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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1930
Page
3
Vernon plans a Fourth of July celebration with appointed committees and proceeds benefiting the cemetery. Local families and residents, including Betts, Murfin, Doolen, and Livesay networks, are noted among attendees and visitors. Memorial and social events surround the town, with multiple mentions of church services, reunions, and school graduation activities amid community life described.
Fairman and Mrs Will Crothers were callers in Salem. Jewel Chausse visited the Thaiman sawmill. Rose and Merle Snyder returned to Carlyle work. Deatta Ticknor and Ruby Brown called on Marie Cozad. Mary Etta Corson improving after illness. Ralph Merten and family bought a new Chevrolet. Stephen Opolony of Sandoval visited Bill Stone. The Stone family and Bill attended the eighth grade commencement at St Lawrence Hall Sandoval. Ira Humes of Alma visited Carrigan. Carrigan Sunday School class from Centralia Baptist went to Fairy Dell. Crothers and daughter Betty Jean visited Danville and attended Indianapolis races. Dave Corson worked for Walter Parks. Fred Corson back to work for H J Stone. Carrigan, Merten families and Minnie Merten attended Sandoval Congregational Church commencement.
Mrs. Marie Cozad and Miss Frances Chausse attended the St. Lawrence eighth grade graduation exercises Friday evening at Sandoval. Sunday visitors to R. M. Carrigan included Frank Powers Harry Bellamy and the Dolsen sisters Katie Imogene and Gert rude of Sandoval along with other relatives from Centralia and Chicago. Jewel Chausse mowed grass along the hard road starting Monday morning with activity noted around local households and Cent ralia errands.
Saturday visits note John Kretzer and Howard McClelland with their parents near Salem. Myrtle Carlisle of Lakeview marries Robert Foltz of Sandoval on Thursday. Funeral for Dora Arrowsmith in Odin follows May 29 Detroit departure. Couples, relatives, and neighbors share greetings and social calls across Odin and nearby towns.
Chas Renfro and family who lived in Decatur for a year moved to the Dan Eisel farm. Harry Zollar and Miss Ellen Gray visited J R Gray and family. Mrs Herschel Campbell called on the Wiley Campbell family. John Renfro and wife were Salem visitors. Loren Williams was on our street. Alva Jett returned from Cropsy. T W Gray attended the Ben Morrel sale. Wm Gray of Kinmundy stayed with relatives. Ora Kretzer and wife visited T W Gray. Lloyd Black and family called on S W Gray. Alvin Gray and wife visited John Renfro. Walter Somerville of Salem spent Sunday at home. Harry Warden and family visited Forest Sanders. Guy Chandler took a business trip to Salem. H P Smith and wife were at their farm Sunday morning.
Zora McClelland of Decatur Ber tie Moore of Detroit Maude and Lorena Meridith of Odin Asa McClelland and family spent Friday evening with Mason Holtslaw and family. Nellie Holtslaw Rosalie and Doris se spent Saturday evening with W McClelland and family. Mr as Mrs Isaac Ross and son Edwin spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Chas Phillips and family near Salem. Mrs J R Holtslaw spent Sunday with Jas R McClelland and family. Miss Ethel Holtslaw visited on Sunday with Frank Litterel and wife. Lloyd Bryant and family of Centralia spent Saturday night with his parents Jesse Bryant and wife. Thomas Holtslaw and wife and daughter Juanita of Central City spent Sunday evening with her par ents W R McClelland and family. Lloyd Bryant and family spent Sunday with Albert Holtslaw and Mr Sanders of Centralia was in this vicinity Wednesday. Mason Holtslaw and family spent Sunday afternoon with W R Mc Clelland and family. Howard McClelland spent Sunday afternoon with Bernard Ross. Mr and Mrs Ernest Daggett and Miss Nannie Frinck of Centralia spent Sunday afternoon with Mr and Mrs Chas Breakfield.
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