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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1929
Page
2
In Willimantic a $3 extinguisher trade from twenty years ago led John W. Kilpatrick to a small fortune after a Brooklyn sale. The violin he received is now valued as a Stradivarius dated 1716, experts say.
The Register urges Patoka area churches to provide timely, detailed Sunday and Sunday school updates. It laments late submissions, requests weekly reports on attendance preaching and activities, and offers space under a new church news feature to boost local coverage.
The McNicol children and grandchildren express gratitude to neighbors friends and ministers for help during illness death and burial of their father and grandfather and for floral offerings and comforting words.
Chicago honors C. N. Cromwell retired pumper of the Pennsylvania Railway who for 52 years supplied about three fourths of Chicago’s daily water. He pumped 780 million gallons over his career, while the city’s daily supply stands at 1.012 billion gallons.
Readable notices show land for rent near Vernon, livestock sales in Gibson City area, several sales of mares and work horses, a piano, hay, poultry chicks, and a shoe shop service. Additional items include nursing or housework help, grinding services, and a Holstein calf listing. Sellers include Wilkison, Stephens, Willett, Lane, Hudspeth, Nattier, Black, Cahill, Davidson, Livesay, and Knight.
Illness of her parents brings Mrs. Georgia Purcell Branson of Salem to town to oversee their care during the past week.
Miss Rose Snyder spends the week with sister Myrlin Patoka. Theodore Meridith visits Jerry Bell. Mat Belcher visits daughter Bertha Williams in Fairman. Snyder visits parents James and Mrs. Snyder. Fiebie Belcher and Opal visit Mrs. Frank Bradford. Local family mourns death of Frank Stillabower. sympathy extended to his children and to Claude Steele, raised as a son.
A bold sales pitch promotes raising calves at seven cents per day using Security Meal praised as top quality and easy to feed. The ad promises satisfaction and urges buyers to request Security while noting a shipment of Zeigler lump coal and Odin coal arriving on track as a weather front looms.
ten Weber Wagon Boxes available immediately offered at a ten percent discount to buyers.
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