St Louis visits and regional travel notes in local column
Vernon T. E. Dickey and wife visited St Louis this week. Mrs Winifred Wortman and child ren of Mount Olive returned home after a week with her parents J W Epps and wife. Miss Marian Epps and Louise Betts joined them for a two week visit. H O Tillman and wife spent weekend in St Louis with daughter Mrs Harry Goedel. Rev P R Glotfelty and family returned from Elkhorn Wisconsin after ten days away. Jesse Doolen and family of St Louis were Sunday visitors with his parents J W Doolen and wife. Miss Minnie Peddicord returned from St Louis where she had visited her sister Mrs Charles Ehlers. Miss Lorene Sprinkle visits Vandalia this week with uncle Wallace and wife. Mrs Mabel McKinney and two children visiting her mother Mrs Felix West. Anna Dickerson of Kansas City visiting her parents J W Thompson and wife.
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T. E .Dickey
St. Louis
Winifred Wortman
Mount Olive
J. W. Epps
Marian Epps
Louise Betts
H. O. Tillman
Harry Goedel
P. R. Glotfelty
Adams and Wickenhauser Families Spend Sunday
Bud Adams and family visited his father Wm Adams while Harvey Wickenhauser and relatives visited J O Arnold and wife. Mrs Wm Fulton and daughter Lela May spend a few days with relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bud Adams
Wm. Adams
Harvey Wickenhauser
Theo
Wickenhauser
J. O. Arnold
Wm. Fulton
Lela May
Revival Conversions Follow Givens Chapel Meeting
Local notes report several conversions from the revival at Givens Chapel. Other items mention Tom Ballance and wife visiting Katherine Gray, and Marie Branch buying plums from Alpha Gray last week. Community activity includes haying help from Alvin Gray and family, and a rain blessing after weeks of dry weather.
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Martin Schlosser
Iuka
A. W. Gray
Wm. Fulton
Dana Somerville
Patoka
Elmer Albert
Raymond
Albert Fulton
Alvin Gray
Givens Chapel
Tom Ballance
Katherine Gray
Fred Fulton
Wm. Campbell
McHaney
Loyd Sanders
Centralia Hospital
Argie Howards
Peck Caldwell
Marie Branch
Alpha Gray
Francis Gray
Beck Zoeller
Margaret Gilley
State Capitol financial items noted for Cook and Fayette counties
Brief items show funds allocated for an agricultural experimental station in Cook County and a deficiency reimbursement to Fayette County for prosecuting escaped inmates, alongside a Supreme Court clerk payment.
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Cook County
Supreme Court
Fayette County
State Farm
Illinois legislative actions wrap up 58th General Assembly
Governor Horner signs many bills as the 58th General Assembly closes. Notaries must remit auto license fees promptly and corporate seals may bear engraved signatures. The body awaits final action on numerous measures approved with Attorney General Kerner's consent. A rising two percent sales tax is noted and cement costs for 1938 are projected higher.
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Horner
John P. Devine
Sol Roderick
58Th General Assembly
Otto Kerner
Illinois May Building Costs and State Spending Report
State figures show Springfield fourth among large cities for new building costs in May with $15,091, while Illinois total new building estimates rose to $1,02,309, a 12.5 percent gain from April. Law and budget items include a defeated Horner insurance bill, a modified gasoline tax bond decree, a highway police expansion, anti sales tax campaign, and 22 appropriation bills totaling $48,877,631.89 moving through the legislature for the next biennium.
