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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1946
Page
5
Meade Browning works at I C Shops in Centralia with Mrs Dorothy Jones and family visiting. School notes mention Nancy Ticknor absent with flu. Community members travel to Fairman, Vernon, Mt Vernon, and Dix. Dale Snyder recovers from surgery at St Marys. J M Richerd dies suddenly in the vicinity.
Local residents and relatives are noted visiting and traveling between Cent ral ia, Odin, Salem, Bible Grove, East St. Louis, Dix, Mt. Vernon, and Camp Custer. Names include Evelyn Strand Mary Alice Morgan Lewis Morgan Owen Fulkerson Kay Tate Dwain Crain Otis Hawley R N Morgan A H Sebastian Wilmer Frink Bonnie Patton Sue Mullins Dorothy Mullins Paul Loehr and others. Cpl. Owen Fulkerson has arrived in the States and expects to be home soon.
Howard Wooters opens a studio next to a drug store. Becke meyer residents Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Noe visited their son Mr. and Mrs. Dick Noe in town on Tuesday. Russell Pursley left Thursday for Chicago to take a job with the Illinois Central Railroad.
Earl Purdue secretary reports Marion County Farm Bureau directors met with full attendance except one. The meeting discussed requesting University Extension Department approval for a full time assistant for the bureau to handle expanding membership since December 1.
Public sale on Tuesday January 15 1946 at 10:00 a.m. offers 7 horses and mules 5 cows and calves 250 White Leghorn hens and assorted implements including IHC drills plows cultivator disc harrow and mowers. Livestock includes dairy cows calves hogs and shoats plus several horses. Lunch by Shobonier Methodist Church. Not responsible for accidents. Terms cash. Auctioneers John Jennings and others.
Marion County 4 H work may secure a full time rural youth specialist funded by the U S Department of Agriculture to reduce juvenile delinquency. The Farm Bureau asked the Board of Supervisors to approve $750 for the position, with the Finance Committee considering the request.
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