Christmas Pageant Tonight Brings Nativity to Library
A Christmas pageant of the Nativity will be presented in the library auditorium tonight as a benefit for the Apollo Group. Miss Wilma Regains directs the pageant with a first and second grade chorus led by Miss Mary McCray. Cast includes Mary Reva Noyes Joseph Frank Schulte Herald Angel Margaret Ann Hatfield and others from Sikeston public schools. The "Jingle Bells" and "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" songs will be sung.
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Apollo Group
Wilma Regains
Mary McCray
Sikeston
Mary
Reva Noyes
Joseph
Frank Schulte
Herald Angel
Margaret Ann Hatfield
Heralds
Corlis Tidwell
Gene Hayden
Leonard Kindred
Mary Hambrick
Reese Bishop
Jimy Collier
Charles McCarpbelli
Harold Guess
Gustine Tinder
Louis Elise
Norma Gene Edwards
Evelyn Cowell
Wilma Lou Foster
Billy Jeanne Martin
Lenna Vee Mitchell
Betty Lou Deneke
Jackie Gentry
Nancy Sue Chapman
John R. Ensor
Betty Jane Ables
Betty Jo Weath
Marvilis Coats
Helen Critchfield
Howard Gurley
Flora Jo Weideman
Betty Fern Skidmore
Jacqueline Hart
Mildred Demarts
Betty Fern Sizemore
Maryuis Coats
Flora Jo Weidemann
Helen Crutchfield
Charles Randolph
Betty Jo Bacon
Betty Jo Heath
John A. Emson
Aleene Hooker
Dorothy Krane
Norma Burress
Erlene Beck
Sikeston Students Write Foreign Correspondence
A group of Sikeston high school students are engaged in international letters exchange. Names listed with their correspondents include C. D. Butler to Scotland, Ruth Boggman to Belgium, Electa Shankle to Czechoslovakia, and several others across New Zealand England India Belgium Hawaii and the Philippines.
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Sikeston High School
C. D. Butler
Scotland
Ruth Boggman
Belgium
Electa Shankle
Czechoslovakia
Margaret Mill
New Zealand
England
Doris Crooks
Hawaii
Mary Emma A Allen
Mary Elizabeth Waldman
South Africa
Shad Old
Ruth Malcolm
Switzerland
Agnes Skidmore
Netherlands
Helen Dudley
Philippine Islands
Howard Wilson
India
Bernice Husher
Holand
Survey of University Student Housing in Columbia
The University of Missouri begins a survey of women students living in rooming and boarding houses this week, led by Miss Thelma Mills. The aim is sanitary, healthy, study friendly housing. letters have been sent, and inspectors will be authorized by the university. Members from Mortar Board and several student and service groups volunteer as inspectors. Dean Albert K. Heckel and Dr. Dan G. Stine join Miss Mills on the committee.
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Columbia
University of Missour
Thelma Mills
Women’s Service
Mortar Board
Miss Mills
Albert K. Heckel
Dan G. Stine
Junior Homemakers Stage Christmas Party for First Graders
Sikeston High School sophomore home economics students will host a Christmas party for first grade children in the home economics cottage tomorrow afternoon. The event features decorated rooms, games, refreshments, and a gift for each child, with a Christmas tree donated to a needy family afterward.
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Sikeston High School
Second Graders to Stage Christmas Play at Bailey School
Miss Gwendolyn Duncan directs her second grade Christmas play No Candy, Santa Claus to be performed next Wednesday afternoon at the Bailey school. Cast includes Maglyn Lane Howard Branum Bobby Jones Della Mae Hicock Dorothy Bolin Ned Tanner and Franklin Pulliam.
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Santa Claus
Gwendolyn Duncan
the Bailey School
Sikeston Students Named On College Honor Roll
Cape Girardeau Mo Credit studies from West C Myers dean at State College Cape Girardeau show Margaret Crosno and Walter Mills of Sikeston earned excess credit totaling three fourths of an hour or more in the fall term The Teachers College system awards extra grade points and hours for above average work The normal load is ten hours per term and standard credit for four courses A C B and A marks indicate rising levels of achievement in the college grading scale
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Cape Girardeau
West C. Myers
State College
Margaret Crosno
Walter Mills
Sikeston
Teachers College
Cape Girardeau Institution
Nine Point Health Program Urged at Local School
In November only one contagious disease case was reported while attendance stayed high. The school nurse asks parents to engage with the nine point health program, birth registration for Social Security, and a planned dental program starting with first three grades. Parents will be asked for the names of their family doctor and dentist to ensure emergency care.
