Demonstration Meeting On Farmers Cover Crops And Tours
A demonstration meeting and tour will observe and discuss painter cover crops, pasture and green manure crops. It begins Tuesday afternoon April 1 starting at 1 60 pm at the LaForge project. County Agent Broom will guide the visit with fields showing vetch crimson Clover Yustman winter peas burr clover and a barley nurse crop for crimson clover. Visitors will tour S. L. Hudter farm and Bud Dawson farm to see cover crops in cotton rotations and winter legumes in use with questions welcome.
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New Madrid
Broom
S. L. Hudter
New Macri
Bud Dawson
J. R. Paulling
Cabbage Yellows a Permanent Garden Menace
Ella Fikuart from Scott County Home Demonstration Agent explains cabbage yellows as a permanent garden menace with no known cure. Symptoms appear as yellowing and browning leaves around head formation, with heads rotting from the stalk in severe infestations. To prevent spread, grow from reliable sources, use disease free transplants, and if infestation occurs, rotate to a new area or plant resistant varieties.
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Ella Fikuart
Scott County
New Hope 4 H Clothing Club Organized
Mrs John Crosby assists the New Hope community girls in forming a 4 H Clothing Club. Meeting every Saturday until school ends. Elected officers include local leader Geraldine Presler, president Goldie Levart, vice president Gertie Mulls, secretary Roberta Prester, reporter Lena Tipton, song leader Lucille Nelson, game leader Ovella Lambert. Members listed include Betty McBroom Naomi Tipton Lola Levart Lois Borah Pauline Chambers Marcelline Prester Calvina Chambers Louise Williams Peggy Bagley Helen Borah.
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John Crosby
New Hope
Geraldine Presler
Goldie Levart
Gertie Mulls
Roberta Prester
Lena Tipton
Lucille Nelson
Betty McBroom
Naomi Tipton
Lola Levart
Lois Borah
Pauline Chambers
Marcelline Prester Calvina Chambers
Louise Williams
Peggy Bagley
Helen Borah
Ovella Lambert
Hybrid corn tests fuel New Madrid county club organized by women
John Zarecor of Risco and C 4 Critchlow of Matthews conduct hybrid seed corn tests with 18 hybrids and 2 open pollinated strains under field conditions, in cooperation with Missouri College of Agriculture. Open pollinated Midland Yellow Dent and Little St Charles White are highlighted. A LaForge women group formed a Home Economics Extension Club led by Mrs Frances Dolan, with officers and project leaders named, meeting monthly at members’ homes.
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New Madrid
Women OF
Laforge
John Zarecor
Risco
C 4 Critchlow
Matthews
Missouri College of Agriculture
Lane
Zarecor
Critchlow
College of Agriculture
Marit Johnson
Frances Dolan
Argus Odum
Odell Smith
Morley Carroll
Cecil Carroll
Sone Lleader
Edwin Hartline
Dolan
Matt Johnson
Temporary Commander at Delta CCC Camp
Capt. I. G. Siemens was placed in temporary command of the Delta CCC Company after a month at the camp. He has served CCC duty since April 1954 with multiple companies and has been a special inspector since November 1, 1937.
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I. G. Siemens
Delta CCC
Siemens
New Madrid CCC Camp Opens With Baseball and CCC Work
The Swamp Angels' 1939 baseball team is expected to headline the New Madrid Civilian Conservation Corps camp open house on Sunday April 6 to celebrate the camp's sixth anniversary. Captain Robert G Johnston and Superintendent Fred R Jacoby urge Southeast Missouri citizens to view the camp’s work, comfort, welfare, vocational training and recreation as a model of CCC efforts to provide employment and skill development for youths in the state.
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Swamp Angels
New Madrid
CCC
Civilian Conservation Corps
Missouri
Relef
C’s
America
Robert G. Johnston
Fred R. Jacoby
Open House at Delta CCC Camp
Delta CCC Camp invites the public to an open house on the third Sunday of April, April 16. Attendees will view camp life, meet enrollees, and enjoy entertainment including a baseball game boxing and the camp drum and bugle corps. Telephone news items to 89.
