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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1929
Page
8
The National Automobile Club warns drivers of the danger posed by dark cars with lights off at twilight. The article urges motorists to turn on headlights as darkness nears to prevent eerie, sudden appearances and reduce road hazards for all drivers.
The Nebraska Supreme Court ruled drivers must be able to stop for approaching trains at grade crossings. Failure to do so is negligence that defeats automobile damage recovery. Railroads supported the rule due to many avoidable crossing accidents.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert McClelland of Decatur visit Ellen McClelland. Several families including the Ross, Deadmond, Remner and McClelland clans spend Sundays and weekdays with relatives in Odin and nearby towns. Flora McClelland moves to St Marys hospital. visits continue across Salem Centralia Huey and Carbondale connections.
Alburger and J L Nicolay hosted a dinner last Tuesday with Theo Stein of Spearsville Kansas Mary A Thomas of Sandoval and Caroline Sachlichtman guests. Bolt of Springfield IL visited schools and donated new seats and maps. Dettaman and Marie Thomas spent Thursday afternoon in Sandoval. Clara Merten of Union Missouri visited Walter Geiger and relatives.
Most farmers in the community have finished sowing wheat and report the fall as the best in years. Several locals attended the National Stock Show in St. Louis on Sunday and proclaimed it the best they had seen. Social visits and gatherings are noted among Mrs. J. E. Thomas, Mrs. Arthur Noller, Mrs. Leo Phillips, and others, with well wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Schaubert at a chiavari reception.
The Vernon column records the Illinois Lumber and Material Dealers Association meeting at the ICCF hall hosted by G. C. Betts of C. A. Glove Lumber Co with 29 attendees. It also lists family visits, relocations, weekend trips, births at Greer Hospital Vandalia, a surprise party for Mrs. Cecil Brown, and the wedding of Miss Juanita Hathaway and Geo Cannaway of Decatur.
East of Town residents Paul Caldwell Dwight and Paul Williams and Thurby Meador have left for the north to husk corn. Maurice Maulding stays at Xenia with Darrel Arnold and family. Roy Thompson assists Edwin Arnold on the roads. Glenna Meadors travels to Vandalia for work. Dale Thompson buys a new Chrysler coupe. Cyrus Nichols heads north to pick corn. Luther Caldwell of Patoka helps Chas Finch roof his house.
Tuesday report highlights Loren Lula Lila and Lorene Williams shopping in Centralia last Saturday. A Round Top pie supper Saturday night raised about 18 dollars. Loren Caldwell and wife visited his parents Oscar Caldwell family Sunday. Mary Caldwell home from Centralia for Sunday visit. Isaac Belcher was seriously bitten by an enraged hog on Monday. Northbound workers for corn include Russell Caldwell Ora Green and sons Eli Herbert Ennis Davidson and Donald Arnold.
Feeder cattle yard visits by Frank Beck at Fast St. Louis stock yards. Farmers harvest soybeans for seed. Mrs. Sarah Doolen ill at sister’s home. Andrew Gammon and Bill Oates courting local fair maidens Thursday night. Will Gehrken fills silos for Geo Albert and Frank Beck. Thomas and Holt husk corn near Bloomington. John Cleary sold beef cattle to Vandalia market. Pie supper at Mound school Thursday night. Prof Bailey teaching school. Rev G C Struebing and wife visited. John Frisby and Chas Lane work at Vandalia Ford roofing factory. Highway Commissioner Pete Anderson improving roads. Tom Curran in town on business. Mrs Clarence Miller visited Edna Beck and Flora Albert. Harold Metzger delivered mail. Harold Meaders visited relatives. Dick Rawcliffe visited sister Sarah Doolen. Henry Frisby delivered chickens to Vandalia market. Willett and Lane install new radios. Miss Merle Willett weekend with brother Mervel at Normal University. School progress under Ernest Donaldson. Pie supper enjoyed. Col Beryl Linton auctioned pies. Nellie Lane listed listlessly improving. No church services due to rain.
Delegates from nearly every Illinois county will attend the 20th annual Illinois Tuberculosis and Public Health Association meeting in Joliet on October 28 and 29. The program includes routine business and a nurses tour, followed by scientific sessions and a banquet on medical society relations. Over 300 are expected to attend. Illinois coal use in manufacturing ranks third nationally per Illinois Coal News, while Chicago hosts 58 conventions drawing more than 250 000 attendees this month per the Chicago Association of Commerce.
Carrigan residents attend Sunday School with seventeen present. Mr. and Mrs Rsaph Heinzman visit J. P. Hicks family. Carrigan Literary Society meets for second time on Oct. 18 with good turnout. Several local youths share meals at J. M. Barnett home and celebrate Neil Barnett and Clyde Modlin birthdays. Elsie Hicks visits from Carbondale weekend. I. W. Barnett family and George Fulton visit Wm. Gordon. I. W. Barnett family shop Centralia locally.
Eric R. De Young spoke at the meeting as the October term of the supreme court closed. Clerk Charles W. Vail presented 351 law students admitted to the bar. The term saw a large certiorari docket and many opinions were filed, including a mandamus order directing Judge B. David of Chicago to expunge a discharge order from records.
A stream of notes from Centralia High and Patoka High covers student humor quiz questions on rabies and word meaning, honor rolls, biology lab plans, an allHigh School party with masked costumes, and floats for a Sandoval parade. The Junior class hosts a gatekeeping party in October with fines and guarded masks, while a play titled Patsy progresses and Time magazine arrives for reading.
The article details a planned blue and white high school parade float donated by Leo Walker with Dayne Walker to drive. It also covers the death of Stanley Freyer and the school response with a funeral attendance, plus notes on college extension work for teachers and various class activities, sports, and student notices.
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