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Local Patoka News Brims With Visitors and Events
Patoka weekly lists numerous Decoration Day visitors including Chas Homes and family Centralia and Rev Ralph Willis from Clay City, plus E L DeLay and family planning Ozark trip. Multiple towns like Vandalia Decatur and Chicago send guests. baptisms and commencements noted. new baby born west of town. several Patoka residents travel or host relatives.
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P. B. Simcox
Charleston
Harvey Munger
Hast Prairie
Chas
Centralia
Patoka
Archie Thalman
Vandalia
Leslie Thalman
B.S. Livesay
Evansville
Ind
Ralph Willis
Clay City
J. W. Delassus
Bruce
Sam Pugh
Ross Walker
Clinton
T. B. Walker
Roy Benoist
Mt. Vernon
X. B. Holland
Max
Robert Gray
Douthitt
St. Louis
Blanche Purdue
Monroe Smith
Darrel Caldwell
Robinson
Luther Caldwell
Forrest Cothern
Edna Kretzer
Salem
Frank Belcher
E. L. DeLay
Decatur
Indora Eagan
Claude Matheny
Floyd Pugh
Iowa
Vene Gray
Assumption
Thelma Walker
Winton Wright
DuQuoin
Leo Walker
Tom Bundy
St. Paul
John Laird
Indiana
Tom Ballance
John Nelson
Stan Wasem
Denver
Colo
Carl Simcox
J. L. Simcox
Ozarks
Bettie Clark
Henrietta
Virgil Cox
Gerald Cox
John Simcox
H. N. Pots
Chester
Mr. Potts
Claude Bopp
Sandoval
Steve Eaglin
Emery
Pauline
Eriana Collins
Edwin Gray
John Smith
Cray
Lady Church
Henry Pugh
Loretta Meador
Vernon
Ar= Pugh and wife in Decatur, Sunny. Mrs. Claude Jackson
C. D. Martin
Virgil Livesay
Elmer Rogier
Okaw River
Pearl Chilton
Minnie Pugh
L. Underwood
Ina Wadkins
Kell
Near Kell