Europe Quiet Amid Royal Tour And Global Tensions
The piece notes the King and Queen of England traveling to Canada and the United States, while Hitler and Mussolini issue speeches with no announced powwow plans. It mentions German and Italian ambitions in Poland and Africa, Japan leaning toward the United States, and Russia awaiting a world revolution, with Patoka's softball game as local chatter.
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England
Canada
United States
Germany
Italy
South End
Mussolini
Hitler
Poland
Mussollini
France
Japan
Uncle Sam
Russia
Bhart
Patoka
Ice Cream Supper For American Legion Held May 80
Ice cream supper on the railroad right of way in front of Martin's Cash Store Tuesday night May 80 to benefit the American Legion. Home made ice cream will be served. Those wishing to bring cakes are appreciated.
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Martin’s
American Legion
Hearing on Milk Bill Fills Springfield House
About 600 to 800 milk producers dealers and others attended the Illinois General Assembly hearing on the milk control bill in Springfield on May 11. Proponents argued the bill would create an impartial board to study distribution of the consumer milk dollar and protect producers. opponents cited impact on prices and markets.
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Earl C. Smith
Illinois Agricultural Association
Illinois General Assembly
Dennis Collins
DeKalb
House Agricultural Committee
State Milk Control Board
Springfield
Smith
Milk Investigation Commission
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Indiana
Wisconsin
Townsend
Witte
Wisconsin Department of Markets
Paul E. Mathias
IAA
Wilfred Shaw
Illinois
Eugene Eckert
Mascoutah
State Grange
Arthur Lauterbach
Pure Milk Association
Chicago
E. W. Tiedeman
Sanitary Milk Producers
St. Louis
Lauterbach
Lauter
AAA
Tiedeman
Deral
Rawleigh Stone
University of Chicago
Stone
Unification of Methodist Churches Approved at Kansas City
Nine hundred delegates from three Methodist bodies meet in Kansas City Missouri and unanimously approve uniting the Methodist Episcopal Church the Methodist Protestant Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South. The merged body will have about 8 million members with five geographic jurisdictions and one for Negro churches. Bishops will be elected by jurisdictions and lifetime appointments apply to 387 bishops. Regulations cover clergy rights social creed and marriage rules. The first general conference is planned for next April.
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Kansas
City
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Protestant Church
South
United States
Kansas City
Park
Sixty Eight Percent of County Land In AAA Program
Marion County reports 68 percent of crop land under the Agricultural Adjustment Administration plan, up from 50.3 percent in 1938. May 1 was the deadline for signing farm plans. statewide, 77 percent of crop land is represented in the program as AAA aims to stabilize production and prices benefiting farmers and consumers.
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Marion County
AAA
Clyne St. Clair
Marion County Agricultural Conservation Committee
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Mr. St. Clair
Stamp Plan Aids In Reducing Butter Surpluses In Illinois
Illinois dairy farmers watch results from a USDA surplus foods experiment in six cities. The plan uses orange stamps bought by relief workers with blue stamps equal to 50 percent of the value to buy surplus foods like butter and fruit. If successful, nationwide adoption could follow. Butter stocks stood at 78,806,000 pounds on April 1, 1939, compared with the 1934–38 April 1 average of 9,537,000.
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Illinois
U. S. Department of Agriculture
G. L. Jordan
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Rochester
N. Y
WPA
United States
House Warming Given Mr. and Mrs. H Riley
Friends gathered at the Riley home on Saturday night May 13 to surprise the couple with a house warming. A pleasant evening followed with gifts from A. L. Valow, Verle Kirk, Homer Potts, Albert Cruse, J Beery and daughter, L. D. Altom, and S. E. Altom plus others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Riley
A. L. Valow
Clinton
Verle Kirk
Homer Potts
Albert Cruse
J. ©. Beery
L. D. Altom
E. Altom
Dolly Redman Wooters Tie The Knot At St Louis
Announcement lists Dolly Redman of this place and G S Wooters of Centralia married Monday May 15 at St Louis Missouri. They reside on a farm south of Centralia and plan to spend part of their time in Patoka with Mrs Dukes, Wooters mother.
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Dolly Redman
G.S. Wooters
Centralia
Patoka
Wooter
Dukes
Fire Alarm At Patoka Store Smoke Fills Showroom
Wednesday morning a three bell fire alarm sounded at the Patoka branch of Jarecki Manufacturing Co. Manager Eugene Gough found the sales room full of smoke and a strong odor of burning materials. Fire departments arrived, but no flames or burned materials were located, leaving the source of the smoke a mystery.
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Eugene Gough
Patoka
Jarecki Manufacturing Co
Gene
Neisher
Aheas
Notice to Republican Women Plan County Repair Club Event
Republican Women of Patoka Township are urged to attend at Mrs. G. J. Wasem’s home on Saturday evening May 13 at 7 30 to plan entertaining the County Repair Club for a May 19 gathering at 2 00 p.m.
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Patoka Township
G. J. Wasem
County Rep Air Club
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