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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1952
Page
16
The Woman's Civic Club presents its seventh annual Fashion Show Heavenly Bodies on September 4 at Sikeston High School Auditorium to raise funds for local charitable and civic projects. Since 1947 the club has funded a school dental program and supported speech correction and audiometry equipment, with proceeds aiding future civic efforts.
A Veterans Administration representative will visit Sikeston on Friday August 22 1952 to assist veterans and dependents in applying for benefits. The office will be in the Post Office basement from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm.
Mr and Mrs Max Eddy departed last Wednesday after a week with Mrs Heddy s relatives Mr and Mrs Chris Francis. They moved their furniture to Lee Summit where Eddy has joined the faculty of the local schools.
Seventeen students from Germany Holland Sweden and Denmark visited New Madrid County last week. J M Ragsdale Extension Economist led the group to tour Southeast Missouri cotton production and processing. They toured fields gins compresses and equipment dealers to learn how cotton is grown processed and marketed. It was many of the students first sight of the crop in the fields. The group arrived Thursday evening and stayed overnight then toured Friday before proceeding to St. Louis for their journey home.
Mr and Mrs Joe Mathis spent last Sunday visiting Mrs Mathis brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs John Worley in Cypress Illinois.
Clarabell the silent clown from Howdy Doody will appear at Jim Farmer's Shoe Store on Wednesday August 27 from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. He will greet children, honk hello, and distribute free gifts with no purchase required. The event is sponsored by Poll-Parrot Shoes.
A weekend surge in auto accidents across Southeast Missouri left one teenager dead and several others injured. Thomas Major Lincoln, 15, died after a collision south of Kelso on U.S. 61. Teen girls Pat Groves and Betty Wilburn, both 14 and 15, were seriously injured near the Cairo bridge while riding with Billy D. Willis. Several more crashes occurred near Wyatt, New Madrid, Portageville, and Morehouse, involving residents from Kentucky, Illinois, and Arkansas, with injuries announced for multiple drivers and passengers.
The Sikeston Retail Merchants Committee approved a Solicitations Control Program aimed at limiting door to door solicitation without a written Chamber of Commerce certificate. The program requires applicants to undergo credential checks, with a weekly committee review and a certificate issued if approved. Letters will be mailed to local merchants, and cards reading Do Not Solicit will mark approved businesses if the program proceeds.
Miss Jean Hartzell and Delbert C. Osburn were married August 9 in the Chapel of the Navy Hospital Portsmouth Virginia. The bride wore a white embroidered broad cloth dress with matching accessories and carried an orchid. Maid of honor wore blue embroidery nylon and carried pink rosebuds. Best man was Darrell Richey. The couple left for a North Carolina wedding trip and will reside in Indiana after Navy service.
Mr and Mrs Ned Tanner left Friday for a short vacation in Tecumseh Missouri. F Hardin Smith of Springfield Missouri spent the weekend with his parents Judge and Mrs F H Smith. He was joined by Mrs Smith and his sister Mrs Charles H French and daughter Linda who will visit. Mr and Mrs Lanus Probst and children hosted Afr Probsts parents Harley and Mrs Edgewood Iowa last Monday and Tuesday. Mrs W R Lewis visited Sunday with Mr and Mrs Ben Woodwerd near East Prairie.
Miss Trudy Carter spent last week in West Memphis Arkansas as the guest of Miss Mary Sue Manly daughter of Mr and Mrs C F Manly former Sikes ton residents.
Mr and Mrs Lee Matthews depart Sunday for a week in Savannah Georgia with Cpl and Mrs Donald Matthews his brother and sister in law and plan additional time in Florida.
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