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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1929
Page
2
The Patoka Register lists display advertising at per inch twenty cents and readers per line five cents. Rates apply to local notices and notices of sale.
Corb Morris of Centralia and Herb Schmahl visited John Tabor Sunday night. Rosborough of Eureka had dinner with Mrs. Sarah Schmahl. Dean Bowen and Ernest Schmahl visited Sunday. Herb Schmah aided milk hauling Friday and Sunday. Griffin and Johnson hunted near Fairy Dell Friday. Stone hauled mules to St Louis Saturday. Cort Walker finished pear picking at Geyon’s Thursday. Walker and Schmahl called in Patoka Friday. Tabor brothers hauled fodder for Mat Belcher last week.
Henry and Paul Gehrkin of Vandalia attended Gullet s sale Tuesday. Robert Walton of Patoka made a business trip to Mrs. Belle Peddicord Saturday. Joseph Yardley hauled milk for Herb Stone Saturday. Clarence Bowen and family visited with Chas. Bowen and wife Saturday night. Ralph Hibbs talked of going north to shuck corn. Cecil and Harry Kergan spent Sunday evening with Rame Kergan and family. Ransom Hicks and wife passed through Sunday. Henry Stillabower and wife visited Mrs. Sarah Schmahl Wednesday. Clarence Cozad threshing at Elmer Kergan s Friday. Dean Hill works at Cope s orchard at Tonti. picked pears for Fred Geyon last Tuesday and attended Cullet s sale the same day. Firbie Belcher seen joy riding Sunday. Radio listeners at Mrs. Belle Peddicord s Saturday night were Cort Walker and wife and granddaughter Mary Lavone, Ruby and Nettie Schmahl, Isabelle, Gladys and Mabel Bowen, Ernest Schmahl and Cecil Bowen. Albert Bowen spent Sunday with Cecil and Floyd Bowen. Rame Kergan and family called on Mr. Cullet and family Thursday. Twenty eight attended Sunday School at Temple Sunday. Albert Galbreath and wife were callers in this vicinity Saturday. Isabelle Bowen visited with Misses Ruby and Nettie Schmahl Saturday morning.
Pie supper to be held at Wisher School Friday night October 18 with all invited. Ruth Nattier is the teacher arranging the event.
The Steele school hosts a pie supper on Saturday night October 12. The event is announced by teachers Thelma Nichols and Juanita Carter inviting everyone to attend.
Various sale offers and notices including a seven year old day mare for sale by M. Anderson, an eight room house with two lots for sale or trade for land, clothing and leather items for sale, soil fertilizers by Robin Jones Phosphate Co., a 160 acre farm for rent or sale near a school, corn for chicken feed, a 130 acre farm for rent, nursing and general housework wanted, a good four room rental, athletic underwear, a large mixed property for sale including a nine room house and shop, baby carriage for sale, two Jersey cows and a road mare, and local social visits and bakery promotion messages.
The notice cites Anna Merkle as complainant and Frank Merkle as nonresident defendant in a 1929 Marion County Illinois chancery action. It instructs Frank Merkle to appear at the next December term of the Circuit Court or have the bill taken as confessed. The filing date is September 3, 1929, with summons returnable to the fourth Monday in September 1929, and the clerk is Frank C. Hensley. G Murphy is the complainant's solicitor.
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