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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1945
Page
5
Numerous local residents travel and visit kin across Vandalia Decatur and nearby towns. Families including Stombaugh Daniels and Olmstead units share weekends in Chicago Vandalia and Odio while Archie Talbert visits from Long Beach. Military personnel and 4-H club activities highlight the week.
Stringtown and nearby communities share a Sunday of visiting. Mr and Mrs Rollie Klinge host guests including Lula, while Leslie Meador, Lawrence Sanders with baby, Ross Blanken ship, and Saul Blankenship visit from Centralia and Vandalia. Other gatherings include Leo Briggs of Casey with Nellie Lane and Clarence Holt. Idle Ladies meet at Mrs Fred Klinges. Kenneth Ireland of Vandalia and Floyd Thomas with Earl Funk visit Byron Albert area. Nei McConnell and Mrs George Albert spend an afternoon with Ella Emerson.
Several residents traveled to Centralia on the Fourth of July to view the fireworks. Attendees from Fredonia included Clarence Cozad and his children, Kathryn and Dale Kretzer, Mr. and Mrs. John Kretzer and their children, George William and Bonnie, and Lorraine and Carl Meredith. Bonnie Kretzer visited Lorraine Meredith on Wednesday. Mrs. Caroline Harmeier is slowly improving after a physician was called Tuesday.
Local residents share visits and travels across towns including Vernon Vandalia St Louis Mulberry Grove Nokomis Kinmundy and Decatur. Names prominent include Virginia Oberg J R Stombaugh Marybell Cox Elsie Huddleston and Dew Davis with gatherings at the Stombaugh and Carroll family homes and a July 4th picnic at Carrolls Grove. Avon Cox prepares to move nearer family and join the workforce in July.
Mrs Lucille Headley received the Purple Heart awarded posthumously or to her husband Pfc A D Headley for wounds suffered in action on Iwo Jima. Nearby social visits include Mr and Mrs Malinsky Kinmundy and Mr and Mrs Wallace Osborne Peoria visiting Eli Green. Cecil Garrett and sons visiting Roy Dolen. Jack Cox and son visiting W H Jones. Lela Mae Dolen and Lucile Headley visiting Cleve Doolen. George Headley also present.
Local residents visited relatives and friends over the weekend. The Baker, Arnold, Bassett, and Nichols families hosted and traveled between homes in Vernon Salem and Indiana while noting military service members and visiting guests.
Fairman Mrs Lillie McLaren and relatives from Los Angeles and Carlyle visited their aunt Mrs A C Mc Claren. Loree Morgan returned to Milford. Isadore Adams and granddaughter Carol Carlson from Chicago spent the weekend with Herman Heinrich’s family. Otto Heinrich and sons with Georgianna Tinkler and Amason Eaglin dined at Southern Gardens to celebrate the Heinrichs sixth wedding anniversary.
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