Wanted column notes blend trades and sales in Patoka area
A historical want column lists items for sale and trade in Patoka and nearby towns. Entries include sheep shearing at 15 cents per head, trades for oil stoves and ranges, a bakery promotion with free samples, cow peas for sale, hens wanted, reduced chick prices from Hayes Hatchery, trucking service by Floyd Eaglin, and plant prices for Dunlop Aromas strawberry plants and vege starts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talmadge
Homer Othouse
Patoka
Harold Chandler
Patoka Hdw. & Furn. Company
Patoka Hdw
Furn. Co
Sat
O. B. Holding
Orville Hopkins
Ida Jett
Odin
R. R
Hayes Bros. Hatchery
Locust St
Centralia
Ill
Floyd Eaglin
Dunlop
S. H. Dolsen
Sandoval
Local Club Activities Include Quilt Show and Meetings
Sandoval Masonic lodge members from Sandoval and nearby towns attended a Central meeting on April 19. The Lions Club met at Odd Fellows Hall with fourteen members and one guest, D. H. Kennedy, present and planning a May 4 gathering with guests. The Pollyanna Club will sponsor a Quilt Show in the Masonic building on Friday May 5 with prizes, food service, and entries due by 11 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. O. Lee
George Ahlf
Henry Heinzmann
Reuben Gilley, Jr
N. J. Knight
Henry Neipaetter
Lake Harris
Steve Piasse
Ross Williams
Fred Schaffnit
Clarence Andereck
Russel Tate
Sandoval Masonic Lodge
Central
Lions Club
Odd Fellows Hall
D. H. Kennedy
Pollyanna Club
Masonic Building
George Garren
Peoria
William Evans
St. Louis
Scott Cooper
East St. Louis
E. C. Toothaker
William Harvey
Centralia
Mary Clark
Boulder
Emma ‘Bligh
William Bellamy
du Quoin
Mollie Bellamy
Jessie Sherman
Mora
Jean Sherman
Chicago
Agnes Shanklin
Macomb
J. D. Shanklin
Everett Sherman
Carol Gorman
Vernon News Patchwork Club Meets and Local Events
Flora Dickey returns from Monticello visit. April meeting of the Chatter and Stitch club at Mrs. Cecil Brown’s home with A. L. Brown as guest. Members hosted by Mrs. Cloe Epps planned for May. Several residents visit and entertain, including Kinmundy visitors and a Sunday School party hosted by Mrs. Margaret Freyer. Auto accident injures Mrs. Grace Guthrie north of Vandalia. she to Mark Greer hospital. City election results listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flora Dickey
Robert Shanklin
Monticello
Cnatter and Stitch Club
Cecil Brown
A. L. Brown
Cloe Epps
Ina Anderson
Grace Chance
Daphne Martin
C. O. Livesay
Geo. Neavill
Oscar Cox
Frank Cox
Kinmundy
L. E. Green
Margaret Freyer
Dean Laws
Clarence Livesay
Robert Revis
Lyle Jones
William Hathaway
Vance Murfin
Helen Jarrett
Gertrude Jones
Lora Wilson
Lois Shaw
Harry Pacette
Vandalla
Mildred Morgan
Maxine Walton
Entre Nous Club
Jessie Binnion
Marion Epps
Lorene Beck
W. H. Cox
Hazel Cox
Salem
Grace Revis
Anna Wasmuth
John Rouse
Nei Blankinship
Beryl Guthrie
Vandalia
Beulah Jarrett
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
Patoka
Lem Meador
Earl Graham
F. C. Freyer
Fred Jarrett
Marcus Cox
Glenwood Brown
Pittsburg
Forrest Horn
Clara
Clinton
E. E. Morgan
Charles Moore
George Jones
Lone Prairie Visitors and Sunday Calls Reported
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Jett visited relatives Saturday and Sunday in the Lone Prairie area. Henry Meredith and family called on Willie Perkins and family Saturday night. A good crowd attended the sale. Willie Perkins and family called on Eli Palmer and wife Sunday afternoon. Eli Palmer visited Russell Palmer and family Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Jett
Henry Meredith
Willie Perkins
Eli Palmer
Russell Palmer
Community Socials and Visits Span Local Families
Henry Oglesby and family visits noted along with multiple calls and Sunday gatherings. Community Workers Club met with Ruth Wagner. talk on Stewardship and quilting activities described. Several local residents visit relatives, and health update on Mrs. Hattie Raver reported from St. Louis hospital.