Local Debaters to Meet Morley High
Sikeston high school debaters will meet a Morley high team Friday afternoon to argue the issue Resolved That the United States Should Enter into an Alliance with Great Britain. Norman Schwab and Billy Bess will speak for the affirmative while C D Butler and Martha Haw defend the negative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston High School
Morley High School
United States
Great Britain
Norman Schwab
Billy Bess
C. D. Butler
Martha Haw
Gwendolyn Kirk
Mary Louise Montgomery
Eddie Crear
Flood Taylor
Puxico High School
Sikeston
Mary Emma Donnell
Ruth Hollingsworth
Betty Lou Barger
Elwood Taylor
William Marsh
John Hahn
Bob McCord
Mrs Baker Returns Home After Goitre Operation
Mrs T F Baker who recently underwent goitre removal in a St Louis hospital was brought home on Wednesday. Her physicians report her condition as favorable and improving.
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T. F. Baker
St. Louis
Christmas Vacation Announced for St Francis Xavier School
Students at St Francis Xavier Catholic school will be dismissed for Christmas holidays on Friday December 23. Classes resume on Tuesday January 3, 1939.
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St. Francis Xavier Catholic School
Candle Lighting Service Set at Sikeston High School
The Sikeston schools announce the annual candle lighting service for Wednesday afternoon at 2:15. It will be held in the high school auditorium with Tharon Stallings and Lawrence Knepper directing. Seventh and eighth graders provide Christmas music under Miss Helen Campbell. Senior class president Harold Swanagan and junior president Billie Galladay will attend as representatives.
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Sikeston
Tharon Stallings
Lawrence Knepper
Helen Campbell
Harold Swanagan
Billie Galladay
Mrs Clara Payne Visited Frederick Guests of Pierce Family
Mrs. Clara Payne of Frederick town was the guest of Miss Rebecca Pierce and her mother Mrs. G F Pierce during a social visit.
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Clara Payne
Fredericktown
Rebecca Pierce
G. F. Pierce
Sikeston Public Schools Dismiss for Christmas Holidays
Pupils will be dismissed next Wednesday afternoon and will resume classes on Monday January 2 1939 at Sikeston public schools.
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Sikeston
Miss McCord Entertained DAR Saturday
Kings Highway Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution met Miss Adilda McCord at Mrs. Roger Bailey’s home Saturday afternoon. A memorial service was held for Mrs. E J Malone Sr., a chapter member. Miss McCord read Tennyson’s Crossing the Bar and Miss Lydia Chaney read an article on the First Living Christmas Tree. Mrs. Bailey’s daughter Mary Ellen Bailey performed a piano solo.
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Kings Highway
Daughters of the American Revolution
Adilda McCord
Roger Bailey
E. J. Malone Sr
Bowman to Return Home for Holidays from VMI Lexington
John Webb Bowman a student at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington Virginia will come home next week to celebrate the holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs Lee Bowman and his brother Lee Austin.
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John Webb Bowman
Virginia Military Institute
Lexington
Lee Bowman
Lee Austin
Scholarship Awarded to Catherine Ann Cook for Violin
Catherine Ann Cook daughter of Mrs. O T Elder of Sikeston received an $800 violin scholarship after an audition before McMurry College music faculty in Jacksonville Illinois. She has also been offered a $400 scholarship at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
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Music
McMurray College
Jacksonville
Til
Catherine Ann Cook
O. T. Elder
Sikeston
Cook
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music
Miss Cook Deliberates Offers Amid Jacksonville Visit
Miss Cook has not yet decided which offer she will accept. She was accompanied to Jacksonville by Miss Ruth Hollingsworth, Miss Mary Louise Montgomery, Miss Esther Jane Greer and Miss Helen Fisher.
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Miss Cook
Jacksonville
Misses Ruth Hollingsworth
Mary Louise Montgomery
Esther Jane Greer
Helen Fisher
Bloomfield Legal Business By Robt A Dempster Wednesday
Robt A Dempster conducted legal business at Bloomfield on Wednesday in a routine local transaction. Telephone news items were requested to 99 for updates and notices.
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Robt. A. Dempster
Bloomfield
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New Fleer
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Morley High
Miss McCord
Missouri
Lair Company
Sikeston, Missouri
Santa
White’s Drug Store
Schick
Gem
Rand
Knaff
Packard
Gillette
Ingersoll
Mremington Rand
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