Booster Night Game Upset By Pou ie ela All Stars
Patoka All Stars win a booster night game against Centralia Pomeroy in Washington on Aug 18 1936. The letter from A M Peek describes travel from Chicago to Spokane and trips through rural Washington including harvests, family news, and local observations before returning home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Wash
Patoka Register
Mr. Brown
Union Stations
Chicago
Spokane
Washington
Hudson
Carl Bratcher
Coulee Dam
Carl
Stephen Bracher
Seattle
Rena Williams Nee Haley
Mr. and
Mes
A. M. Peek
Two Day September Festival Showcases Free Acts Parades
The two day program features two free acts daily with bands and drum and bugle corps. Parades occur each day including a merchants parade on Thursday and a school parade on Friday. Relics and exhibits will be at Old State with seventy prizes. See handbills for prizes and keep September 10 11 1936 in mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old State House
Patoka Odd Fellows Lodge Surrenders Charter after 40 Years
The Patoka I O O F lodge relinquished its charter to the State Grand Lodge ending forty years of service. The hall above Jones and Martin general store, built by the lodge, will be dissolved with possessions turned in and the building closed per state rules.
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Odd Fellows Lodge
Patoka
Jones & Martin General Merchandise
I. O. O. F. Lodge
Jones & Martin
State Grand Lodge
Throgh
Vaughn
Salem
Patoka I. O. O. F. Lodge
Vernon Lodge
F. M. Smith
Carlyle Softball Team Hosts Game Tonight
The Wee Walkers of Carlyle play on the local diamond tonight. Admission is 1 cent with 5 prizes of 1 dollar plus other gifts from local merchants. A drawing will award cash and there is bleacher seating available.
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Carlyle
Cox and Martin Open Sandoval Funeral Establishment
Cox and Martin funeral directors from Patoka and Vernon lease a Sandoval building, redecorate, furnish, and open a full service funeral office with John Chapman in charge. The firm brings a Lincoln funeral coach, vaults, and caskets to serve Sandoval, where no local establishment previously existed.
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Cox & Martin
Patoka and Vernon
Sandoval
Lincoln
John Chapman
Miss Cynthia Blankenship Obituary in Vandalia Church News
Cynthia Frances Blankenship died August 19 1936 in Mark Greer Hospital at 28. Born December 10 1907 in Kaskaskia township she was daughter of Henry and Nancy Blankenship. She taught third grade at Washington school in Vandalia and was active in church and clubs. Funeral Aug 20 at M E Church Vandalia with Rev Whitlock. interment Thorpe cemetery. Card of Thanks from family members.
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Cynthia Frances Blankenship
Henry
Nancy Blankenship
Kaskaskia Township
Mark Greer Hospital
Hallie Zimmerman
Nellie Metzger
Harold
Shobonier
Jessie Binnion
Vernon
Rollie Blankenship
Clinton
M. E. Church
Vandalia
The
Missionary Society
Vandala
Washington School
M. E
O. F. Whitlock
Thorpe Cemetery
Cynthia Blankenship
Harold Blankenship
Surprise Birthday Party For Connie Meader
Mrs. Robert Jennings hosted a surprise party for Connie Jean Meader at grandparents’ home for her ninth birthday. Games were played and ice cream served. Attendees included Eulavon Walker Lorene Walker Patsy Lou Beery Evalena Jennings Evelyn Easton Agnes May Hayes Dorothy DeLay Pansy Wasem and Anna Belle Adams.
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Robert Jennings
Connie Jean Meader
Eulavon
Lorene Walker
Patsy Lou Beery
Evalena Jennings
Evelyn Easton
Agnes May Hayes
Dorothy DeLay Pansy Wasem
Anna Belle Adams
Womans' Club Appoints Yearly Committees 1936 37
Mrs. Roy Jones, president, announces Patoka Womans' Club committees for 1936 37. American Home with Spur geon Ballance Malan Peak Pugh Simcox Tacke Brown. Health with Potts Adams Beery Diveley Nattier Jones Walker. Literature Music and Art with Good Beckemeyer Simcox Dansberry Peddicord Smith Walton McKinney. Garden and Conservation with Troyer Belcher Hill Martin Rogier Thomason Martin Chandler. Welfare and Community with Cruse Chance Cruse Irvin Simcox Miller Green. Education with Murfin Martin Nattier Rogier Smith Pugh Settem Wasem.
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Roy Jones
Patoka Womans’ Club
Winnie Spurgeon
Selah Ballance
Maude Malan
Augusta Peak
Estella Pugh
Mae Simcox
Myrtle Tacke
Cecil Brown
Eva Potts
Marvel Adams
Leta Beery
Wilma Diveley
Lillie Nattier
Mabel Jones
Kate Walker
Mae Good
Belle Beckemeyer
Josie Simcox
Bertha Dansberry
Minnie Peddicord
Effie Smith
Lizzie Walton
McKinney
Lula Troyer
Edna Belcher
Julia Hill
Esta Martin
Wilma Rogier
Rose Thomason
Emma Martin
Addie Chandler
Edith Cruse
Grace Chance
Alice Cruse
Maude Irvin
Francis Simcox
Bertha Miller
Ethel Green
Bedsie Murfin
Daphne Martin
Katie Nattier
Myrtle Rogier
Emma Smith
Ruth Pugh
Gerogia Settem
Eva Wasem
Party Honors Christian Church Aid Society Hosts
Mrs. Anna Pugh and Mrs. Maude Ellis hosted a lawn party for twenty one members of the Christian Church Aid Society. Games and contests entertained, a watermelon hunt and eating contest provided fun, prizes awarded, gifts exchanged, and birthdays celebrated. Refreshments were served by the hostesses with help from Mrs. James Ballance. Leroy and Keith Green returned home from North Fork after visiting their uncle L. E. Green and family.
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Anna Pugh
Maude Ellis
Farmers Home
Christian Church Aid Society
H. N. Potts
W. E. Field
William Good
Mesdames Clayton’ Beery
Lee Wadkins
Madeline Porter
James Ballance
Leroy
Keith Green
North Fork
L. E. Green
Patoka All Stars top Centralia 10 to 6 in lone league game
Patoka All Stars defeated Centralia Young Democrats 10 to 6 at Patoka City Park Friday night after trailing early. Harold Foltz started for Patoka with Leverle relief. key moments included Livesay driving in runs and Patoka capitalizing on Centralia errors to pull away in the later innings.
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Centralia Young Democrats
Patoka
Patoka All Stars
Demerals
Centralia
Nightcap Shobonney
Patoka Scrubs
Harold Foltz
Irvin
Leverle
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Pou
Esa
West
Bult
Dwig
Hey Birks
Fieht
Fayette County
OLD Settlers
Patoka S. O. O. F. Lodge
Sandoval, Il
Connie Meader
J. Simcox
Livesay
Simcox
Garnier
C. Cunningham
Murray
Griffin
Fouch
Fields
Meador
Eagan
J. Wiasem
P. Simcox
Struck
Atkinson
Miles
Wasem
Mooney
Cunningham
Ballance
Williams
Sicox
Etheredge
J. Cunningham
Erros
Softball Association
Paul Protz
Martin’s
Dean Arnold
Ed Hayes
Patoka Berster
Edgar Martin
Champaign
Califo
Paul Walker
Patoka Hdw
Furn. Co
E. L. DeLay
R. L. Walton
Jones & Martin Troyer
Sugar
Hill & Son
Kelly
Leyerle
Bill Miller
John Miller
Winona Stephens
Thurby Meador
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