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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1947
Page
8
A damaged ad fragment lists items for sale and wanted notices. It mentions a 1946 Plymouth two door hot water heater with motor issues, a land for dead or disabled animals buyer, and a home rendering business. It also notes Elton Carter house and lot for sale and a bicycle repair shop in Vandalia with contact details.
Mr and Mrs Frank Stein and Mr and Mrs Emil Wood attended the Huey shower for Mr and Mrs Everette Short Thursday night. Howard Terry left Thursday for Oklahoma City to visit friends.
A group of friends and relatives surprised John Adama on his birthday Wednesday night at his home. The gathering also honored his brother Orville's birthday. Mrs Shackley and family have moved into the Nightwander apartment. A church addition began Thursday with basement work completed, including a furnace room and restrooms. The main floor will house a ladies’ work room class, pastor’s study, and organ rostrum. Mrs Claud Brummer visited Centralia Friday. The Rollin Robinsons visited Earl Hahn Sunday. The Holiness group met at the M E Church Sunday afternoon.
Freight markets show February as the largest cattle and calf unload month at National Stock Yards, while hog receipts were among the lowest in 87 years. Officials forecast ample beef but tighter pork supplies into fall with lamb and mutton also short, as slaughter remains at record levels and prices hit new highs.
Mrs John C Martin and her grandson Martin Keating and Mrs Logan of Salem visited the home of Mrs John Chiarotinna on Tuesday afternoon to support Red Cross work.
The Jolly Farmers 4-H Club in Carrigan Township has been formed with Harold Cicigo as president. Officers include Hubert Tolka vice president Bill Smith secretary treasurer Bob Thomas representative and Bobby Quick recreation chair. Over twenty members already join. next meeting May 18 at Carrigan School.
Harry Cammack, after four and a half months as a patient at St. Marys hospital in Centralia, arrived home Sunday afternoon and is very much improved. Pvt. George R. Parker, on a fifteen day leave, visited relatives then returned to Sandoval after a visit with his wife Glendola Parker in Abilene Kansas.
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