Two Esteemed Sikeston Citizens Pass Away Within Week
Sikeston mourns the loss of J. M. Sitzes and J. N. Ross, two influential local figures. Sitzes, a steadfast farmer rooted in pioneer stock, faced droughts and floods yet remained faith‑driven and reserved. Ross, a seasoned businessman, valued trade, church life, and community progress, leaving a lasting, quiet influence.
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Sikeston
J. M. Sitzes
J. N. Ross
Mr. Sitzes
Mr. Ross
Sitzes
Fights in district drop but lawmen pledge caution
Police court dismissed charges against Special Policeman McManus and Alderman Miller for fighting. The editorial urges restraint in the business district and notes officials enjoy special privileges. It also cites a farmer’s dry weather losses, contrasting hoped and actual corn yields of about ninety vs forty five bushels per acre.
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McManus
Miller
Move Against Stray Dogs and Open Toilets in Sikeston
The proposal seeks city action by Sikeston officials to curb stray and unleashed dogs and to address open toilets posing health and safety risks. The measure argues these issues threaten physical comfort and public health, especially in summer.
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Sikeston
Potashnick Dinner Guests Return Home From Visit
Guests of Mr and Mrs Sam Potashnick included Dora Walker of East St Louis Edward Ritter and son Harry Rubenstein from New Orleans Fannie Potashnick of Potosi Mo and R B Potashnick with daughters from Cape Girardeau The Walker Ritter and Rubenstein families left for home this morning while Miss Potashnick remains in New Orleans until Sunday
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Sam Potashnick
Dora Walker
East St. Louis
Edward Ritter
Harry Rubenstein
Edward
New Orleans
Fannie Potashnick
Potosi
R. B. Potashnick
Cape Girardeau
Walker
Ritter
Rubenstein
Son
Miss Potashnick
Sikeston High School Building Nears First Use This Fall
In Sikeston on August 18 1916 final inspection of the new high school building is planned this week with occupancy at the start of the new school year next month Clarence Felker fills in at the Bijou during J R Greers absence and Scott County Milling Company elevator walls rise past seventy feet as work continues
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Sikeston High School
Clarence Felker
Bijou
J. R. Greer
Scott County Milling Company
Rebecca Pierce wins Ford coupe in Herald campaign
In the August 1921 Herald late summer notes Miss Rebecca Pierce won the Ford coupe as first prize at the close of the Herald’s subscription drive held last Saturday night. Mr and Mrs Frank Van Horne and son Bill went by automobile to Mexico Missouri to visit Mr Van Horne’s parents last Sunday.
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Rebecca Pierce
Herald
Frank van Horne
Bill
Mexico
Nine lines of old Sikeston news ten years past
Ten years ago on August 20 1931 Sikeston reported a week high of 92 degrees. The nineteenth annual Scott County Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention was set for next Wednesday in town. A son named William Marshall was born to Mr and Mrs William Northington on Friday August 14. Mrs Worthington and the baby were at the home of her mother Mrs Florence Marshall.
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Sikeston
Scott County Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Wm. Northington
William Marshall
Worthington
Florence Marshall
Watermelon Shipments in Sikeston District Near End of Season
Five years ago on August 20, 1986 the Sikeston district shipped about 525 carloads of watermelons during the 1936 season as it neared its close. An August heat wave struck Southeast Missouri pushing temperatures over 100 degrees on four days, with a weekly high of 102.
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Sikeston
Missouri
Air school project advances at Sikeston site
The Missouri Institute of Aeronautics civilian flight school receives its second Army inspection as the air school readies to begin operations Sept. 16. Work also progresses on converting the J. L. Sutterfield residence into a hospital serving the air school and Sikeston district, with completion slated for Sept. 10. Jean Hirschberg is elected commander of the Henry Meldrum American Legion post, succeeding Frank Dye.
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Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, Inc
Jean Hirschberg
Henry Meldrum
American Legion
Frank Dye
J. L. Sutterfield
Air School
Sikeston
Cotton Stamps In Use Here This Week
Stamps in $5 to $50 books are issued in Scott county on Saturday for 100 percent American cotton goods. About 400 merchants across twelve Southeast Missouri counties participate, with stamps valued at 25 cents each for cotton articles. Sikeston stores report broad use of the stamps this week. Plan operates in Scott Cape Girardeau Mississippi Stoddard New Madrid Pemiscot Butler Dunklin Ripley Oregon and Wayne.
