Shelby News Briefs and School Notes Chronicles Local Items
Shelby News reports visits to Kirksville by Shelby residents including M Smith and wife with daughter Heen, and weekly social calls among locals. Shelby High School notes King Lear reading, student attendance, a planned orchestra, and a boys 7 to 18 win with the Browning girls 4. Freshman Nola Pearler leaves school, while Miss Junita Gwih is absent ill and first-day enrollment stands at forty six with two cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby High School
Hoover
Smith
Shelby
Nola Pearler
Liebhart
Browning
Bolen
Kirksville
Maloeys
Junnita
Neighbourhood Notes From North-East Linn District
Weather remains cool and rainy as Perry McCollum and wife attend Der Thudium birthday dinner at Charlie Thudium's on Sunday. Pie supper at Clapp school house Friday hosted by Miss Sarah Cattey and pupils. Aunt Maggie Brewer visited Mrs. Dale Sill. Ernest Watson helped O44s McCollum and others saw wood last week. Jewel Talman staying with Mrs. L Finney. Vernice Christian visited Ruth McCollum. Several teams worked on the culvert east of Sherman Cordray's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry McCollum
Clapp School
Sarah Cattey
Maggie Brewer
Dale Sill
Ernest Watson
Local Families Share Weekend Visits
The report notes several social visits around town. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Allen and Bally visited Mrs. Allen's parents Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Myers on Saturday night. The Smith family dined with Postmaster Smith in Purdin on Sunday.
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Tom Allen
Bally
Laby D
Tom Morris
Morris Crookshanks
Glen Morris
Mary
Coriene Smith
Louise
Lorane Remick
Local notes recount visits, games and advice in Reger
Mrs. Lillia Baker visits relatives in Reger from Los Angeles while old home ties are recalled. The article lists meals, theatre outings at Lone Star, visits by many locals, basketball results against Osgood, and a humorous editorial on youth and love with moral reflections and sporting anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillia Baker
Los Angeles
Calif
W. L. Baker
L. W. Arnold
Ruth Coulter
Gus Coulter
Maud Gandy
Hazel
Anna Maud Todd
Robert Gandy
Virgil Todd
Marceline
Lone Star Theatre
Denise Purdin
Handless Wonder
Warren Gooch
Infatuations Stir Dangerous Passions in Modern Life
The article discusses how polite social life hides strong emotions that can explode as irrational infatuations between men and women. It notes that girls may fall violently in love with dangerous men, highlighting the peril of such attractions in contemporary society.
The Relentless Repeat Offender in Crime
The piece argues that repeat offenders with long crime records pose the greatest danger. It contrasts sincere reform after release with the unlikely transformation of hardened wrongdoers who have spent a life in crime.
Crime curves under Baumes laws cited in New York report
Article notes that in New York and other jurisdictions with Baumes Law life sentences on fourth felony reduce crime. It argues strict, emotionless enforcement beats reform and claims past leniency harmed crime control. It includes a business letter from S. W. Summers about commission policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Highway Commission
Highway Department
Cora Ball Team Beats Shafter on Cora Diamond
In Cora and Vicinity report the Cora ball team defeated Shafter 6 to 1 on the Cora diamond Sunday. Also notes that Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dell of Laclede visited James Pipes and family. Mr. and Mrs. Mack McCoy and family of St. Louis visited her parents A R Dillinger and wife. Edna Jennings spent Saturday afternoon in Milan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallace Level
Gene Rogers
Sumner
William Fields
Kansas City
M. J. Fields
W. A. Reger
Kirksville
Nessie Pipes
Linneus
J. W. Trumbo
Lora Lovell
Warrenton
Reger
W. W. Lovell
Louise Davis
Ruth Lovell
Yarvey Smith
Milan
Wendell Smith
Chillicothe
Grace
Browning
J. A. Pipes
Alfred Kelsall
Kansas
Claude Parnard
Armstrong
Ill
Annie Hancock
Church of God
Clarence Bardon
Osgood
Cora and
Cora
Shafter
Glen. Dell of
Laclede
James Pipes
Nickell Coal Co Advertises Illinois Iowa Missouri Coal
Coal firm promotes plentiful coal in stock at the company’s coal shed. Advertises Illinois Iowa and Missouri coal with favorable prices and invites customers to call to place orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Nickell Coal Co
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Browning, Missouri
Joe Nickell
Brownie
Shelby News
M. Smith
Heen
Pauline Jones
Mildred Gooch
Kay
Frank Phillip
Ben Mullins
Mary Gooch
Linn
Sullivan County
Republican
Hamilton
Judge County Court
Atty
Alfred Tipton J. C. Whan
Alvin B. Walker
L. C. Hoover
D. A. Cowgill
H. L. Knight
R. H. Hamilton
C. Roberts
Yours Truly, S. W. Summers
Summers
D. L. Bales
Shannon County
House of Representatives
W. R. Painter
Carrollton
Carroll County
Senate
J. G. Morgan
Unionville
Putnam County
WM. E. Freeland Forsyth
Taney County
William Joe Maryville
Nodaway County
Howard Gray Varthage
Jasper County
Morgan McCullough
Centennial Road Laws
B. H. Piepmeier
Jackson County
State Highway Department
S. S. Connett Faucett
Buchanan County
State Highway Commission
Thad Snow
Charleston
Mississippi County
Southeast Missouri Hay Growers Association
Theodore Gary Macon
Theodore Gary
East 11Th St
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