Post Office Notice of Second Class Mailing
Disclosure of second class matter filing for Patoka Illinois, entered November 2, 1907 at the local post office under the act of 1879, March 3.
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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1947
Page
4
Disclosure of second class matter filing for Patoka Illinois, entered November 2, 1907 at the local post office under the act of 1879, March 3.
Seymore Chance and family from Kinmyrds visited Sunday with Mrs Viola Melianey and Mrs Cliffie Goodwin. Mr and Mrs Orville Hill of Sandoval called on Mrs Emma Hill. Jett family and Betty Jett with Norma Jean visited Everett Jett. Combining wheat and cutting oats described as the day’s order. Ernest Schmahl helping L Heinzman with wheat. Amelia Meredith spent Thursday with Edith Thalman and others. Patoka shoppers Saturday.
Mrs. Robert Stein and children and Mrs. Wm Hill visited in Centralia. Laura Jackson and David Lee from Carbondale spent the weekend with relatives. Miss Inez Singleton visited Martinsville friends. The Brummets celebrated silver wedding anniversary with relatives. Several locals spent the Fourth touring nearby regions and sharing condolences at a funeral in Irvington.
Mrs Bernard Reed spent last week visiting relatives in Mt Vernon and attended the Williams family reunion. Otto Craycroft is a patient at St Marys hospital. Enoch Parker and family of Vandalia and Darrell Duncan visited Robert Duncan and relatives. Ike Ross and son George attended the funeral of Mrs Ella Phillips in Salem. Lenora Saunders visits Superior Wisconsin with son Robert and daughter Janis. Carl Wood of Denver visited sister Myrtle Stewart. William Pirtle of Madison Illinois stayed with Ed Purnell. F P Stewart returned from Australia visiting J W Bopp and daughter. Betty Jane Bond of Mt Vernon Indiana arrived for a visit with Charles Maas family.
Mrs. Sampson and Mrs. Brehrendt depart Friday for Bloomington after a stay with father A. M. Peek. He will accompany them to Pontiac Illinois to live with son Roger and family. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Novata purchased A. M. Peek property. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Altom and son John L. visit his parents Mr. and Mrs. Tom Altom.
Od in residents and visitors share trips and gatherings. Bloomington couple Edgar and Mrs Dawson travel to Michigan for a vacation while Vandalia pair Willis Hamilton visit W N Hamilton in Odin. Several others attend family events, picnics, or travels to Centralia Carlyle Kirksville and the Grand Canyon trip planned by Farthing family.
Livingston E. Osborne criticizes federal flood control as inadequate and promotes using flood basins for storage to restore duck hunting lakes like Anderson lake in Fulton county. Illinois department of conservation acquires Anderson lake for public hunting and fishing with dock facilities planned. Inspectors will enforce pure food laws at county fairs and the state fair, while the 1947 premium list and entries surge. Safety education becomes mandatory for grades one through nine, and beef and dairy cattle transfers require health certificates to curb Bang’s disease. Illinois minerals value hits 364 million dollars with growth in clay and lead zinc, coal down, oil reserves up. Conservation displays featuring game birds, fish, and fur-bearing animals travel to county fairs and the Springfield state fair.
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