Patoka Register runs Friday issue from Illinois town
The Patoka Register announces its Patoka Illinois edition publishedFriday with a 1879 act postmark and a $1.50 yearly subscription.
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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1933
Page
5
The Patoka Register announces its Patoka Illinois edition publishedFriday with a 1879 act postmark and a $1.50 yearly subscription.
Want column lists 2 good fresh cows and 1 good Percheron stallion for sale or trade for work. Also a 1 yearling full blood Hereford bull Natural Muley. Names J W Alexander and Geo E Raines offer new furniture stoves rugs radios cash or credit.
Sunday services across Christian Science churches focused on the Lesson Sermon about faith healing and spiritual truth. The gold text from Mark 16 highlights signs following believers and healing through belief, with John 16 and Eddy’s Science and Health cited to frame guidance toward truth and the Messiah ship of Truth.
Mr and Mrs Frank Watkins and sons visited Mr and Mrs Norman Gerrish and baby on Sunday afternoon. Leland Johnson and a daughter plus Verne Malant spent time with Wm Snyder and daughter. Luther Williams and children hosted visits from many families including Riley Williams and Mat Belcher and daughter. Farnk Bradford and children called on Luther Williams Monday afternoon. Verne Malan and daughter visited Norman Gerrish and his son. Homer Steele stayed with his teacher James Wernsman. Temple school program was well attended and enjoyed by all. Southeast of town.
A fragment discusses a light symbolizing Christ’s eternal dawn and describes its radiant effulgence as part of a devotional reflection. The text emphasizes spiritual illumination and religious symbolism within a liturgical context.
Lawrence Kreitler owner announces a public sale at the old Wise farm northeast of Boulder and southwest of Patoka Illinois on Saturday January 6 1934 starting 10:00 am. Items include cattle sheep horses and machinery with notes terms details and security requirements for delayed payments. Auctioneers Jno A Jennings to conduct the sale through local rural listings.
The Patoka Pentecost church notes a crowded Christmas program despite no official notice. Recitations by Mary Helen Wicker and others, songs by junior groups, duets by Lucille Smith with Phillip Wyant and Bill Williams with Eugene Parker, plus a lesson explanation by Dan Wicker. Preaching by Brother Crant next Sunday morning with a prayer meeting Sunday night.
Governor Horner will host a casual New Year reception at the executive mansion with no formal invitations. The doors will be open to all from 3 p m to 6 p m, greeted by the governor and state officers including Donovan Hughes Kerner Martin Barrett Blair Graham Roe.
Local notes detail holiday visitors spending Christmas in Patoka from nearby towns and states. Among those mentioned are families of Crawford Ballance Hames Chandler Simeox Simeox Belcher Hatch Underwood Boyles Henne Bookhout Wilson Dukes Hayes Blankinship Miller Cowart MelIntire Jett Humphrey Jones Livesay Trover Smith Wright Walker Hines Britt Murfin Smith Gray and others. Also mentions Gov Horner sales tax message and a for sale note on whipping cream.
Arthur Fouty and wife of Salem and J A Shepard and wife of Pa visit the Hill Friday. J A Shepard and wife plan winter visits in Newton Robinson and Rose Hill. Mrs Martin Wolff returns home after visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Lafe Hannah of Wheeler. Evelyn Thomas of near Vernon spends weekend with Marybelle Stombaugh. Mrs Ella Hawkins comes for daughter Mrs John Luster who was badly burned and stays Friday night and Saturday. Herb Merryman butchered a couple of hogs last week. Mrs Mary Burk works near Mulberry Grove.
Orville Jackson 41 former dispatcher for the Illinois Central rail road in Clinton was killed Friday night in Springfield yards when struck by a string of cars. He had transferred to Springfield last August as night yard master and was checking cars at 7 30 p m Witnesses said he failed to see the switch engine and cars in time His leg was severed and he died at St Johns Hospital two hours later He was a World War veteran and is survived by a wife five children and several relatives Funeral services were held at St Johns Church Clinton with military honors at the grave
Governor Horner will deliver New Years Greetings and review the first year’s work on radio from Springfield Illinois on January 1 1934 at 2 p m over WBBM and KMOX stations. Daniel Sullivan chairs the Press Committee.
Summarizes twelve rulings issued by the Office of the Collector of Internal Revenue in Springfield on the processing tax for hogs. Key points cover when sales of live hogs are exempt, exemptions for producers who slaughter for personal use, how ownership and sale portions affect tax, and who is liable when hogs are bought, slaughtered, or traded.
A farmer who slaughters a hog for personal consumption is not the producer and would not be taxed under processing tax rules, but the Bureau exempts only non commercial cases. The exception does not apply to farmers or others who deal commercially in pork or slaughter hogs, nor to processing for employees or for sale to them.
An invitation to a free New Year program at Vandalia State Farm dining hall on Monday evening January 1 at 6:30. The event features play, songs, orchestra, band, and other specials performed by inmates and others with prior acclaim. Superintendent Geo Ray sponsors and invites all to attend.
M A Livesay observed his 77th birthday at the North Elsberry home with seven of his nine children and their families attending. A A Livesay traveled from St Louis for the event along with many grandchildren and great grandson Ralph Livesay. Mr and Mrs Livesay also celebrated their 53rd wedding anniversary.
Clint Perkins of Wyoming visits relatives near Vernon. Anna Wasmuth takes sister Josie to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Mrs. Rose Martin is very poorly at this time. John Gehrkin and James Lawson butchered hogs Monday.
A reflective note on Fairman, a small village south of Route Two, once bustling with a depot two stores and a blacksmith, now faded with a vacant building and a burned shop. The Fairman Community Store and G. N.’s electric lights stand out as signs of resilience amid the downturn.
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