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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1960
Page
1
Community notices recount visits and travels of residents from Patoka and nearby towns. Attendees include Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Chriss and others returning from trips to Florid a Smoky Mountains Cypress Gardens and Fort Lauderdale.
Oscar J. Hill sold three acres on the southwest corner of Kirimindy road and new Highway 51 to a three man group planning a shopping center. The buyers include a Chicago man, a Springfield man, and a Patoka area man. They aim to begin this fall with a supermarket restaurant drug store filling station barber shop and a large parking lot.
A basket dinner last Sunday honored Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Nelson and children of Chino California. At Orval Sharp’s home 39 relatives attended. Activities included ball games photo sessions and group pictures. Attendees listed include Californians Sandoval East St. Louis Vernon Patoka and Pa toka residents. The Nelsons visit Decatur Patoka area for a couple weeks.
Work began Monday morning on the new Wesley Methodist church east of Patoka to replace the Arnold Chapel and Zion churches destroyed by fire. The frame building with store veneer will rise about one and a half miles east of the Zion church along the Kinmundy blacktop, with church members doing most labor and Charles Bee and Everett Newman of Alma aiding early on. Russell Snyder of Patoka has the contract for the heating plant.
Gov William Stratton invited Mr and Mrs G W Isaac editors of the Patoka Register to attend the Illinois State Fair in Springfield on Editors Day Monday August 15. The ten day fair runs August 12 to 21 marking the 108th year with exhibits and entertainment showcasing agricultural industry and science.
Mound Chapel Methodist church to host a basket dinner on Sunday August 7 at noon on the church lawn. All members and friends are invited to attend and bring well filled baskets.
Rev. C I Heflin announces unified worship at 10 a m on Sundays with no break for Sunday School, followed by classes, then 11 30 dismissal. 1st and 3rd Sundays 10 a m. 2nd and 4th Sundays 7 30 p m. Attendance last Sunday was 76. Promotion and Rally Day planned for Aug 28 and Sept 25.
Several new homes began construction and main exterior and interior work proceeded this past week. Lee Crawford erected a prefab house on his former foundation west of town and will finish the interior himself. Charles Berry advances a for sale home on City Route 51. D C Dugan of Milwaukee has refurbished the Peddicord house with Eli and Stuart Logan applying a new shingle finish. Mrs Dephia Jolliff and Mr and Mrs L E Green repainted their homes. Tim Cole is painting his residence.
Mrs. Kate Walker was given a going away party at the home of Mrs. Frank Crawford Thursday afternoon. Attendees included Mrs. Winnie Spurgeon, Mrs. Lela Ballance, Mrs. Binnie Humes, Mrs. Lela Thalman, Mrs. Ra da Meryman, and Mrs. Crawford. Ice cream and cake were served. The Walkers depart Monday for their Tucson, Arizona home.
Robert Regelsperger of Perryville Mo has been hired by School District 100 to teach social studies in the high school. He replaces Dwight Kline who will teach at Centralia Junior College. Regelsperger is a graduate of Murray State College Murray Ky and a social science major.
Mrs. Edith Peyton and her granddaughter Edith Ann Morgan left last Friday for Safe Missouri for a two week visit with Edith’s daughter Mrs Alpha Morgan and family. Several local visits and gatherings are noted including a birthday basket dinner at the Perkins home for Mrs. Perkins.
Donna Murfin of Vernon plans to marry John Cortser of Vandalia in an August ceremony.Parents Mr and Mrs Don Murfin and Mr and Mrs Fred Cortser are listed as the families involved.
Revival services start Sunday August 7 at 7 30 p m at Overcup Missionary Baptist Church seven miles southeast of Vandalia with Bro Harry Perkins the pastor delivering the sermon Public welcome An ice cream supper hosted by the MYF of the Methodist Church will be held Saturday August 13 at Schroeder's Motor Co Jet News items are welcome
James DeWitt Jennings 68 died Monday Aug 1 on the way to hospital in Cox and Martin ambulance. Born Aug 11 1891 in Patoka he lived 48 years there. He married Faye Hathaway in 1954 and retired as a machinist from Caterpillar Tractors in Peoria the same year. Survived by wife and three brothers John A Jennings of Taylorville Kay S Jennings and R O Kelley of Patoka. Funeral Wednesday at Cox and Martin Funeral Home with Rev Robert Hollis officiating. Burial in Patoka cemetery.
The Walker Reunion gathered at Vandalia Greer Park on July 81 with 88 attendees. Families shared filled baskets and children swam in the afternoon, with many members listed as present and several unable to attend.
The Meyer Reunion at Jimmie Britt and family home in Patoka on July 31 marked Nina Lee Britt's first birthday. A pot luck dinner followed by visiting and games drew guests from Alma Salem and Patoka, including Wes Black Maurice Black Denny and Doris Osborne Claudia Carol Mike and others.
Conservation Club 100 will hold an area picnic on August 19 or 26. Members will meet soon to plan the event.
Floyd M. Smith, Marion County Farm Adviser, resigns after seven years in the post. He previously served eight years in Clinton County and is a Patoka native with no definite plans for the future.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Shipley of East Carondelet announce the birth of a baby boy on July 31 at St. Marys Hospital. Earl Jr weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces at birth. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Wm Parker of Patoka and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shipley of Smithboro.
The Patoka Fire department and the Lions Club will cooperate to stage a community picnic in September. Lions committee members include Mark Cox Don Griffin and Paul Logan. The meeting also covered the club mosquito abatement plan and highway improvements with Sen. Dwight Friedrich.
Mrs Ernest Leicht of Patoka was reelected County Chairman of the Marion County Home Economics Extension Council at the regular meeting July 25 in Salem Farm Bureau Hall. New members named by Dean L B Howard include Mason Bassett Vernon Robert Ford Alma Zeke Fry Salem E D Patterson Salem Harold Snyder Sandoval and Wayne Wilkinson Salem for a two year term. The council supports the home economics extension program and helps shape a plan for better living and community growth.
Work began last week on the new high school addition to house the grade school. Squibb Construction Co. of Salem serves as general contractor. At the latest school board meeting brick color was chosen and the contractor is to have the building ready for use by the start of the 1961 school year.
Salvation Army Camp Booth in Salem ran a July program entertaining 258 children with free registration a week ahead for 3 day sessions through August. Supervising Envoy Currier notes a full recreation program including swimming sports and crafts. A Cub Scout band directed by Roscoe Hyde already has 26 members with more urged to join.
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