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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1927
Page
4
Vernon district residents and guests share trips visits and gatherings across Vandalia Decatur and Patoka. Many attend Salem reunion baptisms picnics band events and church activities with a wide web of local families and neighbors noted throughout.
Several attended Sunday School at Temple Sunday. Mat Belcher and family visited with Elijah Paine and wife and called on Uncle Henry Belcher. John Bopp and family visited N Kiest and wife Friday night. Charley Snyder of Centralia visits grandparents Me Jim Snyder and wife. Reunion at Salem last week. Ice cream supper at Fairman church Aug 13. Lorene and Lila Williams visited with Helen and Katheryn Donnelly.
Wesley Binnion and relatives from Bloomington and Bud Binnion of Vernon visited in Bear Creek. George Christie and wife spent Sunday with Frank Lake and family. A number of Bear Creek residents were present.
The column records visits by Luther Barnes and family from Kinmundy to J. A. Shepard and wife, John Shepard and family from Shat tuc, and Ruby Stone of Sandoval. Arch ie Underwood and wife toured the area, residents attended church at Sandy Branch, watched a Vernon ball game, and sixty five attended Sunday School. Grandpa Murry and Mrs. Rosman are reported as about the same, with cooler weather after rain.
John Albert McHaney and Dorothy Shuler wed at Salem on Friday. Chester Finch married a Decatur woman at Salem on Saturday. The Wickenhouser family from Salem visited relatives Sunday. Elmer Groff and near Sullivan residents visited John Renfro. Frank Belcher near Patoka attended Sunday School and church at Cabbage Chapel. Ellen Gray of Centralia spent Sunday with relatives. Cecil Black and family visited Salem on Saturday. Ed Bender bought a cow from Mrs. Lea near Kinmundy. Jim Wood of Kinmundy searched for cattle Thursday. Walter Somerville works in Salem. Nova States and Naomia Howard of Salem visited relatives Sunday. Cabbage Chapel baptisms at Jims Creek Sunday afternoon with four baptisms. John Fulton family visited S. W. Gray. Willard Davidson of Bloomington attended the Salem reunion and visited relatives on Saturday. Wesley Black of Patoka Prairie visited Saturday afternoon. Cleave McWhirter and family with Dorothy and Elsworth Chandler attended Sandy Branch church Sunday night. Dean Hill of Fredonia was seen on the streets Sunday afternoon.
Sunday visitors came to the Bassett home as Mr and Mrs Mason Bassett hosted relatives. Emma Stevens from Salem visits Mrs L Foster. Lew Bates and family joined Robert Arnold for a Sunday gathering. Lewis Jones and family stayed with Mrs Walker. Jesse Walton browsed the Burg for cattle but found few for sale. John Lotz is listed as sick. Arnold Chapel picnic drew good crowds with five other Sunday Schools in attendance and strong singing. Several speakers graced the program.
John Cleary and family visited Vandalia while Katie Ehrat consulted an oce culist there. Mrs Thomas improves after a long bed confinement from a fall at her son Edward Thomas home. Mrs Lucy Klinge broke ribs in a fall. Reunion at Salem and a picnic at Arnold Chapel were attended. Chris Ehrat and wife visited Lizzie Ehrat in the state hospital. Sunday School ice cream supper planned for Aug 13 1927 with cream served from five. Ella Emerson and Belle Willitt improving after illness. Mervel Willett and Clarence Holt handled social affairs in Vandalia. Georgia Lane stayed with Mildred Morgan in Vernon. Foster Holt and Oscar Sears dragged the roads. John Cleary sold thirty head of fat cattle to John Yarbrough of Vandalia. Ben Zimmerman and a lady friend rode about town. Donations requested for Farmer's Cemetery at F Beck Vernon IL.
Mrs Rada Gray Hayden of San Bernardino Cal visited Patoka for several days to see her mother Mrs Sallie Gray and other family. The Wasem family from St Louis visited F G Shimp and wife and relatives. Families at City Park and nearby join in informal reunions with few details shared. Rose Davis underwent tonsil removal surgery at Centralia Hospital and showed improvement after a serious spell. An auto party from Patoka toured Forest Park Highlands in St Louis.
The August 7 Christian Science Lesson-Sermon centers on Spirit as good and eternal, with Galatians 6 7 8 warning against sowing to the flesh and praising the life everlasting from the Spirit. The Text from Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy reinforces that God is good Spirit and that evil and matter are mortal error.
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