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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1908
Page
9
Local items from Patoka detail market offerings at Town Market including fresh fish and smoked hog jowls. Recurring names note visits, funerals, church events, and clerical changes, with residents traveling to Conn and Kinmundy for services and conferences.
Patoka prepares its strongest Sunday lineup with Pugh and Gray handling the battery. A 2 30 PM game is scheduled. Also Sept 27 Baptist church program by S T L seniors and juniors with singing, recitations, and flowers for the sick honoring Francis E Willard's birthday.
Wilt Bore for origin within sixty days are land about two and one half miles from town. Patoka has been one of the busiest places this summer, and now if they strike oil close to town it will certainly boom in earnest.
Card of Thanks expresses gratitude to friends for kindness during sickness and death of their father and thanks to Soldiers and Ma sons along with Albert Cruse for flowers. Miss Nelphia Buss hosted a Saturday evening gathering with guests and watermelons. A Tuesday social at J H Humes featured watermelons and candy with attendees listed. A Hamburger Social at Lillian Vail’s home drew several young people and named attendees.
Virgil Cox and Ethel Hopkins wed in Vandalia last Tuesday, uniting the Cox farming family of Will and Monroe with the respected Hopkins clan. The bride and groom are described as industrious and well loved, with friends and relatives sending best wishes for a bright future.
C E Lake will hold a public sale at his Vernon area residence on Saturday September 26 1908 starting at 10 o clock. The sale includes 110 head of cattle 2 fresh last spring 5 two year old heifers three with calves at side one fresh without calf 26 head of breeding ewes grade Shropshire 10 spring lambs one Register Shropshire Mansel Barn and 12 head of small shoats.
Ernest Ramer left Monday for Champaign to attend the university. H. P. Smith did business in Patoka Tuesday. Miss Ithea White and Pearl McCartan visited Miss Lois McNeil Sunday. The W C T U Silver Medal contest at Zion crowned Miss Bessie Lynch. Clark Yast left Monday for Lebanon to attend school. Republican friends went to Centralia to hear Gov. Deenen. Miss Clara Sullens visited grandfather F Sullens on the farm. John Brown now runs the I C R R agency. A Kile left inmundy for tower work. Mrs Tom Williams moved from farm to town and holds the McCullough property.
The column reports E Henegar cutting corn for C I McHaney and a short tomato crop due to dry weather. Local residents, visits to relatives in Moneaqua, Kinmundy, Sandoval, Vernon, Vandalia, and nearby towns are noted along with farm duties, transport, and a mishap when Tessie Rouse was kicked by a horse.
Landowner J. S. Swaxsox forbids trespassing hunting or sand removal on both farms under law penalty. Public notice warns all parties against intrusions or extraction actions on his property.
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