Cracker Neck Neighborhood Notices Gather with News
After slow rains farmers here smile brighter. Walla Cooper dug a new well. Chester Bryant became Shady Grove director. Lon Belcher and son George repaired fence around their pasture. Nob el Bryant plowed roads. Willard Lawrence family away visiting. John Henry Belcher tends stock in their absence. Virgel Tedrick Lon Belcher Walla Cooper George Kinney plus others made a business trip to Vandalia. Jane Cooper Lloyd shopped Patoka in rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walla Cooper
Chester Bryant
Shady Grove
Lon Belcher
George
Nobel Bryant
Virgel Tedrick
George Kinney
Vandalia
Jane Cooper
Lloyd
Patoka
Hart of
Keyesport
Jennie Alexander
Guss Murray
Elza Sharp
Toad Island
John Shepard
J. A. Shepard
Arthur Sharp
Deselma Miller
California
Local Residents Share Weekend Visits and School Closure
Orville Hill and family spent Sunday with Floyd Britt and wife. Lawrence Kissner made a business trip to Centralia Thursday. J. M. Lewis and wife, Corb Morris and family and Calvin Lewis and wife of Centralia visited Ethel Long and family on Sunday. Eaglin school will close Thursday, April 30. Lawrence and Louis Kissner and (text cuts off).
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Hill
Floyd Britt
Lawrence Kissner
Centralia
J. M. Lewis
Corb Morris
Calvin Lewis
Ethel Long
Eaglin School
Lawrence
Louis Kissner
Local families visit over weekend and school absence noted
Wives spent Sunday with William Kissner and family. Tom Ballance and family, Lawrence Kissner and wife called on Ethel Long and family Sunday night. Miss Ellen Ballance spent the weekend with friends west of town. Lee Britt, a Sandoval high school student, returned to school after a two week absence due to measles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Kissner
Tom Ballance
Lawrence Kissner
Ethel Long
Ellen Ballance
Lee Britt
Sandoval
Community Notes from Odin Township Weekends and Visits
Local families including Holtslaws Case and McClellands visited relatives in Central City Laclede Salem and near Fre donia over the weekend. A retired line about a “Madly cheering hero” hints at a sports note praising a knite ball player for sinking a ball into a hole.
Funeral tire shop joke in Form Prospective Purchaser
A saleswoman replies to a prospective purchaser by listing funeral wreaths life preservers and doughnuts as her inventory, a humorous exchange highlighting miscommunication in a tire shop setting.
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Illinois
Martin Nelson
Eaglin
Children’s Food
Stedelin’s
Dora Livesay
A. Ellis
Moderne
Frederick
Rubye Cain Patoka
Ill
Harold Jolliff
J. M. Smith
Vernon
Taniac
Daniel Vinciguerra
Stiles St
Philadelphia
Tanlac
Carl Cunningham
East Broadway
MAE Eagan Auto and Property Insurance
Gray Brothers
Lucille Walker
Star Ldg. & Cleaners
Centralia, Illinois
Goose Creek
Frederick Fielding
Thankful
Wilbur Doolen
Daniel Dutton
Fred K Freyer
Reuben Rogers
Marjorie
Woodrow Powell
Marjorie Dutton
Daniels
Ferne Gerkin
Mary Ann Dutton
Daniel
John Betts
Thankful Thelander
Duttons
Dot Doolen
Caroline Fielding
Mrs. Woodward
Mrs. Drake
Mrs. Allen
Chloe Epps
Maud Hatch
Goose Creek Hollow
Freyer
Odin Township
Thomas_ Holtslaw
Juanita
Central City
Mason Holtslaw
W. R. McClelland
James Case
George Case
Laclede
Emma Ross
Shanafelt
Salem
Melvin Austin
Phyllis
Jas. R. McClelland
G. W. McClelland
D. F. Brough
J. R. Holtslaw
Harry Deadmond
Archie King of
Jesse R. McClelland
Phoebe
Howard McClleland
John Kretzer
Fred Ross
Bobbie
Altom’s
Liberty Market
L. A. Downs
Ilinois Central System
Altahi
Chicago
Illinois Central
Liberty Theatre
Gary Cooper
Sylvia Sydney
Screen Discovery
Cooper
Montana
Keneth Harlan
Slim Summerville
Will Rogers
Connecticut
Mark Twain
Maureen O’ Sullivan
William Farnum
Myrna Loy
Adolphe Menjou
Lelia Hymans
Bobby Jones
Richard Barthelmess
Joe E. Brown
Conrad Nagel
Sandoval “Y
Love Brothers
C. A. Glore
Vernon, Illinois
T. E. Irvin
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