Fruitland Man Dies After Barn Fall Near Jackson
Tl year old Fruitland resident Fruitland-Horace Daugherty fell fifteen feet from a barn under construction on the Gus Wede kind farm northeast of Jackson. He died before coworkers could help. Nearby incidents include a busi ness meeting of engineers in New Madrid and a logging accident near East Prairie with a skull fracture. A Poplar Bluff doctor later weighed the county’s biggest newborn, estimated at about twenty pounds, born to Joe Hunter and his wife.
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Fruitland
Horace Daugherty
Gus Wedekind
Jackson
Poplar Bluff
Butler County
Joe Hunter
Morocco
J. W. McPheeters
McPheeters
Danz Child Drowns in Creek Near Appleton Dalbert
Old Appleton Dalbert 13 year old son of Mr and Mrs Conrad Danz drowned Friday afternoon in a small creek at its entry to Apple Creek. Body recovered about 7 pm. The child, who had swam alone, stepped from shallow water into a deep hole. Funeral services held Sunday afternoon.
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Old Appleton—Dalbert
Conrad Danz
Near Here
Apple Creek
Local Drowning Tragedy Amid Castor River Swim
Bloomfield Clive Pritchett 21, son of Guy Pritchett, drowned Sunday while swimming with his younger brother Jewell in Castor River near his home in Stoddard county. The region reported several other community notes including a wedding in Wichita, a Piedmont death from an overturned auto, a heat-related workplace death in Poplar Bluff, and Greenville circuit court docket with ten divorces among 87 cases.
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Bloomfield
Clive Pritchett
Guy Pritchett
Stoddard County
Castor River
Jewell
Greenvile
Circuit Court
Greenville
AAA Announces 1940 Soil Building Rates
New Madrid Missouri August 1 The 1940 Soil Conservation payments to farmers under the Agricultural Conservation Program will be 10 percent lower than previously tentatively planned. The reduction comes as funds are insufficient for the originally projected payments and participation is higher than expected. Parity payments remain unaffected, funded under a separate appropriation.
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New Madrid
Washington
Earl Cambron
New Madrid County
Congress
Farmers Attend Cotton Classing School in New Madrid County
Seventeen residents from New Madrid County attended the cotton classing school at Caruthersville last week per County Agent Herlinger. Attendees included R. M. Miller of Cotton, Arline Avery and O. E. Stokes of Marston, Killian Fisher, Q. O. Knight, Chas. Penman, Bernard Becker, Vincent Becker, Hubert Milem, J. D. James of Portageville, L. Peerman of Risco, Preston Utterback, Bill Daugherty, Floyd Clark, Preston Clark, Farris Fortner, Joseph Pace of Gideon.
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New Madrid County
Caruthersville
Herlinger
R. M. Miller
Cotron
Arline Avery
O. E. Stokes
Marston
Killian Fisher
QO. A. Knight
Chas. Penman
Bernard Becker
Vincent Becker
Hubert Milem
J. D. James
Portageville
L. Peerman
Risco
Preston Utterback
Bill Daugherty
Floyd Clark
Preston Clark
Farris Fortner
Joseph Pace
Gideon
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New Madrid County Farmers Get Checks
Earl Cambron, chairman of the county Agricultural Conservation Administration, reports $7,000 in Cotton Price Adjustment payments and $1,300 in Cotton Price Adjustment for New Madrid farmers. Several other applications await payment this week as field work and county office processing are ahead of last year.
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Earl Cambron
New Madrid County Agricultural Conservation Administration
Cambron
4-H Club Members Enroll for Camp
New Madrid county 4-H members plan a three day Arcadia camp leaving Monday at 8:00 a m August 5. Home Demonstration Agent Siller and County Agent Herlinger accept reservations until 4:00 p m Saturday August 3. Reservations include Anna Belle Butler Billy Butler Billy Sue Burnett Canalou Wanda Woolard Joan Herndon Juanita Smith Maden Glenna Conley Margie Riley New Madrid Quilla Penrod Dickie Wilson Geneva Girvin Billie Wilson Portageville.
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New Madrid
Arcadia
Sillers
Herlinger
Anna Belle Butler
Billy Butler
Billy Sue Burnett
Canalou
Wanda Woolard
Joan Herndon
Juanita Smith
Maden
Glenna Conley
Airline passenger miles rise in early 1940
During January through March 1940 U.S. airlines carried 181,564,289 passenger miles, a 64.2 percent increase over the same period in 1939. The rise highlights expanding air travel as the nation moves toward wartime era.
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Airlines of
United States
Romberg's East Wind Opens at Municipal Opera Week
Sigmund Romberg's East Wind opens a weeklong run at the Municipal Opera Forest Park on Monday August 5 at 8 15 pm with an all star cast led by Nancy McCord and Sterling Holloway. The production features Vera Marshe Walter Cassel Ruth Sato and choreographers Al White Jr and Lew Christensen with a dramatic tale of a convent educated French girl in Indo China and her reunion with her father.
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ST. Louis
East Wind
Sigmund Romberg
Municipal Opera
Forest Park
Nancy McCord
Sterling Holloway
Holloway
Escadrille
Vera Marshe
Comedienne
Walter Cassel
Joseph Macaulay
Douglas Leavitt
Bob Lawrence
Ruth Urban
al White Jr
Lew Christensen
Ruth Sato
Romberg
Paper Doll
Oscar Hammerstein Jr
Frank Mandel
France
Indo-China
Driving at intersections and negligence in car use
The text presents a driving scenario at an intersection with a car on the right and asks which action to take. It includes an option to stop and allow the other car to cross, and a true/false question about liability if someone else drives your car and causes an accident.
East Wind shines in Municipal Opera 1934 season
A young man falls for a native girl in East Wind a production packed with comedy and a joyful musical finale. The show, a Municipal Opera smash in 1934, travels across lavish Parisian scenes continental gaiety and vivid Orient costumes with haunting In do-China music.
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Municipal Opera
mid-West
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