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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1907
Page
4
A discourse urges residents to quit grousing about their town and to support local schools and newspapers. It notes the town grows with cooperative citizens and highlights a father guiding his son through farm chores while a farmers club debates keeping boys on the farm.
Correspondence from St. Paul reports a holiday Thanksgiving with visitors and locals. Mentions illness, social calls, church meetings, the Red Men lodge effort, new safety equipment, telephone wiring plans, business moves at Leach and Co Timber Co, and various local arrivals departures. Also notes weather, road work, and a December wedding at Lutheran church.
Several residents and visitors are noted including Rufus Aderholt at Vernon, Mrs. Kate Schmitt visiting St. Louis relatives, Miss Cora Gerard of Pin Hook calling on Mrs. E. Gerard, and Sam Riley plus Jacob Schmitt in Vandalia. Thanksgiving services were held at the Baptist church and local moves include Mrs. Sears planning to return home. A Galyean block butcher shop expansion is reported by Herman Morey and John Rice of near by.
Mr and Mrs Dolph Jackson dined with Geo Thomason and family Sunday. Miss Laura Hill of Patoka visited, Ray Hopkins headed west, Jeff Trout and wife called on J R King and wife. Edward Howell, a respected local, died Monday morning November 25 with funeral at Rev Chas King home and burial in Pratt graveyard.
Henry Wernsman searched for a missing horse and found it injured in a corn field. Local gatherings included a Rogiers party with violin by James Thompson and several visits among neighbors. Others traveled to St Louis for medical care and a new barn completion at Rogiers spurred fifty acres of corn husking. James Quail suffered muscular rheumatism. Mrs Brown hosted a small gathering with others in attendance.
Obbie Cooper spent Thanksgiving day at Boulder. Leroy Bright visited his sister Mrs. William Cooper and returned home Sunday. Little Joe Hull sold twenty five muskrats two coon pelts and one opposite for seventeen dollars and seventy five cents. D. N. Smith and sons are busy sawing their winter wood.
In White Haven the weather flips from sun to chill as Nattier Brothers shred corn locally. Winnie Reichert visits home for Thanksgiving from Carbondale. Edna Leininger suffers a sore throat while Floyd Hatch’s St Louis medical care shows slow improvement. Hattie Christie battles erysipelas and Grandpa Sutton has another heart episode. J Y Belcher and wife visit Robert Norris. E Ring and family visit Mark Cox. Albert Keel of Salem seen in town. Bessie Reichert dubbed rabbit champion though she traps them awkwardly. Mrs Hatch returns from Charleston at her aunt’s bedside. Rev Bryan to preach at Bear Creek Saturday night and Sunday.
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