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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1940
Page
1
A National Safety Council campaign urges Americans to curb July Fourth highway deaths. Governors mayors and leaders join a call to reduce the traffic toll by promoting caution and common sense amid war memories and Independence Day celebrations.
The Patoka Womans Club donated books and iPods to the library. Items placed on a rental shelf to support Mrs RS Greig and the library. Titles include Twenty Best Stories and It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis. Miss Hoffman asks public help through the WPA to support the library.
Story recounts 1828 events in Bureau County when two drovers lost many hogs from McLean County. The animals escaped hunters and dogs, reverting to a wild state and terrorizing settlers until hunted down. Two hunters were praised for clearing the countryside of the feared brutes.
Courthouse records show the transfer this week of a Marion County farm purchased by Harry O. Perkins, local farmer, from the Federal Land Bank of St. Louis. The 187 acre tract lies three and one half miles east of Vernon. Perkins will move to the farm and operate it personally through Claud Eperson of McLeansboro, the bank’s fieldman.
Miss Nora Henry and Mr Seth McGee wed at the Methodist Church parsonage Centralia Illinois on June 8 officiated by Rev C W Whitten The couple reside with Mrs Madaline Porter and Mr McGee works in the oil field
Mrs. G. J. Wasem visited St. Louis spending Monday and Tuesday there for unspecified reasons. Local note records show travel between home and Missouri’s major city with no stated outcomes or events.
Evelyn Sicher wed Brice W. Rev. Aubrey P. White in a nine o clock ceremony at the First Baptist Church. The bride wore white chiffon net lace and a seed pearl tiara with a bouquet of white roses and camations. The maid of honor and bridesmaids wore blue and pink gowns with matching flowers while organist Mrs. John Van Deest played the procession and recessional.
A partial wedding notice lists guests from Sycamore Illinois and Patoka as the couple planned a honeymoon in the Rocky Mountains. Names include Mrs Bernard Reefisnyder and Mr Mrs Raymond, with Mrs A E Good of Patoka among attendees.
Henry Martin Hopkins 57 a well known farmer of this community took his own life by hanging in the north shed of his barn. The body was found about 7:45 a m by milk hauler Theo Stone after a note was found in the shed. An inquest returned a verdict of strangulation by hanging. He left a note to his children asking forgiveness and instructions for settling affairs. He is survived by his wife Lola Belcher and four children, with a funeral at Mound Chapel Church.
The wedding of Charles Griffin and Anita Thompson took place at the Methodist Church in Hannibal Missouri on Saturday June 12 Rev Arthur L Pratt officiated The couple will reside at their new home south of town Attendants include Helen Miller Avanel Phillips Dale Britt and Samuel Britt with Harold and Mrs Thompson of Kinmundy relatives noted as graduates and neighbors
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