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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1926
Page
6
Vernon Illinois hosts a band concert featuring Teddy Junior Overture Gypsy Queen The Mill in the Forest Old Timers Minuet in G Dance of the Goblins Always and the Blue Ribbon Coeur Brise Rosemary Caprice The Whistler and his Dog On the Mall selections arranged by Lake and performed by Weierstein King Eilenberg Alexander Pryor Goldman Jewell Gillett and others in a varied program.
A poem extols the flapper of today as modern and noble, praising her powder paint and charm. It contrasts bustling city life with returning home to a wife described as home loving and playful, using animal imagery and floral fragrance to praise youth and fashion. The piece ends with initials Rey and Watson from Central City, Iowa.
A crowded Patoka area notice page lists Altoms sales on straw hats silk hose and coffee with many visits from St Louis and Vernon families. It notes a Legion Picnic and Mortgage burning event on Sept 2 and 8, various sales on oranges and Cantalupe basket of goods and a missing ball glove reward. Household updates include new babies and school appointments and a long stream of farm and market mentions from Wasems Cash Market to Hill Bros and Geo Ballance.
The Illinois Weekly Industrial Review lists community and infrastructure plans across towns. Projects include Thebes waterworks, Villa Ridge school bids, Petersburg Lutheran church cornerstone, Litchfield white way lighting, Bloomington and Chicago church construction, East St. Louis rail work, Kewanee factory and railroad developments, Oak Park Horace Mann School, Tuscola and Brookport bridge efforts, and related civic improvements.
The Salem coroner conducted two inquests this week, first into the suicide of an unnamed man, and then into the death of a member of the Heth Carnival Co. from hemorrhage. Coroner Gem Tot presided.
Chas Faulkner owner of a car used by a group from Greenup ILL to travel through Patoka last Friday, struck a Bert Walker team and caused a disturbance before Claud Walker’s home. Deputy Sheriff Cox arrested him at Greenup and brought him to town, bond set for trial. An attorney later settled the suit with a $5 fine in Police Magistrate Carter’s court.
Threshing is the order of the day after rain delays last week. Rev Oral Brown and family hosted a gathering with neighbors and friends, and Louis Olmstead with wife visited Charley Halbrook and family. Fred Lake and family spent Sunday with Ed Payne and family. Mrs Albert Brown returned from Shumway after a week with Alice Burness and family. Mrs Frank Lopeman has improved while Alta Landreth returned to Decatur after visiting Leo and family. Claudean Norris visits home folks. Granddaughters of Mr and Mrs Linton begin homeward trip to Iowa. Mr and Mrs Halbrook were called to their daughter Mrs G C Johnson’s bedside last week.
The Religious Advancement Organization reports June changes in attendance across groups. Pentecost shows a 15.3 percent gain, Baptist 8.6 percent gain, M. E. Church 1.8 percent gain, M. E. South 1.7 percent gain, while Christian churches face a 3.8 percent loss.
The Crigan School District No. 57 Board invites sealed bids for painting the schoolhouse to be completed by August 25 1927. The district supplies paint and reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Bids due by 8 PM August 8 1927 to the Clerk in Odin Illinois. The building measures 34 by 28 by 12 feet with an 8 by 12 foot porch and two closets 5 by 6 by 8.
The document lists property owners including Edward Dull and J Fulton with assessed values such as 400, 410, and 620 in the 1927 assessment roll, continuing from the preceding page. The fragment notes ownership and numeric values, indicating a continuation of the annual assessment record.
A long record lists numerous land parcels with owners and precise acreages across sections. Names include J. E. Hill, Henry Henning, J. Carter, Ralph Merten, Henry Henning, and many others with sections 32 to 34, noting abutting deeds and measurements. The entries show sw ne 40a 360 and similar lines, indicating division into 40 acre tracts and varied ownership.
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