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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1934
Page
5
In Centralia and nearby towns readers see a dense list of items for sale and rent including radios pecans cream separators and various clothing. The section also notes Chas Lutz hauling lumber for a corn crib and farmers rushing to gather corn before bad weather.
Fairman Jim Sport returns home after three weeks in St Louis. S. R. Carrigan visits his mother on Armistice Day and goes quail hunting. Leland Johnson family and Vernie Mahlandt visit Carlyle friends with Wm Snyder family. Holiday for high school students as Se district closes. Mrs. Fred Lutz calls at the Smith store. Pete Armscough and Patoka family visit Fred Adams family.
Mrs Ruth Sebastian and Mrs Elsie Hicks visited Mr and Mrs Theodore Meredith Sunday. Pearl Poole returned from the north where he has been ing corn. Many locals attended the Ioee at Carrigan Friday night. Temple and Wisher schools played ball Friday afternoon with Temple winning.
Proceeds from a pie supper held weeks ago totalled 13.88 dollars. Mr and Mrs W J Ramsey visitors here have departed for home. A local literary society has sized and will meet every th al he.
Community notes detail visits and calls among Meredith Hicks Ticknor Lush and other families. Activities include school events, a literary gathering, shopping on dollar day, a new baby at Johnsons, and shifts of neighbors moving to new farms nearby.
Wednesday afternoon November 14 Carrigan Ladies Aid met with large attendance. Officers elected include Lena Broscoe president Dorothy Lusch vice president and Ruth Ramsey secretary. Next meeting at the president's home with a pot luck dinner and all day session.
Caldwell sawed wood for Henry Oglesby on Monday and Tuesday. Joe Frizzell fell and injured his foot. Zion ladies aid met at Mrs. John Chance of Patoka. Residents register for work in Centralia. Ellis Bassett and wife welcome a baby boy. Harry Nattier and wife welcome a baby girl Agnes May. John Sebastian and family visited.
Sunday gatherings mark community life at Mound Chapel with Oleta and Norma Misses and Roseman guests including Erma Belcher, Darrel Cole’s horse loss, and Henry Brianda’s leg injury on crutches. Rev Story preached. J A Shepard funeral drew a large crowd.
A pie supper and cake walk will be held at Hatch school on Wednesday night November 28. Comte Estella Yarbrough, Teacher, urges community attendance for this fundraising event.
We thank our friends and neighbors for help and kindness during the sickness and death of our husband and father. Gratitude to Undertakers Tinton and Beery Doctor Murfin for efforts and flowers, and to the singers. Signed Mary Shepard Jane Huddleston and family Rachel Barnes and family John Shepard and family Charley Shepard and family And the Grandchildren.
In Odin Township the Julius Deadmond house of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ross burned to the ground except furniture. neighbors helped by gathering wood and assisting with meals. A large crowd attended community events including Nellie Holtslaw’s birthday party and a quail fry at Asa McClelland’s, with many local families visiting, moving, or hosting gatherings through the week.
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