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CCC
Delta
Morehouse Girl Louise Hutson Dies at 19
Funeral services were held for Louise Hutson 19 daughter of Mr and Mrs G Hutson of Morehouse at the Morehouse Methodist church. She died at 4 40 am Saturday March 30 at Southeast Missouri Hospital Cape Girardeau after a sudden illness of pneumonia and a brain malady. She had been in excellent health until the illness, and was a graduate of Morehouse High School and studied in Paducah Ky. She worked in a Pittsburgh medical office and in recent months as receptionist for a Morehouse physician. She is survived by her parents and two brothers.
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Louise Hutson
G. Hutson
Moreouse
Morehouse Methodist Church
Miss Hutson
Southeast Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Morehouse
Paducah
Pittsburgh
Funeral Held for Mrs. Maz Cullison in Charleston
Mr and Mrs Sayers Tanner and others attended the Charleston funeral of Mrs Maz Cullison aged 61 who died last Thursday night of paralysis. Services were at the Baptist church at 2 pm with Rev A B Cooper and Rev P Thogmorton officiating. Interment followed at the I O O F cemetery near Charleston. She is survived by her husband Dr James M Cullison and son J M Cullison Jr. Also in attendance were Mrs F C Lair and Miss Sadie Emory.
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Sayers Tanner
Harrison Tanner
Ella Tanner
Wm. A. Smith
Charleston
Maz Cullison
Baptist Church
A B. Cooper
P. Thogmorton
Methodist Church
Funeral services held for Mrs Floyd Story
Funeral services for Mrs Floyd Story 49 of Bertrand were held Wednesday at the Armour school house. Interment followed in Armour cemetery. She died of pneumonia Monday at St Francis Hospital, Cape Girardeau. Surviving are her husband Floyd Story and four children.
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Floyd Story
Bertrand
Armour School House
Armour Cemetery
Eliise
Active CCC Delta Enrollees Work On Land Project
The Delta CCC camp moved a tractor to Ditch No 1 along the Oran Perkins road to level a spoil bank on A O Carr land. A second tractor is across the road on land owned by St Louis Basket and Box Company. Work will finish in about 10 days for the first site and 20 days for the second. After grading, a fence will enclose the area for pasture to control brush growth.
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Delta CCC
Oran-Perkins
A. O. Carr
Mr. Carr
St. Louis Basket and Box Company
CCC
New Madrid County School Notes Highlights and Bills
Miles R. Davis reports on April 8 statewide eighth grade exams at New Madrid High School with diplomas for averages around 62 to 75 percent and top students named. Southeast Missouri Schoolmasters Club meets April 10 in Caruthersville. debate over House Bill 503 Senate Bill 262 and House Bill 5 continues. Bus operators' talk at the New Madrid courthouse April 6 features Harry E. Dudley and Sergeant Melvin Dace. State aid payouts tied to certificates are discussed. Cape Girardeau County would face net losses under proposed bills, while New Madrid would lose about 13 848 yearly. Teachers' exams grading progress noted. Local visits include Cairo Woman's Club engagement and Cleopatra review by Mrs Beck.
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Miles R. Davis
New Madrid
Southeast
Melvin Dace
State Highway Patrol
Missouri
Cape Girardeau County
Cape Girardeau
Missour
New Madrid County
St. Louis
State Department
J B Exton Travels Through Sikeston En Route Home
J B Exton passed through Sikeston this morning while returning to his Danville Illinois home after overseeing farming operations near Canalou.
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J. B. Exton
Sikeston
Danville
Canalou
Prominent Negro Speaker At Charleston Meeting
A W Curtis of Tuskegee Institute will headline the Seventy Five Years Progress Celebration morning session at Lincoln High School Charleston on Wednesday April 12. The event showcases Curtis as a forceful speaker and scientist, selected by Dr George Washington Carver to advance his work. Carver, renowned for peanut by products and land improvement, also explores cotton fiber road material. Evening speaker not announced. white attendees invited with a reserved section for white visitors.
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A. W. Curtis
Tuskegee Institute
United States
Lincoln High School
Charleston
Curtis
George Washington Carver
Dr. Carver
Carver
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John Deere
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Ellis Implement Company
Blytheville, Ark
New Madrid CCC
Missouri Hybrid
Reid
Missouri Corn Growers
C. F. McMullin
L. C. Leslie
A. W. Swacker
M. M. Beck
Blair Law
Cairo
Moore-Harris Abstract Company
O. L. Spencer
Commerical
C. & M. Oil Company
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