Postal Department Sponsors National Mail Box Clean-Up Week
The Rural Letter Carriers Auxiliary promotes National Mail Box Clean-Up Week with tips to improve rural service. Readiness focuses on repairing boxes, proper height, clear approach, labeling, weatherproofing, and ensuring easy access for carriers. Partners urge residents to maintain boxes, update names, and keep approaches free of obstructions.
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Postal Department
National Mail Box
Post Office Department
Springfield residents headlined in brief weekend notices
Alice Marie Protz of the telephone company in Springfield left Tuesday for a Canada vacation. Mr and Mrs Earl Corbett of Springfield and Mr and Mrs Don Cox of Decatur visited with their mother Hazel M Cox. Mrs Esta Dickmann of St Louis spent several days here with relatives. Mr and Mrs Walter D Nixon drove from Peoria for a weekend with Mr and Mrs Phillip Meador and Myrle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Marie Protz
Telephone Company
Springfield
Canada
Walter D. Nixon
Peoria
Phillip Meador
Myrle
Auxiliary Meeting Highlights and Activities
The Auxiliaries meeting was well attended with notes of thanks from Danville Hospital for homemade candy and tray favors and a monthly box to a boy at Dewey Cottage Normal. The president received a 100 percent rehabilitation citation from Department Headquarters. Bettie Simcox leads a Poppy Poster contest with cash prizes for upper grades. Bills were paid, future joint meeting with the Legion to select a state representative decided, refreshment committee appointed, next meeting scheduled for Thursday night May 11.
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Danville Hospital
Dewey Cottage
Normal
Department
Bettie Simcox
Mobile X Ray Units See Busy Period in Patoka and Vernon
On Tuesday May 2 the Mobile Xray Unit operated in Patoka with over two hundred people submitted for chest surveys. Vernon saw eighty participants on Monday May 1 as mobile services extended across the area.
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Patoka
Vernon
Four Cars Banged In Collision At Elza Sharp Home
On May 1 near the Elza Sharp property on Highway 51 a three-car crash caused four cars to be damaged. No injuries reported despite the Davidson and Pugh vehicles, and a stock car driven by Albert Green collided, with a Kaiser from Springfield, illinois breaking a telephone pole.
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Elza Sharp
Hwy. 51
Highway 51
Robert Pugh
Sharp Property
Vernie Davidson
Vernon
Davidson
Kaiser
Radioett Quartette to Sing at Patoka Church May 7
The Radioett Quartette from Richview Illinois will perform at the Pentecostal Church in Patoka on May 7 at 7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend.
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Radioett
Pentecostal Church
Richview
Ill
Pentecostal
Patoka
Farmers Meeting At Brownstown Experiment Station
A Marion County gathering at the Brownstown Experiment Station on Tuesday May 9 will feature University of Illinois staff and Pat Johnson. The open house covers soil management, fertilizer practices, suitable grasses and pasture crops, and reforestation tree growth. Landowners and operators are urged to attend at 1:30 PM CST.
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Marion County
Brownstown
Tesday
University of Illinois
Pat Johnson
C.S.T
Bazaar and Food Sale by Ladies Class of Christian Church
Bazaar and food sale planned for Saturday May 13 at Whiting's Electric Shop featuring gifts for Mother's Day and treats including pies cakes and cookies. Proceeds support church activities and community outreach.
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Christian Church
Whiting’s
Local News Notes and Family Moves in Patoka Area
Monday events include an OES Chapter gathering in Sandoval and Dean Good taking regular duty as operator at Amboy IC Station. Vandalia visitors Mr and Mrs Robert Meldrum stop by with H F Pike. Mrs Ollie Thompson returns home from Decatur with son Glenn Merryman. Darrell Walker to Peoria Caterpillar plant sale of furnishings. Miss Margarette West of Odin in Patoka on business as she pursues county school superintendent race.
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O.E.S
Sandoval
Dean Good
A. E. Good
I. C
Amboy
Robert Meldrum
Vandalia
H. F. Pike
Ollie Thompson
Decatur
Glenn Merryman
Darrell Walker
Peoria
Margarette West
Odin
Marion County
Patoka
Village Board Hints Summer Fogging and Health Rules
At the May 3 session the board discussed fogging with DDT four times this summer if public cooperation occurs. Residents should drain and weed, and keep animals under control. Dogs must be tied or penned, bicycles not on sidewalks, junk picked up mid month, and brush cleared from streets.