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Scott County
Missouri
Sikeston
Scott
Cape Girardeau
Mississippi
Stoddard
New Madrid
Pemiscot
Butler
Dunklin
Ripley
Oregon
Wowell
Mrs Wicks Visits Rock Island Kin and Joe Humes
Mrs. Maudie Wicks returned home Sunday night from Rock Island Tennessee where she visited Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Twitty and family. She also called on Joe Humes who is there during his father’s illness.
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Maudie Wicks
Rock Island, T
Arthur Twitty
Joe Humes
Company K at Camp Robinson honors Sgt Tippy retirement
Sergeant Lewis M. Tippy, senior non commissioned officer of Company K, left the service after thirteen years. Promotions occurred in the company, including to Private First Class and Sergeant, as the 70th Infantry Brigade under Major General R. E. Truman inspected Wright Field. The unit prepares for Arkansas Louisiana maneuvers next week and guards two dog tags per man for identification.
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Lewis M. Tippy
Sigt. Tippy
Sgt. Tippy
William Gosnell
Loran Hargraves
Renzo James
Clifford Ham
Ernest Swyers
Dial Harmon
William Knight
Henry Cullum
Matthew Lewis
Merrell McKinney
J. R. Foster
70Th Infantry Brigade
R. E. Truman
Wright Field
Reed
140Th Infantry
Clifton Mountain
Camp Robinson
35Th Division
Abel
C. C. Wilkinson
Sikeston
Henry A. Johnson
Dismissal of Charges Against Miller and McManus
City Attorney Robert A. Dempster announced charges of fighting against Alderman Frank Miller and former police officer Claude McManus were dismissed. The hearing was moved up after the dismissal. McManus, badly injured in a week’s fist fight, is reported recovering satisfactorily. Miller was not seriously hurt.
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Robert A. Dempster
Frank Miller
Claude McManus
McManus
Miller
117000 Miles And Still Going Strong
Mr and Mrs Joseph Erman of Cape Girardeau visit Walton and Williams Motor Co for a tune up on their 1936 Lincoln Zephyr which has run 117000 miles while they travel nationwide selling school books The couple reports the engine has never been overhauled and the car averages about 25 miles per gallon of gasoline.
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Joseph Erman
Cape Girardeau
Walton and Williams Motor Company
Erman
Keiths Attend Reunion in Washington Indiana Park
Mr and Mrs E J Keith attended a Keith family reunion held Sunday at East Side Park in Washington Indiana.
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E. J. Keith
Keith
East Side Park
Washington
Ind
Stallingses Return From Missouri Graduation
Mr and Mrs Tharon Stallings returned Sunday from Columbia Missouri where he earned a Master’s Degree in school administration at the University of Missouri graduation exercises held Friday night.
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Tharon Stallings
Columbia, Mo
University of Missouri
Curtain falls on disastrous melon season in Sikeston
The Scott County watermelon season closed with scant shipments from Sikeston yards. Fewer than a hundred melons, said to be low grade, were shipped amid a year of poor seeds and production methods. A few stands remain selling melons at rock bottom prices, but local consumption was down.
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Scott County
Sikeston
Retired farmer ends life by self immolation
Bud Griffin, a retired farmer from the Farmington area, died after a self inflicted fire. He sat on a rubbish pile soaked with kerosene, then reportedly lit a match causing a fatal explosion. Griffin had farming ties near Matthews and Sikeston and had been in ill health with possible mental derangement.
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Farmington
Bud Griffin
Griffin
Sikeston
C. E. Moore
Matthews
Former resident Pollock dies in East Prairie
Funeral services were held at 2:00 PM Tuesday at the Charleston Catholic church for Miss Margaret Pollock daughter of Mrs Fannie Pollock East Prairie and former Sikeston resident who died after a long illness at her home. She is survived by her mother two brothers Milo Pollock of Memphis and James Pollock of East Prairie two sisters Miss Evelyn Pollock a Bell City teacher and Mrs Tom Allfroe.
