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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1931
Page
5
Friday gatherings link the Brough Holtslaw and Holtslaw families with J. R. Holtslaw. Barr school opens with Miss Viola Hicks. Multiple visits connect McClelland, Austin, Ross, and Johnson households with extended relatives in Odin Township. A trip to Sandoval involves Melvin Austin and Isaac Ross families.
Sunday visitors gathered at J. R. Holtslaws including Mrs. Anna McClelland Jas R McClelland and wife Ethel Austin Vera Kretzer and children and several Holtslaws and Case family members. Jas R McClelland and wife called on Lawrence Heinzman at Shattuc. The Cases and McClellands joined Isaac Ross and Mrs. Jane Williams of Sandoval for a Sunday evening visit.
Lewis Kissner and wife and Flos sie Belcher were in Irvington and Centralia last Friday morning. Several from here attended the Dorris sale in Patoka Saturday afternoon. G. W. Lewis spent the weekend.
R D Kissner and wife and Jim Belcher with his wife from Peoria visited last week along with Ike and Owen Belcher families. Roy Thalman hauled peaches to Decatur and northern points. Tom Ballance and wife were in Centralia last Thursday. Relatives from St Louis visited Mrs Rose Britt and family Saturday and Sunday. Aunt Tilda Chance passed away, sympathy extended. John Thalman visited with Chas Thalman and family. Owen Belcher and family visited Edna with Ike Belcher Sunday. Ben Padberg family was unintentionally omitted from the basket dinner attendees at Fairy Dell a week ago Sunday.
Maurice Maulding visited Salem Sunday while Chas Arthur Gray of Cartier spent weekend with grandparents Gray. Mrs Allen Stevenson of Pittsburg Penn visited with brother Henry Sommerville who is in serious condition. J M Sanders stayed with son Forrest for fall work. Cecil Black and family and Herschel Campbell and wife visited relatives Sunday. Alvin Gray was an Odin investor Wednesday. Mrs Helen Deadman visited with brother Guy Sunday. Chandler Carl Hines family called on relatives Sunday. Francis Gray and Mrs John Fulton with Miss Alpha Gray and mother hosted a peach peeling party for Alvin Gray Friday. John Fulton and wife plus Jack Cavins and wife attended Kinmundy church Sunday night. Andy Bobbitt of Odin works for H W Somerville. End note: Advice is given more freely than it is received.
Fredonia residents host visiting relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Franklin and Mr. and Mrs. Gettleman. Jakie and Billie Gettleman depart for St Louis to begin winter study. Local social rounds include calls and Sunday dinners at several homes. Notes mention sick list, helpers at the Nichols home, and many neighborhood exchanges. A regional note cites Silver by product value from Hardin County mines and Morris Illinois as a leading sash pulley factory.
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