Local gatherings and visits noted in community column
The column lists Sunday calls and visits including MC Haney Ballance and wife with Mrs Dona Somerville, Rev Clifton from Sandoval at Given's Chapel, and multiple Somerville Gray and Carter families visiting kin in Odin Kinmundy and Salem. It mentions a birth, painting work, hay sale, and a hospital update for Wm Black with several social calls surrounding weekend activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ballance
Dona Somerville
Clifton of
Sandoval
Given’s Chapel
S. W. Grays
George Somerville
John Somerville
Odin
J. R. Gray
Francis
Carter
Olive Britt
Kate Gray
Miss Allpha
Alvin Gray
T. M. Boring
Ernest Haines
Wit
Orville Arnold
J. T. Doris
Loren Albert
J. T.black
J. R. Chance
Kinmundy
Albert Fulton
Deaa Somervile
Belle Greenwalt
Wm. Walker
Salem
Morris
Edwin Hurner
LT. M. Boring
Silly Donuia
Carl Easton
Patoka
St. Louis
Laura Carter
Elmer Black
Local social life and school year end events noted
Fairman Alex Campbell Jr and Virginia Harvey visited Paul and Mildred Ververs. Wood School term ended with a Saturday dinner and afternoon games. James Meredith Jr is rehired to teach next year and leaves for eye Bendall to enter S I N U this summer. Pneumonia illness pockets include Helen Henning. A charivari greeted Millard Evans and Vivian Stephens after their marriage at the Evans home. Various visits by Ralph Heinzmann Carlyle Perry Thompson Hicks Ticknor and families. Mrs Fulton health improves enough to attend Sunday School. Juanita Booth visits Ruth Galbreath. reflection on preparing for the future by studying the past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood School
James Meredith Jr
Julius Chausse
Salem
Frank Power
Sandova
Etta Carrican
Evans
Fredonia
Millard Evans
Vivian Stephens
Ralph Heinzmann
Carlyle
Perry Thompson
Cecil Hicks
Ted Ticknor
G. N. Smith
Rev. Fairchild
Minnie Merten
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carl Schmidt
Graham Buck
Farmers’ Cooperative
Geo. J. Wasem
Stewart Sheep Shearing Machine
Patoka and
Vernon
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis Globe -Democrat
Lone Prairie
East Zion
Henry Oglesby
Young Ladies Club
Lois Arnold
Frank Thomason
Oscar Caldwell
Gusta Nichols
Hobart Arnold
Arnold Chapel
E. J. Jones
Walker O’caldwell
Jack Jones
Tonti
William Jones
Frank Frizzell
Harry Borrer
Mulberry Grove
Elmer Berry
Louie Bates
Annie Caldwell
Peck Caldwell
Cleave McWhirter
Charley McWhirter
Fent Caldwell
Lizzie Caldwell
Lewis Kissner
Community Workers Community Club
Ruth Wagner
Mary Perkins
Ella Cozad
Bertha Palmer
Mayme Tackett
Alice Palmer
Syrena Meredith
Elva Palmer
Mayme Muck
Lon Pritchett
Fairman
Campbell Brothers
Don Peddicord
Wm. Smith
Clarence Cozad
Martha Perkins
Viola Smith
Harold Smith
Macon
Cecil Beckett
Logan Meredith
Hattie Raver
St. Louis ‘Hospital
MC Haney
Wm. Black
Olney
Cecil Black
Eugene
Jesse
Ellen Gray
Herschel Campbell
Wiley Campbell
Alex Campbell, Jr
Virginia Harvey
Paul and
Mildred Ververs
Rhode
Farthing’s Hatchery
C. L. McMackin & Son
Illinois
Furniture & Rugs
Southern
Linton & Beery
Patoka, Illinois
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