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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1954
Page
2
November 2 1907 entry notes second class mail. Sunday School led by Hubert Murray with 57 attendees last week. Baptism in the Okaw River on a Sunday afternoon by Rev. Ralph Willis. Sermon titled Upon This Rock I Shall Build My Church.
Rollin MecHaney visits sister Sylvia Mack in Ramsey for a couple of weeks. Mrs. J. C. Binnion and Minnie Peddicord were business visitors in St. Louis Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lawrence and daughter Ina of Peoria stopped in Vernon last Sunday to see the former's brother William P., en route home with daughter Edna Wernsman of Centralia. Mr. and Mrs. Porter Travis of Herrin called Sunday evening at Mrs. A. J. Travis. Mr. and Mrs. Miltin Bayliss and children Patty and Tooty left Sunday for Ponca City Oklahoma to visit relatives this week.
Classifieds list various for sale and rental notices from Patoka and Vernon. Items include warm Morning heating store left for Mae Eagan, Christmas cards by Rev. Miller, a large Kenmore coal circulator, a Florence oil heater with blower, and an eight room furnished apartment rental managed by Mrs. Lora Altom. Public notices reference phone contacts 187 and 120 as well as Harold Landreth in Vernon.
A dense page of late 1940s style ads listing sale items and services. Walnut dining room suite, Jersey and Guernsey cows near Patoka, a free fish fry benefit event October 15 near Walter Hall's Lake, big screen TV offers with Philco RCA plans via Ed Foster Patoka Illinois, coats dresses and furniture, trade in offers on televisions, water well drilling by J and M Drilling Co Vernon, 4 months old Hamp shire pigs, modern home for sale behind the bank Claude Gerrish Patoka Illinois, farm machinery parts Woolsey and Brehm Carlyle Illinois, repair sales opportunity Box 61 Odin Illinois.
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