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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1927
Page
8
Fresh candy sold locally with notices that Geo. E. Ballance and Mrs. Ollie Alexander are in town. Olney resident Mrs. Walter Dively is visiting her daughter.
Burly Alexander of Sandoval visited here on business Thursday morning. Mrs. Mary Jennings, previously ill, shows marked improvement this week. The Harper family were Centralia visitors Thursday. Geo. E. Ballance and W. B. Chilton with wives, social callers in Patoka Wednesday. Ballance returned from Shreveport and had been ill since returning. Overalls and cotton goods prices rise. buy now.
Candy sale inviting children to visit Geo. E. Ballance store and umbrella ads. Departure of Robert Caldwell for GE training in Fort Wayne. Local market notes on red top seed. Various residents and visitors including Henry Blankinship Ben Livesay Ray Gray families. Paul Quay suffers eye injury with hopeful recovery.
Local Patoka residents attend gatherings and visit kin in nearby towns. The page also recaps August state fair events in Illinois with record poultry shows and dairy exhibits, plus a legal notice about a boundary case in Marion County and a chancery suit pending in Salem Illinois.
Carrigan district news items by eighth grade pupils Dorothy Meridith Hazel Hicks Cecil Baker and Carol Harker note visits by local families. Reported social calls occur Sunday and Monday as residents visit neighbors and attend to simple affairs in the community.
House Bill 277 amends section 115 of the school law to add an eighteenth clause enabling directors to establish classes for residents over twenty one and to pay related expenses from district funds. References H. B. 828 and H. B. 421 as associated measures. House Bill 278 also noted with amendment to section 60 of the Cigit A.
A witty exchange notes that if Shakespeare lived today he would be about three hundred years old, highlighting the timeless regard for his enduring legacy.
On Saturday night at Patoka's Legion Picnic a group of excited youths in a sedan traveled in from the north along the hard road. They left the road at Peddicord's corner and headed west toward Cracker Neck, their whispered purpose clear to a bystander.
In last weeks issue a report collected by Harry Hayes and Miss Ruth Pugh stated Frogtown visitors were in town Sunday night. Miss Pugh informs the Register the report is erroneous and the item is corrected. Publication notice from the Circuit Court of Illinois Marion County.
A historical want column lists items for sale and found in Patoka Illinois. Entries include cider and apple butter making, fencing posts, Coca Cola kegs, breeding sheep, Polish China hogs, honey sales after August, and an eight room dwelling with extensive amenities for sale near a school and gym.
Property listing offers 59 acres on hard road just outside Keysport village with a well improved home. Available for cash sale or trade for farm land. Also two residence properties in the Messinger addition offered by J L Simcox.
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