Prize Winners Named at Patoka Fall Festival Display
At Patoka Fall Festival manager Paul Calvert announced prize winners from the Patoka Farmers Elevator display. Winners include Albert Hopkins, Tom Chappell, Cecil Thalman, Terry Page, Tom Oates, Kenneth Meador, Dee Anne Adams, Don Muffin, Bill Nelson, Ws Griffin, Bessie Murray, Lucas Walker, Pauline Gehrkin, Lula Sharp and others. Prizes are to be picked up at the Elevator office. Attendees from out of town listed include Leo Walker of Tucson Arizona and many residents from Illinois towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Calvert
Patoka
Albert Hopkins
Tom Chappell
Cecil Thalman
Terry Page
Tom Oates
Kenneth Meador
Dee Anne Adams
Don Muffin
Bill Nelson
Ws Griffin
Bessie Murray
Lucas Walker
Pauline Gehrkin
Lula Sharp
Calvert
In Memoriam Lawrence Belcher Four Years Gone
In loving memory of husband and father Lawrence Eldoris Belcher who died September 9 four years ago. Sylvia Belcher Wanda Parker and family remember him with love and sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Eldoris Belcher
Sylvia Belcher
Wanda Parker
Fall Festival Draws Crowds and Prizes Across Town
The fourth annual Fall Festival drew large crowds with rides, food, and concerts led by the Patoka High School Band. Prizes included ponies to Joe Devore and Steve Murfin, a greased pig to David Feather, and rodeo awards to Terry Torrence and Terry Phillips. Float prizes honored Vernon and Wesley MYF, Patoka MYF, Patoka Panthers 4H, with honorable mentions for Patoka Sunbeams Lucy's Cafe and Lions Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ting
Patoka High School
Joe Devore
Mulbury Grove
Steve Murfin
Vernon
David Feather
Patoka
Terry Torrence
Terry Phillips
Centralia
Eldon Dep
Ple
Stanley Gun
Keyesport
Vernon and
Wesley
Patoka Panthers
Patoka Sunbeams
Lucy’s Cafe
Lions Club
Walden Reunion Draws Sixty-Eight Attendees From Area
Sixty eight attendees and dependents of John Walden gathered at the park on Sunday. The list includes Elton Carter of Shattuc, Bruce Carter of Patoka, Maude Howell of Ogden, Susie Carter and many others from Patoka Vernon Decatur and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Walden
Walden
the Park
Elton
Norma
David Carter
Shattuc
Bruce
Ida
Judy
Linda Carter
Patoka
Maude
Lester
Dick Howell
Ogden
Milburn Jewell
Tommie Carter
Centralia
Susie Carter
Ann
Bob
Mike
Danny
Debbie
Melinda Nattier
Eileen
Karl
Ernest
Pat
Scott
Myrna Sue
Tom Murfin
Vernon
Jimmie
Jane
Sandra
Nina
Jerry Britt
Lucille Markwell
Fred Nisser
St. Louis
Missouri
Trenna
Diane
Kenneth
Darlene Potts
Berkeley
Kathryn
Mike Johnston
Julia
Kathleen
Suzanne Ray
Eva Chapman
McLean, Marl
Maxine Anderson
Minnie Eaglin
Della Johnstone
L. T
Jamita Wheritt
Keyesport
Oran Ruth
Phil
Morris Carter
James L. Ballance
Douglas Ballance
Richard
Esta Cox
Phoebe Carter
Evelyn Ballance
John
Ruth
Dwight
Myrna
Ralph Elliott
Peoria
Robert
Mary
le Ann
Steve
Mark Collins
Decatur
Weekly School Lunch Menu Highlights
Monday offers hot dogs with buttered potatoes corn tomato slice peach and milk. Tuesday features ham mashed potatoes with gravy peas tomato slice pineapple ring bread butter. Wednesday serves meat loaf mashed potatoes and gravy beets jello with fruit bread butter milk. Thursday presents hamburger on bun mixed vegetables dill pickles cake fruit and milk. Friday includes macaroni and cheese green beans combination salad pear bread butter and milk.
Back to School Program at Baptist Church
Children are invited to the Back to School Program at the Baptist Church on Saturday September 7 at 2 pm with Sheila Jolliff as teacher. The lesson is We Share the Story of Jesus and the memory verse Studies. Roll Call reads What I Learned at School this week. Demonstration shows learning by testing seeing feeling smelling and touching.
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the Baptist Church
Sheila Jolliff
Jesus
Normal University to Be Renamed Illinois State University at Normal
Illinois State Normal University will become Illinois State University at Normal on January 1 1964 by legislative action signed by Gov Otto Kerner. The change coincides with the university’s 107th birthday on February 18 1964 and is expected to be widely used thereafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Normal, Ill
Illinois State Normal University
Illinois State University At Normal
Illinois
Otto Kerner
Gov. Kerner
Tom Durham
Wayne Johnson
Ohio
Lil
Marion County ASCS Office Hours in Salem
Harold D. Crippen announces weekly County Committee office hours in Salem. The Marion County ASCS Committee will meet farmers Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p m at the East Main office in Salem Illinois to discuss program concerns.
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Salem
Harold D. Crippen
Marion County
ASCS
Marion County Ascs
East Main
Illinois
Homemakers Extension Meeting Set for September 12
The Patoka unit of Homemaker's Extension will meet September 12 at 1 30 p.m. in the home of Mrs Charles Jordan with Mrs Paul Calvert as co hostess. Miss Brite will present a lesson on Space for Living and Working When you Build or Remodel.
