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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1926
Page
5
Advertises a Saturday sale offering discounts exceeding price differences on flour feeds and machinery. Includes a 1.12 pound E A Thomas Food package with each sack of ship stuff for cash and a Pratt dip for hogs cattle and sheep priced at $1.50.
John Anderson and family spent Sunday at Bingham with friends. Mary Lake and Mildred Brown visited Mr. and Mrs. Luke Smith in Boulder. John Thompson of Decatur is visiting his brother I. F. Caudle and family. Several residents, including Newton Reichert Arline Lake Laura Lake Simp Caudle and Frank Lake families, were guests at various homes. Clara Jones and children are visiting Clinton. Winess Linton and wife visited home folks. Griffin-Waltnor Hdw Co notes due bills accepted as cash.
Prof. J S Kniseley announces his bid for Marion County Superintendent of Schools, seeking voter support at the November election and promising to work with the people.
A collage of notices includes autos license plate alert, milk cows for sale and on farms, work horses, cherry crates for sale, Young calves wanted, pasture rental, bucks for sale, plants for sale, cherries by crate, a Gardner tour in car for trade, Ford roadster for sale, rags and iron buyers, wholesale price list for trees, Holstein cow for sale, Farrow Chick ERies poultry lots, and a dairy farm job posting seeking a 25 to 35 year old unmarried man with farm and dairy experience.
Stringtown residents William and Miss Cora assist neighbors with cherries while several families visit or gather at Flat Creek and Vandalia. The Willett family hosts visitors, attends Sunday school and services on Sunday June 27, with greetings to all. Nathan Thomas from Colfax Illinois spends time with home folks Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sunday and weekend social activity dominates the page with: John Shepard delivering corn to his father. Elmer Clement and wife visiting Wm Alexander. John Stone and companions returning home. Lon Belcher and wife visiting relatives east of town. Grandma Wall with Mary Shepard. Richard Huddleston family visiting Vandalia. Orval Sharp recovering from appendicitis. Archa Skagg on Clinton county business. Kenneth Cook moving to Elza Sharp’s vacant house. Tom Cole helping Roy Murray. Gus Murray family crossing the river for cherry picking.
Uncle Henry Belcher and son Frank of Mound Chapel visited with Matt Belcher and family Sunday. Thirty in Sunday School at Temple Sunday. Luther Williams family and Jim Powell of Decatur visited Mat Belcher relatives. Myrl and Rose Snyder visited with Lela and Lila Bopp Sunday. Luke Snyder and family visited Moneaqua. Eldon Williams of Decatur attended Temple Sunday. Willie Bowen at Centralia hospital improving. Lola Belcher visited Ruth Sebasins of Odin Saturday to Monday.
Theodore Meredith and family visited Sunday with Leo Sebastias and wife of Odin. Ben Padburg and family visited Charley Orrel and family Sunday night. Firbie Belcher visited Monday with Mary Padberg and family. Locals for sale include a Dodge touring and a walnut bedroom suite at 65 dollars. A milk cow wanted and lawn care items are advertised by Patoka Hardware and Furniture Co. Clint Burnett of Langenfeld Motor Co. Centralia was in town as a business solicitor.
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