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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1930
Page
2
Multiple small ads for farm and household sales and services in Vernon Patoka and nearby Illinois towns. Listings include hay and livestock for sale horses cows hogs beans apples engines and general goods with contact names and locations.
Eberle L. Norris as executor for Robert N. Norris deceased files notice in Marion County Illinois seeking all claims by the November Term. Creditors must appear at the County Court in Salem for adjustment and debtors should pay promptly.
Hazel Hindrex visited Violet Williams Sunday. Nora Doris and Dorothy Bradford of Sandoval attended Sunday School at Temple. Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Hicks called on Mr. and Mrs. Luther Williams Sunday evening. Wash Bowen moved Frank Bradford's cows home Monday evening. Charley Bopp and family of Wisher attended the pie supper at Temple Friday night. Cool weather noted. Callers on Mrs. Bertha Williams Saturday night and Sunday included Mrs. Frank Bradford and daughter, Mrs. Maben Carrigan, Mrs. Bopp and daughter, and Mrs. Frank Snyder and daughter.
FOSTERSBURG reports Lewis Jones and wife in Vandalia for dental work while Frank Hauser and family called on Mrs. L Foster in town. Marion Griffin of Alma visited home folks Friday evening. Elmer Frizzell aided Ora Green with a well on Saturday. A Tuesday night rain damaged newly worked roads, causing a milk truck to crash and a mail carrier to seek help. Eli Logan of Patoka visited Burg Sunday. Lida Stevens of Salem stays with her ill mother Mrs. L Foster. Paul Stevens and Lew Engler families shared Sunday dinner. Lowe attended M E Conference at Lawrenceville.
Week notes recount Elmer Frizzell and wife spending Monday with Don Green and wife. men cut corn while women visited. No service at Arnold Chapel due to homecoming at Sandy Branch. W H Jones and others attended the farmers institute and races at Salem Saturday. Lester Griffin and family visited Patoka with uncles J C and A A Griffin Sunday.
A calm week in Fairman includes rain Tuesday and Wednesday. Jewel Chausse works for A. E. Benoist of Sandoval. Olive and Mat Belcher visit with L. E. Williams. Opal Belcher helps Bertha Williams with housework. Residents attend a pie social at Temple school Friday. H. J. Stone visits Highland for milk. Cozad visit E. N. Clark family. Joe Davis suffers paralytic stroke. Ben Forsythe relocates him to Sandoval.
Frost touched the Cracker Neck area as neighbors helped Luther Paine with corn and his illness. John Shepard traveled to Vandalia, William Alexander bought a milk cow, and Mary Shepard with Bessie Stark shopped in Patoka. Noble Bryant preached at Greenup area events, and several families visited relatives, with prayers and gatherings noted at Mound Chapel.
An ice cream social was held at the Tolbert residence on Saturday September 27. Guests brought ingredients and home made ice cream was prepared along with watermelon. Games were played and all stayed late planning more gatherings. Attendees included Mrs. Pedro Renfro and children Mr. and Mrs. Millard Palmer and children Mr. and Mrs. E E McHaney Everett Goodwin and family John Nichols and wife Cecil Kirgan Everett and Thelma Jett Eugene and Fred Simpson Harold and Sylvia Evans Arnold Mack Ernetta Perkins and John Tolbert and family.
Elmer Frizzell and family visited S C Green home while others joined a ball game at Swift. Many families traveled to St Elmo Vandalia and Decatur for dental work, social visits, or club meetings. County Supt J S Kniseley visited the school. neighbors attended pear peeling at Wm Eh rats and various family gatherings across Meridith Doolen Glen Ehrat and others.
Sandy Branch reports Marcelline Garrett and Helen Wainscott spent Wednesday with Lorene Garrett. Marvin Conant and family called on Bill Conant and family nearby.
A Sept. 24 birthday gathering at Mr. and Mrs. Willie Perkins’ home honored Eunetta Perkins. Attendees included the Nichols, Jett, Simpson, Evans, Goodwin, Perkins, Smith, and Palmer families and others. Refreshments featured ice cream and watermelon amid games and social visits.
A lighthearted dialogue where a dancer admits being out of practice and jokes about the back and forth of figures. The coed responds with playful wit about the constant stepping and jumping during the dance.
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