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Patoka
Homemaker’s Extension
Charles Jordan
Paul Calvert
Brite
Patoka Warriors Baseball Schedule Fall 1963
The Patoka Warriors list 1963 fall games with opponents Odin Mulberry Ramsey Carlyle Sandoval Okanville and others. Home and away designations appear for each date including practices around September 17 and 18 as they prepare for the season.
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Odin
Mulberry
Ramsey
Carlyle
Sandoval
Okanville
Gerrish Reunion Set for September at Salem Bryan Park
The Gerrish Reunion will be held September 15 at Salem Bryan Memorial Park. Basket dinner at noon. Friends and relatives are welcome.
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Gerrish
Salem Bryan Memorial Park
Outhouse Patient at Barnes Hospital in St Louis
Floyd Outhouse is a patient at Barnes Hospital in St Louis. Dorothy is superintendent of construction and Tom mie is head carpenter. Tommy Eastman and his wife are building new additions to their house including a front porch and a bathroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Outhouse
Barnes Hospital
St. Lewis
Tommy Eastman
Dorothy
Tommie
Vernon Community News Highlights Local Visits and Visits
Vernon residents share visiting days with relatives from Chicago to Vandalia and Effingham. The list includes Mr. and Mrs. Eberlee Norris hosting Mond ay dinners, trips to California and Des tland, and hospital updates for Mrs. Lillie Walton and Mrs. Nora Chriss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Brown
Gene Skirock
Chicago
Eberlee Norris
Frank Brown
Carolyn Ehrat
Leonard Gehle
St. Peter
Lillie Walton
Fayette County Hospital
Linda Binnion
R. N
Alton Hospital
Myrel Fredrick
Hartford
Binnion Place
Ada Snyder
Vandalia
Gregory
Terry Betts
Effingham
I. C. Betts
Wilmer Meaders
Raymond Meaders
California
Randall
Paul Caudle
Dick Zimmerman
Erblee Norris
Beulah Jarrett
Kay Jarrett
Sterling
Nora Chriss
Henry Cline
James Milligan
Beverly
Dewey Bernius
John Calhoun
Peoria
Sherman Allison
Belleville
Donald Bernius
Paul Bernius
Helen Easley
Brentwood
Missouri
Ron Forney
Mildred Carter
Dwayne
Decatur
Tonie Sorrell
Jesse Ripple
Ashley
Norman Piercy
Disneyland
Knott's the Painted Desert
Grand Canyon
The
Petrified Forest
Lee Peyton
Dick Bassett
Illiopolis
Mason Bassett
Illinois sets 85 day duck season dates
Illinois named November 1 to December 5 as the 85 day duck season. The dates were announced by William T. Lodge director of the Illinois Department of Conservation and align with a plan from the U S Department of Interior Fish and Wildlife Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
William T. Lodge
Illinois Department of Conservation
U. S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service
Patoka Social Notices Highlight Weekend Visits and Movements
Judy Ballance of Rockford calls on grandparents Roy and Mre Ballance. Many relatives visit Patoka during Labor Day weekend and plan relocations, with Bob and Cheryl Chance, Yorks en route to Washington DC. Fort Knox soldiers and families visit, and travels include Indianapolis and Mt Vernon Ohio.
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Judy Ballance
Rockford
Illinois
Mrs
Roy Ballance
Harold Chance
Cheryl
Michael York
Grace Chance
Anna Britt
Leo Ballance
Boulder
Colorado
Clarence Ballance
Belleville
Gerald Crabb
Bitler
Robert Koons
Clinton
Robert Eagan
Gloria
Salem
Roda Caldwell
Jean Howell
Decatur
Reba Gray
Harold Pugh
James Ballance
Orville Genre
Chicago
Joe Outhouse
Wendell Outhouse
Indianapolis
Indiana
Lydia Schnarr
Neal Thompson
Dale
Genie
Schnarr
Mt. Vernon
Ohio
T. T. Genre
Genre
Halden’s
Bills
Ray Greys
Shelbyville
Ray
State Farm Mutual
Wallace Alexander
Centralia
Patoka
O. J. Hill
Ververs
Galloway
Bill
Elsie Kidder
Oklahoma City
Sandoval
Ruth Willet
Patoka School Lunch Program Aims to Boost Nutrition
National School Lunch Program serves 16 million U S children daily, funded by federal state and local sources. It operates through 68 000 schools nationwide with non profit lunchrooms offering type A meals. The program costs are shared among federal cash and food, state and local funds, and lunch prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Marie Brite
Marion County Home Advisor
U.S
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
Agricultural Marketing Service
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Out of Town
Leo Walker
Tucon
Arizona
Kerry Crabb
Butler
Gene Bricker
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
M. A. Willett
Berwin
Turla Schaaf
Lila Taylor
Wayne Brumfield
John Davis
Charles Merryman
Ethel Hanna
Otto Reese
Kinmundy
Memoriam
Ned
Mark Cox
Bill Jenkins
Baptist Church
Normal University
Homemakers
Letta Hopkins
Randy and
Brad Jones
Kinmunday
Essie Robinson
Annabelle Doolen
Iowa City
Dave Robinson
Patoka School
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