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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1926
Page
3
special Saturday discounts apply to Flour Feeds and Machinery with price cuts exceeding the usual egg cash difference. Pratt's Poultry Disinfectant and Pratts Dip for livestock are offered in discounted sizes. Cultivator purchases receive a reduction, and a second hand 7 ft McCormick binder is offered at a special price.
Local dealer hails Flako feed as a new premier poultry supplement. Special price for first customers. Buyers urged to bring wool to Patoka or Vernon with promise of top market rates. Truck service offered. loading a car Friday and Saturday for convenient pickup.
Advertisement for soy beans and peas with test percentages and prices. Notes 20 bushels of soy beans at 90 percent and Whip-Poor-Will stock peas testing 97 percent plus mixed cow peas available. Prices listed: $5.00 and $4.75 per unit.
Announcement that Prof J S Kniseley is a candidate for Marion County Superintendent of Schools, subject to voters in November. He asks for support and votes. Also notices promoting coffee prices at Cains and consumer ads for Martins and Altoms with buy and sell offers.
Column features farm and nursery ads with cash paid for nursery stock and requests for calves and stock. Listings include selling of cherries plants tractors eggs baby carriages and mowers and requests for pasture land and farm equipment across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin locations.
Warren Epps helps Byron Albert with farm tasks. Cash Cole built bridges on roads last week. Clyde Dees grading outfit, manager Floyd Bethard, works on state aid roads nearby. John Cleary and family in Vandalia Wednesday. Illinois Light and Power agent sought right of way for summer electric line. Roe Holt clean s the Farmer’s Cemetery. Lee Frisby works for Henry Frisby. Delmar Guffy of Vandalia visited Mervel Willett Thursday. Elder family from Vandalia spent last week at home. Francis Lenninger and wife in town Saturday. S A Willett Sr improving after rheumatism. Bilis Outhouse and son Joe sheared sheep for Foster Hoit last week.
The county meeting of the Rebekahs was held at the local lodge room Wednesday night with about fifty attendees. Members from Vernon, Salem, Odin and Centralia lodges attended and refreshments included strawberries, cake, and ice cream. Small sacks of chicken feed and one hundred pound sacks at Altoms were noted alongside fresh butter and KoKo heart oleo on ice at Cains.
The administrator of the estate of Sarah E Lucas deceased invites all creditors to appear at the County Court of Orion County Illinois Salem courthouse on the July Term’s first Monday for claim adjustment. All debts should be paid to the administrator Holt Holt Attorneys. Dated May 17 1926.
Wm Willett recovers from measles and resumes Vernon prospecting trips. Simp Caudle and Lewis Lenninger shear sheep for area farmers. George Willett and wife James Lane and family visited Vandalia Saturday. Memorial services held in Vernon Sunday. Rev Fox preached here last Sunday. Clarence Holt and Mervel Willett to graduate Vandalia High School June 14 1926 at the Dixie Theatre. Farmers Cemetery trustees tidy the grounds for Decoration Day. donations requested to cover yearly expenses to Frank Beck Vernon Al.
Thirty eight attended Sunday School at Temple last Sunday. Families from Greenville Cen tralia Odin Chicago and other areas visited relatives. An ice cream supper by Union Sunday School raised 75 dollars. Local shops advertise ready made dresses for spring and straw hats at Martins and Altoms.
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