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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1946
Page
8
Local notices include a stock producers alert paying eight dollars and up for dead or disabled farm animals with pickup by Vandalia 390W, a no hunting notice on a farm near Denver Adams warning of an electric fence, a pie supper and cake walk at West Chapel School on October 11 for the PTA, and a want ad for rags at six cents per thousand.
Friday night October 4 at Shady Grove school hosts a pie supper cake walk. Everyone invited to bring pies and cakes. Mary Jolliff is the teacher listed in the notice.
Several brief classifieds show items for sale including a parlor furnace by C D Martin, sweet peppers mangos and pimentos by the dozen of bushes from L D Morey, a 5 room house with 10 acres near Patoka, and minkler apples from H L Logan. Community notices mention Vandalia shoppers, St Louis visits, Idle Club meeting, and attendees.
STRINGTOWN residents reported Sunday visits among multiple households. Mr and Mrs John Anderson and family joined Mr and Mrs Tom Curran and Jerry west of Vandalia. Arwine Willett visited Seminary hosts Arwine Dreisperner. Stanley Thomas of Chicago stayed with his parents, continuing parish ties.
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