Local News Notes from Patoka Area Highlights Visits and Travel
A roundup of local social visits and travel across Patoka, Odin, Centralia, and nearby towns. Residents host relatives, friends from Chicago and Sterling, and travelers from Decatur, Vandalia, and Carmi. Several trips include Patoka gatherings, vacations, church services, and a notable July Fourth celebration.
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Patoka
Charless Starr
Merle Anderson
Harrisburg
St. Louis
Ira Martin
Dave
Cowden
Wes Martin
O. L. West
Vernon
John Chance
Harold Chance
Chicago
Elgin
Illinois
South
North Dakota
Montana
Yellowstone National Park
Pueblo
Colo
A. L. Vallow
Clinton
Josie Vallow
Clyde Davis
Nell Mansfield
Mulberry Grove
Lipton
Okla
Robert Morey
Gulf Oil Co
Cecil Elliott
Centralia
Dan Livesay
Decatur
John Frederick
Sterling
Paulie Chandler
Clara Jones
Salem
Joanne Hudspeth
Ollie Alexander
P. L. Black
Argenta
George Bennett
Harold Foitz
Everett Meryman
God Theme In Christian Science Lesson Sermon
Sunday services in Christ Scientist churches centered on the word God with the golden text praising the only wise God Saviour. The lesson cited Exodus and Jude passages and Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health defining God as the all-knowing all-seeing all-loving Principle and Life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Churches of Christ Scientist
God
Moses
Lord
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
God Almight
Jehovah
Mary Baker Eddy
Notice to All Dog Owners in Patoka Village
Department of Agriculture order requires dogs be tied with indestructible leashes or kept in escape proof enclosures. Quarantine rules must be strictly followed by villagers. In Memoriam for Geo. A. Nattier marks one year since July 11 with a dedication from Sadie Nattier and children.
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Department of Agriculture
Patoka
Geo. A. Nattier
Sadie Nattier
Sunday Visits And Family Gatherings In Sandy Branch
Local residents and visitors gathered for weekend gatherings across Sandy Branch. Families including Williams, Garrett, Thomas, Arnold, Armstrong, and Brown spent Sunday with relatives and friends, with a ball game drawing a large crowd and Leonard Parker improving after appendicitis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshall Williams
Pid Williams
Cecil Garrett
Cleve Doolen
Lyle
Eulaine Williams
Chicago
Orval
Clyde
Bessie Thomas
Jackson
Michigan
Noah Thomas
Selby Garrett
Jack
Chloris Williams
Roy Williams
Frank Lewellen
Harvey
Geo. Headley
Milburn Jones
St. Louis
Mark Arnold
Sylvester Arm
Fiona Haynes
Patoka Illinois approves 1937 village budget ordinance
Ordinance No. 25A appropritates for the Village of Patoka for the fiscal year starting May 1 1937 salaries of municipal officers 2050 maintenance of streets and alleys 1500 maintenance of City Park 1150 maintenance of cemetery 300 miscellaneous 100 and allows unexpended balances from 1937 to cover shortfalls in any item. Passed and approved July 2 1937 by Village President J C Bhery with Village Clerk Homer N Potts as attested.
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Illinois
Southern Pine Foundations Build NY World's Fair
Southern yellow pine from Maryland Delaware Virginia and North Carolina is being used in foundations at the New York World's Fair 1939. Grover Whalen announces purchase of 480 sticks of pine piling up to 80 feet from Nichols Brothers with shipments from Frankfort Delaware Preston Maryland and Virginia. The piles will be driven into ash meadow fill at the exposition site for bridge abutments near the Theme Centre and amusements.
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New York
Maryland
Delaware
Virginia
North Carolina
Grover Whalen
The
Fair Corporation
Nichols Brothers
West Street
Manhattan
Norfolk
Frankfort
Preston
Melfa
Cheriton
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J. W. Alexander A
Odin
Austin Good
Doris
Billy Dean
Freeport
Mrs. Good
Cloyd Leicher
Mr. Good
Good
Reeport
C. N. Cruse
Georgia Lettme
Walter Johnson
Alice
DuQuoin
Pan
Renner
Lela Mae Nichols
A. Nichols
Billy Bruening
Granite City
Albert Cruse
Harry Anderson
Mrs
Barthol Ander
George Phalen
Phalens
J. W. Alexander
Elwood Brown
Allison Gray
Dreddy
Carmi
Joe Stasik
B. F. Zobrist
Assumptions
Charles Adams
Mecatur
Verne Starr
Dupo Sven
Cox & Martin
Cox & Martin Morticians
Vernon—Patcka—Sandoval
Pian Hae
Eee
Maxwellhouse Coffee
Lifebuoy
Lux
Prince Albert Tobacco
U. S
Pet Mills
Hamburger Ib
Certo
Memoriam
Sandy Branch
J. C. Bhery
Homer N. Potts
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