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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1965
Page
4
Local notes from Patoka list Bruce Pugh's return from Vandalia Hospital with a three week bed confinement. Visitors include Paul Walker and multiple California, Missouri, and Illinois relatives. Community events mention Legion Auxiliary gathering, Fall Festival, picnics, church visitors, and Labor Day visits among families and neighbors. The column closes with aphorisms from Ker mit T. Hubin.
The Vernon Register records numerous visits and social gatherings. Residents from Sparta, Springfield, Monticello, Florissant, Vandalia and Decatur joined relatives around Patoka, Kinmundy, Sandoval, and Vernon Park. A mix of weekend trips includes zoo outings in St. Louis and a Carlyle Dam sight-seeing excursion with several households hosting guests.
Hillard Park of the Okaw Valley Council announces the seventh edition of the Boy Scout Handbook to be published September 15. It features a new colorful cover and a 750 000 copy initial print run, totaling 21 175 000 copies since 1910. The 448 page volume costs $1 and is available at the Belleville Scout Office or regional distributors. Grounding fences will reduce lightning damage to wire by electrolysis affecting galvanized coating on ungrounded fences.
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