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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
8
The Patoka circuit evangelist writes from Clay City about a warm welcome, a thriving church, and a revival with thirty nine conversions and twenty accessions. He notes the town’s three churches and three saloons, hopes for their departure, and asks about old friends the Hudspeths.
An excerpt records an Imaginative dialogue at the Rainbow with town characters debating Dunsey Cass’s fate and Silas Milner’s money. The piece notes community life, drinking, marriage plans, and mentions settlers from Illinois Missouri Oklahoma and Texas seeking land, schools, and churches in the future.
A reader defends western conditions in a requested public reply to Mrs. Caldwell of San Antonio. He claims extensive land ownership by one man blocks settlement, cites routes via Fort Scott Fort Worth and the Gulf Coast Line, and references Santa Maria on the old Military road as a long established area.
Health concerns prevail with several grip cases. Miss Jane Armstrong returns home from a trip while Loraine Armstrong visits Carbondale. C. W. Martin hauls logs toward Nattier's mill site and C. O. Livesay logs Perry Davidson’s land. Will Bates returns from Arkansas. Mrs. Manley visits Moneaqua. Mrs. Willie Martin recovers from illness. Jim Quayle travels to Vandalia. Onis Armstrong attends a relative’s funeral in Centralia.
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