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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1931
Page
4
East Fork and nearby households are shown visiting, husking corn, stacking soybeans, and milking chores. Names include Bowen, Williams, Schmahl, Perkins, Goodwin, Patoka, Patoka and nearby communities with several Thursday and Sunday calls and farm tasks noted.
Mrs. Wm. Perkins of Lone Prairie engages in a local business venture noted in the column. No further details available in the fragment.
A sequence of Sunday and weekday visits links the Holtslaws Rosses Day family and many others across Odin Township. The gatherings include Ethel Holtslaw, Isaac Ross, Ethel Austin, Phyllis, Sarah McClelland, Chauncey and Ashley church circles, and a Barr Literary night with officers Asa McClelland and Less Williams.
Mr and Mrs John Sussen and family visited Mr and Mrs Richard Huddleston last Sunday. Mrs Marybell Stombaugh called on Mrs Huddleston last week. Last week featured soybean threshing in the neighborhood. Mr and Mrs Ben Pryian welcomed a baby boy. Mrs Bertha Mery and Mrs Frank Garman visited Mrs Dorothy Wright last week.
Want column lists several winter apple varieties priced tow by C. M. Rogier. Also for sale black twig apples for winter use at 50c and 25c a bu at Farmer. Found beedle hound at Mrs. Rue Nichols farm. Lost dog solid red with black tipped ears and black nose. Reward J. C. Caudle Vernon Ill. Warehouse building for sale between Masonic Building and City Hall. purchaser to remove building. leave bid with P. B. Simcox.
Harry Warden Mc Haney and family visited Saturday with F. M. Sanders and Herschel Campbell called on Wm. Campbell's family Sunday. A. E. Donoho injured falling from a wagon with broken ribs and head wounds. H. W. Somerville remains very poorly after a recent illness. Neighbors and relatives hosted dinners and called on several families, with Forest Sanders and others planning harvests and coal hauled for H. W. Somerville.
Ross Herring and family spent Sunday with Pete Bopp and family. Temple and Steele scnds played ball at Fairman Sunday, losing 13 to 14 to Temple. Myrl Snyder visited parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Snyder and family. Charlie Bowen and Dan Reeter called on Wash Bowen and family. Nora Bradford spent Friday night with Opal Belcher.
Mr and Mrs Mat Belcher called on Holis Pulver and family Sunday. Nora Bradford spent Saturday night with Eunice Snyder. Mable Bowen visited Opal Belcher Sunday afternoon.
The Patoka Register is a weekly newspaper printed by J. W. Alexander sole owner with L. W. Ballance as editor and manager. Subscription rate is $1.00 per year and advertising costs 20c per column inch for display and 5c per line for classified. Entered as second class matter in 1908 at Patoka Illinois under the 1879 act.
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