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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1930
Page
3
The railroads serve every industrial worker by assembling and distributing raw materials and finished products. They enable city life by transporting food fuel and other necessities, underpinning modern industry.
The first quarterly exams run this week with only two students, Lila Murfin and Ruth Reisman, exempt. A talk on Courage pleases students. basketball practice for twelve boys proceeds toward a sixteen game schedule. A Poor Married Man at the gym Nov 26 features Dean Abendroth and others. A playful Who's Who in the Junior Class introduces peers and hidden writers. The grade school held a Hallowe'en program with a masked parade and prizes. A sobering line warns against drunken driving by associating with sober companions.
Mr and Mrs John Nichols shopped in Patoka Saturday. E E McHaney and Miss Esther Goodwin returned from Florida Sunday. Thelma Jett visited Roberta Renfrn Sunday. Eva Mae Smith and Herman Mack attended John Tolbert home. Wilson Nichols and wife attended Sunday School near Fairman. Dinner guests at E E McHaney home included Charlie McHaney Everett Goodwin and wives and families. Several others called on the Nichols family in the weekend period.
Twenty nine attended Sunday School at Temple on Sunday November 2. Upcoming sermon at Temple next Sunday evening led by pastor Bro Rosborough. Local society activity includes visits by Helen Hill and sons Matt Belcher and wife to Lawrence Perrine's family.
On the pipeline the past few days Lawrence Perrine spent Sunday with Oze Hill and wife Mr. Crothers called on his son Bill and family Monday morning Elma Bopp and daughter Daisy Lee called on her father-in-law and family Sunday
Bear Creek J. M. Balderson and family Mae Linton of Decatur and Darrel Linton and wife and son spent Sunday with Wm. Chriss and wife Chas. Ballance and family visited his sister Cora and Stephen George Christie and wife and daughter spent Sunday with Stella Thompson and daughter Mrs. J. C. Linton with her mother Mrs. Illinois Christie Bert Tedrick and family of Vandalia called on Mrs. Anna Benefiel and family Sunday.
Mrs. B. E. Siple of Inka chairs the Household Science Department of the Marion County Farmers Institute and invites communities to organize Household Science Clubs. She has organization papers and suggested programs and will connect interested residents with the state organization. There is no expense to affiliate.
Witness recalls a grandfather who abandoned a ministry path to become a haw yer, suggesting possible hereditary mental strain. The exchange frames family history as a factor in alleged insanity.
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