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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1942
Page
4
Community notes from Patoka record funerals visits and social calls. Families including McCullah, Perrine, and Barr are mentioned along with errands to Centralia East St Louis and St. Louis. Local residents attend basketball games and share weekend visits with relatives and friends.
Marion County farmers are urged by Farm Adviser Blackburn to use the machinery repair list card to catalog up to 18 machines and needed parts. The campaign supports a state wide food for freedom effort with a repair school at Salem High School February 19 and calls for ordering repairs promptly.
Marion County farmers plan an all-out conservation program at a mid-winter meeting in Salem on Tuesday February 10 to discuss soil preservation and increasing food production with guidance from Farm Adviser Blackburn and University of Illinois agronomist Alfred Tate. AAA officials and county defense board members will attend as part of a broad discussion on accelerating progress in limestone farming grass seeding terracing and tree planting to aid soil conservation and food supply.
Fredonia notes record Mr and Mrs Laura Carter shopping in Patoka on Wednesday. Ruth Talbert visited Eunetta Jett on Monday. Haleah Jett did house work for Grate Gerrish last week. M O C Hill in Centralia Hospital remains about the same. John Talbert called on Charles Jett Wednesday afternoon.
The column records Independence breaking a hip and staying at Mark Greer Hospital in Vandalia. It mentions Edwin Bates and Jane Armstrong en route to U S Navy, Miss Margie Ann Price arriving January 7 to join Harold Price, and visits by Mr and Mrs Lloyd Britt and others.
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