Patoka Panthers 4-H Club Holds April Meeting
The Patoka Panthers 4-H Club met at the Pritts home with ten members and five visitors. Five new members joined: Esther Leicht Betty Trushell Billy Brumfield Virginia Brumfield and Donald Lange. Upcoming dates include May 14 4-H Sunday June 27 4-H Week at University of Illinois.
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Patoka Panthers
Charles, Jimmie
Lois Pritt
Esther Leicht
Betty Trushell
Billy Brumfield
Virginia Brumfield
Donald Lange
University of Illinois
Charles Nattier
Dickie Davis
Lois Britt
Gene Bricker
Beverly Snider
Pedagogic Warning on Communism and Voronaeff Talk
An essay by Raymond Moley condemns limited teaching of American values in higher education while warning that some courses are Communist inspired. The piece highlights a May 9 Patoka gym lecture by Paul Voronaeff, Russian-born author and critic of Communism, detailing his life, works, and planned talk on religious freedom, Stalin, and life behind the Iron Curtain.
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Newsweek
Raymond Moley
America
Paul Voronaeff
Communist
Russia
Patoka Gymnasium
Mr. Voronaeff
Europe
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Siberia
University of Moscow
London
England
Red Army
Atom
Stalin
Asia
Qocina
Voronaeff
Rotary
Kiwanis
American Legion
Vernon News Church attendance and community notices
The Methodist Sunday School drew 62 attendees with a varied evening program led by Mrs. Lewis Jones. Numerous local names visited, traveled, or joined events across Vernon, Centralia, Benson, Vandalia, and surrounding areas. A public sale occurred at B. F. Satterlee’s home and many residents gathered for birthdays and family visits.
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Methodist Sunday School
Lewis Jones
Lewis
Arthur Arnold
Kimberly
Idaho
George Walton
Herschel Stempf
Princeville
Ill
Mollie Murfin
Lessie Payne
Local visitors and birth notices from Vandalia area
Mr and Mrs Mel Sprinkle and son Dewey of Pana visited Tuesday at the home of her sister Mrs F L Cox. Born to Mr and Mrs Neil Lake at Greer Hospital Vandalia on May 1 a baby boy. Mrs C S Ford of Jacksonville is spending this week at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Charles Moore.
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Verne Davidson
Etta Mae
Thurl Morey
Cecil Holt
Willie Gehrken
John Gehrken
Ellsworth Gehrken
Rosa Gehrken
James Hathaway
C. D. Doolen
Emma Protz
Ernest Protz
Benson
Illinois
Jesse Walton
St. Louis
Helen Pick
Beulah Robinson
Centralia
Joe Wikenhauser
Milton Bayliss
Lewis Leininger
Vandalia
Belle Thomas
Evelyn Payne
Ruth White
Clyde White
Mel Sprinkle
Dewey
Pana
F. L. Cox
Neil Lake
Greer Hospital
C. S. Ford
Jacksonville
Charles Moore
Patoka couple escape injuries after highway crash
Mr and Mrs Darrell Walker of Patoka escaped with only bruises when their 1948 Studebaker collided with a Dodge car on highway 50 near Selmaville road crossing. The Kentucky car tried to pass another vehicle, stopped abruptly, and rear ended the Walkers. Both occupants were uninjured.
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Darrell Walker
Patoka
Selmaville Road
Dodge
Kentucky
Walker
Studebaker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Patoka Community Unit
W. E. McAllister
Centralia Schools
Ducky
Patoka Parents Teachers Club
Patoka ‘Community Unit
Brockmeyer Construction Company
Harry Perkins
Olney
Goober
Legion Auxiliary Notes
The
Legion
VERON
Patoka Gym
Charles Meyers
Meyer
August Meyer
Clyde
Missouri
Ray Walton
Norma Kay
Wayne Walton
Mary Ellen
Linda Kay
Geo, Walton
Darrel Zimmerman
A. F. Hathaway
Janice
B. F. Satterlee
Satterlee
Robert Wadkins
E. J. Leniger
Clarence Lawson
Shirley
Wayne Curran
Northeast of Town
Will Curran
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