Local Society Notes from Patoka and Surrounding Towns
Locals Miss Nancy Simcox and Panzy Wasem with Darvin Jones and others travel to Outlook Kentucky visiting Clark Simcox. Several residents attend meetings in Champaign and Sandoval while visiting family in Centralia East St. Louis and Urbana. Sweet potatoes and grapes offered locally with several community visits and hospital and church events noted.
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Nancy Simcox
Panzy Wasem
Darvin Jones
Sam Jolliff
Wes Griffin
Outlook
Kentucky
Clark Simcox
Evansville
Ind
Vivian Roberson
Dick Potts
Sam Britt
New Haven
James Adams
Dorothy Christia
Helen Barr
J. L. Coombs
C. P. Fletcher
Champaign
C. F. Davis
Chicago
Urbana
Boyd Cook
C. M. Roger
C. B. Anderson
Alma
Frank Frizzell
Elmer Rogier
F. B. Ballance
Betty Ballance
Jean Miller
Sandoval
Gilla Hopkins
Salem
Joe Hopkins
Laura Haley
East St. Louis
Bruce Solland
Gayle Belcher
Patoka
Charles Humes
Centralia
P. J. Mojonnier
W. J. Parks
Bud Cantrell
Dale Nattier
D. E. Dale
W. M. Cox
Wallace Alexander
O. C. Schroeder
Dale Altom
Vandalia Hospital
John A. Jennings
Jackie
Hettie Trueblood
Vandalia
Fort Wayne
Frank Miller
Springfield
Mesdames C. R. Richeson
Roy Jones
Rubye Cain
Dean Martin
H. G. Hudspeth
Robert Morey
Nella Mansfield
J. T. Blankenship
Mae Simcox
Peggy
HOME
Jones & Martin
Geo. Allen
Joe Simcox
John A Jennings
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Methodist Church
Greenville
Endell Batts
Vernon
O. C
E. L. Delay
Rollin Cox
Rialto
California
Ida Smith
Cox
Earl O’neal
Bertha Murray
Jack Eagan
Edinburg
Barthol Anderson
Ollie Alexander
Rock Falls
Dean Anderson
Edgar Irvin
St. Louis School of Aeronautics
T. E. Irvin
Howard Perrine
Wilmington
Freezer Locker Clinic Set for November 12 13
Urbana Illinois November 7 A freezer locker clinic sponsored by the University of Illinois College of Agriculture will be held November 12 and 13. Speakers include Sleeter Bull in charge, K F Warner on the locker plant in the defense program, L D Oranger on freezer locker law, O C Taubeneck on electric rates, F E Bingham on banking and accounting, H J Macintie on refrigeration, S Blatt on refrigerating systems, Prof Bull on meat preparation and Jean Simpson on freezing fruits and other topics with additional experts listed.
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Division of Foods and Dairies
State Department of Agriculture
Springfield
O. C. Taubeneck
Chicago
F. E. Bingham
Bank For Cooperatives
St. Louis
H. J. Macintie
As Blatt
Railways Ice Co
Prof. Bull
Dana Cryder
Ilinois Cooperative Locker Association
Minonk
Jean Simpson
A Lady Likes Her Locker Speaks On Food Locker
Mrs James H Wheat of Urbana speaks on A Lady Likes Her Locker addressing home economics and fruit and vegetable processing at the Illinois Food Locker Association meeting in Streator The agenda includes wrappers and wrapping with Prof Fred J Beard from Iowa State College Ames IA assisting on packaging and equipment for the locker plant.
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G. O. Schlageter
Illinois Food Locker Association
Fred J. Beard
Iowa State College
Ames
James H. Wheat
Urbana
Selective Service to rehabilitate dentally defective registrants
Washington reports that about 100 000 registrants with removable dental defects will enter the Selective Service System rehabilitation program. Local boards will authorize treatment by community dentists, with costs borne by the Federal Government.
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Selective Service System
Washington
Paul G. Armstrong
Selective Service
Voorhis Talks Inflation Control On Coast to Coast Network
Representative Jerry Voorhis of California will discuss price control and inflation in a coast to coast CBC broadcast titled The Permanent Cure for Inflation. The lecture, in the tax and monetary field, outlines permanent measures to curb inflation and rising prices and airs at 10:15 p.m. EST (9:15 p.m. CST, 8:15 p.m. MST, 7:15 p.m. PST).
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Jerry Voorhis
Dem
Calif
Columbia Broadcasting System
Voorhis
Tall Trees and Tall Corn Tales From Illinois Fields
Illinois soil proved its fertility with a 100 foot tall tree yielding 13 000 two foot boards and a tree stump left to fuel a stove all winter near Chesterfield Macoupin County. A Menard County farmer displayed a corn stalk eleven feet two inches long and eight and a quarter inches around at the base.
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Illinois
Illinois Writers’ Project
Chesterfield
Macoupin County
Marion County farmers canvassed on production capacity
A Marion County drive seeks to assess farmers production capacity to meet food goals set by the Illinois Agriculture Defense Board. Between now and December 1 each farmer will be visited by a community AAA committeeman and asked to pledge increased output of meats dairy poultry vegetables and soybeans while reducing wheat and oats.
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Marion County
Illinois Agriculture Defense Board
AAA
Clyde St. Clair
Marion County Agriculture Defense Board
Fluor Spar Flows From Hardin County to Steel Mills
Out of Hardin County hills a steady stream of fluor spar moves toward Pittsburgh steel furnaces and the lower Lake Michigan region. The mineral also supplies the aluminum industry in general as it travels by rail and other routes to industrial centers.
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Hardin County
Pittsburgh
Lake Michigan
Fluorspar Supplies Kept Steady for War and Peace
The article notes ongoing exploration to secure fluorspar reserves as barges move up the Ohio Mississippi and Illinois rivers and toward the Gulf, reflecting metal industries’ high demand during defense needs and planning for postwar peace time needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Mississippi
Illinois
Gulf of Mexico
Policemen Impounded Cows Belonging to City Fathers
Historic note from 1874 Illinois shows cows roaming streets and plunder ing gardens leading to impoundment ordinances. Bloomington officers seized cows owned by the mayor and city officials, while Jacksonville rounded up more than 40 cows on opening night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Projet
Bloomington
Jacksonville
Cephas Adams issues land trespass warning
Notice warns no hunting or trespassing on all lands owned and controlled by Cephas A Adams. Signed A Adams.
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Cephas A. Adams
A. Adams
First Chicago Galena Stage Coach Run Time
The run lasted one day with horses changed every twelve miles and fare set at 13. The first stage coach service between Chicago and Galena began in 1836.
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Chicago
Galena
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Jean and
Jimmie Wright
Walier
Leo C. Walker
Thelma Wright
Lucille Jenson
Shatue
Crawford Siseers
Forrest Walker
Vivian Nattier
Carbondale
Burel Beckler
Iola Miller
Les Hathaway
Grocer
In Business
J. W. Alexander
Martin
Funeral Home
Austin’s Market
Barbara
Typol Flying
Alexander-Schroeder Motor CO
Patoka, Illinois
Clinton. County Oil Company
Breese, Illinois
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