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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1907
Page
3
A Friday 1907 column rails at unfounded teacher criticisms and praises rural roads. It argues mothers resist corrections, extols farming virtue, and notes roads, schools, and churches shape community value. A humorous ending features an editor husband.
CORRESPONDENCE reports residents in Centralia area slight indisposition of John Fairman Wood. Various visits and farm activity noted including cattle sales by Edd Mathews to Alvin Carter and wood sawing by Holstlaw Bros. at Nick Lutz. Families visit, plans to travel to Oklahoma and Texas for winter, and a Baptist pro tracted meeting ongoing.
Vernon reports general health and favorable weather for the season. Frank Knight of Maron visits for Thanksgiving with family and friends, Miles Walker from Ewing MO moves his family. Walker is a Creamery superintendent. Herbal Stump visits his mother. Stump plans to return to New York by December 9 to join the Pacific fleet for the Philippines.
Beth shows gradual recovery from a stroke last Saturday. Farmers report good quality crops but very small yields. J. F. Rinehart of Fairfield Illinois, a State Deputy, aims to boost M W A membership locally. Thanksgiving urges rest and gratitude. Claud Martin sold his farm and will move to Vernon. E O Clawson leaving the Creamery. Lee Bonnell to succeed him in Richmond.
SHOBONIER residents invite all to a pie social at Hecke Thorne School House on Saturday evening November 30. The item mentions local visits, business trips, and a growing winter shopping season as merchants report busy days, with Metzger and Frye stores competing on staple goods and various locals involved in unrelated daily duties.
The text outlines Shobonier's economy with hogs, livery trades, Metzger's sale stable, grain and coal commerce, and barrel stave manufacturing by Shobonier Manufacturing Co. Owned by J. D. Mitchell and J. D. Metzger. Lumber mills run by F. W. Lasse and C. F. Smith & Co. The town has a brick two room school, Methodist and Baptist churches, Rev. H. H. Goad and Rev. Clements, a single physician Dr. O C Pollock, no incorporated status, no saloons, and a tight housing market with few vacant homes.
East of town J R Livesay transacted business in Salem Monday. Chas Souter has been engaged in law felling the last few days. John Livesay says he will be home soon. Bro Pressly and wife took dinner with Mrs Lizzie Walton Sunday.
A string of visits and gatherings unfolds as Mrs. Cole and family, W H Cox and wives, and others travel between Patoka Vernon and Richmond Indiana. Pearl Anderson hosts a 16th birthday social, while Mrs Metta McConnell heads to Richmond for treatment with a divine healer.
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