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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1926
Page
3
Christmas visits and familial gatherings are listed among local residents including the Stapps Buseanharts Snyders Ehlers Epps and Doolens. Intermittent calls and social visits noted with a closing note urging readers to send news. An editors note invites submissions and a hardware store ad closes the piece.
Miss Martha Walker of Wood River schools visits her parents M. B. Walker and wife over the holiday. Grant Arnold of Clinton visits son Robert and family. Artie Shiek and Russel Green return from the north after husking corn. Fred Atkins and family of Maron stay a week with Blanche Doolen and relatives. W. H. Jones and wife visit their son Lewis Jones and family. Thelma Arnold and Anna Green of Decatur spend Christmas with families. Doolen School held no classes last Friday prompting older pupils to attend the Zion School Christmas program.
Cecil Griffin of Mt Vernon visited relatives in town over Christmas. The notice lists A A Griffin and wife, plus mentions Cecil in the auto business in Jefferson County. Hardware and furniture ads promote white enamelware and mattresses priced at 7.75 with Patoka Hardware and Furniture Company.
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