Vernon Social Notes Bring Wide Array of Visitors
Numerous residents and guests visited from Vandalia Decatur Patoka and Mt. Vernon with gatherings at homes churches and town events. The Vernon Ladies Aid planned an ice cream supper and Memorial services in the city park featured the Vernon Cornet Band readings and a Sprinkle sisters duet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lula Foltz
Patoka
Vandalia
Eugene Leninger
Decatur
Kate Leninger
Marjorie
Ruth Doolen
Lewis Leninger
A. A. Griffin
Mt. Vernon
Vernon Cornet Band
Vernon
Kapp
Fox of
Shobonier
Minnie Carmean
Little Sprinkle
Mary Doris
Winifred
Yanky Doodle
W. L. Danbury
F. C. Freyer
Mary K. Smith
Masonic Hall
Decatur Families Share Visits and Local News
BEAR CREEK Cc. G. Matheny and grandson Claud along with the family from Decatur called on old time friends Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Lythia Brown joined C. G. Matheny for a visit with daughters Alice and Maggie and families. Marion Christie made an overland trip to Missouri to do sawmilling. Mildred, daughter of Mrs. Mary Cothern, died at a home of invalids. funeral held from Clara Jones’s home and buried in Pratt cemetery. Mrs. Mary Lake is poorly after a fall. Emmett Caudle and wife drove to Peru to visit tatters parents. Melvin Belcher and family, Kara Meadors and wife dined with home folks. Mrs. Lucy Robertson and two daughters spent Decoration with home folks at Herrick. Mrs. Eva Libell spent Sunday with John Anderson and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cc. G. Matheny
Claud
Decatur
Lythia Brown
C. G. Matheny
Alice
Maggie
Marion Christie
Missouri
Decatur Residents Visit Family and Old Friends
Clarence Linton and family of Decatur visited with home folks on Saturday night and Sunday. Ira Matheny of Decatur spent Sunday among old time friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Linton
Decatur
Ira, Matheny
Local sale ads and town notices from Martins and Altoms
Local shoppers are alerted to Altoms offering Dixie feeds and chick starter while Martins advertises potatoes at 75 cents per peck corn cans at 10 cents. The piece mentions October Baxter Jr born 1890 and a gypsy arrival, plus Martins counters with radios, summer caps, dress hats, belts and garden supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altoms
Dixie
Cains
Martins
Martina
Oliver
October Baxter, Jr
Register
Crosley and Thompson
Griffin-Walton Hdw
Griffin-Walton Hdw. Co
Fountains Land
Griffin-Walton How. Co
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Dean Merritt
Centralia
W. H. Wade
Merritt
Glen Cox
Donald
Helen White
Daisie Thompson
Alva Binnion
Toledo
Ill
M. E. Carmean
Andrew Peddicord
John Jones
Louise Betts
Juanita Hathaway
Lawrence Wilson
West of Town
Russell Green
Artie Shick
Maron
Annabell Meader
Claude Meader
Carrie Jones
Bloomington
Anna Morton
Charles Anderson
Curtis
Bartelso
Mary Epps
Chester
George Lange
Wood River
Lem Meadors
Marlin
Leo Freyer
Stanley
James Metzger
Betty Hope
John Thompson
Ray Walton
St. Louis
George Walotn
Cecil Holt
Stringtown
John Gerkin
Claude Doolen
Irene
Misses Maude
Dot Doolen
Champaign
S. W. Doolen
Ira Martin
Dale
Jesse Doolen
I. W. Doolen
Bines Johnson
Donald Murfin
Pat Murfin
Bertha Freyer
Gladys Sorrel
Normal
Little Chamber of Commerce
Fred Gilley
Dale Altom
Illinois Theatre
Guy
James Kirkwood
Fox News
Madge Bellamy
Harrison Ford
Paris
Conway Tearle
Dorothy McKrill
GEM Theatre
Tom MIX
Universal
Bluebeard
Arizona
Tom Tyler
Lefty Flynn
John A. Jennings
George Barr McCutcheon
Oliver October
Aialide
McCutcheon
Bear Creek
Lowe Brothers
Lowe Brothers Neptunite
Lowe Brothers Screen Enamel
Lerwe
Bre Brothers
Shess Auto Basteet
Eady
Vernon, Ill
Gilleys Garage
Patoka, Illinois
Bibesa
Mnane Nal
Illinois Central System
C. H. Markham
Chicago
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