Social notes from Patoka area gatherings and visitors
James Davidson of Pantona and companions visited Salem and St. Louis, then Highland relatives on the trip to Patoka. Numerous families hosted and visited across Patoka, Salem, Centralia, Granite City, Sandoval, Alma, and nearby towns, with farewell notes of CCC camp veterans and cross-town kinships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Davidson
Pantona
Fla
Salem
Neil Davidson
Philip Mojonnier
Harvey Smith
St. Louis
Thursdaay
Mr. Mojommiier
Paul Mojonnier
Patoka
Highland
A.W. Thalman
Vandalia
A. Griffin
Nint
Fannie Chandler
Charles Humes
Centralia
Decatur
Walter Stein
Assumption
C. Groves
Cerro Gordo
Clayton Beery
Billy Bruening
Granite City
Dale Nattier
Sandoval
J. M. Smith
Harry Johnson
Oral Jett
Greenville
Lizzie Griggs
Dewey
Kiprey
Imgvald Settem
Clay City
Katie Nattier
Carl Cantrall
Velma Hurst
Geo. Ballance
Earl Earl
CCC
Norwalk
Wis
George Wickersham
Fielding Adams
Patricia Spurgeon
A. A. Griffin
M Cunees
Alma
Alvin
Will Hathaway
Vernon
Orville Goff
Rock Falls
George Smith
V. V. Barcroft
Kinmundy
Flying officer jokes about navigation misreadings
A humorous anecdote compares complex economic theory to a flying officer in Egypt who, using a sextant near the pyramids, tells the pilot to take off his hat because calculations place them inside St. Paul’s Cathedral, highlighting a misread of positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egypt
Great Pyramids
St. Paul's Cathedral
Honeymoon Plans Reveal War Wound Route
Patricia recalls Harry’s surprise plan to honeymoon in France after their wedding. He promised to show her where he was wounded in the war, a detail Nellie finds warmly meaningful and touching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia
Harry
France
Nellie
Multiple For Sale Notices and Court Summons from Salem Illinois
A collage of classified sale items lists auctions and ads for Green Gage plums, a three room apartment and six room house, gravel for concrete, a large heating stove and room for high school pupils horses, an oil boom town rooming house, an ice box, and sweet cider. The second item is a summons from the Marion County Circuit Court in Salem dated 1937 listing defendants and heirs and ordering answer by September 6 1937 under the supervision of Clerk J Lem Ballance and Attorney Harry F Johnson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burtschi Motor Co
Vandalia
Illinois
Arthur L. Irvin
Charles Floyd Jones
Isabella M. Floyd Jones
Robert H. Flyod Jones
Marie F. Flyod Jones
Edgar Floyd Jones
Semple Floyd Jones
Charles G. Smith
Ervin M. Beach
Julia S. Floyd Jones
Isabella H. Jones
Julia D. Jones
Shori C. Jones
S. C. Jones
Circuit Court
Marion County
Salem
J. Lem Ballance
Harry F. Johnson
West Main Street
Notice of Chancery Quiet Title Suit in Patoka Illinois
State of Illinois Marion County Circuit Court notices defendants in a chancery action by Charles Floyd Jones to quiet title to Lot Five, Block Three, Town of Patoka, alleging title issues and naming multiple Floyd Jones heirs and unknown owners as defendants with affidavits on file.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Illinois
Marion
Circuit Court of
Charles Floyd Jones
Charles H. Hill
Chancery
Isabella M.nyed Jones
Robert H. Floyd Jones
Marie F. Floyd Jones
Edgar Floyd Jones
Semple Floyd Jones
Charles A. Smith
Ervin M. Beach
Julia S. Floyd Jones
Isabella H. Jones
Julia D. Jones
Short C. Jones
S. C. Jones
Isabella M. Floyd Jones
Illinois
Patoka
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cocal News
P. J. Mojonnier
Elton Hines
Missouri
Thos. Pugh
J. G. Bastin
Wasel CO. Modern Optical Department
East Broadway
Centralia, Illinois
Delco-Light
Delco-Light Plant
Delco
Holtkamp Electric Service Co
North Poplar St
Patoka Elevator CO
Wm. Ellery Channing
Crosley
Sticklers
Sholconier, Ill
Wilbur Meador
Bill Chriss
Ill
Inquire Register Office
Shropshire
Oxford
Hampshire
Gene Leniger
Farthing
Odin
Wilmer Meador
Raines
Antralia
John F. Anderson
H. G. Hudspeth
Harold Foltz
Centralia Basket Co
Carl Holst
Mgr
Thomas J. Murphey
Janesville
George’s New Candy Shop
Men’s Suits Bettinghouse
John Deere
North Locust St
Phone Patoka
Linton
Beery
Miles Nervine
Miss Glivar
Osa
Prices Cafe
Byrd-Watson Drug CO
Philco Radios
Maurice Reynolds
Breese
Field’s Barber Shop
MAE Eagan
C. S. Huddleston
P. O. Box
Old Capitol
South 6Th St
Websters
5Th St
T.l
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