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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1944
Page
5
The church lists Sunday School at 10 00 a m Morning Worship at 11 00 a m Training Union at 7 00 p m and Evening Service with a weekly prayer service Friday evening The Daily Vacation Bible School is postponed one week starting June 5 Watch for further announcements
Mrs. George Willett of Pontiac arrives to visit her parents the Perrys. Nellie Jeaner and son Eddie stay with Mrs. Sargie Metzger. Dick Zimmerman returns on a 15 day furlough from Camp Chaffee Arkansas to his parents the Zimmermans. Betty Temney of Centralia visits, and Betty Session works at Centralia Candy Factory. Vera and Evelyn Morrell of Hillsboro spend weekend with their mother Edna Morrell. Cecil Metzger and children visit his mother Georgia Metzger in Vandalia. Frank Alender and family visit Decatur relatives. Pfc Eldridge Martin of St Louis spends weekend with relatives. Kenneth Konard and daughter of Seminary visit the Zimmermans. Edna Morell and kids visit the John Morell family in Ramsey.
Governor Dwight H. Green proclaimed Memorial Day in Illinois on May 30, urging solemn observance and decoration of veterans graves with the Stars and Stripes and flowers. The message frames Memorial Day as a duty and high privilege amid ongoing war. Corn planting advances across the state.
Weather delays slowed planting by ten days to two weeks but rapid progress now occurs aided by power machinery. Illinois farmers log long hours with tractor-drawn plows and discs working nights to ready ground for corn. If favorable weather continues, corn planting will finish near the seasonal average.
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