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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1908
Page
1
Local items note Lincoln Kirk coming to the Opera House on Tuesday evening February 25. The column lists community news including travel, shopping notices, and social visits across Lincoln Kirk and nearby towns.
About forty Odd Fellows and Rebekahs gathered Wednesday for the Anniversary meeting and annual Love Feast. Brother Pressley spoke on fellowship, origin, principles and objects, followed by E N Norris and several others. Music by Misses Mabel Simcox Lillian Vail Allie Griffin Edwin Gray was well received. The feast pleased attendees though bad weather kept others away.
The W C U and L T L staged an evening at the M E church honoring Frances E Willard with music led by Miss Lillian Vail and Miss Elsie Belcher assisting. Mrs Ernest Simcox played the organ as a liberal offering was collected. Bro Willey gave the opening prayer and benediction.
Mrs Mary Humes died at her home northwest of town on Tuesday evening. Funeral services will be held at the Catholic church this Friday morning at ten o'clock.
A number of girls spent the afternoon at Miss Jessie Haley's home on Sunday. Miss Blanche Wilton hosted a party Wednesday evening. Miss Georgia Cruse entertained friends Thursday evening. Attendees included Winnie Hull, Carrie Hostler, Jessie Haley, Nellie Quayle and Clara Belcher. Get your friends to subscribe for the Register.
Louie Wasem leases a room in the Odd Fellows building to establish a family market in Patoka. He will move his meat market there and add a full grocery line along with fruits and vegetables. Louie Zimmerman returns from Denver to assist. opening is planned around April 1 with details to follow.
The notes record a piano purchase paid in full and several absences due to bad weather. It notes the 1908 Graduating class electing officers and mentions the Juniors adopting class colors, plus school humor and tensions between Seniors and Juniors, birthdays, a slightly leaky roof, and a janitor attempting to freeze the Juniors.
A Patoka youth writes parents from Rio de Janeiro describing arrival, customs, and seasoning on shipboard. He recounts crossing the equator, playful rituals, and rough initiation while noting warm weather and varied international ships in the harbor. He mentions future travel to Sandy Point and Magellan Bay.
A reader from UL R F D No 1 Box 9 asks to forward the Register to their new Cooksville residence after moving from Colfax. The note mentions admiration for Patoka and vicinity items and impatience for Old Toad Island news, asking the paper to speed updates.
Fifty workers joined residents who cleared the principal thoroughfares and sidewalks in the village last Saturday morning, praising those who cleared their own property.
W P Lawrence, collector, announces payment locations at the Bank in Patoka on Wednesdays and Saturdays and at the Harness shop in Vernon on Tuesdays and Fridays each week.
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