Merritt Caldwell and wife visited S. E. Altom and wife in Patoka Sunday. Lewis Kissner and wife visited relatives west of Patoka. A young folks party at Juanita Neilson’s home Saturday. Francis Gray of Possum Trot visited Saturday with Paul Caldwell. Roy Thompson helped his father manufacture fence Tuesday. Bert Chance and wife visited Centralia Monday. Mrs Roy Thompson and Mrs Lora Caldwell with daughter Mary visited Centralia Saturday. John Chance plans to move to Patoka soon after buying a harness factory there. Loren Williams hauling logs to the Thalman saw mill. Chris Neilson and family and Cyrus Nichols were Salem visitors Wednesday.
Southeast Town notes show Mrs Frank Bradford and girls visiting Mrs Matt Belcher and daughter. Millard Palmer's family visit Pete Bopp. Mrs Jim Snyder calls on Mrs Belcher. Luther Williams travels to Decatur with niece Pearle Powel. Bradford family goes to Mt Vernon for aunt’s death. Tokata Shoppers visit. Easter rains persist. community mourns Grandpa Elifritz with sympathy to his family.
Shobonier residents visit kin in Decatur Alton Bethany and nearby areas over the weekend. Names include Ed Cooper Amos Smith Geo Willette Jr Willetta, Oscar Sears, Rev C H Carlton, Thelma Doolen and Elva Towler. Shobonier Baptists plan a drama with date to follow.
The Neck reports a rain and hail storm on Saturday night and various community updates. John Shepard and George Belcher visited Keyesport on a business trip. Bill Alexander sold a milk cow to E L Sharp. Charlie Shepard family stayed with J A Shepard and wife over the weekend. A hay stack fire near Betcher was contained with some losses. The community expresses sympathy for the Kinney family over the loss of their little girl. Forrest Baxter to teach next year at Shady Grove after reemployment. Other notes include visits between residents in Keyesport Patoka and Boulder with cattle and veal calves collected locally. Lucille Shepard shopped at Patoka. Wm Alexander and wife shopped in Patoka.
John Luster left Sunday for Chester where he has employment. Salem visitors, including Peck Caldwell Delbert Shaw and Mrs Ella Caldwell, were seen at the home of Mrs. Ella Caldwell in Chicago.
Marybell Stombaugh, Margaret Oberg, and Annie Taylor visited Mrs. Annie Taylor on Tuesday evening. Chas Russell broke his leg in a motorcycle accident last Friday and is in Greer hospital. The Stombaughs, Woolley, Hankins, Merryman, and Oberg families took trips to Centralia and Pana, while Hill residents tended gardens.
Mrs Blanche Doolen of Fostersburg was described as a Tok a shopper on Thursday in the local note.
Erna Jones returned home in a Chevrolet roadster replacing the old flivver. Mrs James Walker and baby planned to live in Wood River. Lewis Jones visited Vernon. Elmer Bassett spent the weekend with son Mason Bassett and family. C C Doolen and Lew Engler, with Lew Engler, visited St Louis for Miss Ruth Doolen’s health. Arty Shick visited home folks. Nina and Wayne Doolen of Patoka high school visited their mother. Arnold Chapel folks attended a play despite rain. Lee Griffin of Alma called on family. Ernest and Paul Stevens from Salem vicinity visited Mrs L Foster. Wet weather slowed farm work. greens, wild onions and mushrooms are plentiful.
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