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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1941
Page
1
Local residents from Vandalia Patoka and Centralia visit relatives and shop, with stops in Kinmundy Sandoval Clinton Mt. Vernon and Decatur. Raections include Mr. L. E. Denning and Mrs. Schroeder hosting dinners and nearby family gatherings.
Salem Sportsmen Club in Salem Indiana announced its second annual Picnic and Barbecue for June 20 at Bryan Memorial Park. Events include coon and fox drag races trap shoot beach show and humorous contests with the Salem High School Band providing entertainment. Barbecue and drinks cost 10 and 5 cents with prizes such as a Brownings shotgun a 420 22 over and under gun gear and fishing equipment. Proceeds benefit wildlife propagation. no admission charge and free parking.
The Woman s Christian Temperance Union of Vernon met at Mrs Ellis Doolen s Monday evening June 16 with many present. The program included songs America The Beautiful scripture prayer roll call minutes treasury report and a business meeting. A bake sale is planned for Saturday June 28 at Cr Martins Cash Store starting 10 am to fund temperance and church signs.
Illinois dairy farmers are urged to prevent the usual twenty percent milk production drop this summer to gain higher prices and support the food for defense program. University of Illinois expert C S Rhode advises better feeding, shade, cool water, and protein-rich grain, with silage if available, to keep cows in good condition and profit from higher prices.
Mrs and Mrs C V Farmer mark fifty years of marriage since 1891 in Patoka Illinois with plans for a quiet observance at their Nederland mountain home Patoka. Their son Leland of Mercedes Texas and guests Rosen Thiell of Decatur Illinois and Mrs George Webster of Dallas Texas are mentioned as health allows. The couple reflect on shared life with verses and hope for fifty more years.
Emerson Evangelistic Party of Kansas City Missouri conducts a revival at the Christian church in Patoka with messages on The Unpardonable Sin What It Takes to Make a Christian and Christian Unity Mrs Emerson leads lectures and Ruth Brewer handles music promising a unique Monday evening program ahead of the closing events
The Marion County Women's Republican Club will meet in Farina at the M E Church on Friday June 20. A pot luck dinner will be served at twelve o'clock noon. Everyone invited.
Rev. ge, former pastor of the M. E. Church at Patoka, has been named chaplain at the Southern Illinois State Penitentiary in Menard. He is among the first to receive such an appointment from Governor Dwight H. Green. Local friends extend congratulations.
Camp Wangélin of the Kaskaskia Council Boy Scouts of America will open next Sunday June 22 with 100 Scouts and Scouters for the first of six one week camping periods. The 40 acre camp two miles west of Waterloo on route 156 offers swimming life saving handicraft and other scouting activities. Staffed by adult leaders and older scouts the camp requires no fee for Scouters accompanying their troops. Applications should be filed at the Scout office to secure preferred period selection. The camp operates under Scout Executive George W Barstow and Field Executive W R Zimmerman who recently completed intensive training in troop health and related areas.
The June gathering of the Patoka Woman's Club featured a business session, a year-in-review by retiring president Mrs. B. M. Spurgeon, and a program including roll call, radio program, two piano solos by Betty Altom and Pansy Wasem, and speaker Mrs. Irene Haley Williams on En Route to and from Washington State. Plans were made for a September family banquet. refreshments followed.
State Director Paul G. Armstrong announced selective service registration for all men in Illinois who reach age 21 between October 16, 1940 and July 1, 1941 with limited congressional exemptions. Aliens 21 to 36 who arrived after October 16, 1940 must appear before local boards on July 1 to register. Exemptions include active duty military branches, certain federal services, Reserve components, and academy cadets among others.
In Peoria Illinois Charles Kinsey breeder of purebred Hampshire hogs will award a prize pig to the Southern Illinois boy who ranks highest in the 1941 National Hampshire Pig Club Contest. Eligible vocational agriculture students in the United States owning Hampshire sows or gilts may enter.
State Auditor Arthur C. Lueder urges bankers to cooperate with Illinois banks in selling defense bonds. He stresses bonds as fast, efficient Treasury-to-public channels, recalling 1917 1918 efforts. Mentions patriotic movement, Army service, and parallels to current defense needs. Also notes local social meeting and a birth announcement for George Kirby Holland.
Sergeant at the U S Army Recruiting Office in Marion says enlisted men with ambition can now apply for Air Corps pilot training. The program broadens access beyond officers to include capable recruits, with branches in Hawaii andPanama among options.
The Annual Bowen Reunion on June 15 at Temple Church drew seventy one attendees. A noon basket dinner followed by softball and socializing featured guests from Sandoval Carlyle Vandalia Centralia Peoria Boulder and more, including multiple Bowen relatives and their families.
Miss Evalyn Dennison and Max Holland wed Sunday morning at 8 o clock in the First Methodist Church in a single ring service. About 65 guests attended as organist Bob Frazier and violinist Deanné Stablefield provided music and floral decor featured palms roses and hydrangeas.
Mrs Clarence Motes and relatives from Oklahoma visited with Dan Clark and his uncle Eli Palmer and wife. Sun Martha McGee visits brother Clarence McGee family. Mrs George Kutler returns Tuesday from Texas and Louisiana. Mrs Russell Palmer and children spend Saturday with their mother. Mrs Oleg Davidson returns home from Cooka visiting brother Wayne Mee.
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