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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1944
Page
4
When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor we had 17 battleships in service and 15 building. We were making preparations but the war did not wait. These 32 battle wagons cost American taxpayers three billion dollars for a two ocean navy. The war seemed far away then.
Vic Haney and Floyd Bullard on a transport ship bound for Scotland spent two days with home folks. Mrs Hazel Barlow and daughter moved to Salem Monday. Paul Dudley and family report flu illnesses among his children. Billy Headley wed Miss Helen Caldwell recently. Howard Smith visited Alma Saturday. Eber Bullard’s Idaho family did not join Sunday gathering with Elmer Bullard. Homer Osborn family returned from Virginia to visit Dale Osborn. Alvin Gray and wife and Miss Freda Sanders attended Alma preaching and visited William Walker who is very poorly. John Fulton was an Alma visitor.
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Saturday and called on William Walker, Mrs. Greenwalt and sister Ann of Fulton, Mr. Clarence Smith called on his brother Howard Saturday. Miss Olive Sanders spent Sunday with friends at Salem. Leslie McWhirter moved household goods to Salem on Monday for Mrs. Barlow. Wiley Campbell was a Salem visitor last week. Bob Gray of Carter called on his mother and sister last Monday.
Miss Mildred Cox visited her mother Mrs. Hazel Cox in Vernon Decatur over Sunday. Stella West returned home after a Clinton visit with daughter Mrs. Mable McKimmey. LaVerne Belcher and wife of Decatur visited relatives here Saturday and Sunday. Several locals attended the Teachers Meeting in Centralia last Friday. Cloud Betts left Monday for Wilmington to live with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Doolen. Alice Pratt returned Sunday from Vandalia hospital after a major operation. John Quayle of Springfield spent the weekend here with his wife and daughter Marilyn. Alice Wade and Charles Moore shopped in Centralia Monday afternoon. Irene Jarrett of Ramsey spent the weekend here with her mother Beulah Jarrett. Orville Schroeder and Sandra of Patoka visited Cecil Binnion and son Terry Sunday night.
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