Wanted Column Finds Deals and Trades in Centralia
Local notices show ads: coal and wood heating stoves $29.95, coal and wood range $34.95, cotton mattress $5.95, coil springs $7.95, a short and long wave console radio $39.95 from Montgomery Ward Centralia. Also trades include a billy goat for a pig and a cook stove or sewing machine for sale or trade. Rentals list a home of Lady Church available Sept 1, 1934, inquire Mrs. E. E. Gray in Decatur Illinois. Other items: rock phosphate contact Wm Ehrat Shobonier, a yearling buck, 9 shots weighing 60-70 lbs from Frank Crawford and Register Office listings.
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Montgomery Ward & Co
Centralia
Lady Church
E. E. Gray
William Steel
Decatur
Illinois
Patoka Register Subscription Notice
The Patoka Register announces subscription at 1.50 dollars per year. Published in Patoka Illinois with second class matter and under act of Congress dated March 3 1879.
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T’atoka
Illinois
Patoka
Brick School Social At Charltons Honors Midland Kin
Tuesday dinner at Mr and Mrs John Charlton honored Rev J Fradenburg his wife and daughter from Midland Michigan plus his sister and family from Salem area Also Nell Corad Ramsey Kansas cosmetology association president and vice president elected at Chicago convention spoke en route home In Odin area Dennis Branch hosted visitors and news notes on local schooling and crop issues including red top grass seed yields and watermelon patches
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John Charlton
Dennis
Odin
Princeton
Indiana
Chicago
Evelyn
Dwight Ramsey
Randy
G. F. Jet
Udi
Anna Adams
Alma
Andrew Nichols
Cabbage Chapel
Paul Ramsey
Ilene
Pearl Jackson
Dennis Branch
Grandma Ramsey
Kansas
Gladys Hannah
Brick School
J. P. Hicks
Pearl McKibben
Ora Nichols
Local Family Notices From Odin Township Residents
Mr and Mrs Thomas Hodslaw and daughter Juanita visited W R McClelland s family to help care for Mrs McClelland. Numerous Hodslaw Austin Case and McClelland relatives moved between homes Monday to Sunday for visits and chores. An Alfred Carter and Loyd Bryant car collision caused minor injuries and vehicle damage Wednesday night.
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Thomas Hodslaw
Juanita
W. R. McClelland
McClelland
Sella McClelland
Della McClelland
Melvin Austin
Phyllis
A. C. Austin
Sandoval
Virgil Case
Gerald
George Case
Laclede
James Case
Lora Holtslaw
Nellie
Etehil Austin
Mesdames Belle Zoeller
Helen Ross
Emma Deadmond
Susan McClelland
Alfred Carter
Loyd Bryant
Lois McClelland
Lora Holtsiaw
Howard McClelland
Edwin Ross
Pearl McClelland
William Holtslaw
Mason Holtslaw
J. R. Holtslaw
Lawrence McClelland
Bernard Ross
CCC
Beardstown
Isaac Ross
Herman McClelland
Elvin Holtslaw
Junior Holtslaw
Nellie Holtslaw
Belle Carter
Local residents attend weekend events in Fairman Patoka and Salem
Fairman's Chas Lutz filled his silo last Saturday. Mrs. Clara Henning and son Elmer shopped in Patoka Saturday morning. Norma Jean Carter of Centralia visited her grandmother Mrs. Etta Carrigan for several days. A truckload of Fairman youths attended a young peoples meeting in Salem last Wednesday night.
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Chas, Lutz
Clara Henning
Elmer
Patoka
Norma Jean Carter
Centralia
Etta Carrigan
Fairman
Young Peoples
Salem
Rehired minister amid school term and local visits
Rev Frank Altom is rehired for Fair man church for the coming year. Steele school opened last Monday with Miss Pearl Britt as teacher. Claude Snyder of the CCC camp at Galena Ill visited several days last week with his uncle Frank Snyder and family. Harold Dale Tracy and Claude Snyder visited Sunday with Dutch Greggory and family near Walnut Hill. Henry Ferhring Joe Turner and families of St Louis Paul and Delois Turner and families of Sterling Ill visited over Sunday with their father Pearl Turner and family.
