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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1926
Page
2
Egg buyers offer cash or trade at top market prices with Altoms listing flags for decorations. Asins advertises coffee at 80 cents per pound. Martins promotes straw hats and men’s belts for 10 cents. Cains Store sells chick starter and baby chick supplies plus Dixie feeds.
Sunday gatherings mark visits across Bear Creek with Wes Oates George Payne and families. Local notes report weddings births and community events including two newborn girls in May 1926 and planned American Legion ice cream supper donations.
Ora Green and family visited the Eli Morgan family on Tuesday. Fred Adkins and family motored from Maron and spent the day with Mrs. Blanche Doolen and children. W. H. Jones and wife visited their son Lewis Jones on Saturday night. Ernest Stevens and family of Salem vicinity visited Mrs. L. Foster on Sunday. Mrs. Florence Walton called on Mrs. Lewis Jones Monday. Others called include Bud Binnion and Uncle Sam Jones. Rain revived the mudhole in the area.
Farmers near White Haven wish for rain while local families share weekend visits. George Landreth and wife with daughter Lois from Decatur stayed with Leo Landreth’s family and visited Albert Halbrook, who was ill with measles, and Edger Brown called on Evelyn Norris, who plans to spend the summer. In Chicago, Frank Hatch expects to shear his sheep Wednesday and later sell wool. The Vernon band practiced Sunday evening ready to play when called. Dr. M. P. DuComb is waiting on.
A man carries a small boy near Griffin-Walton's Hardware as the baby clings to an ice cream cone dripping on the father's blue serge suit. The scene, laced with an aside about oil stoves, hints at consumer sentiment without naming specific events or outcomes.
Martins store features low prices on potatoes at 75 cents a peck and corn per can 10 cents. Summer underwear for the whole family and straw hats to beat the sun are showcased along with ready made dresses for spring and children's hose in all colors.
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