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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1946
Page
4
Local residents attend events in Salem Effingham Odin and surrounding towns. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Eugene Love and daughter, revived by Rev Burge in Odin, and numerous visits to relatives and churches.
Leon Tolka buys the J. M. Richerd home and will move in when vacated. The Ricerds depart regretfully. Social visits, hospital recoveries, and new move ins follow as a county routine. A County Singing Convention draws a large audience. A bond election in Carrigan Township passes 150 to 14. The letter urges communal progress through health, education, and development programs and notes limited farm conservation plans due to weather and workload. (Continued next week)
Rev. John D. Jenkins of Odin Illinois urges organizing life on faster saner lines to build a better community. He cites resources like consolidated high schools health units agents and testing programs as tools to create a self governing democracy with love peace and cooperation for community improvement.
The Marion County Soil Conservation District organized in 1944 elected officers on January 11 and a Board meeting set plans for a Work Plan and Calendar of Operations. Harry McLaughlin was Chairman, John Ford Vice Chairman, Estle Luttrell Secretary. A January 26 meeting adopted memos with the U S Department of Agriculture and the U S Soil Conservation Service and set regular monthly meetings.
Lieutenant and Mrs Wayne Mann and Marylynn of Seattle arrive on furlough to visit relatives and friends. Centralia guests Mr and Mrs Bill Nall visit Rudolph Behrens and family. Cortland visitors Mr and Mrs George Olsen visit Gustav Hahn. Patoka resident Mrs Frank Heinzmann aids sister Mrs Frank Stein who has been ill. Sandoval pair Mr and Mrs Carl Swagier visit Ben Swagier. Hahn and Hahn family return from Florida trip. Carson couple shop in Centralia. Mariana Travillion of Carbondale visits Inez Singleton. Duane Hahn delivers hogs to Cortland for George Olsen. Jimmie Forrest of Merchant Marines arrives on furlough.
Sandoval residents and relatives gathered at Odin Tuesday of last week for the funeral of Mrs. Sadie Hurd. Among attendees were Mrs. Margaret Hawley, Miss Gladys McClelland, and Mrs. Wm. H. Hegmann.
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