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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1927
Page
8
Numerous local residents and visitors are listed in a dense roll of social calls and travels around Vernon including families Livesay Prott Hathaway Protz and White. Sightings include theater trips to Vandalia and a Decatur Kinmundy wedding with Headley and White.
G W Willett Sr Arewine Willett Jr and Merle Willett visit Vandalia Monday. John Yarbrough buys stock. Merle Willett visits Mound School and is a teacher. Mrs Hallie Holt visits sister Thural Morey. Ben Zimmerman helps Paul Metz with shucking corn. Out of town visitors include Earl Funk family and others. Ralph Welsh Nathan Thomas head to Bloomington then Colfax for work.
Twenty eight attended Sunday School at Temple Sunday. Millard Palmer and family visited, along with Pete Bopp and family. Various Belcher and Williams family members visited others Sunday night and midweek calls continued among local residents.
Mr Irvin Bowen and family moved to the Alvin Carter place on Thursday Clarence Hanson and wife of Vernon visited Sunday with Albert Gerrish and wife Ed Rolling and family visited Saturday night and Sunday with Charley Bowen and wife Eda Belcher visited Sunday with Clarence Bowen and family
The article credits coach Hall and his players as assembled, each a spoke in a well-oiled wheel, for building a record that may endure for many years. It begins a summary of their games.
In the Centralia grade basketball tournament Mt. Vernon finished first while Centralia placed second after the final. Xenia defeated Greenville for third with Greenville fourth. Patoka lost to Greenville 25 to 17 on Friday afternoon in a closer affair than the score suggests.
The Doolen family, longtime Vernon area residents, drew attention with multiple basketball players from Champaign high and a college team. Notable figures include Doe and Jess, skilled guards and forwards, plus Art and Clyde Doolen linked to Centralia and Champaign programs.
Mr C F Easterday and Mrs Eunice Bozette of Vandalia spent last Sunday at the I BE Altom home. Fresh new crop for only 25¢ at Altoms. A H Mott and wife of Centralia, the former circulation Manager, the St Louis Globe Democrat. Visitors here Monday. A correction Harry Clark is still visiting home folks here. We reported him returning to his home last week after a weeks visit lima beans 2 Ibs.
Maurice Ballance enters his third week as an employee at the Salem Shoe factory with no complaints. Local ads promote meat smoking liquid and Belle Mode cream for shoes. Fred G Lett and wife return from Urbana to Patoka after visiting their daughter. Church lunch plans and basketball tournament meals noted. Various visitors include Jake Libell and wife, Charles Blankinship and wife with Alonzo Clark, and Clayton Beery with wife and Claud Smith visiting Jeff Smith's family.
Springfield March 1 The Illinois State Senate amended the bill offering 1000 reward for the capture of the assassins of State Highway Patrolman Lory L Price by excluding payment to peace officers.
Mattoon Farmers Cooperative Creamery Company with capital of 15000 dollars incorporated. Wing Carload of cattle shipped from here recently.
The Little Egyptian Theatre Co. presented HER HUSBANDS WIFE at the local gym Tuesday under the Community Council. Dr. Carl Cunningham starred as Uncle John, Miss Fike played Irene Stanford, and John Parrish led as Stuart Stanford in a love plot that kept the audience engaged until the peak. Cast members from Centralia earned praise for their performances. The show benefited the local club, adding nearly twenty five dollars to the town fund after expenses.
Alma residents and visitors are listed with social calls and greetings including Eva Walters Centralia with Lottie Gregory, Merrit Caldwell Patoka with D D Purcell family, Helen Muehlhausen with Myrtle Mays, Gale Hines with Clarence Mays, and Bill Conant in Centralia. A Baptist church meeting reports strong progress. F F Frambes dies and is buried at Alma cemetery after services at the M E Church. Bill Conant to start at A M Wilsons in March. Marion Griffin expands a building for cars. Floyd Muehlhausen works for Jason Owens. Preacher Mays to fill Pleasant Grove appointment. Rev Holler returns to Mt Vernon.
Local notes describe a shift to wintry conditions after a spell of springlike weather. Tony Potts and family visited Frank Lake and family on Sunday while Velma Brummett spent Sunday there as well.
Parishioners and neighbors shared time with relatives and friends across the region. Multiple visits span Lincoln to Walker with stops at Bear Creek, Vernon, and McLean as families trade news and attend church events. A Saturday funeral for Mrs. Christie marked the week with communal support and travel.
Mrs Dale Arnold visited Mrs Lewis Jones one day last week. Mrs Blanche Doolen and son Wayne were Patoka shoppers Saturday. Robert Arnold and family visited John Thalman near Patoka Sunday. Paul Ehrat helped Jacob Godel with wood at week’s end. Bryan Eagan is ill at his uncle Harrison Eagan’s home and shows slight improvement. Farmers husked more corn during favorable weather last week. Uncle Sam Jones moved midweek and Ed Gherkin and family will occupy the old place.
Eli Howard McChaney and family visited Salem while Guy Chandler spent Sunday with Cleave McWhirter and Lawrence Smith who moved to the Ed Booth farm in Fredonia last Isses Helen Chandler Neva States and Naomi Howard working at the Brown Shoe factory visited home folks Saturday night and Sunday Cecil Black made a business trip to Kinmundy Hershell Campbell helped Guy Chandler husk corn Saturday Chas Sullens has moved to the Height farm.
Noah Belcher may move across the river this week as March arrives with a ruby white dress. Cecil Alexander works for Harley Cole and Raymond Alexander for Martin Hopkins this summer. Walla Cooper and son hauled corn to Patoka early this week. Perry Belcher and Roy Wagstaff of Patoka visited Monday evening. Chester Bryant recently moved to Morrisonville and traveled to Carlyle on a business trip. Grandma Walls visits Mary Shepard. sowed grass seed last week near Mound Chapel and heard Elder J A Shepard preach Sunday night.
People are invited to take part in the worship regardless of church affiliation or creed. Archie Skagg hauled wood for J. A Shepard last Friday. Sunday School was well attended last Sunday. Elza Sharp and family visited with Floyd Carter and family Sunday eve.
Eli Morgan and family with Ora Green and others visited Sunday. Henry Abendroth with John Steel and family called on. Charles Sulens moves near Alma to the Height farm from Perry Powell’s Decatur relocation. A D Nichols and Marshall Souter aided Governor Small in Springfield Monday. Walker Caldwell and wife visited his parents. Berthal Wooters of Odin visited T. Si Wooters. James Thompson and wife saw Roy Thompson's family Sunday. Farmers report the earliest gathering of cattle and crops for the year. Maurice Mauding visited Darrel Arnold near Arnold Chapel Friday. Herbert Green recovering from knee injury. Lorette Williams stayed with Wm Williams' family. Assumption residents visited Mordecai Frank Thomason and wife. on the road to recovery.
An Illinois physician claims Mentho-Kreoamo, the sci entific remedy, quickly checks infection progress, reduces fever, loosens cough, and provides relief. Marketed via Thomas Altom in Patoka with a money back guarantee.
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