Christmas Charity Basketball Game Draws Patoka Crowd
Local Patoka news notes Floyd Arnold and wife visit from Decatur. several residents travel between Alma Decatur and Memphis. Charity basketball game Friday Christmas night at local gym with 15 and 25 cent admissions. Proceeds go to charity. big crowd expected. Gebharts vs Patoka Indees feature.
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Floyd Arnold
Decatur
Patoka
Alma
Floyd
Ere Wee
Porter
Pana
Am Jones
The
Rex Motor Co
Esther Wood
Wilmatt
Sandoval
Denver Adams
Viola Pugh
Dupo
Geo. Walton
J. M. Smith
Lloyd Funk
Wescott Chapel
Blanche Renner
Barbara
Cecil Brown
A. T. Gray
Grover Blankinship
Murphysboro
Register Office
J. T. Blankinship
U.of I
Marietta
Piper City
Wilma Rogier Wins Best Cake Prize at Local Contest
Mrs. Wilma Rogier won the best cake prize at the Red & White sponsored contest held at Jones & Martin store last Saturday. Thirteen cakes were on display, the largest showing for a local store. Winners from area stores advance to Centralia for a grand prize event on Tuesday.
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Wilma Rogier
Jones &Martin
Red & White Organization
Centralia
Christmas Program at M. E. Church South
A short Christmas Eve program will be held at the M. E. Church South starting at 7:30 p m. After the program Santa Claus is expected to appear and will distribute treats and presents for the children.
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M. E. Church
South
Santa Claus
Notice to the Public Post Office Christmas Closure
All work in Post Office will be suspended from 12:00 P M Dec 24 to 12:00 P M Dec 25 The doors will be closed all day Christmas. B N Griffin P M
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B. N. Griffin
Correction notice for Eastern Star Lodge meeting date
The registrar corrects last week's report stating the Eastern Star Lodge meeting and ten cent gift exchange would be on December 26. The event will occur on December 28 instead.
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Register
Eastern Star Lodge
Flora Dickey visits relatives in town for holidays
Mrs. Flora Dickey of Salem spent Tuesday and Wednesday with relatives. She left Wednesday for Monticello to spend Christmas with her daughter Mrs. Robert Shonkwiler and family.
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Flora Dickey
Salem
Monticello
Robert Shonkwiler
Vernon Hosts Visits and Basketball Results
Local figuresvisited Vernon including Paul Chance and Mr. Moore. Floyd E. Arnold and Dorothy Jackson stayed with local families. Vernon lost to Irvington 14 to 12 in a close game, with the next home game against Brownstown set for Tuesday December 22.
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Vandalia
Paul Chance
Salem
Moore
Vernon
Floyd E. Arnold
Decatur
Gus Prott
Mise Dorothy Jackson
Springfield
M. Jackson
Chas
W. Ehlers
St. Louis
Peddicord-Ehlers
L. E
Green
William C. Oates
Forrest
C. C. Lowe
Arnolds Chapel
E. E. Morggan
Geo. Neaville
Kinmundy
L. E. Green
Irvington
Brownstown
Fred Lake
Taylorville
Nannie Cox
Maron
I. W. Doolen
Morgan brothers win grand and reserve calf championships
The grand and reserve calf championships in the International Livestock junior feeding contest were won by Wendell and Lawrence Morgan of Aledo Illinois. An Illinois team including Lee Ward Wendell Morgan Edwin Brown Kenneth Kinsinger George Heap Alyce Thompson Ruth Henry Dorothy Henry and James Goold won the ten calf state team championship. Indiana placed second and Iowa third.
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Wendell
Lawrence Morgan
Aledo
Illinois
Lee Ward
Moffitt
Wendell Morgan
Edwin Brown
Kenneth Kinsinger
Chenoa
George Heap
Minooka
Alyce Thompson
Seaton
Ruth
Dorothy Henry
Charleston
James Goold
Fairbury
Indiana
Iowa
Illinois leaders named for 27th National Rivers and Harbors convention
Governor Louis L. Emmerson appoints Illinois citizens to attend the Washington D C gathering December 7 and 8. The list includes U S Senators Otis F. Glenn and James Hamilton Lewis and Illinois congressmen. Thomas R. Cain named president of the National Farmers Grain Dealers association and heads Arnold Farmers Elevator Co. Illinois bills 12 and 13 signed to provide semi annual property tax payments. James A. Watson notes Illinois share of general property tax is about one fourteenth of direct taxes. Public health notes warn small town collections face higher disease rates and vaccination relies on local effort. G H Boone opens winter plant disease campaign with seed corn care guidance.
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Illinois
L. Emmerson
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington, D. C
United States
Otis F. Glenn
James Hamilton Lewis
Illinois Deep Waterway Commission
Thomas R. Cain
National’ Farmers Grain Dealers Association
Arnold Farmers Elevator Company
Jacksonville
James A. Watson
G. H. Boone
Natural History Survey
Heyworth Farmers’ Institute
Illinois geology survey opens new mineral research program
The Urbana state geological survey lab dedication on December 9 marks a new program focused on utilization and marketing of minerals. Leaders from Illinois mineral industries and business groups, university representatives, geologists, and economists attended to explore new uses for the state's mineral substances.
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State Geological Survey
Urbana
Illinois
Econom
State highway plans third November road project bids
The state highway department reports satisfactory bids for 102.66 miles of paving 19 miles of grading and 16 bridge sections totaling 2 644 263 36 dollars. About 96 miles of paving will be 18 feet wide 6 14 miles 20 feet wide and 1 45 miles widened to 40 feet.
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State Highway Department
University of Illinois dedicates new laboratories
Delegates including Dean Albert J. Harno and Dr M. M. Leighton attended the dedication as keys to the new laboratories were presented. Dr T H Frison and L E Sawyer of the surveys were also present along with the college of saphedin at the second annual Central States event.
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Ists
Albert J. Harno
University of Ilinois
M. M. Leighton
Geological Survey
Forestry Congress Held in Ohio Under Agriculture Dept
In Cincinnati from December 2 to 5 the congress met under the federal Agriculture Department's experiment station in Columbus. Lewis B. Springer, superintendent of the state division of forestry, attended.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Federal Department of Agriculture
Columbus
Lewis B. Springer
State Division of Forestry
Austin Manufacturing Company Waco workers at St Charles plant
Twenty five men are employed by the Austin Manufacturing Company of Waco Texas makers of wicker furniture who have stored and established an assembly plant in St Charles.
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Austin Manufacturing Company
Waco
Texas
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Louis L. Emmerson
Patoka Public School
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Mabel Dixon Church
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Dudley Dixon
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Ruth Pugh
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Madeline Porter
Roy Sears
Maurice Dukes
Helen Troyer
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Samuel French
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All Red & White
Patoka, Ill
Fred Brown
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Odin, Merc. Co
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