Oran News highlights social visits and local events
Mrs Sophia Heisserer moved to her new home in Oran. Many residents hosted guests from Festus, Madisonville, Chester and Glen Allen over weekends. Protracted Thanksgiving gatherings, anniversaries, marriages and births are noted alongside local obituaries and a bobcat killed by hunters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sophia Heisserer
A. O. Carr
Festus
Frank Neal
Madisonville
Joe Stone
Mary Purcell
Edgar Jolly
Chester
Inl
Johnnie Houck
Marvin Purdy
Chaffee
Adela Ross
Parma
James Sanders
St. Louis
J. C. Sanders
Thanksgiving Day Highway Fatalities Total 114
A survey of Thanksgiving holiday accidents reports 114 deaths, 14 fewer than last year. Between 6 pm Wednesday and midnight Thursday, 86 people died in highway accidents from various causes nationwide, with state by state totals listed.
University of Missouri Receives Weldon Springs Tract
The University of Missouri has been granted 7900 acres of Weldon Springs land near Wentzville Missouri. The majority will be forested for experimental forestry projects with 400 acres of bottom land cultivated and 1000 acres used for pasture. A man named Mr Cochran faced a dangerous brush pile. armed with a four foot club he killed a 260 pound animal after it lunged at him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Cochran
Delta
Caney Basin
R. C Hazel
Weldon Springs
Wentzville
Cochran
Local Tendrils of Thanksgiving Across Morse Lynn Area
The new resident Earl Nave moved to the Morse Lynn farm while families from Dexter Gray Ridge Sikeston and Crowder shared Thanksgiving and weekend visits. Multiple households including the Guilings Edwards Bond and Hulls gathered with local kin in a flurry of dinners and suppers, highlighting a tight knit rural community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Nave
Morse Lynn Farm
Estel Duncan and
Herbert Guiling
Dexter
Wallace Ramsey
Mexico
R. H. Ramsey
Bill Lynn
Memphis
Morse Lynn
R. B. Bruce
Luther
Clarence
Edgar Young
Riley Young
Leslie Bond
Gray Ridge
Harold Merrick
Glen Bond
Albert Edwards
Wanda
Bragg City
Eugene Spears
James Boyd
Joyce Long
Larry
Scopus
James Hull
A. D. Hill
Dot
Joyce
Roy Phillips
Vancluser
Curtis Guiling
A Guiling
A. Guiling
Otis Guiling
Estel Duncan
Henry Newman
Hershel Newman
Albert Chapman
Sikeston
Herman Newman
Bull Lynn
Philip Gleuck
Arnie Utley
John Utley
Crowder
Hayward Brewer
Miner
Bernard Johnson
Betty Lou Rhoades
Dorothy Hull
James Hill
Joyce Hill
Blodgett News local notices and events summary
Mrs Wm Beggs Jr correspondent reports a Dec 9 school carnival. Birth of a son to Mr and Mrs Verban McPherson last week. Local families and visitors from Cape Girardeau Clinton Ky St Louis Nashville and Greenville share Thanksgiving and holidays. Scout Troop 145 earns blue ribbon at Cape Girardeau game. Howard Wilson, 34, dies after auto crash near Greenville from loss of blood after his car overturned leaving his left arm severed.
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Ray Robinson
The
Oran News
Cape Girardeau
Chris Porter
Flat River
Fred Withrow
Henrietta Fulton
Norman Lloyd
Kansas City
Charles Carter
Fisk
S. L. McCallister
C. Pearson
George Chapman
Jack
Chaffee
Everett Wilkinson
B. D. Douglas
Virgil Smith
Fredericktown
Dennis Kappler
Pete Kappler
Fort Sill
Okla
J. R. DePriest
Harry Thurston
Ada Thurston
Vanclyser
Burl Stephens
Chicago
Chalmer Wiggs
Bloomfield
William, Grice
Roy Barber Jr
Memphis
Nora Fulton
Roy Barber
Virginia
Roy Barker
W. T. Lyton
Unity
Women’s Missionary Union of the Baptist Church
W. E. Riley
St. Louis
Mae Parker
John Ford
Harold Houseman
E. Statler
Ed Burger
M. C. Dunn
Marguerite
Sikeston
Verban McPherson
Wade Cochran
Ben F. Marshall
John Mooney
Louise Prost
Betty
Jim Peal
Trisler Beggs
Ernest King
Tenner
Aubrey Lee Davis
Kenny
Davis
Clinton, Ky
Bill Dodson
Bertha Dodson
Alton
H. B. Bradburn
Norman and
Benny
Nashville, Tenn
Annis Marshall
Leon Ainsworth
Jim Ainsworth
Cline Walthers
Marshall Hirsch
Qulin
Howard Wilson
Greenville
Wilson
Diehlstadt Woman Bonnie Milam Dies at Barnes Hospital
Bonnie Elizabeth Milam of Diehlstadt died Saturday at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis from a heart ailment. Funeral services were held Monday in Charleston. She is survived by her husband Albert Milam of Diehlstadt, three sons Earl of St. Louis, Charles and Bob of Diehlstadt, four daughters Imogene Poley of St. Louis and Nadine Pearly and Caroline Milam of Diehlstadt, plus two brothers and three sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loretta Hanselman
Ernest Hanselman
Scott County
Ed L. Miller
Wm. L. Carroll
Sikeston
Leonard Carroll
Oran
Ed Carroll
Cape Girardeau
Paul Carroll
Seattle
Wash
Virginia Carroll
Hanselman
Joe
Charles Miller
Marie Miller
Virgil
Michael
Joliet
Ill
Orvil Hanselman
Robert Hutton
Chaffee
Bobcat
Diehlstadt
Bonnie Elizabeth Milam
Barnes Hospital
St. Louis
Charleston
Albert Milam
Earl
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Roddy Nunnelee
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Hoover Cleaners
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Ferrell Oil Company
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