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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1908
Page
11
Local letter from Toa d Island detailing visits by Ollie Bromfield and Humes family, births and deaths, weather blizzard effects, tomato farming advances, road and mail disruptions, and church revivals. Mentions Newt Nichols tomato planting machine and shop movements to Odin, with community responses and sympathy for Danbury family after Nellie’s child death.
Victims of the grip are numerous to mention. W. J. Chance traveled to Vandalia last Saturday. Delcic Armstrong is home again. Delays due to bad roads affect the sorrel horse. Tom Ballance with his best girl visited near Possum Trot last Sunday. Miss Maggie McNicol’s health remains poor. Walton Bros. pulled their hay press in the shed. Rufus Jennings went to Odin last Saturday and back Tuesday. Sylvester Armstrong plans a summer in the Sunny South. Farmers market hogs at 4.15 per hundred. Tax money must come. Oyster supper at Scott Caldwell’s last Friday night drew a good crowd. Tra Caldwell bought the Farm.
Snow storms cut telephone lines and roads hinder mail service across the county. Local residents including Spence McConnell and Dr. J. S. Morton travel for patients, while reports note hospital visits, weather delays, and scattered events from Vernon to Patoka, with births, deaths, and community news.
The town diary notes severe winter snows and poor road conditions. Sunday school and prayer meeting drew a good crowd despite weather. Hiram Goatly attended church, and W M Powell plans farm work at Borden spring. Local updates mention telephone line to Patoka and residents Clayton and Dogan roaming the streets.
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