Local and Personal News from Caruthersville Area
Jim Carney was run over by a Memphis and St. Louis train at Grassy Bayou on Saturday and lost a leg. Mesdames J A Wallace and Earl Wilks attended a Pierce Hall dance in Caruthersville Friday night. Mrs C W Tull and Mrs J W Tull visited Jas Tull in Memphis hospital earlier this week. Hilly Friedman Beatrice Spalding and Hazel Reeves drove from Caruthersville Sunday for a brief visit.
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Jim Carney
Memphis and
St. Louis
Grassy Bayou
Mesdames J. A. Wallace and
Earl Wilks
Pierce Hall
Caruthersville
Hilly Friedman
Beatrice Spalding
Hazel Reeves
Hostess House Family Reunion Honors Doughty Doughboy Band
A vivid, laudatory note recalls a Hostess House family reunion praising a corporal and his fellow soldiers. They stood with gallantry for a white haired woman described as dressed in black, reflecting wartime virtue and shared tribute.
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Lady Fair
Mother’s visit shapes Coblenz Hostess House tale
By Grace Goulder a German born American mother visits the Coblenz Hostess House seeking her son Ralph Stepp in the American Army. The family had endured years apart with care and worry as Ralph served in Germany. The encounter ends with the mother seeking a place to stay and the Hostess House hosting the only known AEF mother in the Army of Occupation.
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Army of Occupation
Coblenz
Ruth Woodsmall
Colorado Springs
Colo
Miss Woodsman
Corpora
Third Army
AFM
Anlile
Germany
San Francisc
Welshaden
Walter
Ralph
Conoral Stepp
America
Becuse
Everlie
Nanis
Tever
Welsbaden
Hayward News Highlights and Local Social Notes
Hayward residents plan a Sunday Methodist Church Sunday school gathering and await a large crowd. Miss Nora Wyatsonu visited Portereritle friends. Miss Trene Fishar hosts. A Sunday church talk on the Centenary is set with all invited. Local marriages and social visits punctuate village life. crops suffer from rains. Hayward and Carter boys play baseball with Carter winning by one run.
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Nora Wyatsonu
Trene Fishar
Portereritle
Methodist Church
Miss Jessie W Hill Returns for Local Visit
Miss Jessie W Hill, who just finished an unsuccessful term at New London, arrived Wednesday afternoon for a visit with friends. She recently taught five terms in this city's schools and many students and parents would welcome her back. Mr and Mrs J Jeffress and children drove in from Caruthersville yesterday and F M Perkins did business there yesterday.
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Jessie W. Hill
New London
Hill
Miss Emma Shepard Returns From Memphis Lonsilitis Treatment
Emma Shepard returns home from Memphis where she has been treated for a severe attack of tonsillitis. Mrs. Dixie Dorris reports improvement on her residence, renovating the property into a bungalow style.
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Emma Shepard
Memphis
Dixie Dorris
Braggadocio Woman Hosts Guest This Week
Mabel Holt of Braggadocio is the guest of Miss Pearl Reno this week while Mrs Ethlinda Daley is reported to have smallpox in the community bulletin.
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Mabel Holt
Ethlinda Daley
Spasmodic Sermon on Back Pay Beliefs
A terse sermon jests that while the world may owe fair pay to all, some men feel it has long owed them back wages. The piece lampoons perennial grumbling and the idea of delayed compensation with brisk humor.
Faithful Meetor, Guardian of the Home, Battles a Back Yard Tramp
In wartime voice a local figure called Faithful Meetor defends the home by fending off a tramp in the back yard. The piece jokes that cutting wood supports appetite and can influence meal costs as a lighthearted conservationist tale.
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Meetor
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Missouri
C. W. Tull
J. W. Tull
Jas. Tull
M. E. Church
Hayti, MO
C. P. Wells
Dorris Theatre Soda Shop
J. J. Hungerford Smith
Ben Miller
True Fruit Chocolates
U. S
Hayti, Missouri
Ward Ave
Caruthersville, Mo
Hostess
Grace Goulder
VW. GC. A. Overseas
Coblenz, Germany
Hayward News
L. FE
Beulah Hughes
Lena Brasher
Gladys Stegall
Marie Fields
Hayward
C. Stegall
Leanna Laster
Cupid
Lawson Fisher
Barnes' Ridge
J. Jeffress
F. M. Perkins
Hunt
Y Cole
Tebi
Lefler
Malden Marble Works
Malden, Mo
E. D. Johnson
Prop
Suet
Fisher’s Cafe
Caruthersville Auto & Plumbing Co
Caruthersville, Missouri
Fisher & Markin
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