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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1930
Page
3
The week recounts visits and social events around Kinfaunty, Vandalia, Toad Island, and nearby areas. Families including the Barneses, Shepards, Laswells, Belchers, and Stones shared meals, visits, and small errands. Local business mentions include hog butchering and banking tasks, with several trips to Vandalia and Macon noted.
John Shepard butchered a couple big hogs Monday. John Henry Belcher went to Vandalia Monday on business. George Belcher hauled fodder. We sat by a hot stove Monday. We cut our wood when the weather is warm and sit by the fire when cold. Jane Cooper remains about the same. If you want to know about the neighborhood news subscribe for the Register and keep posted.
Alva and Everett Jett shared Thanksgiving dinner with Mr and Mrs John Nichols. Everett Goodwin shopped in Salem Saturday. Mr and Mrs Wm Perkins and family vacationing in the northern part of the state. Miss Eunetta Perkins visited Miss Esther Goodwin Sunday. Mr and Mrs Millard Palmer and children had Sunday dinners with Pearl Poole and family. On Sunday November 30 Esther Goodwin marked a sixteenth birthday with friends gathering at her home Saturday.
A party ended with a delightful surprise for the guest of honor as games and pumpkin pie plus a birthday cake were served. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Millard Palmer and others, with lighthearted fun and late departures noted. A separate anecdote mentions memory loss observed by creditors.
Local residents and relatives are listed visiting and spending Thanksgiving across area towns including Salem Sandoval Patoka Alma and Patoka high lighted by Charles Arthur Gray Leola Arnold Edna Thalman Dean Britt and other families. Several calls and weekend visits are noted among the Britt Thalman Long and Belcher families with neighbors such as Hines and Hines of Salem.
Daisy Lee Bopp spent Saturday night with grandparents Mr and Mrs Pete Bopp and family. Minnie Hindrich of Chicago visited. The Bowen family and others helped Wash Bowen butcher and spent Sunday with the Bopps. Several locals attended a dinner and play at Carrigan on Thanksgiving day. The town quips that tax cuts are only a hallucination as locals joke about tourists and weather.
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