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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1928
Page
4
Pupils went to Centralia on Monday to hear the United States Navy Band perform. Francis Turner played a violin solo in assembly. Mr Oo A Nattier spoke on Law of Life and the Kingdom of the Universe, stressing qualification and good citizenship.
A school assembly featured Mr. Alexander who spoke on the difference between success and failure. He recounted two boys with the same start but divergent paths, stressing effort, sacrifice, and education as paths to achievement. The event included various solos, recitations, plays, and Thanksgiving program items across rooms One to Four.
Classified column fragment lists items for sale including butter at 50¢ per pound, bit and harness, a good work horse eight years old, and a four room house with land and outbuildings. Also notes a lost large German police dog and a miner grinding service at a milk plant. Names include Mrs Roy Seats Frank Schmitt H G Hudspeth O H Gray Sim Edwards and John Nattier.
Advertisement notes 8 cans of fancy sweet corn for 25e at Altom's. Birth notice says a baby boy born to Mr and Mrs George Wickersham on Friday November 23, with a reference to George taking two feet high steps.
Buffalo Rock, second in historic interest to Starved Rock, has been presented to Illinois by Robert T. Crane and accepted by Governor Small. The fifty acre site across the Illinois river from the state park has long been used as a Crane Company employee recreation area with memories of Indian councils and early French explorers.
A group of Effingham county American Legionnaires enroute home from Carlyle stopped here hoping to meet the focal Legion post but found no one awaiting them. The Legion reports a major membership drive with over 500 new members added in the past two weeks across the territory.
The Marion County Rebekahs met Wednesday evening with members from Shobonier Vernon and Centralia attending, totaling forty. No program was planned. light lunch was served before the lights went out delaying the start and the meeting adjourned. Attendees from Vernon included Mrs J W Epps Mrs W L Hathaway Mrs Glen Cox Mrs Fred Brown and from Shobonier Mrs Ed Cooper and Mrs Elva Towler.
Notice posted by Harm on Hampy and others forbids hunting trespassing or trapping on rented farm land. Signatories include Harmon Hampy Wm Ververs M A Nickey H E Easter Pope Sisters Mrs Florence Bonnell Leo Freyer Pd Mrs Anna Meryman Pd C A Adams Pd T W Nattier Pd Bud Johnson Pd Jo A Towler Pd.
A legal style notice restricts hunting and trapping on land under control of multiple landowners and residents. The list includes Earl Peddicord Tom Towler Albert Towler Otto Marchi John Cahoon Virgil Tedrick Leonard Goodin John Belcher Ransom Belcher Harley Cole William Bryant W W Cooper Jove Murray A J Murray Chester Bryant Roseman Goodin T E Lynch Jessie Wooden Gilford Roseman Clara Moran W W Entoe and Mrs W W Entoe.
An advertisement touts a Dixie Fire Kindler as a simple, oil free, gas free firestarter. It is sold in small boxes for easy use with no trouble or worry and claims safety, low cost, and readiness.
A consignment of Gold Medal Flour and feed is due to arrive at the store late this week. See us for special prices not of car.
Fragmentary notice urges readers to telephone orders for Zeigler Nut and Trump coal items to reach the purchaser soon.
Market note states Red Top Seed available for delivery to Vernon or Patoka locations, expanding local supply options for growers seeking specific seed varieties.
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