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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1933
Page
8
Public sale at the owner's home one mile east of Patoka Illinois on Thursday September 21 1933 starting 10:00 a.m. The list includes cattle horses and mules farm machinery hogs household goods and feed with cash terms. Auctioneers Join A Jennings handles the sale for F E Gilley owner.
E H Meyer owner offers horses cattle sheep hogs and farm equipment at public auction on the Wooters farm located five and a half miles southeast of Patoka Illinois. Sale starts 1 00 p m with cash terms. Items include one team good work horses Jersey cattle several heifers and a Jersey bull plus hay grain soy beans corn shocks and farm implements. John A Jennings acts as auctioneer.
A listing from the Merryman farm one mile north of Patoka Illinois dated Monday September 18 1933 describes HORSES one team roan smooth mouth well broke and FARM MACHINERY one McCor.
Goods and livestock offered for cash sale by Chas Bopp include cultivator, discs, harness, corn and oats, miscellaneous items, several cows of various ages and breeds, hog, household goods, and furniture. Sale notes indicate lunch will be served and payment by cash.
Three marriages announced in local communities. Minnie O Neil wed William Lemon on September 1 1933 at Rev Frank Brokelmeyer s home with the groom from Missouri noted. Emil Kottmeyer married Mary Manley of Vernon rural route at Vandalia on September 5 attended by br ides sister and John Houston of Patoka. Marcell Field wed Ruby Walker by Rev Lovell at a Christian minister s home on September 13 in presence of Dane Ellis Rosemary Lovell and family. both families described as prominent and well known.
Chief Highway Engineer Ernst Lieberman approves county highway contracts in Kankakee Lake DuPage and Macoupin counties funded by the states 3 cent gasoline tax with about 107000 expenditure. State Representative John Acker dies at 63 from a heart attack in Savanna after five terms in the house. He was born in 1870 and survived by his wife.
County Treasurer Mc Donough reports 17 million dollars in back taxes under the Skarda receivership law. The Lincoln portrait of Lincoln before the beard joins Lincolnaniana at the Century of Progress exhibit. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not attracts crowds at the fair. Rodney Brandon retires as welfare director. A L Bowen named acting director. ATO files suit against motor vehicle act sections. governor appoints Brandon to welfare board. County highway contracts approved. ice cream fat rule raised to 12 percent. J Earl Major named to federal bench. J J Rice reports 1,866,876 collected from retailers tax. Odd Fellows meet in Springfield Sept 18 to 22 with 5000 delegates. Springfield Arsenal overhaul underway and House of Representatives damaged by fire being repaired. Dr Jirka assigns three doctors to monitor St Louis sleeping sickness developments.
Illinois officials expect no general outbreak from Missouri. Gov Horner urges September highway safety drive. Willard Rhoads team set a 26 ft 5 in dynamometer pull for 42 250 pounds. Lehman and Nichols claim market pig titles with Duroc Jersey and Berkshire wins. 4-H style prize goes to Virginia Clark who will represent Illinois nationally. Parole tightening suggested by Judge Hall amid crime drive. Supreme court politics draw attention to appointment committee. Barney Oldfield races a 4600 pound Allis-Chalmers tractor at Farm Bureau day setting a new five mile record. Milton Tate wins state horseshoe title at the fair.
The Illinois state fair society horse show crowned champions in multiple classes with top prizes including a gold watch in a 15 event finals. Chicago’s C R Thompson placed second, while Centre Colonel from Betydor stables won the junior state event. New sanitation regulations were announced by Director Walter W McLaughlin to protect restaurant patrons and beverage emporiums.
Restaurants soda fountains and taverns may choose between two approved cleaning methods for utensils. One uses warm soapy wash followed by rinse in 170 degrees Fahrenheit water or chlorine rinse. The other uses clear water with chlorine to about two hundred parts per million for cleansing and sterilization.
John Garmers reporting from the Sadie Council McCue farm north of Fancy Creek says seven acres produced 300 bushels of wheat, or 42 bushels per acre, believed to be the highest yield in central Illinois.
Sixteen bills backed by Governor Henry Horner establish strict oversight of Illinois insured firms through a new insurance department led by Ernest Palmer. Smith-Hurd revised statutes have been delivered to state officials and attorneys. J. M. Braude says many state beer license applicants are refused for lacking required local licenses.
A brief, reflective line suggesting that if people received what they deserve they would understand real trouble, implying a moral reckoning or sense of justice.
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