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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1929
Page
2
Community notes include a Friday night band concert with ice cream and cake for benefit. Numerous local residents visit, host, or attend events from July to mid month. A birthday dinner honors Phyllis Pope. various relatives share visits across nearby towns and cities.
Local residents share visits and journeys across Vandalia Stringtown Marion County and nearby towns. Msgroups report kinship gatherings church appointments rural mail carrier activities at Springfield Vernon and Centralia with multiple families and individuals visiting relatives and attending events.
Erna Jones and family visited Sunday along with Mrs Mary Jones. Mr and Mrs Ora Green celebrate the arrival of a baby girl named Margaret Maxis on July 10. Mrs Mary Walker also spent Sunday with relatives.
Right with her daughter Mrs Lester Griffin Mr and Mrs Wm Broom and son of Effingham and Mrs E N orris and son John of Rosamond ate Sunday dinner with Mrs L Foster Mr and Mrs Clem Doolen announce the birth of a grandson at the home of their son Elston in Lansing Mich The young man will be known as Elston Eugene Rev Wigham held his regular appointment at Arnold Chapel Sunday Mrs Blanche Doolen and children visited Frank Frizzell Edgar and Lewis Jones and families spent Sunday with their parents W H Jones and wife and made ice cream Cecil Lowes thirty first birthday was celebrated with neighbors bringing ice cream and cake Ralph Norris of Tuscaloosa Ala visited his grandmother Mrs L Foster then Rosamond to see E N Norris and wife Arnold Chapel Ladies Aid met with Mrs Wm Lowe Miss Alice Arnold recently went to Wood River and got employed at Western Cartridge Company as stenographer Miss Martha Walker visited F Griffin A fine blackberry crop kept women busy rain slowed corn plowing letting men pick berries Harold and Mary Ella Collins visited grandmother Mrs Monahan at Salem Luther Williams and children called on Mat Belcher and family Sunday morning.
The North Sandoval resembled a real airport over Sunday with two planes coming in from the north and landing near No 12 and No 2, forming a formation in a large south field ready for passenger service. Roy Jones and family and Miss Thelma Nichols and Edwin Arnold visited the Lloyd Pierce family in Carlinville Sunday.
Southeast Town reports Mr Will Snyder and family returning from Kansas relatives, Miss Beulah Bopp visiting from Chicago, Wash Bowen visiting Charles Bowen family, Claud Bopp visiting John Bopp, many locals at ice cream supper, and several Belcher family gatherings with friends from St Louis. Local readers note a Harvey Hudspeth visit continues.
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