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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1908
Page
9
Local notices detail illnesses, moves, sales, and visits in Patoka and Vernon areas. Items include W. J. Jones’s Vernon business, J. L. Simcox clothing offers, hog shipments to Indianapolis, and various visits to Centralia and Decatur. Also mentions GA R entertainment ads, livestock sales, and a Missouri Trust Building solicitation.
The Patoka Business Men's League invites capital to fund a factory, electric light plant, or any legitimate enterprise. They have paying propositions to finance and ask interested investors to contact the secretary in Patoka promptly.
The William A Smith Post No 167 A R installed D 8 Logan as Commander and other officers including Wm Chandler S V C Saml Wilson J V C and more. A bountiful supper followed at R Simcox's Hall served to members their families and soldiers widows with music by Miss Mabel Simcox and Edwin Gray.
At the W R C hall in Vernon on January 3 1908 dames T Jones Post No 623 G A R and W R C No 188 installed officers for both organizations. lists include B Robinson C John Perkins S V 8 Knight J V C Wallace Willett Chaplain John Knight D D WT Johnson Q M R T Baldwin Adj Elijah Friend S M Id Tharpe O G R T Baldwin P I W R GO OFFICERS Mrs M L Robinson Pres Mrs Louise Knight S V P Mrs M J Massey J V P Mrs Mary Epps Chaplain Mrs Nettie Cox Conductor Addie Johnson Asst Conductor Mrs Mary E B Knight Treas Mrs Lillie Walton Se and Organist Mrs Rebecca McConnell P 1 Mrs Susan Willett Guard Mrs Kate Willett Asst Guard Color Bearers Noy Wilson Della Pritchett Jenettin Morris and Mary Pribble Refreshments followed and general social time.
The W C T U met Thursday afternoon January 2 to honor Madame Willard's birthday with a Red Letter Day program hosted by Mrs Bettie Murfin. Residents discussed savings schemes for local youths, a New Year’s Eve social at Metzger Hall for the M E church raised funds, and various notices from Patoka and Salem including school, health, and church events. Obituary notes report Harriet Walton born November 13 1871 died January 4 1908 in Foster township at 36 years.
The notice describes a social gathering at Mrs. Altons home with games refreshments and greetings. It promotes a January cannery meeting at Simcox's hall with TH S Shrigley of Salem to explain the plan to boost Patoka’s economy and provide markets and labor for farmers.
Major R H Hendershot and his son join local talent for an entertainment under the G A R at Patoka in Simcox hall on January 18. The Major brings the original Horace Greeley Drum and historic drumsticks gifted by G A R posts and supporters from Bangor to Indianapolis. Tickets on sale at Davis' for 25 cents.
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