Crazy Crystals for rheumatism at Altom's
A bustling personals column notes visitors and guests at Altom's store including Mrs Francis Rogier and daughter from Decatur, Mrs Walter Renner and Barbara from DeKalb, and others. Items advertise prices on toothpaste, silk hose, white oxfords, and 10 lb sugar bags while mentioning travel, births, and local social visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altom’s
Francis Rogier
Little Daughter
Decatur
John Chance
Alcom’s
Ruth Pugh
Denver
Colo
Bolsen Thiell
J. Moran
Clara Moran
T. Stephens
Clara Stephens
Effingham
Bettie Clark
Henrietta
Ruby Eagan
Claude Jackson
Charles Humes
Centralia
Fannie Chandler
A. C. Clendening
Clinton
M. D. Meador
Wayne Riley
Kokomo
Ind
Mae Minscher
Dieterich
Richeson
Terence Genre
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
William C. Hull
Dan Lvesay
Keokuk
Vivian Nattier
Southwide Baptist
Camp Ridgecrest
North Carolina
Carbondale
Missouri Baptist
Violet Nattier
Esther Cox
Carmi
Homer Potts
Keyesport
Ice Cream Supper For McGassi Cemetery Benefit
An ice cream supper is set two miles west of Patoka on Saturday night June 16 to raise funds for McGassi Cemetery. Ladies are urged to bring cakes on breakable plates. Contributions may be sent to Claud Walker, Cemetery Treasurer. Names of donors will be published in Patoka Register. The Corn Crackers from Cuckle Burr Hollow perform. all are invited to attend with guests.
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Patoka
McGassi Cemetery
Claud Walker
Cemetery
Cuckle Burr Hollow
Death of Mrs Duncan Williams in Patoka
Mrs Duncan Williams died at her Patoka home on June 12 after a long illness. The 32 year old mother of two, born November 2 1901 in Fairfield Illinois, leaves husband J D Williams two daughters Dorothy Jean and Thelma Pearl Williams and a son James Williams plus a step daughter and many relatives. Funeral services were held June 13 at the Pentecostal church with Rev J H Reeter of Vandalia officiating. Burial followed in Patoka cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheath May Lambert Williams
John Lambert
Fairfield
Ill
Patoka
J. D. Williams
Williams
J. H. Reeter
W. K. Hoag
Jesus
Dorothy Jean
Thelma Pearl Williams
James Williams
Iil
Melvin Kippler
Vandalia
Roy Lawrence
Harry
Virginia
Juanita Lambert
Ramsey
Edgar Lambert
Harvey Beck
Edward
Nerces
O E S Chapter Meeting Draws Guests and Birthdays
About fifty members and guests attended the Eastern Star chapter meeting Monday evening. Fifteen Sandoval chapter members joined as guests. May and June birth days were celebrated with a program including two vocal solos by Dot Doolen and piano by Sprinkle.
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Eastern Star
Sandoval
Patoka
Dot Doolen
Miss Sprinkle
Vernon
Miss. Sprinkle
Hazel Cox
Charles Belcher
Infant Buried in Patoka Cemetery
Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lutz were held Thursday at 2 p.m. The infant, born June 14, was laid to rest in Patoka cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Jones
Don Wilson
June Hickey
Iuka
Hickey
Newt Smith
Fairman
Lewis Forrest
Shattuc
Elvin DeLay
Clara Moran
Centralia
Hattie Dukes
Decatur
Oscar Friend
Chas. Lutz
Aterment
Patoka Cemetery
Christian Science Lesson Sermon Focuses on God the Only Cause
Churches of Christ Scientist study titled God the Only Cause and Creator conducted Sunday June 10. The Golden Text cited Psalm 72:18 asserting the Lord as the God who alone performs wondrous deeds. The lesson included biblical citation Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel.
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Churches of Christ
Scientist
Israel
Lesson-Sermon Bridges Bible Verse and Science Text
The passage cites Isaiah 44 6 declaring God as the first and last and no other god. It then quotes Science and Health by Mary Baker Eddy describing God as divine Principle Love the universal creator and omnipresent Spirit.
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Lord of
God
Mary Baker Eddy
Fourth quarterly conference set for Patoka June 16
M E Church South Patoka announces the last quarterly conference for the year to be held Saturday at 2 pm. Reports are requested from all church officials. Sunday services include Sunday School at 9 30 am with Frank Ballance superintendent and 10 45 am preaching by Rev C F Corzine who will administer the sacrament. An all day service at Zion church with basket dinner follows 10 am Sunday School and 11 am sermon by the pastor. Afternoon 2 pm service features Rev Corzine with sacrament. Young Peoples division meets at 8 pm and Is land Chapel hosts Rev Corzine at 8 pm. Public invited. W D Humphrey, Pastor.
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Patok Caharge
Patoka
Patoka Church
Frank Ballance
C.F. Corzine
Island Chapel
W. D. Humphrey
Sweet Are the Uses of Advertisement Opinion on Mother's Day stamp row
The American Artist's Professional League criticizes the Post Office over a Mother's Day stamp design. The piece mocks art for commerce yet notes art's involvement in advertising from cocoa to pencils. It predicts Father’s Day commodification may follow.
