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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1924
Page
3
Sallie describes a party scene with Ted Billings at a dance then in his car. He offers drinks and flirts as they watch the moon and imagine a playful tableau. Anne Coddington interrupts, leaving the incident unresolved and promising continuation next week.
Louie Wasem led the Illinois Power and Light club to a 3 to 2 victory over the Illinois Traction System in ten innings on July 30. Louie pitched to three hits with nine strikeouts and no walks. Arman Wasem tied the game in the ninth with a homer for the Traction club.
Under the Boys class auspices the Saturday night meeting drew few attendees and the speaker, leaving the event with expenses exceeding receipts and a poor financial return.
Local ads list various discounted household items including a Detroit vapor stove with built in oven at 12.50, blue enamel Simons oil stove at 10.06, a Run Easy rotary washer at 8.00, a 3 piece oak Davenport suite, a Clough & Warren piano, cottage oak organ, green enamel range 9x12 rug, malleable range, square cook stove, portable blacksmith forge at 10, a Pathe phonograph with 24 records at 50, and related hardware store entries. Patoka Hdw. & Fury. Su, vy 12%
Farmers Elevator Co. urges securing coal for the coming winter. The note stresses now is the time to arrange coal supply for the schoolhouse and nearby customers.
The piece analyzes a 1920s electoral deadlock scenario where Coolidge, Davis, and La Follette might split the electoral college. It explains the process from electors to the House and Senate, noting how a three way race could prevent a majority and force a choice by the House, with a possible Dawes or Bryan outcome in the Senate.
News arrives of the death of Charles Wasem in St Louis on Sunday night. He is a brother of Louie Wasem and the late Jacob Wasem of this place, and Louie attended the funeral.
The Township Sunday School Convention was well attended at the M. E. Church last Sunday. Officers for the ensuing year were elected and the meeting was dismissed after talks by officers and other entertainment.
Notice from Patoka Hardware & Furniture Co. after the Chicago Furniture Market showing hundreds of home furnishings rugs and stoves and latest patterns. Trade information to be passed and market socials to begin as items arrive.
Harry Gray of Rangeley Lakes Maine 48 years old is praised as a successful man by a sensational life tale. Born 1890 in Haverhill Massachusetts to John Grayson a poor man who died of consumption his mother remarried and Harry was expelled from home. He wandered to Salem and Lynn then built a milk route before failing. He joined the Panama Railroad crew and formed a silk shop venture in Panama City with a Chinese partner and a wife. His career later saw Colon and Culebra he eventually sold his business for 100000 cash and settled back in Rangeley Lakes to guide tourists across Northern Maine and Moosehead Lake where his fees are said to be enormous.
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