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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
10
Haars Fruit Cakes are for sale by Mrs. W H Sikes with phone 462. The column lists numerous social visits, guests, and travel notes across Sikeston and nearby towns, including St Louis and Cape Girardeau, with many residents visiting relatives, attending hospital stays, and planning holiday events.
Bee The Herald's large line of Christmas Cards features Mrs Priscilla Coleman visiting the J W Baker Sr home. Mrs H E Reuber hosted a bridge club afternoon. Lizzie Masterson and Bryan East Prairie guests joined Mrs Wm Graham. Several residents hosted or visited relatives in New Madrid and Cape Girardeau. Mr J A Macabee plans a Los Angeles holiday trip. Rev D D Evd lis and family visited Sikeston area. Farm Equipment Association meeting in St Louis. You can believe what you read in The Herald.
Mrs. W. C. Edwards, hospital patient in Colorado, shares a Thanksgiving note to The Herald. She includes a humorous poem extolling Missouri, describing sun, mud, alfalfa, mules, corn, cows, hound dogs, babies, apples, pumpkins, mothers, and even politics and Negroes, ending with a wish to return to Mussourie.
Paul Brown, manager of the J. C. Penney store in Sikeston, started advertising early for Christmas, selling two-thirds of initial holiday goods and ordering more. The shop’s Front Street window display of toys attracts hundreds who stop to admire it.
Ward Food Stores managers and their wives attended the annual banquet at Dunn Hotel in Poplar Bluff hosted by company president T A Ward. Roy Waller of Store 38 and RFE Filanakin of Store 50 in Sikeston spoke as part of fiscal year reports and upcoming plans were discussed. about forty managers attended.
Woodrow Hardin, once of Sikeston, is named among outstanding J C Penney Co salesmen for the third quarter of 1939. He works at the Wellston store near St Louis, run by Roy Johnson, another former Sikeston resident, and achieved this honor in his first quarter with the firm after years as a Sikeston salesman. The Herald notes local pricing contrasts for Christmas cards and folders.
Night commercial classes conducted over ten weeks at the high school will close on Thursday December 14 with Mrs H D Bashore as instructor. They may resume in spring if enough pupils show interest.
Federal employees nationwide will gain holidays on the Saturdays before Christmas and New Year. President Roosevelt signed last Friday an executive order authorizing the days off.
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