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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1927
Page
3
Social visits span Centralia and surrounding areas with relatives dropping by homes of Epps Jones and Cox families. Illness updates include Mrs. John Jones and Miss Juanita Hathaway improving while others stay noted as on the sick list.
E L Sharp butchered three hogs and a beef last Wednesday. Bill Alexander worked for Willard Lawrence husking corn. Mrs S B Lawrence visited relatives at Litchfield. Uncle Tom Cole visited friends and relatives northward. Vern Calhoun helped W W Cooper gather corn while roads were good. George Goodwin and Jimmy Lange cut and hauled wood. Frank Sharp killed a garter snake. Elza Sharp traded for a span of mules. Lenard Goodwin hauled hay. Neighbors report illnesses improving. Elevator meeting at Patoka drew folks from the Neck. Mound Chapel M E Church began a revival. A note of fear about future scares and a warning of a powerful machine to plow the earth.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Lenninger spent Sunday with her parents Wm. Linton and family. Mrs. Mary Lake is very low. Claud Anderson spent Sunday with Burl Linton. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Olmstead visited over Saturday night and Sunday with W. W. Olmstead and family. G. G C Johnson and family visited with Leo Landreth and family. White Haven school had an attendance of two pupils Thursday and Friday. Helen Thompson returns to school after illness. Hazel Olmstead is suffering with blood poison in her left hand.
Last week in Fostersburg Lewis Jones sold a fine veal calf. Mrs Mila Caudle and sons Forest and Raymond of west Vernon were Sunday visitors at Uncle Sam Jones home. Robert Arnold bought a horse at the Garrett sale. Master Wayne Doolen went sleigh riding Saturday. Francis Griffin and son Lester shopped in Vernon and Patoka Friday. Mrs Lida Stevens and Paul and Emma of Salem visited Mrs L Foster Wednesday. The cold wave left many with butchering finished and wood cut, while residents cared for stock by the fire. Robert Arnold and family visited the John Thalman family Monday. Blanche Doolen, Orve Walton and wife and Lewis Jones were Patoka shoppers Monday.
Local listing shows a January special for a 9 by 12 felt base rug at 6.95 from Patoka Hardware and Furniture Co. Also advertised are Queen and Successful incubators new and used for coal and oil brooder stores, plus another lot of black powder 12 gauge shells selling at 65 cents per box.
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