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Patoka Local Notes Highlight Robbery, Meetings and Trades
Roy Belcher returns from the north as prayer meetings occur weekly at M. E. church. Postmaster Cooper traveled to Vandalia for business while residents discuss loans and quail hunting. A series of meetings led by Bro. Mitchel in Vandalia begins at Simcos’s hall. Local ads promote stoves, lard, and a hollow-wire lighting system by Cruse. The Patoka Register debuts led by Grant Huntoon amid community notices and social events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark Blankinship
Ladies” Aid Society of the Christian Church
Vail
Louie Wasen
Mary Jones
Salem
Eli. Jones
Harbin Chandler
Owen
St. Louis
Grant
Aeros
R. A. Simcox
C. N. Cruse
A. C. Willy
Donald
du Quoin
Ill
J. S. Hudspeth
Lowell Wilson
C, N. Cruse