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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1936
Page
4
Vernon residents host visitors from Patoka Vandalia and St. Louis. Patoka high and Vernon grade teams split basketball results with 27 to 17 and 22 to 16 scores. Events include church appointments, illnesses, and a chili supper dance planned for February 6.
Tony Polly Anns Mrs Basil Sullens and son Max visit with McWhirters in Salem. Fradenburgs and Daniels family call on Heskett and Albert households. Tillie Donoho remains in serious condition in Centralia and will go to St Louis hospital. Arthur Jenkins trips to Salem. Stoner returns to CCC camp. many pupils miss Oak Grove due to cold. Minnie Boring in poor health. Donald Albert hosts dinner with Joe Albert. Basil Sullens visits Cecil Beck.
Several mumps cases are reported in Cracker Neck. Alice Murray returns home after visiting Eunice Thompson near Pittsburg. Loyd Cooper, Cecil Alexander and John Shevard with family are noted visitors in Centralia and Sandoval areas. Fern Belcher attends Saves week with Opal Cooper and Fern Wilkey in Centralia.
John Shepard and family visited Theo Stone and family Saturday night. Marjorie Cahoon is absent due to mumps.
Community notes from Brick School and surrounding area recount a Sunday gathering at E. E. Wilson’s Centralia home with Mr and Mrs George Jett among the guests for four birthdays and a forty-ninth wedding anniversary. Other visits include the Quick family hosting north of Odin and several local residents visiting and attending social events. The Brick School term closed for a week due to cold weather and illnesses, with several families reporting flu and colds and a local child ill at Ora Fabree’s.
Mrs. P J Kennedy of Iuka went Friday to the Ora Fabree home to help care for a sick grandchild who is threatened with pneumonia.
Miss Wilma Caldwell visits Greenville with Mrs Harlan Vanhorn this week. A coasting party was held at Russell Caldwell’s. The girls club met with Lucile Nichols and Lela May Nichols. Selba Gray helped Samie Gray cut wood. Ellsworth Chandler shopped in Centralia. Paul Caldwell and wife visited from Friday to Sunday with Oscar Caldwell. Frank Thomason and Elmer Berry shopped in Vandalia Thursday.
Joe Knight and wife visited Sun day with Mrs. Warren Bobbitt who has been seriously ill. Cleave McWhirter has been hauling wood from the Oglesby woods. Frank Thomason and wife, Oscar Caldwell and wife visited a Thursday evening with Oscar Doolen, Ellis Bassett and wife attended the kitchen shower at Mark Arnolds Saturday night. Harry Nattier and wife visited Friday with Cyrus Arnold.
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