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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1930
Page
4
State of Illinois Marion County public notice lists the 1930 personal property assessments for Foster Township. The long roster names residents and values from Arnold to Williams, with school district references and many individuals.
Our mechanical departments are making changes and adjustments necessary to ensure maximum safety for patrons.
Friday night band concerts are discontinued until further notice. Mrs. C. C. Livegay and son Gers ald visited Alma relatives. George Jones family reports Phoenix stay too hot and return to New Mexico. Mrs. Jones is improving and handled trip well. Mrs. Claud Meador returned home from Centralia Hospital. Dr. Chas. Ehlers and family were summoned here due to a grandmother’s death.
A brief sale column lists a good car corn from W. H. Wade of Vernon II a 3 horsepower gasoline engine in good condition priced reasonable and a purebred Shropshire yearling ram from University of Illinois stock listed by O. F. Davis with notices dated June 20.
Hot and dry conditions prevail with rain badly needed. Wheat and corn have been threshed in the area and Red top is due next. Aunt Bell Belcher of Patoka visited brother Lon and wife over the weekend. Gladys and Mary Alexander traveled through Clinton County last week taking orders for a manufacturing company.
In the Shattue and Kinmundy area the Shepard family hosted Etta Shepard’s 28th birthday with a pie supper drawing relatives from Keyesport Sandoval Cracker Neck Vandalia Mulberry Grove and others. Fifty seven attended and shared many pies despite reports of a burglary the prior week with clothing and money taken from the elder John’s home.
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