Fine Prospects for Good School Year in Hayti
Hayti schools open for 1920 21 term with returning grammar and high school staff. Grammar totals 375 pupils and high school 60, 435 overall with 8 non residents. New courses include Civil Government, Commercial Geography and Sociology. Athletic plans include football basketball indoor baseball. Library cataloging will use the duo decimal system and indoor toilets are planned after bond sales. Parent and pupil effort key to achievement.
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Grammar
Lsit
Helm
Algene Ross
Nell Waltrip
Condant
Atha Hooker
Hooker
Caruthersville
Ister
Hayti
Ruth Matheny
Anna Dunklin
K. V. Probst
E. Hooker
Carutiersville
Mary Pickens
Volla Matheny
Audrey Berry
Luther Hamilton
District Attorney announces new assistant U S attorney
R W Ely of Kennett named to succeed Benjamin L White as assistant United States district attorney. Ely, about 30, earns a $3000 annual salary and starts Sept 16. District Attorney Carroll issued the notice in the Standard.
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R. W. Ely
Kennett
United States
Carroll
Ely
Benjamin L. White
Sikesion
When the workers own the workshops and shops
A quoted question from the Santa Fe New Mexican asks what becomes of common people if workers own the means of production from workshops to presses, rail lines to pulpits, and drivers own their buses, implying a critique of ownership concentration.
Onslaught on Mud of Missouri Roads Opens Campaign
In St Louis the push to pass a 60 million road bond to lift Missouri from the mud begins with a 10 am meeting at the American Theatre. Delegates from all levels are asked to attend as districts vie for honorary flags. Judge Walsh told the Advertising Club that only six miles of hard surfaced roads were built in 1917-19, and the bond could start 6,000 miles of roads 20 feet wide without tax increase, funded by automobile license revenue. vote on November 2.
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St. Louis
Missouri
American Theatre
Missouri Good Roads Federation
Advertising Club
Advertising Club At the Hotel Statler
Raymond A. Walsh
Walsh
Rexall Drug Store Hosts Presidential Straw Ballot
Lefter's Drug Store is conducting a presidential straw ballot following the Rexall chain example from 1916. Ballots are available now and voters of all genders are invited to participate to gauge the election outcome ahead of November 2. Returns are released periodically and the effort aims to mirror official results closely.
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Rexall Drug Store
Rexall
Lefter’s Drug Store
Southeast Missouri watermelons ship list tops 2600 cars
More than 2600 cars of water melons will be shipped from Southeast Missouri by week’s end, with weather setbacks reducing yield but overall a splendid harvest. First car loaded July 28 at Kennett for a Chicago firm. Total 1570 cars shipped on Frisco Lines. Honey Heart, a Melon Growers’ Association name, will be posted next season on all district melons. Principal counties: Dunklin, Scott, Mississippi. additional plantings in Butler, Stoddard, New Madrid.
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Missouri
Kennett
Chicago
Frisco
Dunklin
Scott
Mississippi
Butler County
Stoddard
New Madrid
Linotype Break Delays This Week’s City News
Readers are urged to note that a serious Linotype break disrupted production and prevented final articles from being completed. Repairs are hoped to finish promptly to publish all city news next week.
Wilson School Dedication Delayed to October
Osceola Times reports the Wilson school dedication, initially set for September 12, has been postponed to early October. The new plant, costing about 150000, will offer four years of high school plus modern facilities including hot lunches, a gym, laboratories, library, auditorium, rest room, and open air classes. Superintendent W H Johnson leads the school, praised by friends as Wilson opens a notable district project.
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Osceola
Taffia
Wilson Special District
Negro Writes Letter to White Woman
Blytheville Arkansas Courier reports Joe Moore a city drug store porter was arrested for sending love letters to a white woman. He was whipped by a mob, ordered to leave town, and departed after the lash left him weakened. The incident notes his age about 50, a 14-year-old son, and that Dr. Robinson regarded him as a fine man despite the act.
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Joe Moore
Dr. Robinson
Prices Going Down Foretold by Federal Reserve View
The article notes a forecaster predicted lower prices for most commodities and now gains support from the Federal Reserve Bank for the Eighth District in St Louis. The latest monthly statement indicates a downward trend in broad commodity values including staples that had stayed high for a long period.
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Federal Reserve Bank
St. Louis
Freeman Phonograph Promotion at Turnbaugh's Jewelry
Announcement urges hearing the Freeman Phonograph at Turnbaugh's Jewelry Store in Caruthersville, the exclusive Pemiscot County dealer. The note invites customers to visit at the first opportunity and notes the 45-46 timeframe.
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Turnbaugh
Caruthersville
Pemiscot County
State constitution changes to be given to papers
Secretary of State John L Sullivan will award publication of proposed constitutional amendments to Democratic papers in each county. Four insertions before the election, funded by the next Legislature. Summary lists salary caps, city charter powers, debt limits, road and school taxes, road bonds, waterworks, blind pension fund, soldier settlement bonds, Supreme Court seats, voting rights for officers, workmen’s compensation referendum, city enforcement law referendum, and a constitutional convention initiative.
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John L. Sullivan
General Assembly
Supreme Court
Regular Army
Navy
Marine
St. Louis
Boy Who Swallowed Lye in April Not Survive
Poplar Bluff reports a child, Thomas devoarmohd son of J. Pressle of Willlemeseille, who swallowed lye on April 9. Doctors fear death as esophagus and throat were burned, weight loss reaches 60 percent, solid food impossible, nourished only by milk.
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Poplar Bluff
Thomas Devoarmohd
J. Pressle
Willlemeseille
Girl in Ambush Shoots Man in Unexplained Act
Charleston dispatch reports 15 year old Mary Liollas admitted firing five shots at Ed Lash a 26 year old baker in an ambush. Lash was likely fatally wounded. Mary waited for Lash then confessed she intended to kill him but gave no reason. She is the daughter of a shoemaker.
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Charleston
Mary Liollas
Ed Lash
Mary
Lash
Card of Thanks for Baby Denver
We express sincere thanks for the kindness and sympathy shown during the recent loss of our baby son and grandson Denver. Gladys Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Morgan.
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Hilneas
Denver
Gladys Morgan
5. C. Morgan
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Buckley's
Wilson School
W. H. Johnson
Sithin City
Prof. Johnson
Wilson
Rexall Store
Idsoe
Efler
Rexal
Treferendum
Sikuston Standuarid
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