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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1907
Page
11
A Friday 1907 column argues teachers face unjust criticism and urges parental understanding. It extols good roads boosting schools and towns, lauds farmers as the nation’s core, and ends with a light marriage anecdote and a call to subscribe.
John Wood was slightly indisposed while William Carter delivered hogs at Centralia. Reuben Gillie and family visited with Mrs. Ella Tabor. Floyd Wood visited home folks. Edd Mathews bought cattle from Alvin Carter and James Wickershams visited. Orville Britt and wife dined with Jacob Bopp. Chas Davis and family spent time with John Wood. Some men finished husking corn in central Illinois and returned home. Richard Wood and wife plan to move to Oklahoma and Texas for winter. James Meredith and Martin Carrigan settled a cultivator dispute. Holstlaw Bros. of Sandoval sawed wood for Nick Lutz with a gasoline engine. The Baptists hold a protracted meeting with services planned for another week. Mrs Ada Peters of Keysport visited her sister Mrs J E Hill. Rev Burnette and daughters and Send Line Guntered attended church.
Vernon notes Thanksgiving visits from Frank Knight of Maron and Herbal Stump's homecoming while Miles Walker from Ewing Mo moves his family for a Creamery superintendent post. Navy plans for Stump, Gen James S. Martin funeral coverage, local G A R veterans, and a bumper corn yield of sixty bushels per acre highlighted. Weather forecast calls for mild winter then cold, blustery spell.
Beth recovers from a paralytic stroke suffered last Saturday. Farmers report good quality but very small harvests. J F Rinehart of Fairfield arrives to boost M W A membership locally. Claude Martin sells farm and moves to Vernon. E C Clawson leaves the Creamery post, Lee Bonnell takes over. Thanksgiving wishes and gratitude frame the notes.
The notice invites all to a pie social at Hecker Thorne School House on Saturday evening November 30. Local happenings include residents visiting relatives, business trips to Vandalia and Centralia, and merchants gearing up for the winter season.
The passage surveys Shobonier’s economy with hogel operations run by Albert and Metzger sale and livery stables, two lumber mills F W Lassey and C F Smith Co, Shobonier Manufacturing Co producing barrel staves, a thriving lumber trade, a brick two room school led by Prof. H H Goad, Methodist and Baptist churches, limited sidewalks, scarce rental housing, railroad activity with J C Loyd as agent, one physician Dr O C Pollock, non-incorporated status, no saloons, rare drunkenness and sickness, and ample residences.
Rast of Town J St Livesay transacted business in Salem Monday. Chas Souter has been engaged in milling the last Tow days John Livesay says he will be home soon. Bro Pressly and wife took dinner with Mrs Lizzie Walton Sunday.
A sequence of brief social items mentions visits among residents including Cole, Cox from Vernon, Baldwin from Patoka, and the Morrey family traveling to Richmond Indiana for healing services. Pearl Anderson hosts a 16th birthday social. Emersons visit Sho Bonier. Perry and wife visit J M McConnell. Andersons travel Bear Creek and Patoka relatives host Thanksgiving guests. Mrs Metta McConnell and Albert Morrey travel to Richmond and Vandalia. Chas Arnold's illness noted. Arthur Cooper, Heckethorn teacher, was in town on Friday.
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