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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1926
Page
4
The Patoka Register announces its weekly publication status with entry as second class matter on November 1, 1907 at the Patoka Illinois post office under the 1879 act.
Several farm goods including a good milking cow eight years old with calf a buggy and a kitchen grinding service at the Chas Ververs farm. Mulberry and white oak fence posts offered. A six room house near a hard road with electric lights for sale or trade with long terms. Used batteries available. Also eight thrifty chicks and about 30 full blooded White Leghorn hens ready to start. Bids sought for telephone operator position with deadline January 7 and start date April 10.
On Sunday December 18 Roy Ballance was surprised at home by his brothers William Tom and Lester and sister Mrs Robert Walton and their families after Sunday School and church. The host family prepared a feast and Roy accepted the celebration with happiness and well wishes for many returns.
Announcement from Vandalia records the marriage license issued to Forrest M. Baxter and Miss Dale Payne both residents of Patoka Rural Route 2 and Pope township. The couple are noted as Fayette county school teachers with families cited and no ceremony details provided.
J. R. Carter and wife spent Christmas with son Alvin and family. Many relatives visited, traveled, or returned home for the holidays, including Miss Rose Chandler, Miss Ruby Eagan, and Dana Anderson. A revival was held in Boulder and Frank Brokelmeyer will preach at the M. E. South church next Sunday. attendance urged.
A Sunday Christian Science Lesson-Sermon centers on the Golden Text from II Corinthians 9 15 praising God for his unspeakable gift. It includes Isaiah 52 7 9 about bringing good tidings and peace and excerpts from Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy on divine healing and the soul awakening through Christian Science.
A school reportedly framed smoking as a man's sport stirring debate about gendered norms. A separate report notes a man shot in Mexico over political views, with only one death suggesting a limited or symbolic outcome.
The prisoner, asked about dating habits and past social rules, claims he has not taken a woman out in five years while breaking stones. The dialogue touches on etiquette and modern dating norms.
Dr Katherine Reynolds arrives with a camp nurse and supplies to treat the Governor after a severe injury in the ramshackle Heart O Dreams hotel. Surgeon Dr Mosgrove is summoned from Chicago to join the efforts, while Archie and Putney Congdon wait anxiously outside.
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