Sikeston to Host 4-H Meet for Southeast Counties
Scott County plans a August 26 4 H club gathering in Sikeston with seven Southeast Missouri counties. Superintendent Tharp Stallings asks school authorities to cooperate as many 4 H members attend. Jane Hinote of the University of Missouri will review the program with Stallings and county agents. Farm Bureau reports 31 new members join Group Hospital Service this quarter, the largest in Scott County Farm Bureau history. A seed improvement meeting for eight Southeast Missouri counties will be held in Sikeston to discuss wheat barley and rye and involve certified seed growers and seed dealers.
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Sikeston
Missouri
Tharp Stallings
Jane Hinote
University of Missouri Agriculture College
Farm Bureau Group Hospital Service Committee
Joe Stricker
Walter Shegley
Raymond Galemore
Farm Bureau
Benton
Scott County Farm Bureau
Hayti
Dexter
Caldwell
J. R Paulling
Columbia
A. J. Renner
Scott County Milling Company
Clarkan
Picnic Committee
Ray Schwartz
Scott County Farm Bureau Service Co
E. M Crooks
Fannie Pollock
Lemons
Peter Scherer
Gertrude
Kelso
Hilpert
O. F. Anderson
Pressure Cooker Guide and Local 4-H Events Highlight Benton News
The county Extension office promotes a new care and use of pressure cookers manual by Mildred Jackson, offered free at Benton. A wage hearing in Benton set $1.75 to $3.00 per 100 pounds, with $2.00 favored. August 24 Farm Bureau picnic and August 22 County Achievement Day for 4-H clubs are planned, with school cooperation and event details.
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Farm Bureau
Benton
Ida M. Goldsmith
Lennis James
Blodgett
Theon Grojean
New Hamburg
Mildred Jackson
Ed Schwartz
Scott County Farm Labor Committee
Scott County
War Food Administration sets peach prices for canners
The War Food Administration announces ceiling prices for canned and frozen peaches. Growers are to be paid an average of 60 dollars per ton nationwide, except California where 50 dollars per ton. Canners must meet these price levels to participate in the price support program.
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War Food Administration
California
WAF
Highway patrol urges cautious curve speeds on highways
The highway patrol advises all drivers to slow in curves and stay as far to the right as practical. Herald Want-ads deliver results.
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Herald
Fall cabbage and poultry care in New Madrid farming bulletin
New Madrid County Extension News reports insect and pest control for fall cabbage including arsenate use and weekly applications. It also covers lice and mite control in poultry through dust, nicotine solution, and cleaning plus a 10 day follow up, plus preview of the Balanced Farming meeting on August 23 with speakers from the University of Missouri and a basket dinner.
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Missouri
Surplus of 16 Million Forecast for Missouri
Edward Staples, executive director of the Missouri Public Mapenditure Survey, forecasts a record year end state treasury surplus of 16.9 million dollars. He urges using the funds to cut taxes or build a larger cushion against postwar revenue drops, noting opportunities for economies across the state and warning against diverting attention from necessary belt-tightening.
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Edward Staples
Missouri
Staples
Real estate transfers flood Sikeston listings
A long list of property transactions in Sikeston covers transfers from Fred Atchison to Ralph Williams and many others. Buyers include Eula Lloyd, Effa Salmon, Bertha Georger, Lizzie Bienert, Jake M. Ford, Cc A Lauderdale, M H Stubblefield, Walter Temme and Dora Day among numerous lots, blocks, additions, and subdivisions with prices ranging from $1 to $8000. The item closes with a note that the term doughboy once described a Navy dish doughnut linked to American soldiers.
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Fred Atchison
Ralph Whitliams
Parkland
Sikeston
R. A. McCord
W C Miller
Sunset
Sherman Bryant
Lee Johnson
Sunset 2Nd
Eula Lloyd
Alfons Deschamp
Bertha Georger
R J Northdurft
Lizzie Bienert
Elizabeth Graber
Chaffee
F. M. Farris
L RK Simpkins
Murphy & Wall
Tilma
Jake M. Ford
Andy Ackley
R A. Dempster
Ernest McConnell
Spies
Cc. A. Lauderdale
Martha Broadhacker
M. H. Stubblefield
Wallace Reynolds
Walter Temme
Paul Crader
Oran
Dora Day
Snuth
A. D. Schriefer
W T Shnkard
Fannie Kirkpatrick
Olle Kirkpatrick
Nash
Bohemian Girl to Open St Louis Municipal Opera Run
St Louis Municipal Opera stages Balfe’s The Bohemian Girl with Rosemarie Brancato as Arline and Robert K Shafer as Thaddeus opening August 7 for seven nights at 8 30 PM. Cast includes Jess Walters George Lipton Philip Kinsman Earle MacVeign Trudy Brooks. lavish outdoor presentation with ornate castles gypsy encampments and colorful costumes.
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Bohemia
Balfe
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New Madrid
Herbert F. H. Rolf
Laurel E. Weddle
Bud Dawson Grove
Maxwell Williams
Gideon
Harold Sloas
Marston
Fury Hunter
Charles Hawkins
Matthews
J. R .Dixie
Paulling
University of Missouri
Agour
Garrett
MR. and
Mrs. Kelly Garrett
Our Drug Store
Highway 61
ST. Louis
Muny Opera
Poland
Presburg
Hungary
Fes
Municipal Opera
Victor Herbert
Ziegfeld
Russia
Sikeston, MO
Orville Taylor
Cline Ables
Burt H. Rowe
NEW Madrid County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Inc
Stallcup
Nofuss
Kem-Tone
Sikeston Paint & Wallpaper Company Telephone NO
Center Street
Sikeston, Missouri
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