Vernon Area News Roundup Highlights Local Calls and Obituary
Vernon Lem Meadors led a Centralia calling Sunday while Tra Kinney and Mrs Gehrken were on the sick list. The community mourns Mrs Jane Rosenbaum, longtime Vernon resident, with funeral services at the M E Church and Tillman cemetery interment. Frequent visits, church meetings, and local movings fill the week as residents attend Pentecostal meetings and various social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lem Meadors
Centralia
Tra Kinney
William Goedel
Jake
Wilmer Meador
John Gehrken
Jane Rosenbaum
Vernon
M. HE
Mitzel
Reeter
Grover Betts
John Thompson
John Revis
O. L. West
Frank Hatch
Tillman Cemetery
Dutch” Jones
Salem
Our City
Wm. Wade
M. E
Patoka
Walter Wernsman
George Wernsman
M. Meadors
Meador
Lem
Jim Emerson
Merritt Caldwell Activity and Local Visits
Merritt Caldwell, a Patoka visitor last Thursday, walked to Frank Horessi's Saturday night to listen on the radio. He and Henry Williams sawed wood last week and Caldwell hauled part of the milk Monday. He called on Charles Sulles Sunday, stood by the creek toward Alma, and rode about dehorning cattle for pay. Neighbors note rain, wife visiting her mother at Alma, and Minnie Carmean at Roy Thompson's. Caldwell also engaged Albert Potts to gum his teeth out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merritt Caldwell
Frank Horessi
Henry Williams
Charles Sulles
Alma
Merritt
Minnie Carmean
Roy Thompson
Albert Potts
Caldwell
Coroner Ed Anderson Announces Candidacy in Patoka
Ed Anderson of Patoka announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Coroner in the April Primary, subject to Republican voters' wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Anderson
Patoka
Southeast town church attendance and local visits noted
There were thirty one at Sunday School at Temple Sunday. Wash Bowen took a truck load of livestock to St. Louis Monday morning. Mat Belcher visited Sunday with Md Belcher and wife, Miss Anna Wickersham and Mrs. Jake Bowen and little daughter Laura Mae were seen in this vicinity Sunday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temple
Wash Bowen
St. Louis
Mat Belcher
MD Belcher
Anna Wickersham
Jake Bowen
Laura Mae
Local business changes and social notes from town
Thos Fore hand sold his grocery and meat market to A M Turner who will continue the business. A M Peek recently out of the house was up town yesterday. Wm Pilger visited Saturday night Feb 11. Canned goods and butter prices at Wasem and Altoms. Cruse family visited Carlyle. East St Louis visitors and auto show in St Louis. Visitors from El dorado and Oil Hill with Albert Cruse family. Sweeney's Poison Wheat advertised as effective rodent control. Local men visited Springfield and met the Governor. Roads reported worst in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thos
A. M. Turner
A. M. Peek
Wm. Pilger
Eans Armours Pork & Beans
Altoms
C. N. Cruse
Carlyle
Wasems
William Bruening
East St. Louis
Cruse
Robert Caldwell
Frank Elifritz
St. Louis
Sweeney
Leo Horton
Floyd Lee
Eldorado
Oil Hill
Kansas
Albert Cruse
Wasem
S. Howard Riley
S. C
Mattoon
Alvoms
Rosa Chandler
la Place
Candy shipment and local visits highlight week
Rev Willis and wife with young son toured St. Louis guests Wednesday and Thursday. A new batch of six kinds of candy arrives at St. Altoms at 20c per choice. No school Friday due to a teachers meeting at Centralia. Ruth Smith of St. Louis visited over Sunday. Liquid Smoke advertised for meats with a 75c bottle at Altoms. Paul Troyer returns home after months in Lincoln to spend a month there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Thompson
Guy Jones
Betty Ann
Opal Jones
Carrie Jones
Decatur
Betty Ann Jones
Dr DuComb
Philip Meador
Mr.Brummitt
Alice Wernsman
George Binnion
Claude Norris
Thelma Doolen
Rolland Doolen
Wilbur
M. E
Pete Meadors
Mildred Clendening
al Young
Fred Young
Carlyle
Bertha Freyer
Vandalia
Marie Hathaway
Iva Lawrence
Madge Doolen
A. Massey
Chicago
Rev. Willis
St. Louis
St. Altoms
Centralia
Ruth Smith
Altoms
Paul Troyer
Lincoln
Candidate for Coroner of Marion Co
Candidate for Coroner of Marion County seeks Republican primary support on April 10, 1928. The speaker, an auctioneer and fruitman by trade, asks voters for cooperation and emphasizes service as a livelihood rather than personal business gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Co
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George Kemp
J. Rosenbaum
Rosenbaum
Mr. Kemp
Glenn Walton
Mitchell
J. H. Roberts
Rouse
J. M. Meador
Frank Rouse
Bloomington
Gray
John Quayle
Stonington
Helen White
David Headley
W. L. Gray
J. A. Grey
Major Lamborn
Pentecostal Church
M. E. Church
Pentecostal
Pentecostal Assembly
Noah Linton
Ed Blankinship
Mac Payne
Bear Creek
Mary Laws
Millersville
B. H. Woolsey
Eli Morgan
Cecil Lowe
Varnel
Brinkley
Tennessee
Maude Whitehurst
Homer Crothers
Donald Herring
Arien Livesay
Wendell Hanson
Reva Crothers
Geneva Herring
Alice
Edna Grey
Miss Maude
Ruth Reisman
Melba Hathaway
Marion Hollenbeck
Edna
Nellie Grey
Elizabeth Livesay
Mr. Altom
Opal Belcher
Fern Williams
In Our Our Christmas Club
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First State Bank OF
Illinois
First State Bank
Walter C. Winkler
Marion County
Salem, Iil
D. S
Meyer
Bayer
Accent
Martins Store
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