Local News and Community Notes Prompt
Readers are invited to share visitors and events with Mrs. Orville Schroeder at 142-A. The column collects people coming and going and various items of community interest for the local paper.
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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1941
Page
8
Readers are invited to share visitors and events with Mrs. Orville Schroeder at 142-A. The column collects people coming and going and various items of community interest for the local paper.
Elmhurst residents Mr and Mrs Kay Jennings and son visited Patoka with John A Jennings family. Minnesota and Chicago visitors joined local gatherings as relatives traveled, shopped, or attended church. Several relatives from Vernon, Centralia, and St. Louis spent time around Patoka over the weekend.
Local notices list visits and travel by Mr. and Mrs. W F Outhouse Viola Locke and Sarah Thal man. trips to Murphysboro Patoka Centreville and Chicago. Several Richeson Mascher and Nattier families appear with kin visiting relatives in Dietrich Centralia and Patoka plus towns like Vernon Rockford and Lebanon.
A 1941 Illinois bank balance sheet shows total resources of 401 797 75 and total deposits of 401 797 75. L E Green as cashier attests the figures align with the auditor report, sworn before notary Mac Eagan in Marion County July 8 1941.
The Belcher relatives and friends gathered for an annual Fourth of July picnic and fish fry. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Ed Belcher and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Belcher as well as relatives such as Miss Mary Marshall and Dean Britt who helped with hay. About 47 people attended the event.
A long list of guests from Vandalia Waterloo Chicago Patoka and nearby towns visited Patoka and area homes Friday through Monday. Frequent names include Nattier Warner Adams Burton Webster Lake and Goff with many relatives staying or stopping by for visits and weekend gatherings.
Mr and Mrs Don Wyatt and Marl Wyatt of Rensslaer Indiana visited Patoka relatives from Friday to Sunday. Jess Lake of Taylorville dropped by Harlan Goff’s home Friday. Cecil Jett and sons called on Frank Petrea and Sunday Ed Belcher and George Kutler hosted Salem relatives. Peggy Tacke visited Colene Petrea Sunday afternoon. Frank Belcher also called on someone unnamed Sunday.
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