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State Department of Labor
Springfield
Illinois
Senate
House
General Revenue Fund
Adjutant General
Governor’s Office
Automobile Department
Secretary of State’s Office
Attorney General
Finance Department
Supreme Court
Local Notes and Social Roundup
Quilt tops peace d cheap. Nannie Wilson. Dean Martin is home after completing school work. Annabelle Deadmond of Sandoval was guest of Miss Harriett Quayle. E. E. Hamilton and wife of Decatur visited relatives and attended business matters. Charles Vorhees and wife of St. Louis stayed with Wadkins. Grandma Wiadkin returned to the city. Ed Johnson recently faced blood poisoning but shows improvement. Miss Winona Stephens and Miss …
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nannie Wilson
Dean Martin
Annabelle Deadmond
Sandoval
Ed Johnson
Kinmundy News Briefs Include Visits and Travel
Florence Jack of Kinmundy joined Mr and Mrs Ross of Salem for a Chicago Century of Progress visit last week. They returned Tuesday morning by train while Mr and Mrs Smith stayed on. Tom Stephens and wife of Effingham visited the Parks and Stephens families. Taylor Nall was a business visitor in Kinmundy and Salem. Mesdames Cyrus Lowrey and R D Farrell of Centralia visited Mrs Delassus. Mrs Ruby Cruse Lee and children of Oil Hill Kansas plan a visit to Albert Cruse and wife. Elvis Burton and family of Champaign spent Saturday with Walter Adams family. Charles Adams is visiting home folks for a few days.
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Florence Jack
Kinmundy
Ross
Salem
Chicago
Centralia
Delassus
Ruby Cruse Lee
Oil Hill
Kansas
Albert Crusé
Elvis Burton
Champaign
Walter Adams
Charles Adams
Donald Lee
Hoopeston
Visi
Fred Duncan
Detroit
P. A. Shriver
Fred Sherman
del Rio
Texas
A. R. Williams
Anna M. Peters
William Keifer
Evelynne Stiles
Century of Progress
B. F. Holmes
H. A
Marjoe
Jane
Rena Wilson
Faye Richards
Belleville
William Hathaway
St. Louis
Mary Hathaway
Blanche Evans
Margaret Ellen
Coral Peters
Mae
Charles Mansfield
Emil Wood
Ruby
Harry Heymann
Woodriver
H. H. Reid
East Moline
C. G. Bauer
Margaret Redburn
Clair Moody
Odin
David H. Smith
Rolla
Peggy McKown
Owen Skeen
Everett McKown
Anna Belle Newman
Lila Faye Duncan
Dick Neal
Elizabeth Eagen
Sandoval Foods Club
Sandoval Area Hears News of Visitors and Club Event
Local residents report visits from relatives and friends from Chicago, St Louis, Champaign, and Detroit. The Sandoval Foods Club held a June meeting at the high school to plan a mothers banquet on July 21 and featured talks on leftovers, basket lunch, school lunch, and salads.
Girls demonstrate vegetable salad at county meet
Marie Harvey and Ellen Wilton will present a team demonstration of a vegetable salad and will showcase the salads at the County Meet in Salem on Tuesday June 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Harvey
Ellen Wilton
Salem
East Fork social notes from Centralia and Patoka
Logan Meredith and wife visited Centralia. Cort Walker shopped in Patoka. Luther Williams and family spent the Fourth with Matt Belcher and enjoyed ice cream. Don Peddicord and Ernest Schmahl called on Cort Walker. Perrine family spent the Fourth with Oze Hill and enjoyed ice cream and cake. Meredith called on Don Peddicord Wednesday. Glen Bowen visited Ernest Schmahl Saturday. C N Walker was in Patoka on business. Oze Hill and son Dean hauled wheat to Patoka. Everett Goodwin made a Fairman call Monday. Fred Webking family and daughter shopped in Patoka. Ed Belcher and Cal Belcher were in the vicinity Sunday. Eli Palmer and son Russell road the roads Monday. Ruby and Nettie Sichmahl visited with Mrs Matt Belcher and Opal Belcher Monday. Cort Walker helped Don Peddicord hay harvest. Ernest Schmahl called on Don Peddicord Monday evening.
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Logan Meredith
Centralia
Cort Walker
Patoka
Luther Williams
Matt Belcher
Don Peddicord
Ernest Schmahl
Lawrence Perrine
Oze Hill
Glen Bowen
C. N. Walker
Dean
Everett Goodwin
Fred Webking
Ed Belcher
Calvin Belcher
Eli Palmer
Russell
Ruby
Nettie Sichmahl
Opal
New Kind of Hay City Bred Joke
A humorous dialogue contrasts hay in a stack with a mistaken notion of a lump growing hay. Country and city speakers joke about hay not being a house and not growing in such a form, highlighting rural folk wit.
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Ernst Lieberman
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Love Brothers
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