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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1935
Page
5
The piece urges readers to stop doubting and act for the city's future. It praises loyal citizens, productive work, and the boost from good roads attracting new industries, stressing vision, knowledge, and community enterprise led by honest business leaders.
Local notes describe Brick school board upgrading heating and selling old system. Families from Chicago visit farms near Fairman and Odin while farm work continues with plowing and barn construction. Cattle shipments, social visits, road work, and an ice cream supper at Carrigan church feature in community report.
Mrs Viola McHaney and Mrs Esther Simpson aided Cliffie Good to a clean house. John Talbert and family had supper with E E McHaney family. Edith Campbell and son Oscar were Patoka callers. Ernetta Jett and Alice Simpson visited Alice Palmer. Oscar Campbell called on John Talbert. John Wagner shopped in Salem. Ida Stilabower called on Edith Campbell. J W Kretzer and wife shopped in Patoka. Wm Campbell was a Salem caller. John and Lawrence Talbert were Patoka callers. J W Kretzer and wife called on Alfred Jett. Mabel Atterbury spent Sunday with Frances Palmer. Dad Palmer and family visited with Gene Simpson. Large ice cream supper at Marshall Creek Church netted about 7 dollars. Clarence Cozad and family had Sunday dinner with Logan Meredith. John Tebert and family visited Mr Mrs Chas Haney. Geo Engelmire and wife of St. Louis spent weekend at Wm Campbell home. Alice Palmer callers Sunday included Mrs Ida Stillabower, Mrs Belle Clark and children, Mrs Tony Clark and children, Mrs Don Clark and children, Mrs Lee, Mrs Viola McHaney, and Mrs Ruth Talbert and children.
Theodort Parker declares justice as the law of conscience and moral temperance. He calls justice the balance between individuals and nations and between man and God, urging all to strive to do justice in every relation.
A Stockton farmer and Farm and Home Week visitors illustrate how the University of Illinois work convinces outsiders of its value. The corn king C J Simmons praised the university after winning the grand championship and brokers praised the land economics resources shown at the College of Agriculture. The annual Farm and Home Week draws thousands and highlights the university’s broad impact on farming and home life.
The University of Illinois Foundation approved by the Board of Trustees will seek gifts from alumni and citizens for projects not funded by state money, including a possible Student Union Building. The foundation will have twelve directors, with ex officio university leaders, and succeeds the Alumni Fund which raised $48,000 since 1921. Major gifts include the stadium, Smith Memorial Music Building, and McKinley Student Hospital.
The University of Illinois Library holdings include 185 foreign language publications in 30 languages, largely complete since 1913, totaling 335 volumes. A German file covers 11 newspapers complete since 1914, with some earlier years, plus about 220 Illinois newspapers generally complete since 1912.
The University reports regular and valuable contacts with groups such as the Illinois Crop Improvement Association and the Illinois Holstein Breeders' Association. It notes growing cooperation with millers, swine producers, dairy manufacturers, and land appraisers and extended services to emergency agencies like the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and Illinois Emergency Relief Commission.
Vernon J. L. Beck of Nashville and Ruth Beck of Deaconess Hospital St Louis passed Thursday here. Numerous local residents and visitors share social visits, travel to Decatur Stonington Jacksonville Vandalia and Patoka, with family news and a major move by F A Pruitt and Sons ending operations here July 1.
The text asserts that purity of integrity worshiping God makes one God within. There is no boundary between self and the infinite, with Justice, Truth, Love, and Freedom shining inside. The soul of the whole resides within each person, becoming genius, virtue, or love when expressed through mind will or affection.
A centenarian died after viewing an automobile for the first time. The incident suggests the man did not see the car in time.
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