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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1935
Page
5
Miss Agnes Green returns home after a week with sister Mrs. Marvin Conant and family. Numerous visits occur across Kinmundy Patoka and Salem with the Conants Robbs Garretts Williams and Talberts among others attending gatherings and shows. mumps illness noted for Gloria Williams.
Harold Evans and James Jett called at the Wm. Campbell home Wednesday night as Mr. and Mrs. E. E. McHaney Chas. McHaney and John Talbert were business visitors in Salem.
Still it rains and from the locks of the water south of Vandalix there will be but little farming in the bottoms. Local social notes record visits among Stombaugh and Stombaugh relatives with Miss Adna Schert and Miss Bessie Stark, and several neighbors in Vandalia Ramsey and St. Elmo.
A social note records Miss Bessie Stark visiting Mrs Annie Morrie on a Sunday afternoon, reflecting community cordiality and neighborhood greetings.
Mrs. Ray Miller spent Friday with her parents the Merediths. Several residents shopped in Patoka Centralia and Cent ralia. May 8 basket dinner at the school featured a long table of foods, then tea and games. Mrs. Mays dismissed school for the season. Centralia hospital holds John Reynolds, pneumonia. Mail route detours due to washout.Many locals visited and shopped in nearby towns. measles illness affects Rosa Reynolds. Fourth Quarterly Conference at church. Families and neighbors visit, work, and travel between Flora Centralia Sandoval Tonti and Kinmundy areas.
A doctor borrows the fisherman’s scales to weigh a newborn baby and the scale shows forty seven pounds, highlighting the man’s famed exaggeration. The incident unfolds as a cautionary tale about truth and measurement.
Oscar Caldwell and wife and Sam Cozad and wife visited Monday evening with Frank Thomason in East Zion.
The Vernon high school will hold Baccalaureate services in the gym on Sunday night May 26 with Rev. Storey preaching and a special choir. Commencement follows on Saturday evening June 1 with Principal J. L. Buford delivering the address. The full program appears next week. Many local residents made weekend trips and social visits, including Mr and Mrs Fred Brown to Bloomington with escorts Isobel Protz and Shirley, Mrs Ida Wilson returning from Downs, and other residents visiting relatives or traveling to Peoria and East St. Louis. An Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodge gathering featured ice cream and music from I O O F members.
Raymond Farrell died in Centralia after a lengthy illness. He had recently been named manager of the Bell Gas Company station. Funeral services were held at the Garnier funeral home with Rev. Foltz of the Centralia Methodist church. Interment followed at Elmwood cemetery. He is survived by his widow Alice Farrell, two Centralia sisters, a father, and a brother in Washington County Delaware.
Members including Mesdames Simcox, Settem, Wasem, Rogier, Troyer, Green, Gray, Jones, Hill, De Lay and Altom attended. Mrs E T Rogier and Mrs C M Rogier led the entertainment while Mrs G J Wasem sang solo My Task. A “Does your Head or Your Heart Rule” contest sparked discussion and merriment as gifts appeared for Mrs Hill and Mrs Good. Refreshments concluded the gathering and plans were made to meet in June with Mrs A T Gray.
The senior class at Centralia Township High School completes the year with baccalaureate services on Sunday June 2 and commencement on Wednesday June 5 in the high school auditorium. Patoka graduates listed include Glenn Hill Robert Altom Charles Griffin Henry Carter June Meece and Alice Mojonnier.
Mrs A E Good entertained the Ladies Fancy Work Club in a pleasant gathering. The event featured decorative needlework displays and friendly conversation among members.
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