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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1934
Page
4
Local farmers and residents report cool conditions and engage in social calls around Morrisonville and nearby towns. Community members including Shepard, Barnes, Belcher, and Stone families share visits, with illness notes and a CCC camp departure in Glenview Illinois. Activities include dinners, handshakes, and casual travel mentions across the Neck area.
Orville Hill and family visited Sunday with Dorris Cozad and family. Tom Ballance and wife and daughter Lora passed through this vicinity Sunday. Clarence Cozad threshed for Wm. Campbell last Wednesday. Gene Simpson and family visited Sunday with John Talbert and family. Mr. and Mrs. Geo Engilmire and Orville Campbell of St. Louis visited the weekend with the Wm. Campbell family. Mr. and Mrs. John Nichols left Thursday for the west for his health. Mrs. Affa Williams moved furniture to Sullivan to the home of her daughter Daisy Lee. Mrs. Ruth Talbert helped her mother cook for threshers last Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Eunice McHaney and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. McHaney visited Sunday with J. P. Jensen family near Shattue. Clarence Cozad and family called on Henry Stillabower Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Pearl Renfro and children visited with her sister Edith Hines and family near Salem. Wilbur Talbert, sick, is back in school. Wm. Campbell and son Orville attended church at Givens Chapel Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Lush host friends including the Hicks and Ticknors with visits from Barr and Patoka residents. Miss Swalley narrowly escaped an accident en route to school. Nancy Kay’s seventh birthday party on Oct 20 featured Halloween decor and treats for seventeen children. Dwight Briscoe’s work injury prompted a brief absence, while a Halloween party at the Briscoes drew about forty guests. Democratic rally attendance noted in Sandoval as Groff and Anderson attended.
Illinois farmers with decent alfalfa and sweet clover stands benefited from 83 years of limestone experiments at the University of Illinois. Since 1901 tests show lime neutralizes soil acidity, enabling better legume growth during drought. Farmers should test soils before liming, guided by Bulletin 405 and local county advisers.
Carl E. DeButts urges Illinois homeowners and real estate taxpayers to register and vote on November 6 for a $30 million emergency relief bond. He warns a $38 million state tax levy already in place would raise taxes further if the bonds fail, with bonds paying debt over 20 years from county and city shares.
The Illinois Central reports one third of last year’s grade crossing crashes occurred at protected crossings and nearly one third were caused by autos colliding with locomotive sides. Officers urge driver caution and say most accidents could be avoided with reasonable precautions.
The article notes that 42 of 128 accidents occur at protected crossings despite warning signs and added protection in busy areas. Fatalities nationwide eased from 1811 in 1931 to 1511 in 1932, with Illinois Central crossing deaths dropping from 56 in 1932 to 47 in 1938, while railroads invest heavily in safety and training.
M E Church South announces Sunday activities with a church school at 9 30 morning worship at 10 45 sermon Life s Crown or Cross and an evening service at 7 00 led by Pastor H M Cady Revival at Island Chapel postponed to Tuesday October 30 at 7 30 pm Everyone invited
No hunting allowed on lands owned or controlled by signatories H C Hampy Harold Curry and wife of Vandalia The note records a Sunday visit by the Curry couple to Vandalia home folks and reaffirms access limits with a signed pledge.
Mr and Mrs Henry Stone visited Centralia for eye treatment last week. Mrs Emma Oneil a Centralia visitor Tuesday. Dewan Jensen from Carbondale visited kin over the weekend. Ed Wurm home from Centralia hospital Thursday. Mrs Hugh Jensen in St Louis Monday to see a ill grandfather in Barnes Hospital. Mr and Mrs Charles Crowder visited Walter Hester family. Many local men have gone north to husk corn. Mr and Mrs Peter Jensen and daughter Ellen called on Chas Pigg family Sunday.
Local residents gather for weekend and weeklong visits across towns. Kenneth Crawford and baby from Vandalia stay with G C Betts. Mrs Lela Gray and Alice Decatur. George Bund Maron. Ed Carpenter St. Louis. Eberlee Norris. John Jones Opal. Betty Nichols with E E Morgan. Robert Nichols Zion. Miss Mary Barrie Chicago. Cora Hanson attends Rebekah State assembly in Springfield. Foltz family moves south of town. E E Morgan takes Cecil Lowe to St Louis. Ray Howard Pope family visit J M Thompson. Ruth Moore Centralia. Charles Foltz Patoka visit daughter Clarence Hanson. Lida Garrett Villa Grove visits sister Isabel Protz. Harry Godal St Louis visits Tillman Goedel.
Community notes report Jim Sport of Fairman traveling to St Louis in search of work. Local visits include Mrs Etta Carrigan in Centria and the Belcher family from Vernon to the Frank Snyder home. Sunday School attendance 45 with a 52 cent collection. Otis Snyder from Decatur stayed several days with his brother Will. Road west of Fairman advances. Mrs Chas Ahlf and Mrs Irvin Bowen visited Mrs Roxie Snyder. Norma Jean Carter visited her grandmother Mrs Carrigan.
Fragmentary OCR notes claim an executive states a brother oversees many workers. Text asks where and mentions mowing towns in a cemetery. The readable phrases are imprecise and lack verifiable entities.
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