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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1934
Page
5
Official publication shows the December 1933 condition report for First State Bank Patoka Illinois with detailed assets and liabilities sworn by L. E. Green. Community notes mention social visits, farewells for Ora Green, and local happenings at Zion and nearby towns.
Friday activity includes the Gray and McHaney families with visits to Detroit and dinner with relatives. Funeral for Samuel Gray at Fredonia Church attended by Mrs. Mattie Chance and her children. Community members report work on mail routes, shopping trips, and social visits across nearby towns.
Pearl Poole and family spent New Years day with Henry Stillabower. Cort Walker shopped in Patoka and visited Don Peddicord. Ernest Schomahl called on Stillabower and later with the Bowens. Mrs Bertha Williams visited Mat Belcher family. Lawrence Cozad and Katheryne were in Centralia. Ruby Nellie and Ernest Schmahl shopped in Patoka. Several Fairman callers, and visits between Poole, Stillabower, and Schmahl families are noted.
Mrs. William Jones Mrs. Fent Caldwell and Frank Thomason are listed among the sick with illnesses reported during the last week in East Zion.
Local overviews list visits among residents including Mrs Edna Tune and sons to Mrs Pete Bopp and family and Miss Opal Belcher to Mrs Lila Gerrish. The Fairman revival closed last Friday with four conversions and eight additions to the church. Sunday School attendance reached thirty two with an 85 cent collection and a prayer meeting led by Harold Snyder.
The record lists New Year dinner guests, honor roll members Cecil Tackett Clifford Kretzer Barbara Jene Branch and Violet Durbin, and school resumes after a week. Various local visits and calls occur including Mrs Gideon McKee hosting dinners, A E Bell and Durbin family trips, and attendance at a funeral in Fredonia for S W Gray.
The Gray family thanks those who stood by them during the illness and death of husband and father S W Gray. Mrs Elizabeth Gray and children express gratitude for support. D R Livesay and wife visited relatives in Mt Zion and Decatur. Donna Joyce Pugh of Centralia joined them after Christmas.
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