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Patoka News Highlights Local Life and Construction
Local notes report workmen brailing up a scaffold at the Livesay building home to the Post Office as upper structure repairs begin after partial damage. Residents including Dewitt Jennings, Edna Gray and Harold Piper visit Patoka while officials discuss sheriff and county clerk races. Richeson & Son advertise produce and paper hanging, while Patoka real estate shifts with W. W. Richeson buying the old mill and Son’s truck additions. Marvin Ballance buys a Ford V-8 as townsfolk attend a Democratic meeting in Salem and a large public sale by C. M. Rogier draws cattle and machinery buyers. Thoreau quotes close with Bernard Baruch urging cooperation and tax revision to lift the economy.
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Livesay
Dewitt Jennings
Patoka
Richeson & Son
John A. Jennings
Elmhurst
Illinois
Kay
Jennings
Edna Gray
Decatur
Gray
H. E. Stony Vogt
Sherriff
W. W. Richeson
T. S. Wooters
Leo Walker
Jess Piper
Bessalia Johnson
Harold Piper
Salem
Eula Hines
Harold
Edgar Irvin
Carbondale College
T. E. Irvin
Cash
Poultry House Richeson & Son
Scott Lucas
Charles Griffin
Odin
Lester Ballance
Wolf Lake
Roy Ballance Jr
Clark Walker
Lester
Marvin
Iris Ellis
Marrietta Chapman
Forest Walker
Kinmundy
Bank
Martin Store
Don Wilson
Gia Bookout
Dean Martin
Salem and
Carlyle
Roy Jones
Salem Theatre
Marcus Cox
Illinois Theatre
Thurby Meadors
Centralia
Taylor Nall
Nebraska
George Porter
West
P. B. Simcox
Earl Carter
Roy Sopp
Mulberry Grove
B. S. Livesay
Florida
Bert Simcox
Patoka Elevator Co
Marvin Ballance
C. M. Rogier
Bob Hathaway
Sandoval
John Hathaway