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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1932
Page
4
Long list of local names and routine events from Cracker Neck area including visits by Harley Cole and Henry Brumfield, sickness notes, a January birthday dinner for A S Belcher, prayer meetings, road conditions affecting mail routes, and farm changes such as Millard Rogiers purchasing Wasem farm at $85 per acre.
Lone Prairie reports another cool spell as residents share visits. Arthur, Oscar, Roe Campbell and Mrs Wm Perkins and children were Sunday callers on Mr and Mrs Hayes Smith. Sam Meredith called on Logan Edgar and Fredie Perkins visited their aunt Amelia Meredith. Wm Perkins and Mr and Mrs Henry Meredith are spending a few days at Stonington. Vesper Alexander spent Saturday.
Tom Dorris visited Salem with friends last week. James Baker of St. Louis visits Mrs. Della Barnett. Loren Albert and wife spent Sunday with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Peck Caldwell. Dwight Bundy and family near St. Paul visited Barthol Anderson, W. R. Smith and Talton Jones maples. Cleve McWhirter attended W. E. Harper sale near Kinmundy Tuesday.
Mrs Andrews of Sandoval, a Steele school teacher, spent Thursday night with Mr and Mrs R M Carrigan. Cecil Mason was on the sick list last week. Jimmie Goostree and Salem guests visited Mr and Mrs Carol Wright Saturday. Irvon Bowen and relatives visited Vandalia on Sunday. Orville Hill and sons stayed with his parents Ozie Hill. William Clayton visited James Chipman Sunday. Maurice Day and daughter called on Mr and Mrs Donald Pigg Saturday. Chas Lutz family visited Sandoval relatives Sunday. Otto Heinrich A M Anderson Cecil Hicks called on G N Smith Thursday. Rev Fairchild and family spent Sunday at Albert Galbreath's. A 16000 bushel frame elevator is under construction in Clayton. a local home is being remodeled.
A tourist bursts into a country store requesting items for a car including oil gas spark plugs a timer a five gallon kerosene can and four pie tins. The clerk replies you can assemble it in the back room if you want to.
A master in chancery will offer at the front door of the First State Bank Patoka on February 6 1932 at 11 oclock the west half of the southwest quarter of the northeast quarter the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter and 16 acres off the north end of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter all in section 17 town 3 north range 1 east containing 76 acres more or less cash in hand. John L. Kagy Master in Chancery W G Murphey solicitor for complainant dated January 7 1932.
Mrs Grace Holtslaw and Vera Kretzer share an afternoon as Nora Rae Odin visits mother Emma Deadmond. Families pair off in midweek gatherings with McClellands Case Ross and Williams names frequenting the local social ledger.
The Illinois Agricultural association says bank drafts totaling over $55,000 are mailed to Illinois soybean growers as a second advance on the 1931 crop handled by the Soybean Marketing association. Christian county leads Illinois in soybean products with Champaign county next. About half of the 6,000,000 bushel 1931 production will be seed and feed. the rest will be processed.
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