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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1937
Page
4
Weekly want ads list Farthing's Chicks hatching at $7.45 per 100 and a portable 7 HP saw rig for sale. Other items include a piano for sale, various livestock, cider, barrels, a four room house for sale, rental farm home, and gun repair shop. Social notes mention church visits, shoppers, and oil-well interest in the area.
Laurence Heinzman helped Bill Kirgan stack soy beans Monday. A masqu erade at the school drew many attendees Wednesday evening with roasting of wieners and marshmallows. Lee Cozad and wife of Odin visited Dorris Cozad Wednesday evening.
Tuesday and Wednesday social visits mark the week with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Caldwell hosting Sandy Branch and Tom Garrett with Eulaine Williams. Kinmundy ties surface as T. P. Williams and wife visit Floyd Williams. Conant farm activity includes Wilbur Johnson husking corn and Leroy Roberts plus EdJ Deadmond of Decatur doing carpentry. Vivian Parker remains on the sick list. The Pid Williams family own a new radio and local gatherings involve Leroy Green and Velma Jean Conant at a Nancy Lowes party.
There was no school Thursday and Friday of last week because of a teachers meeting at Salem. Mr and Mrs Selby Garrett and Betty Bender spent Saturday evening at the Roy Williams home.
Boyd Steel and family visited Mr. Corsen of Shobonier while Guy Quick and family visited John Adams and family. Fred Tacke and daughter Peggy called on Wash Bowen. Luther Williams and family from Decatur attended Centuria parade. Dean Freda and Mildred Bowen spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Mat Belcher. Clarence Bowen and family called on Charles Bowen. Charles Gerrish and family visited John Gerrish family. Mr and Mrs John Gerrish welcomed a baby girl.
C E Goodwin Gene Simpson and Eunice McHaney called on Patoka Monday afternoon Joe Mack and wife and John Talbert visited Mr and Mrs A S Jett Sunday afternoon Wekiing family visited Odin Saturday with George Brewster and son Mrs Caroline Harmier birthday celebrated at Everett Jett home Attenders included Coppenbarger Perkins Meredith Pekins Ella Webking Gelsinger Freda Perkins Garrett Harmier and Jett family Bill Kirgan and family visited Laurence Heinzman Gene Simpson and Emily visited Sandy with William Pimner and family Clarence Cozad and children called on Dorris Cozad and family
Sunday Frank Sullivan worked on interior painting at a Marshall Creek church. The task appears informal with social notes mentioning Mr George Meredith and Mr and Mrs Goodwin as dinner guests of Mr and Mrs C E Mc Haney.
Mr and Mrs George Pedicord and family of Pittsburg visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Cort Walker. Tech visitors at the Schmall home included multiple Chicago and local residents for a Sunday gathering to pick Hickory nuts. Clarence Cozad and children from Centralia visited Doris Cozad and family in Fredonia. Herb Schmall was a Patoka caller Tuesday. Ernest Schmall husked corn for John Fogley recently. Floyd Bowen was in the area.
A former Patoka resident writes of subscribing to the Patoka Register from Colorado Springs Colorado describing the oil boom news his town offers and praising Colorado Springs as a clean city near Maniton Springs and Cheyenne Mountain Will Rogers Shrine. He notes pleasant weather and invites old townsfolk to visit or vacation there amid a fire incident.
Local note shows residents on the west side awaiting the arrival of newspapers. Mentions Mr and Mrs John Nichols in a brief private reference.
Students from the first six grades of Patoka School held a Halloween party with costume judging by Mr. DeLay Miss Christie and Mr. Kirk awarding prizes. After parade in town, games and refreshments followed with visitors present from the Marion County Teachers Institute in Salem. The Patoka High Junior Girls formed a sewing club electing officers and planning a November meeting.
A large crowd attended the kitchen shower at the Guy Arnold home honoring their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Arno Smith. The Smiths returned to Sterling after the weekend. Various local residents and visitors from Patoka Salem Chicago Breeze Peoria and Patoka were noted as callers and guests. The Arnold Chapel Ladies Aid met last Thursday with Mrs Nell Jones.
The upcoming gathering is scheduled with Mire and Orie Green on Thursday. The notice notes a planned discussion and confirms the date with attendees identified.
A group at the Bow en home hosted an old time chivari for Cecil Bowen and wife marking their October 22 marriage. They received many useful gifts and the evening was enjoyed by all with best wishes for a happy married life.
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