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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1930
Page
5
Local residents enjoy Sunday dinners and visits with relatives from Clinton Sandoval Kinmundy Salem and Patoka. Church services Sunday School attendance notable with many from surrounding towns and Professor John Morgan among guests. Farmers report crop issues from wildlife and a wish for rain amid community events and gatherings.
Mrs William Perkins Mrs Roy Kretzer and Mrs Lon Pritchett were shopping in Patoka Tuesday when Mrs Lon Pritchett called on Mrs.
Mr and Mrs Edgar Williams and family spent part of last week with her brother Mr and Mrs Ray Andereck at Sterling St Telford and family visited Wednesday evening with John Kretzer in Odin Township.
Mr and Mrs Isaac Ross and family spent Tuesday with Earl Jackson in Alma. Several Ross relatives and friends visited kin in Alma Salem Centralia Carbondale and nearby areas. Communities shared Sunday and midweek visits, quilting gatherings, and travel to Normal summer plans.
The War department invites manufacturers to bid on six new tanks and an armored car to be built under Gen. Charles Summersall. The vehicles are designed with rear engines, front driver positions, and a turret offering full firing in all directions. They must travel 40 mph on roads, 30 mph cross country, cross three foot ditches, climb 35 degree slopes, and cover 160 miles in eight hours on hard roads.
Richmond selects J H Binford Peay as the new marriage commissioner succeeding the late Parson James D Lyle who died at eighty nine. Lyle followed Parson James Madison Macon as the first to hold the post appointed twenty years ago by Judge Sam Witt for couples refused by ordained ministers. Macon advertised that he specialized in marrying divorced people, and Lyle was the more conservative figure and last survivor of a Richmond military company that guarded Charles Town during John Brown's hanging.
A young Kobe customs inspector eloped with a brewer's wife, prompting local officials to order all young men in service to have their hair cropped. The customs chief argues shaved heads will deter girls from falling in love with such men.
In Brockton Massachusetts William T P Nelson a noted local figure lost his glass eye mientras being tested for drunkenness. Children who found the eye used it to win 500 marbles in a game of marbles. Nelson redeemed the eye with a piece of silver.
A Kimberley diamond digger who had just learned his stake was lost was celebrated when a native announced that a 59 carat diamond was found on his claim and later sold for about $20,000.
Officials at Albany Medical College are experimenting with high frequency electric waves to assess their potential as a bacteria killing medium. The work aims to find effective sterilization methods and improve medical hygiene practices in the fight against infectious diseases.
Police disclose self confessed slayer William Neilson aged sixty one strangled Mrs. Olgar James nineteen in her Ottawa home. He left a note to her husband and has not revealed motive. Neilson, a painter, had a key to the house and was found with bloodstains after arrest. the bride was daughter of Edward Nelson, Ottawa Institute for the Blind official.
Major General William R. Smith, superintendent, warns West Point may need to move its 150 year old academy due to water supply lapses, lack of aviation field, and insufficient artillery ranges. Water comes from two lakes off property during overflow. no water otherwise.
A Newark bandit, failing to muster nerve to shoot, pleads for cheese instead of cash during a holdup at 133 Wilson Avenue delicatessen. He asks for a quarter pound of limburger cheese and leaves after paying with a quarter, as recounted to detectives Joseph J. Kenny and John I. Bowbliss.
Peter Stuyvesant's sword, carried by the last Dutch colonial governor of New York nearly 300 years ago, was donated to the Museum of the City of New York by De Lancey Kounze. The 27 1/2 inch weapon has a wooden grip and brass bound leather scabbard. it passed through six generations ending with Henry Stuyvesant who died in 1919 and left the sword to his cousin Annie Parsons Kounze, then to her son the donor.
In San Francisco Laura McFarland a thirteen year old girl bravely fought off a police dog that attacked her four year old brother who was petting the animal in nearby woods. She carried him through poison ivy to a road and a passing car was summoned. Doctors said the boy would recover despite injuries from the dog's fangs.
A retrospective tour through New York grinding under city lights. From the front platform of a subway train to Park Avenue speed and Manhattan walks from the East Side to slums, the piece notes signals SB section breaks and crowded platforms, with reflections on seafaring, cabarets, and Broadway presence.
In Tishomingo Oklahoma the granite building once served as the Chickasaw nation capitol and later became Johnston County courthouse after the territory shifted to state government. The piece notes the white law operates there in the former tribal seat.
Attendants at the government radio station Hadley field in New Brunswick New Jersey discovered the body of Ernest R. Hood an electrician electrocuted across a 2000 volt wire while investigating static on the field.
A briefing notes that in Poland Warsaw authorities have executed suspects for capital crimes over the past five years. The report cites authorities and outlines the scale of capital punishment and legal processes.
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