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Frank Altom
Fairman Church
Steele
D. A. Headley
St. Louis
Fred Brown
Kentucky
Tennessee
Charles Ehlers
Guy Jones
Decatur
John Jones
Opal
Helen Jarrett
Vandalia
Charles Jones
Harold Livesay
Kinmundy
Wanda Doolen
Ladies Aid
M. E
Hazel Cox
Brown
Oral Stump
Cannon
C. C. Murfin
Bowen
Wesley Troutt
Floyd Bowen
Wilbur Foltz
Sandoval
Charley Lutz
Dan Reeter
Glenn
Eldon
Burl Bowen
Clarence Bowen
Harvey Hudspeth
Ford’s
Jim Hill
Jim
Joe Pence
Claude Snyder
CCC
Frank Snyder
Dan
Fred Reeter
Centralia
Cecil
Dan Reeter Jr
Earl Lutz
Bob Foltz
James Troutt
Robert Terry
Irvin Bowen
Vernon Miller Returns to Hannibal for September Court
William A. Miller of Vernon returns to Hannibal Missouri for the September term. Local social notes list Harbin Peacock family Wel don visiting Effie Hathaway family and others over Labor Day weekend.
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William A. Miller
Hannibal
Harbin Peacock
Weldon
Effie Hathaway
Moving Week Causes Local Family Shifts Townwide
Mrs Murfin hosted visitors after moving many local families this week. L E Green and family relocated to Patoka while Herbert Laws moved from the West place to the Binnion property. Frank Robertson and family moved from Bear Greek to the Leo Kinney place. Fred Protz and family from St Louis visited with Gus Protz and family and the Protz sisters east of town. Mrs Wade spent Sunday and Monday with relatives in Farina.
Local social notes from Steele area residents
Mrs Grace Troutt visited Mrs Ira Hill on Thursday morning. Families from Bowen Foltz Reeter and Reeter groups spent time with relatives in Steele and nearby towns including Greenville Centralia and Rock Falls. Trips to Sandoval and Centralia occurred for schooling and shopping while several households hosted kin and neighbors through the week.
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Grace Troutt
Ira Hill
Irvin Bowen
Greenville
Bowen
John Terry
Fred Reeter
Vandalia
Dan Reeter
Wilma Foltz
Ninal
Marie Lutz
Gladys Schmahl
Rocky Falls
Historic Pageant Nears Final Shows at World’s Fair
The Wings of a Century pageant nears its last performances at the Chicago World’s Fair. The reenactment depicts the driving of the golden spike by original locomotives, marking the completion of the Union Pacific railroad and the crossing of the American continent by steel rails. The fair closes October 31.
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Chicago
Union Pacific Railroad
World’s Fair Mexico Village Part Of Chicago Exposition
After October 31 the Mexican Village at the Chicago World’s Fair will be demolished as the expo ends. The fair still hosts large closing week events and draws a flood of curious visitors before the final closing day.
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Chicago
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Cyril DeLay
Wm. Ehrat
Shobonier, Ill
Geo. Wickersham
Buck
Frank
Crawford
R. C. McGuire
Hoffman
Linton & Beery
Patoka, Illinois
MAE Eagan Auto and Property Insurance
COX & Martin
Vernon
C. S. Huddleston
Centralia, Illinois
P. O. Box
Geo
Bennet
New York
N. C
Oda Fountain
J. Altom & Son
Patoka Register
G. F. Jett
H. C. Mitchell
Sarah Mitchell
M. P. Jett
Millie Chambers
Springfield
Garrett Farthing
San Diego
California
Mildred Adams
R. G. Keeley
Centralia, Ill
Odin Township
Farmers’ Cooperative
Columbia
Weaver
Wasem
Mike Latorra
United States
Mexico
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