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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1933
Page
4
The Patoka Register announces James M. Emerson as publisher in Patoka Illinois. Published Friday and entered as second class matter under the 1879 Act with a yearly subscription of 1.50.
Public notice states that any announcement about gatherings with a fee is advertising. Card of thanks and ice cream supper notices are also charged. If a supper announcement ran in the Register, a fee was charged.
Fresh cows for sale listed by Elmer Berry. Also wanted a few butcher heifers by James Wasem. Additional ads include two males aged 4 and 5, about 16 hands high, one mare age 7, and nine pigs by O. H. Britt. Phone 49.
An ice cream supper is planned at Green Ridge on July 15 to benefit the church. Everyone is welcome. A separate event at Island Chapel on Saturday night July 8 offers free entertainment and invites all to attend.
Public letting a contract to dig a well at Steele School house will be let. For particulars see Charley Lutz at once. Board of Directors.
The message asks if a farm is for sale near Patoka and notes inquiries from Centralia Illinois client B M English seeking improved farms in the vicinity.
The Gilley family thanks everyone for sympathy and assistance during the illness and death of their companion and mother, F. E. Gilley.
Balance on hand June 16 is 67.34 dollars. Net proceeds from ice cream supper on June 17 total 25.34 dollars. Total on hand July is 92.68 dollars. Donations include Fannie Chandler 0.50 and other unnamed contributors. Thanks expressed to all who helped.
An ice cream supper will be held at Fredonia Church on Saturday evening July 15. Free entertainment provided. Everyone invited to attend.
Citizens took a day off for a local Independence Day picnic at Patoka’s park. Events included three baseball games with East vs West Siders won by the former, a tied Merchants versus Farmers game, and a Pick Up team victory over Vandalia’s Modern Woodmen. pinch hitter George Wasem drew attention while others, like Jack Tune and E L Delay, endured humorous missteps. Concessions funded cemetery upkeep, selling out most items and boosting funds for burial ground work.
Odin community plans a local improvement campaign assisted by government aid to remove the hole system and build a municipal light plant and possibly a water system. The project costs about 100000 dollars with 70000 expected from government help and the rest locally. The town currently uses P. L. utilities and favors municipal lighting over utility lighting once arrangements are in place.
The passage warns against praise that states the obvious. It suggests noting subtler signs of improvement such as a person appearing younger or enjoying a recent concert rather than blunt success in business. The tone is prescriptive, guiding readers to more nuanced compliments.
Mrs. P. W. Roy and children Paul Junior and Marion of Dallas visited Greenfield with J. R. Carter and wife and joined by Norman Carter and family during the Fourth. James Doty Jr. has had eye surgery at Haley Eye Infirmary and relatives from Milwaukee visited here before returning to Chicago. Several local residents and visitors from Vernon, East St. Louis, Decatur, Patoka, and other towns were noted with various family visits, trips to St. Louis, and a divorce suit filed by Mrs. Nannie Hathaway amid minor local frictions.
Edward Rebbe, a Wilbertown township farmer, collapsed at work and died shortly after. A physician was called, but the end came quickly.
Two unemployed musicians in Liverpool, a Jewish violinist and an Aberdonian collector, toured public houses. After a first night the Jew accused the Scotsman of lying about proceeds, asking how much money had been made.
A law professor ends the term by urging total study for the final exam. He notes the exam papers are with the printer. A lone student asks, Who is the printer, breaking the solemn mood with a practical question.
An Illinois Medical Journal style piece repeats a fable about starting small with rewards few. A Scotsman and a youth finish a long golf day with close games and playful remarks. The youth muses about postponing his wedding to golf again tomorrow.
A motorist demands only gas at a station while the clerk peddles tires lighters and lacquer. The driver refuses every add on, driving off after five gallons as the proprietor quips that the irate customer was his barber.
A 300 pound man stares at a haberdasher display and declines a marked down lavender silk shirt. He tells a friend the only thing that fits is a handkerchief, preferring a ready made accessory over ready to wear.
Funkhauser tells Mrs Popsicle his wife is out with prize fighters. When questioned, he confirms the gathering is a bridge party. The exchange spotlights a curious misdirection in social slang. No further context provided.
An authority on marine photography explains exposure at sea. Bright sunlight suggests 1 25 second at 1 16. use a yellow filter to preserve white clouds against blue. Clouds add character. sunset shots with golden fringes and dark tops can be captured without filters as colors register on naked film.
The thirteenth century lawyer Yves of Trexuier in Normandy bridged between rich overlords and the poor he protected. Though mocked, he was canonized as Saint Yves de Verite and on May 19 crowds honor his tomb with a ritual crawl beneath it.
A parsonage visit by a girl with apples prompts the minister to joke about Sabbath harvesting. The child explains she picked them early this morning, noting they were growing all day yesterday. Church anecdote rounds from a Sunday moral.
The piece argues the state faces a $350 million bill plus $17.5 million yearly taxes as a burden on a county already owing the state over $60 million. It blames Chicago bosses and Henry Horner for driving a heavy sales tax and legislative chaos. It also notes Friends of William D. Knight of Rockford push him as Republican Attorney General, citing his tenure as Rockford city attorney and Winnebago county state's attorney.
The piece reports an Illinois tax exemption debate, noting a Republican backed measure with 102 votes, blocked by the Democratic senate. It cites a secret investigation into how the Democratic administration won votes for its measures and hints at potential bribery charges. It criticizes Chicago bosses and mentions Cook County tax bonds worth 212.5 million dollars over 20 years without a referendum.
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