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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1941
Page
5
Country correspondence covers visits and calls among the Cabbage Chapel community. Names include Attaberry Palmer Cavins Kuder Louise Nellie Neal McNeal McGee Mays Palmer Welks Sharp Welking Everhart Kretzer and others. The notes mention sickness improvements travel and holiday gatherings with several farm and neighboring family connections.
Oak Grove residents hosted Elmer Turner’s New Year’s Eve guests Clarence Deadmond and family and Carl Drue of Centralia. Raymond Wilkins family moved to the Shuffler place. Henry Bender family returned from Chicago. Ethel Fradenburg of Centralia spent New Year’s with Turner family. Vernon Grages’ daughter ill. Several local visits and shopping trips noted, with multiple extended families calling on or visiting in nearby towns and farms.
Frank Caldwell Billie Bundy Duane Walton and Charles McWhirter attended a Boy Scouts meeting in Patoka Monday night. Lewis Kissner has been ill recently, and Mack Arnold suffered an axe accident with a glancing blow this past week.
C N Walker hosted and visited with neighbors during New Year gatherings. Local residents including C O Hill Earl Horton and others made business calls and checked on relatives. Several residents reported hauling wood and moving cattle while Patoka paper news revived interest in the area. Irvin Bowen and Dwight Deadmond traveled between Junction Clinton and nearby families during the weekend.
A detailed sale listing notes 2 Holstein cows aged 5 and 7 with calves, 1 Guernsey heifer with calf, 4 Jersey cows aged 6 with calves, 2 mixed Jersey and Guernsey cows aged 5 with good milk flow, 1 brown Jersey 4 years producing 4 gallons, 1 Jersey cow 6 years yielding 4 gallons, 1 Guernsey cow 4 gallons, 1 brown cow 3 gallons, 2 Jersey heifers 1 year, 1 Holstein heifer 1 year, 1 heifer calf 7 months old. Horses include 1 ball face cattle horse. Hog section lists 10.1 C sow to farrow in 30 days, weight 250 lbs. Also 100 bushels of corn and 3 tons of baled clover hay.
Ernest Schmahl visited Saturday evening with Clarence Bowen and family. Herbert Schmahl called on Albert Galbreath, Saturday. C. O. Hill called on C. N. Walker Sunday morning. Cort says his thermometer registered 10 above zero Sunday morning and he registered 10 below. He said he didn't know which was right him or the thermometer. John Foglia and Red Milano but chered Saturday. Everett Goldwin was in this vicinity Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Richard Murfin spent Tuesday evening with Mr and Mrs Cecil Holt in Stringtown. Several locals shopped in Vandalia including Mrs Georgia Holt and Mrs Laurene Klinge. Additional visits span Hagerstown Vandalia Sho bonier and nearby households with Klinge Beck Lamborn Richards families and TVA note appears.
Local residents report Christmas visits and family meals across Arnold Chapel and Patoka. Families including Meadows Green Nichols Jones and Bassett share meals, visits, and church programs while neighbors exchange calls and well wishes. Several别 listings offer gear and notices afterward.
Independence residents hosted oyster supper and watch party for East school bus riders on New Year’s Eve. Edwin Bates of Vandalla High School spent weekend with his parents. Randall Meador of California underwent tonsil removal. Roberta Quayle visited sister Gladys Wengert. A Butchering bee was held at Paul Protz with L. J. Bates, Bill Johnson, James and Everett Weinsman, Frank Quayle and John Quayle assisting. The Butter Nut bread man had a close call when his truck plunged over an embankment near Floyd Britt’s. Bob and Betty Wengert returned to Charleston after Christmas at home. Mrs. Harold Price and others visited Mrs. Florence Martin.
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