Local Busy Week of Social and Travel Notes
Captain Lins Juck visits with family while Mrs. Alex Lawrence shops in Cape Girardeau. Norval Anderson of Sikeston attends business here Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Praul visit Benton for business. A. H. Andersons conduct Cape Girardeau matters Monday. Glenn Beardslee and daughter Glenda of St. Louis spend the weekend with relatives. Mrs. Beardslee returns from Michigan and Ohio. Police Sgt John L. Penn and Mrs. Penn visit his parents here Sunday. Riverside Extension club met for a quick bread demonstration. Geneva Owens and Melvin Smith unite in marriage here per Justice Julia Dodge. Deaths reported of Elizabeth Fullenwider, Harry De Wint, and Albert Kirk, former Commerce residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lins Juck
Alex Lawrence
Cape Girardeau
Norval Anderson
Sikeston
Pete Praul
Benton
A. H. Anderson
Glenn Beardslee
Glenda
St. Louis
B. Daughtrey
R. ER. Reynolds
Lee Loftin
Fannie Beardslee
Michigan
Ohio
John L. Penn
Elizabeth Fullenwider
Harry de Wint
California
Albert Kirk
Canalou News social notes and local visits
Miss Sebelle Coghill of Essex spent the week end here with Miss Iris Blankenship. Lee Roy Smith, employed in Indiana, visited family here. Gene Presson of Essex spent the week with his aunt and Bill Torrents. Many locals hosted relatives and friends from Matthews to Wickliff and Jerusalem. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Willie Landers. Landers is stationed at Camp Leonard Wood. Softball tournament began in New Madrid County with three games. Play Day participants traveled to Cape Girardeau. Taul, former local teacher, and family visit as he prepares Navy service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sebelle Coghill
Essex
Iris Blankenship
Lee Roy Smith
Indiana
Gene Presson
Bill Torrents
Lyman Whitten
Matthews
Charley Asa
Thurvin Fleetwood
St. Louis
Clarence Laster
Willie Landers
Landers
Camp Leonard Wood
Christine Powell
York School
Sikeston
B. P. Melton
Texas
Dan Melton
Albert Parks
J. W. Ogle
Paul Feasel
Oscar Nickels
Vera Kochel
Kelly Dunsmore
Dunsmore
Cape Girardeau
State Teachers College
New Madrid
Euch
Delmar Williams
Bertha Vaughn
Reba Wilson
Jerusalem
Ark
John Chism
Near Matthews
Nellie Byers
Margaret de Arman
Marilyn Sexton
Anna Belle Butler
Cuma Walls
Viola Jordan
Edith Collier
Gene Drake
Ames D. Taul
Cpl
Carl Shelby
Charles Shelby
Albert Sutton
John Whittten
Don Kochel
Canalea
Wm. Roberts and Sons
Norman Hudson
Parma
Pearl Green
W. C. Moore
Bede Stepp
Robert Binford
Roy Alsup
Sikeson
Wm. Depre
J. F. Thornbury
Lem Medlin
Bernie
George Reed
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Memphis
C. E. Critchlow
Greta
C. O. Hawkins
Sue
Wappapella Lake
Ernest Cox
Jerry
L. D. Waters
Waters Home
Elizabeth Shibley
Glenn Waters
B. B. Conrad
Bonnie Ruth
Reva McCann
Canaloa
Alfred Hill
C. E. Moore
Gladys Cook
St.Louis
Weldon Maddox
Jim Stone
St. Francis Hospital
Martha Radcliffe
Ella Clemson
Roy Miller
Tyler
Otto Jennings
Rockview
A. B. Robinson
Ella Stull
Hazel Cowger
Lon Cowger
Anne Newton
T. S. Heisserer
Marvin Thompson
Fort Wayne
Ind
A. E. Robinson
Jack Ahrnes
New Orleans
Louis Kietheffner
Levi Hendricks
Edd Graviett
Farmington
Geraldine Statler
Wilbur Smith
Dick Alfultis
Joe Poe
Rube Tindal
Pennsylvania
Buddy Mason
Karen
Mary Edna Boone
Mary Denton
Marvin Purdy
Bernice
Mildred Wallace
Willie Wallace
Bill Wallace
Freda Carr
R. O. Stone
Jackson
Stone
J. H. Reid
Oran
Cauttrell
Opal Sendboy
Velma McClellan
Jim Bollinger
Morley
Vernon Hanselman
Jesse Phillips
Bufford Carter
Owen Ramney
L. B. Swanner
Lou Bollinger
Charlie Whiffler
J. A. Miller
Hattie Bryeans
Jimmie
Elmer Joyce
Opal Lee
Johnnie Churchill
Orville Hanseiman
Vernon
Gene
Hunter District
Gus Cauttrell
Bryeans
Gladys Glastetter
Frank Glastetter
Norbet Fry
California
Pvt
Fry
Armed Forces
Morehouse News Banquet, Visits, and Local Travels
Mrs S M Sarno visits relatives in St Louis this week. The Junior and Senior banquet was held in the high school gym Monday night. Mrs Buel Ross of California visits Mr and Mrs Hayes Willis. Mrs Cecil Crabtree and daughter Margaret visit Mr and Mrs Darcy Brown. Mrs Emory Spencer of Portageville visits brother Coleman Burgess and family. Mrs Agnes Bryant and daughter Lana of St Louis visit Mrs Margaret Sheat. Dr S M Sarno, Thomas Sheeter, Loren Hogan, R R Hogan, Verne Baker and P Clay attend Masonic lodge in St Louis. Mrs S M Moore returns to Miami, Fla from Pineville, La where she had resided to be near husband Master Sergeant E M Moore. Sz Moore transferred overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. M. Sarno
St. Louis
Buel Ross
California
Hayes Willis
Cecil Crabtree
Margaret
Darcy Brown
Emory Spencer
Portageville
Coleman ,Burgess
Agnes Bryant
Lana
Local social notes fill pages with visits and travels
Cpl Carl Shelby visits parents while others host relatives from Parma, Canalea, New Madrid, and Sikeson. Many plan or report hospital stays, naval assignments, and weekend trips to Memphis, Sikeston, Cape Girardeau, and St Louis. The high school spring play and local employment changes are noted along with several couples hosting guests at home.
Card of Thanks for Jimmie Hendley
Mr and Mrs Wm Hendley and children thank friends and ministers for kindness and flowers during the illness and death of their son and brother Jimmie Hendley May God bless you all Enrollments in U S colleges in 1944 are more than one quarter below 1940 levels
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie Hendley
Wm. Hendley
United States
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Taul
del Ray
Fla
New York
Navy
Morehouse News
SWIFT
RED Steer Fertilizer
Vigoro
Planters Cotton Co
Oran News
Madge Mason
Heisserer
Miss Mason
J. N. Grant
Oran Rural News
Haven
Lewis & Matthews
Orr
Lowe’s
Alsocorn
Missouri Discount Corporation
Keith
Whiteway
Motor Oil
Elmer
Oldham
Elmer Oldham
Tanner Street
Sikeston, Missouri
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