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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1931
Page
1
A 574 member Sanitary Milk Producers delegation led by E W Tiedeman and A D Lynch protested the St Louis Health Department policy allowing milk from Greenville without milk houses. They cited bootleg milk entering the market and urged immediate action, noting high costs and impacts on farmers unable to build milk houses.
The State diagnostic laboratory found 138 positive rabies cases from 48 dog heads examined in the first 28 days of July 1931, versus 29 heads with 4 positives in July 1930. Free Pasteur anti rabid treatments to 374 bite victims, with 18 others arranged at wholesale price.
A verse urges readers to stop buying oleo and to support dairy by churning butter at home. It questions price hikes, laments government aid for oleo buyers, and calls townfolk to buy butterfat to revive the dairy business and restore flavor. It promotes a pound of butter for 20 cents as a goal.
The Sanitary Milk Producers Local thanks C. D. Martin for a five dollar contribution to discourage oleo margarine and promote pure cow butter usage.
Patoka drew crowds with cars buggies and wagons as merchants touted real advertising in the home town paper. Three large firms The General Foods Corp Crete Mills and Corn Products Co reported their biggest one day sales in towns of Patoka size. Representative Ralph Pritchett of Centralia praised the Register and noted samples mailed to customers and display in New York. He said advertising education and better local conditions boost business and that Patoka’s scene shows ads pay.
The mail route from Pana to Patoka now uses truck delivery after the morning northbound and late southbound trains were stopped. Ashley Jenkins of Pana won the delivery contract and made his first trip Monday, leaving Pana at 7 00 a m and reaching Patoka at 9 15 a m. No mail is carried back to Pana.
Neighbors and friends gathered Friday evening at the new Evaporator Avenue residence of F. B. Ballance and family for a house warming. Harold Jolliff and family of Vernon attended along with local northeast town residents. The gathering was enjoyed by all.
G R Thalman writes from Washington D C enclosing cash for a year’s Register subscription and sends regards to old friends. He attended a Building and Loan Convention in Philadelphia and paused in D C for a round of golf before a planned Patoka visit.
At the August 12 school board meeting Miss Eva Van Horn of Vandalia was chosen to teach Music and Science at Patoka School, replacing Miss Erma Schaeffer who left for Lebanon School. Van Horn is an SIU graduate highly recommended by Prof. Wham. John Merklebach of Centralia is also new, replacing Mr. Harvey Munger in the Vandalia school.
Local church notes invite attendance for Friday August 14 at 8 pm with Rev Reeter delivering a stirring sermon. Sunday and Wednesday prayer services are scheduled with Sunday School at 9 30 am. Included are talks and special numbers by church members and visitors, with offerings and league benediction.
Sunday services across Christ Scientist churches highlighted the Mind theme. The Golden Text cites peace through trust in God, while Romans 11:33 34 36 questions humanity's grasp of divine mind and counsel. Science and Health echoes Mind as creator and all inclusively present.
The Christian Church Endeavor meeting features Scripture Psalms 147 1 20 Alta Pugh and Lucile Field led talks. Music includes Thelma Pugh Dayne Ellis Mary Alice Field and Mrs Sears solos and duets. A Sunday School picnic follows in Mrs Sears yard on August 26 at 6 p.m. All welcome bring a basket.
Church notes from Zion feature a scripture lesson on Matthew five and talks on the mind of Jesus about happiness. Florence Neilson leads prayer and Juanita Neilson discusses applying Jesus principles to happiness sources with music by Wanda and Flota Me Whirter and Nellie Mae Jones.
The church program lists Mae Eagan leading the talk on Christian friendship with scripture readings by Harriet Quayle and Elizabeth Simcox. Gene Ballance gives a talk. Leona Belcher chairs questions as announcements conclude.
M. E. Church South announces next Sunday as the final preaching day before Conference. Pastor R. E. Willis will lead the 11:00 a.m. service and Rev. J. M. Smith will preach at the evening service. Special music planned for both sessions.
Announces the eighty first annual convention of the Disciples of Christ will meet September 14 to 17 at the First Christian Church in Decatur. A four day program includes addresses by ministers educators and officers from state and national societies plus programs from Illinois Christian Missionary Society Christian Woman's Missionary Society and other groups. Officers listed include president Rev J T Shreve vice president Mrs Mabel Carlock secretary treasurer Rev Howard H Jenner and press secretary Rev Edward H Clifford.
All high school students will register at the high school building Monday August 24, 1931 from 9 to 12 a m. Classes will meet August 31. There will be no change in textbooks this year.
Rev Stewart of Newton filled his regular appointment at the Christian Church the third Sunday. His morning topic was Fellowship of Christians and evening Walking with God. Ordination services followed with W. E. Field ordained Deacon and Lawrence Perrine Elder.
District No 88 met Tuesday night at the I O O F hall in Patoka with fifteen visitors from the district and four from Herrin lodge. Grandmaster E M Cobb of Centralia Grand Instructor Kilberth of Energy and E J Smith of Herrin gave talks with Kilberth’s being especially instructive.
Harold S Williams Republican candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court in the Second District announced a reply to Symptonius P Preston Editor Gillespie News. The broadcast will air on KMOX St Louis at 9 45 Thursday night August 20 as part of weekly campaign remarks drawing wide attention.
Les Simcox left Patoka for Philadelphia after a two week vacation with his parents. Mrs. C. F. Cox and Charles Jr. of Springfield visited the D. W. Troyer family along with Charles Bryan and family of Vera. DeWitt Jennings of Chicago arrived in Patoka for a few days with relatives and friends.
A 1920s analysis shows Illinois had 17 milk borne typhoid outbreaks causing 288 cases, while water borne outbreaks caused 437 typhoid cases. Across the United States 1924 1929 saw 10,906 milk borne illness cases from 258 epidemics versus 5,083 typhoid and dysentery cases from 143 water borne epidemics.
Illinois peaches are now on the market and are nicer this year than ever before. S. E. Pierson leads a Department of Agriculture campaign to sell the crop, with support from the Illinois Chamber of Commerce and J. Paul Clayton. A. B. Leeper of the Illinois Fruit Growers Exchange and F. H. Simpson of F. H. Simpson Company, among others, aid in disposing of the large peach harvest. Buy Illinois Peaches to help your community.
On Monday August 31 citizens of voting age must go to the polls to express their choice for a Judge of the Supreme Court from this District. This is a special election requiring an earnest effort to get every eligible voter to participate.
The peach crop in Egypt is nearly ready with the main harvest starting next week. A grower near Patoka plans to begin picking August 25 and aims for 12 000 bushels, stressing ripening on the trees for best flavor and steady prices.
Local notes report a missing bill with passes and valuables, various visits and guests to Patoka, a hospital improvement for Robert Morey after appendicitis, and multiple travelers and relatives visiting or staying with families in Patoka and Decatur. The item list includes lost hound notices, property additions, and several courteously detailed social visits.
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