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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1925
Page
2
A stream of short notes lists Altoms and Martins as local shops offering shirts, shoes, underwear, jelly making products Certo and Fly-tox, and groceries. Residents mentioned include James Klinge, Mrs Ethel Robb, Dave Pauley, Orval Hopkins, Neil Davidson, and others visiting or returning home for Decoration Day and Memorial Day.
A retrospective tribute surveys 1924’s highs and 1925 promises. It notes pleasures and vices of the era including travel, cinema, sports, liquor prohibition and rising scientific prestige. It recalls Tutankhamun’s fame and Angelo Fatutti’s famed diving feat ending in a lunatic asylum.
A. D. Nichols is on the sick list. Central City visitors Otto Maulding and family called on Chas Maulding and family. Berthal Wooters and family visited with T. S. Wooters. John Steel and wife visited relatives near Vernon. Luther Williams and family from Decatur visited relatives. State Aid road work continues in the area. W. B. Burk, Dr. S. Laswell, and Olliver Reagan families visited Mrs. Sarah Caldwell and daughter Alice. Reagan and Mrs. Caldwell returned home Monday. Luther Caldwell and wife visited James McNichol and family. Homer Osborne and family spent Sunday with relatives in Alma. Jean McMackin and Mr. and Mrs. Ruben visited Wiley Campbell and family. Mary Caldwell and Loren Albert have had tonsillitis recently. Clarence Young and sisters Eleanor and Margie of Tailorville visited relatives here. Clara, daughter of Mer and Mrs. Selby Garrett, died last Saturday at Centralia hospital and was buried at Sandy Branch. Protracted meeting continues at Zion with larger crowds.
County court adjudged Leona and Viola Craig delinquent and sentenced them to confinement in the state school for girls at Geneva Illinois. Objections to taxes were filed by Frank Floyd Byrd Watson Drug Co Centralia Central City Traction Co John Langenfeld Young Mens Christian Assn Centralia June C Smith Geo W Pittenger Chicago Eastern Ill R R Co Centralia Traction Co J B News man Trustee Newman Bros David Perrine et al H E Cunningham 8B M English Gildehaus Co 0 P Marshall Max Prill.
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