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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1929
Page
7
The story follows Peggy as she becomes two, with family cheers and a playful celebration. Her brother, grandma, and Aunt Alice join a colorful birthday procession, cake and two candles, and a cloth cat gift. Peggy talks in playful “play talk” understood by grandma.
Mrs Beck Zoller cares for sister Mrs Shreffler after gallstone surgery at Centralis. Whitcomb Riley aided a Wiley Campbell butcher on Monday. A W Gray helped Geo Jett saw wood for H W Somerville Monday. Florence States recovers from tonsillitis. Frank States and Robert Fulton return from picking corn. Alice Osborn visited over weekend with sister Mrs John Boring. Geo Jett to saw wood for T W and W Gray this week. Edd Bender visited Patoka on business. H W Somerville and wife shopped in Odin Friday. Eli Howard on indisposed list. Walter Smith visited Fred Williams last week. Herman Bailey living with Guy Chandler.
Mrs. Fred Sinte improves after illness. Carrigan Literary Society fills Friday night with a debate on whether the newspaper is more beneficial to the country than the Bible. Choir practice held at Carrigan Church Saturday.
Helen Barnett hosted Mary Fulton Sunday afternoon. Lawrence Heinzman and family visited with J. P. Hicks and family, marking Mrs. Heinzman and Lois Hicks birthdays. Carrigan Sunday School drew forty two attendees as Nelson Hicks took time with Raymond Kirgan and family. Ike Walker and family joined Will Hester at Harry Bopp’s home, and Mrs. Julius Chausse with Frances called on the McGeehon home.
The town notes the big snow is almost gone and roads are nearly passable. Mr and Mrs Rollie Stombaugh and daughter Marvell visited Geo Helbeck and wife Sunday afternoon while Mrs Amel Oberg and relatives traveled to Centralia on business. Howard Daniels and wife visited Highland last week. Betty Jane Crumbaugh and family shopped in St Louis Thursday. The paint store promotes Xmas gifts like book racks and vases as low cost keepsakes.
Classified items list including a Black and tan male hound pup found by Louis Jarrett a hog dressing request from Louie Wasem a request for a small farm 60 or 80 acres near a hard road a lost 20 dollar bill near Dee Patoka with reward a sale of yellow corn at 70 cents per bushel near Patoka a sale of five spring calves from Melvin Hines Alma Illinois and an ad for permanent soil fertility using rock phosphate with Wm Ehrat Shobonier and Robin Jones Phosphate Co Nashville Tennessee
A local notice lists landowners and residents who forbid hunting with gun or dog or trapping on their farms and land. Signatories include Harmon Hampy John Frahis Pope Sisters O F Barnes W O DuComb Bud Johnson D L Freyer Orville Genre Herb Stone Lydia Logan and many others. The document warns trespassers will be prosecuted.
Detroit attorney and magician Walter H Domzalski faces a unusual case to prove that his client Joe Slominski who has been presumed dead since 1927 is alive and entitled to the estate. Funeral costs of 125 dollars were paid and 600 dollars in total had been used for the estate. Slominski resurfaced after a 25 cent carp sale and a streetcar ride to Detroit.
Berlin engineer Herr Abrenheim announces a new process to send colored films and pictures via radio. He says the method uses a novel construction element not used in telegraphy and aims to achieve single color transmission, color fixation on paper, and eventual natural color pictures. He refuses to reveal the secret and works toward a color television receiver in the near future.
Gilroy California golf tale notes Hugh flersmin, a prune and apricot grower, achieving a 6000 yard double eagle. The feat unsettled Heisman as the nine holes finished 40 for his partner Rowley Thomas who won with 38.
Redaing California near White fishing spots report Charles Grant hooked a yearling buck instead of a trout. While casting into a pool he felt a tug and found the small buck tucked in the ear. The frightened deer was released by Grant and his companion and ran away.
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