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Post Office Department
America
Artists’ League
James McNeill Whistler
Oftt
United States
Haberdashery
Life Protection At Cost Mutual Life Protection Ad
Ad offers mutual non profit life protection at cost for ages 5 to 75 with non medical underwriting. Annual cost about 18 dollars with $7.00 base quote and dues waived after 15 years. Dept A requests further particulars.
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Dept
Social Guests and Local Events Round Vernon
Vernon residents host George Albert and wife Frank Beck and Virgil Klinge and wife of Stringtown. Nearby visitors include Miss Charlotte Simcox of Chestnut and Dr. Charles Ehlers with daughter Mary Lee. Community notes list multiple calls, visits, and an Eastern Star meeting, plus upcoming local events through June 20.
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George Albert
Frank Beck
Virgil Klinge
Stringtown
John McConnell
Charlotte Simcox
Chestnut
Charles Ehlers
Mary Lee
Minnie Peddicord
St. Louis
Dr. Ehlers
St. Paul
Henrietta Cox
Hazel Cox
Sholconier
Harry Metzger
George Manus
Pearl City
Lewis Leininger
Cora Shinn
Vandalia
Fred Leininger
Edna
Myrtle Miller
Josie Cox
Bertra Danbury
Ethel Green
Dot Doolen
Pateka
Clem Doolen
Jesse Doolen
Centralia
Centralia Spert Over the Weekend With Relatives In Maron
Lincoln
Mary Doris Sprinkle
Velda Timmerman
Clarence Kerchoffer
Decatur
Nashville
Dorothy Doolen
Champaign
S. W. Doolen
Estes
Phyllis Livesay
William Hagemier
Clarence Norton
Ramsay
Rachel McHaney
C. O. Livesay
Lowell Wilson
Patoka
Ray Walton
Henry Sprinkle
Eleanor Moore
Moweaqua
North
Vernon
Corn Hog Community Meetings Listed for Farmers
Corn-Hog co operators and other farmers seek updates on Agricultural Adjustment Administration work and contracted acres. Chinch bug control methods will be discussed with state entomologists and farm topics. Meetings begin at 8 PM and end by 10 PM with reps from the allotment committee and Farm Adviser Blackburn.
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Blackburn
Union School
Romine Township
Omega Townhouse
Carrigan School
Kinmundy
City
Sugar Tax Postponed: Beets and Cane Taxed June 8 1934
Collector V. Y. Dallman announces sugar from beets and cane becomes a basic agricultural commodity taxed under the Agricultural Adjustment Act at the start of June 8 1934. Dealers must inventory stocks by July 7 1934. floor tax applies to floor stocks and un sold items within 30 days of June 8.
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V. Y. Dallman
Internal Revenue
Washington
Springfield
Illinois
Dallman
W. Y. Dallman
Mississippi locomotive honored at 1934 Chicago World’s Fair
The South's oldest surviving locomotive the Mississippi built a century ago is placed at the entrance of Wings of Century the pageant at the Chicago World's Fair of 1934. It stands opposite the Travel and Transport Building and underscores the lineage to modern Illinois Central locomotives.
Salesman Pitches Book To Mrs Jones House Visit
A canvasser goes door to door at a semi detached home of Mrs Jones. He claims to have a book titled The Husband's Friend 500 Reasons for Staying Out Late. He says he sold a copy to her husband on the way to the station.
Mississippi the Tiny Locomotive's Storied 19th Century Career
The diminutive engine known as the Mississippi began on the Natchez to Hamburg line in 1836 and later served the Grand Gulf and Port Gibson Railroad during the Civil War. It then operated on the Vicksburg to Warren ton line before a 1893 Illinois Central reconditioning sent it to Chicago for the World’s Columbian Exposition. It later toured exhibitions in the Field Museum and the 1904 Fair, and is now donated to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for permanent display.
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Natchez
Hamburg
Miss
Grand Gulf
Port Gibson
Grant
Vicksburg
Mississipi
Mississippi
Warrenton
Mississippi Valley and
Ship Island
Yazoo
Mississipp Valley
Illinois Central System
McComb
Chicago
Field Museum
Museum of Science and Industry
I Am My Own Grandfather Relationship Riddle
A complex family puzzle explains how a man can become his own grandfather through overlapping marriages. The speaker marries a widow with a daughter, the father marries the daughter, their children invert roles, and through a chain of in laws the narrator ends up both grandson and grandfather to his wife.
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Wie
Maybe Ham Veneer Sandwich Conversation
An odd exchange features someone asking about a sandwich and another replying the sandwich is cheese plated. The brief vignette hints at humorous dialogue or a casual conversation moment.
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Kodak Film
Janesville
Wis
Duncan Williams
O. E. S. Chapter
Patoka Cemtery
Christian Science Churches
M. E. Church, South
Family Mutual Benefit Association, Heard Bldg
Phoenix, Arizona
Hall
Farm Bureau
Office
Romine Prairie Church
SOUTH
J. M. Smith
Dean Martin
Smith
Smith & Cox
Worsham College of Embalming
Illinois Funeral Directors and Emablmers’ Association
District Association
COX & Martin
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