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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1928
Page
4
Beginning Monday April 2 1928 Eggs and farm goods offered at Patoka and Vernon with best market prices. 900 bushels Virginia soybeans 200 bushels Whipper will stock peas 100 bushels Tennessee German millet. Customers urged to inquire. A 10 percent discount on all automobile tires and tubes offered Friday and Saturday.
Local dealer highlights a complete range of Farm Machinery including John Deere International and Moline. They offer delivery within a reasonable distance and can provide inexpensive implements on request.
At Vernon and Pa toka stores we carry a complete line of farming implements and wire nails and steeples. If we do not have what you want we will order it. Also offering competitive prices. Wanted two car loads of No 2 Timothy Hay immediately.
Gold Medal Products supplies Flour and Feed car arriving soon, inviting customers to contact now to buy from the car. Also offering American Zinc Insulated Fence in various sizes, with fence wire ranging from 24c to 48c and barb wire priced 2.40 to 3.50.
Local merchants urge customers to order machinery repairs promptly and promote specials on heavy tractor oil and Ford oil in five gallon lots. They tout Nebraska yellow ear corn, Goodrich and Mansfield tires, barb wire fencing and steel posts. Telegraph wire available with discounts off carload quantities.
The Patoka Register operates as a weekly newspaper led by Editor James M. Emerson. It serves the local community with news, notices, and editorials reflecting village life and regional events.
New York woman believes her pet turkey gobbler listens to radio broadcasts and asks KOA to air a search after the bird vanished from its coop. She claims the gobbler responds to radio signals and requests help locating it.
In Penarth Wales on March 26 a two year old boy fell ill after eating canned peas and disgorged a large cut diamond. J Spear sold the stone for 10 dollars to the peas dealer who sold the peas. A local jeweler said it looked Tasmanian and had once been set in a ring. He appraised its value.
Senora Tex March 26. Buster Halbert Jr buys a pedigree shepherd dog to enhance his sheep ranch and meet visitors expectations of pastoral romance, aiming to make the ranch appear more charming and picturesque to guests.
South Orange New Jersey March 26. Robert Strange a six foot two inch lawyer complains of being bumped by awnings as he walks under them. He has written Peter A. Smith village trustee requesting a city ordinance to require awnings to be at least six and a half feet above the sidewalk.
A Duluth man offered to marry any woman for 10000, another Duluth man countered with 7500. Both ads stirred a flood of letters as people respond to the unusual proposal in the local notices.
Piet Luger, a Johannesburg farmer, died after a severe hailstorm battered him on the veldt. The incident occurred on March 26 as he faced the storm.
Calvin N Keeney of Leroy New York claims a century old method yields stringless beans. He sold seeds to a major grower who supplied Congress members and sent samples nationwide. Keeney’s prize bean venture grew rapidly but he has not fixed faults in other vegetables. His children urge him to seek steadier work.
Columbus Kansas report tells how H E Wright bought farm land forty acres twenty five years ago with a hay mower included. He has earned a million dollars in lead and zinc royalties from those acres and still owns them though cannot use them for hay due to rich mineral deposits.
Ecstatic Alaska and northwestern Canada forests see a surge of goshawks and white Arctic horned owls drawn by abundant hares and snowshoe rabbits. Large meat-eating birds migrate from northern regions, filling the evergreen forests.
Willey spent Wednesday in In. Mrs. Fred Black and Mrs. BE. M. Jones were in Centralia Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Chilton of Centralia stayed Sunday night with L. M. Black. Oscar Thalman and wife and Eli Logan and family visited relatives in several towns. Mrs. Fred Black travels to Sandoval. A shipment of six kinds of fresh cakes and cookies arrives at Altoms for 25c per lb. Mrs. Walter Johnson and child arrive from Muskegon to stay with Mrs. Cruse. Extra fancy Steel Cut coffee 25c per lb at Altoms. O. C. Forsman and Markwell visit Patoka. Incubators offered at Patoka Hardware. Easter and Mother’s Day ecards on sale from Mrs. QO. A. Nattier. Ed Hayes becomes local Chevrolet agent and sells a car to his father. Silk hose on sale at Altoms.
Jersey cow and calf broad sow good work horse two mules and more offered by local sellers. Includes fresh Jersey cow, first calf red top hay bales and timothy hay, eggs for hatching, flowering canna bulbs, fresh cow with calf mare and horses, plus 40 acres with house and outbuildings near Buffalo Hart Illinois. Listings include contact names and locations around Patoka Shobonier and Fairman.
Salem announces Charles L. McMack as a Republican candidate for State Senator to represent the 42nd District comprising Clinton Marion Clay and Effingham counties in the April 10 1928 primary.
Patoka Republican Ed Anderson announces his candidacy for the nomination of coroner in the April primary, subject to GOP voters.
The Register announces the candidacy of Attorney W G Wilson of Centralia former County Judge of Marion county for States Attorney of Marion County subject to voters will at the Republican Primaries to be held.
Auto and property insurance office Mae Eagan seeks license and notary public appointment. Application outlines required filings and compliance steps for active service in insurance and notary work.
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