Christmas at Sikeston Schools Highlights and Activities
Christmas activities fill Sikeston schools with student art displays in study halls and home rooms. Eighth graders design illuminated scenes. crafts include cedar chests and kneehole desks. A Red Pepper Christmas party, film viewing, and Citizenship Club luncheon mix with classroom projects and plays.
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Agnes Erleyv
Wortra Bishop
Bermiece Charney
Adilda McCord
Turner and
Moore Streets
Manual Training Department
Raymond Palm
Steve Hirenway
Meory
Filise Funeral
Miss Clymers
Palace Cafe Christmas Greeting Card
A brief holiday message from Palace Cafe thanks patrons for their patronage and offers cordial wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Bright New Year in a friendly, retro-business tone.
Christmas Song by Former Sikeston Resident Featured
Curtis York, son of Ben F York of St Louis and former Sikeston resident, wrote Sing Ye Noel. The Westminster Choir of Westminster College performed it Monday night in Princeton. The concert was broadcast and heard by Sikeston residents who knew York years ago.
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Curtis York
Ben F. York
St. Louis
Sikeston
Westminster Choir
Westminster College
Princeton
Ny Y
Mr. York
Young York
Central College
Fayette
Westminster
Money Returned to Policy Holders in Fire Insurance Case
The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously ordered about 1.75 million dollars of impounded fire insurance premiums at a 16 2 3 percent rate to be repaid to policyholders without further delay. Funds are in the custody of Insurance Superintendent George A. S. Robertson, who sought court direction on repayment. The court ruled no further authority was needed and that repayment should be pro rata with no expenses charged against the fund.
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State Supreme Court
George A. S. Robertson
Boone County Circuit Court
Roy McKittrick
Robertson
Lloyd C. Stark
Supreme Court
Illinois man dies at Morehouse on Sunday
John Brockamp aged 75 years died of infirmities of advanced age at his daughter Mrs H E Todt’s home in Morehouse where he had been staying for the winter arriving from Morrisonville Ill Several weeks ago The body was prepared for burial at the Albritton funeral home and sent back to Morrisonville for funeral services
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John Brockamp
H. E. Todt
Morehouse
Pinnell Resigns Sikeston Plant for Paragould Post
Charles Pinnell, an engineer at the Sikeston municipal light and power plant for five years, resigns to take a similar role at a new municipal plant in Paragould Arkansas. Dan Pepper, formerly Sikeston plant superintendent, becomes Paragould plant superintendent.
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Charles Pinnell
Sikeston Municipal Light and Power Plant
Paragould
Ark
Dan Pepper
Kiwanis Plan Funniest Experiences Night In Sikeston
Kiwanis Club members will tell their funniest experiences at the North Y Cafe Friday evening. Plans for Saturday's pancake sale were discussed, with aims to boost attendance, aid hospital outreach, library book donations, and sponsor new clubs.
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Kiwanis Club
North
L. M. Standley
Missouri
Arkansas
Earl Allen
Sikeston Club
Sikeston
Club Members Honored by Friends at Party
The Miner Merry Homemakers held a Christmas party Tuesday at Mrs. Ben O Matthews home. Honored guests included Mesdames Lem Heath Jess Wheeler and Harve Baker, all active club members preparing to leave Miner for other locations. A Christmas tree gift exchange and short program preceded a social hour. Caleb Smith a local real estate agent has been ill at home for two weeks. His daughter Mrs Clark Harris of St Louis arrived Saturday to be with him.
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Miner
Ben O. Matthews
Mesdames Lem Heath
Jess Wheeler
Harve Baker
Caleb Smith
Clark Harris
St. Louis
Last Rites for Famed Misouris Jurist Judge Faris
Judge Charles Breckenridge Faris of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit died at his St Louis home aged 71. Funeral services were held Tuesday at Second Presbyterian Church. Faris, a Mis sourian born October 2 1864, served 16 years in the eastern Missouri district court, a Missouri Supreme Court judge for seven years and two years as a circuit judge. He practiced law in Charleston and Caruthersville, served in the Missouri General Assembly, and was Pemiscot County prosecuting attorney. He was on the University of Missouri board of curators 1903 to 1909 and received an LL D from Missouri in 1922.
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Charles Breckenridge Faris
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Eighth Circuit
St. Louis
Second Presbyterian Church
Faris
Eighth
Missouri
Missouri Supreme Court
Mississippi County
Washington
Charleston
Carruthersville
Caruthersville
General Assembly
Pemiscot County
The
State University
University of Muissouri
Coffee Shop Managers Take Holiday Until New Year
Hotel Marshall Coffee Shop managers and friends begin a holiday that started last Saturday and will run through January 1. After the break the shop will reopen and resume usual service.
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Hotel Marshall Coffee Shop
Christmas Program at Pleasant Valley School
Pleasant Valley School presents a Christmas program tonight at 7 30 p m two miles south of Brown Spur with Miss Katie Fulenwider as teacher. Students perform Welcome song lower grades pieces Santa Claus Land My Christmas Candle and more including parades, tableaux and star drill led by various students.
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Pleasant Valley
Pleasant Valley School
Brown Spur
Katie Fulenwider
Helen Patterson
C. M. Harris
R. Skaggs
C. Moore
E. Couch
LeLand Stucker
Santa Claus
Em Haskins
Little Town of
Fethlehem
Christmas Party for Beta Sigma Chapter
Members of the Beta Sigma Ph Chapter enjoyed a Christmas party Monday night at the Francis club house. The young ladies had a Christmas tree with gifts for all. Games and contests provided entertainment, followed by refreshments in the holiday season.
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Beta Sigma Ph
Francis Club
New Ambulance for Welsh Funeral Home
Harvey S. Johnson of the Welsh Funeral Home left for Bellfontaine Ohio to drive back to Sikeston the new ambulance recently purchased. The vehicle is a Miller mounted on a 1939 LaSalle chassis and combines hearse and ambulance duties. It is black with mulberry mohair and silk velvet interior and all equipment is modern.
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Harvey S. Johnson
Welsh Funeral Home
Bellfontaine
Ohio
Sikeston
LaSalle
Letter to Santa Claus from 1938 wishes
A child writes to Santa detailing wishes for a Betsy Wetsy doll pair of skates table chairs dishes aluminum dishes to resist breakage for her brother Tommy a tractor and a ball She asks Santa to visit her cousins Roy Waldman and her grandparents at Kellett's Store in Salcedo and notes Roy’s hospital return upcoming Tuesday
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Betsy Wetsy
Tommy
Santa
Roy Waldman
Kellett
Salcedo
Charlotte Kay Kellett
Mrs Emma Watts Returns Home From Wapakoneta Visit
Mrs Emma Watts, who had been visiting her daughter Mrs E C Bailiff and family at Wapakoneta Ohio since last September, returned to her home at Miner today. Telephone news items to 99.
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Emma Watts
E. C. Bailiff
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Miner
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