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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1929
Page
2
A Candy Consumer's Convention met last Tuesday at the Patoka High School Building with six delegates. E L DeLay chaired and advised, a late-arriving delegate joined next day, a pre-meeting assembly served candy, and overall a good time was reported. A future meeting date remains undecided.
Senator King of Utah and other former judges debate whether constitutional guarantees protect free speech religious liberty and peaceful assembly. Some insist the Constitution primarily restricts Congress leaving states room to limit rights, while others defend stronger guarantees. County Superintendent reports soil tests and demonstrations influence farming, education notes, and school activities across agriculture music history English classes.
From 1800 to 1850 modern magazines like The Quarterly Review Edinburgh Review Spectator and Westminster Review appeared. Noted poets included Wordsworth Coleridge Keats Scott and Southley with Women Novelists gaining prominence in literature.
The Girl's Pep Club chose middies as a cheaper alternative to a blouse sample. They will dye the middies burnt orange and place a black letter P on the pocket. A pep meeting was held last Thursday.
The Patoka basketball squad controlled the game from the start, defeating Altamont 31 points on the board. With Bob Jennings sidelined, Marcell Fields starred, while substitutes filled in early, and coach Munger rested first-stringers for the Louisville game.
In a Monday Nov 18 game at the P H S gym Patoka beat Louisville 16 to 12 after a tight second half surge. Patoka relied on center Walker for most scoring while Louisville could not crack the zone defense led by Coach Munger. The halftime score stood 10 to 2 in Patoka’s favor with Louisville’s long range shooting keeping them in the game. Next up Patoka hosts Brownstown on Nov 27 as both teams chase the Northern Egyptian Basketball Conference title.
Official standings based on conference games through November 18 1929 list Kinmundy Patoka Vandalia Brownstown St Elmo Farina Altamont Sandoval Odin. Kinmundy 3 0 Patoka 2 0 Vandalia 1 0 0 Brownstown 1 0 0 St Elmo 1 2 3 Farina 0 0 0 Altamont 0 1 0 Sandoval 0 2 0 Odin 0 3 0 Results since last report Kinmundy 21 Sandoval 20 Brownstown 17 St Elmo 6 Vandalia 27 Odin 7 Patoka 31 Altamont 10.
Chas Purvis of Odin visited Patoka on business Wednesday. 8 cans pork and beans for 25 cents at Altom's. Announcement of a baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sears at Vandalia hospital. Try Sentry flour, high grade hard wheat flour. Martin family of Cowden visited home folks here. Frank Black and mother of Nokomis spent the weekend here. Coach Donald Lee of Sandoval attended the Louisville Patoka game Monday. Corn husking gloves with two thumbs, 10 cents a pair.
Miss Eunice Carter of Vandalia visits home folks with sales on blankets and hosiery at Altom's. Preach Palmer, ex resident, pads by for a call. Steel Cut coffee bundles and flannelettes drawn near sale prices. Town chatter covers hospital visits, students, ball games, and returning locals with Halvern Norris in Japan and other family updates.
Appointment of seven new state highway policemen was made last week by Gov. Emmerson. They are Emery Thornell Decatur Frank Carter Jewett Arnold Ludwig Valmeyer James Davis Streator Jas Bainter Lewiston Paul B Smith Bement Harry Duncan Sandoval Keulks Wagner Gould and Holmes in Madison county and Bigelow of Salem Il have been reappointed and J R McDonald Hamel and Frank Probst and Walter Whittman of Alton have been added to that district.
Wash Bowen traveled to St. Louis Wednesday with a cattle load for James Hill. Mrs. Monahan visited Russell Collins and family Saturday. Mary Ella and Harold Collins accompanied her home and returned Sunday. Miss Lila Bopp called on Mrs. Marie Cozad Sunday morning. Mrs. Clara Gerrish visited her sister in Centralia last week. Leo Sebastian and wife of Odin traveled to Michigan and planned onward to Chicago for work. Temple Sunday School welcomed Jeff Smith and Peggie Tacke.
Mrs Agnes Collins visited Mrs Mat Belcher Saturday evening. Mrs Susie Snyder visited relatives in Kansas Saturday and Sunday. There will be preaching next Sunday afternoon at Temple. There were forty four at Sunday School at Temple.
Wm. B. Ballance, injured last summer and recently out of a long hospital stay for broken bones, was ordered to Chicago Wednesday by an Insurance Adjustment Company of which he is a member. He will likely remain there about two weeks for care.
Coroner Ed Anderson was called to Centralia to hold an inquest into the death of Fred Grimes a painter who died Friday night at St. Mary's hospital after falling from a ladder while painting a residence in Centralia He was born in Clinton lived in Indiana Noble Odin and Centralia and planned to spend the winter in Florida.
Local families and friends gather in Alton and nearby towns with numerous visits to relatives in Bloomington Decatur Champaign Vandalia Fairfax and Nashville. Notable events include a funeral at Arnold Chapel, a baby boy born in Chicago to Earl and wife, and the Entre Nous club meeting hosted by Miss Maxine Walton with twelve members and two guests.
Rev John Evans describes a shift from morals to character in youth education guided by student input. Prof Charles E Rugh and Prof George A Coe urge a new code reflecting self awareness, nature, organized society, and religion, with church leadership questioned amid city church practices.
Miss Helen Hathaway of Vandalia visited over the weekend with her parents W. L. Hathaway and wife.
A short memorial verse from Harry Steart and his children honoring their late mother. The lines express loneliness amid joy and enduring memory, urging that she is not forgotten even though she has passed.
Representative Richard J. Lyons of Mundelein was elected secretary of the Illinois Association of Real Estate Boards at the Rockford convention. Illinois will receive about 240000 to 250000 annually from gasoline and kerosene inspections, officials say. Senator Harry G. Wright of De Kalb, badly hurt in a car crash, is hospitalized but not seriously hurt and plans to run for state treasurer.
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