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Charleston
Margaret Pollock
Fannie Pollock
East Prairie
Sikeston
Miss Pollock
Milo Pollock
Memphis
Tenn
James Pollock
Evelyn Pollock
Bell City
Tom Allfroe
Brother of Local Man Dies in Memphis
Mr and Mrs John P Jones attended funeral services Tuesday afternoon for Franks H Jones flour representative in the south of the Trenton Ill Milling Company who died at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis Monday afternoon after sustaining a paralytic stroke. Mr Jones is survived by his wife and daughter.
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John P. Jones
Frank H. Jones
Trenton, Ill
Methodist Hospital
Memphis
Jones
Mrs Sophia M Abner 72 Died Bell City Mo
Mrs Sophia M Abner 72 died Monday night at Bell City. Funeral services were held at 2:00 pm Wednesday at Bell City Methodist church. She lived with son George Medlin five years and is survived by sons Bill Drew Sikeston and George Medlin Bell City a brother Bill Goddard Essex and 15 grandchildren. Interment in Pleasant Grove cemetery Bell City by Ellise Funeral Service.
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Bell City Methodist Church
Sophia M. Abner
Bell City
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Ellise
Card of Thanks for sympathy after death of husband and father
The family expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness and sympathy after the death of their husband and father. Special thanks go to Rev. Taylor and Rev. Orear for comforting words, Mrs. Welsh and the choir for songs. Names listed: Mrs. Anne Sitzes, J. M. Sitzes Jr., Robert J. Sitzes, Frances Anne Sitzes, Grace Marie Sitzes, Jane Crowell. A 6 month old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Crowell near Salcedo, was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau by National Funeral Home ambulance suffering from colitis.
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Taylor
Orear
Welsh
Anne Sitzes
J. M. Sitzes Jr
Robert J. Sitzes
Frances Anne Sitzes
Grace Marie Sitzes
Jane Crowell
Jack Crowell
Salcedo
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Girardeau
National Funeral Home
Mouser Transferred From Jefferson Barracks To Chanute Field
LaVerne Mouser son of Mr and Mrs E F Mouser was transferred this week from Jefferson Barracks to Chanute Field near Chicago Ill where he will receive training in the U S Air Corps for five months Mr Mouser was expected home this weekend but the change of plans delayed his coming
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LaVerne Mouser
E. F. Mouser
Jefferson Barracks
Chanute Field
Chicago
Til
U. S. Air Corps
Mouser
Cotton mattress making and fashion career noted
Fifty pounds of ginned cotton and ten yards of ticking can yield a standard full size mattress. The piece also highlights Mary Lewis, famed for Best's cotton fashion line, World’s Fair director role, Sears Roebuck consultant work, and her “Made in America” slogan.
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Mary Lewis
Best’s
Sears- Roebuck
Fifth Avenue
America
Cotton’s Style Pioneer Mary Lewis Shaping Fashion
Mary Lewis expanded cotton’s role in fashion by creating innovative uses of the all American fiber. Her ongoing designs and experiments helped boost cotton’s prominence in clothing and design, highlighting its versatility and appeal.
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Mary Lewis
Cotton dress revue set for Neighbor Day events
A home made cotton dress revue will be held as part of the contest events program with rural and town participants. Revue groups include preschoolers from three to six, youths six to fourteen, teens fourteen to eighteen, and women. Regulations cover color design texture and fit and suitability for school, street, house, church or market wear.
Selecting a Dress for the Occasion
A careful choice centers on fabric, color, and fit. Consider the event formality, season, and venue while selecting a silhouette that flatters the figure and complements accessories and footwear.
Birth of Boy to Mrs Wendell Hall in Cape Girardeau
Mrs Wendell Hall and her newborn son, born Saturday August 2, at St Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau, were discharged to their home on Tuesday.
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Wendell Hall
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Girardeau
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Ward Denman
Malone Avenue
Sikeston, Missouri
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Sikeston Herald
Nuway Cleaning Company
Kingshighway
Loomis Mayfield
Sam Jones
Virginia Beach
Los Angeles
A. C. Edmiston
Mr. Griffin
Sikestonitan
Ella Fikuart
Best's
Madras
Benton
Clorosan
Fort Howard Tissue
K. C
Birds Eye Foods
Maxwell House
Light House
Newspaper
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