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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1908
Page
4
An advertisement invites readers to obtain a six page New Home Wall Chart and a one year Register subscription for the price of one dollar and twenty five cents. The promotion targets households seeking home planning tools and regular newspaper access.
Ropes Bluff notes show visits among local residents including Mrs. Win Linton and daughter with Cleve Linton in Popes Bluff and several Shady Grove and Tomalco connections. Talks of sick lists, farm work, and a sale at Patoka accompany remarks on fruit crop fears due to cool weather and rivers rising from recent rains.
Mrs C. FE Grubb is on the sick list. Robert Gray and wife welcomed a boy Sunday April 25. Leander Arnold vacationed in Oklahoma and Texas seeking a new home. he may move this fall. Loui Lovejoy visits Springfield grandparents. Ross Arnold and family visited Willie Ballance and wife Sunday. Bertha Souter visited with Chas Anderson and wife. Rebecca Carter Ed Irvin and wife visited A L Irvin and family. Sam Hall accompanied Charley Finch to the lake, bringing home twenty pounds of fish. Mesdames Ferbie and Jimmie Belcher called on Fannie Belcher. Myrtle Elmer visited uncle H T Gerrish. Myrtle Belcher with A M Gerrish and family. she is poorly. Rosa Shepard and Mrs Ike Stillebar went to be with Rosa Hurt who is sick. Eva Leora Yardley and Bessie Gerrish called on Myrtle Belcher. Prayer meeting at Eaglin school house. A M Gerrish and family visited Scott Watson Sunday. Foltzville attendees at Patoka sale. Foltzville men visited Centralia. Charley Bowen and family spent Sunday in Foltzville. Allen Goodwin and family visited Chas Foltz. Tom Cutright and wife from Crackers Neck attended Eaglin meeting Saturday night.
Saturday night and Sunday services announced with Rev. Pressly filling time at Zion at 11 00. Farmers report rain delays and plan to resume plowing for corn as fields grow wetter and grass increases.
A brief notices item notes a sharp temperature drop, reports Mr. Cook is better, and lists social visits including Leather Jarrett with Mabel Cosgrove. An Ice Cream supper is planned at Bear Creek schoolhouse on Saturday May 2. Enrollment at Bear Creek School stands at 53.
The piece lists social visits around Patoka including Grace Parker Mollie and Laura Dukes, the tax assessor in the area, Richard Kissner visiting the Jackson brothers, Cyrus Nichols with wife at his father R Nichols, Winterton family visiting Mrs Dukes, Edd and Walter Dukes with Reynolds boys, Clarence Melton and John Belchey with Roy Jackson, and Mr. and Mrs Sherman seen midweek. It ends with a note that wedding bells will ring soon and a subscription pitch for the Register.
Old Toad Island notes Miss Ollie Brumfield rushed to care for ill sister Mrs Lizzie Grey of Assimption. Miss Josie Belcher returns to her stand. Rainy Sunday means no Sunday School. Mrs S F Brumfield visited Centralia to see sister. Albert Gerrish shared bread with Uncle Scott Watson.
Local observers report a Patoka conference return and visits by Mrs. M. O. Almon of Salem. Election results show W. F. McNeill as clerk and T. J. Day filling a vacancy. trustees named G. Gammon J. H. Gratts and L. Pullen. I. H. Walker elected treasurer. Several residents attend Kinmundy events and a New York speaker visits the M E church. Matrimonial fever affects Alma area. promotion for wall charts with Regis ter subscription offer.
Roads are muddy as Mrs. Meridith Doolen and daughter Mabel visit Vandalia. Miss Ruth Curren celebrates owning a new organ. Mrs. John Hathaway and her son Wim are also mentioned in local notes.
Misses Bertha Doolen and Gla Greene shopped in Vandalia Saturday. Orville Doolen flew to Vandalia Friday. Fred Little and Elzie Parks attended band practice Saturday evening. A horse and buggy were borrowed leaving a long muddy walk to the hotel. Sunday morning Joe Bates Frank Quayle and Alvin Hathaway also shopped in Vandalia.
Chas Bowen and family visited Mat Belcher family Sunday. Sam Thornton sprained an ankle by a falling tree but improves. Centralia visitors included Henry Bennett Thomas Cooper Wm Henagar and Clarence Bowen Saturday. Harry Foltz and wife returned from Chicago. Prayer meeting each Saturday at 7 30 and Sunday School at 9 30. Baptizing planned at Diamond Springs next Sunday. Mrs Tabor and Mrs Morris visited Mrs Reynolds Sunday. A L Morris visited relatives in Keysport. Levi Adams visited A L Morris. G R Wortman hauled sand last week. W Reynolds and friend visitor Reynolds brothers. M A Carter on business trip to Centralia. S Clark and family visited John Gum Sunday. Register for one year and a fine wall chart for 1 25.
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