Second class postage for Sikeston Missouri item
Entered as second class matter, March 9, 1908, at the post office at Sikeston, Missouri, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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Sikeston
Missouri
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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1944
Page
7
Sikeston Christmas Celebration and War News Reflections
Sikeston residents celebrated Christmas with restrained cheer and strong religious observance. meanwhile Americans face sobering Allied front news as German advances slow. The piece ponders Roosevelt’s influence and a looming meeting of Churchill Stalin and Roosevelt to address the Greek crisis, ending with Fort Riley’s 1842 general orders about discipline and beards.
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United States
America
England
Russia
Churchill
Athens
Berlin
Balkan States
Stalin
Roosevelt
Europe
Farmers Week Pullman Car Run Planned for 1920
The Sikeston Herald notes Farm Bureaus of Scott and New Madrid counties arrange a special Pullman car tone run from Sikeston to Columbia for Farmers Week at the College of Agriculture. It also mentions Rank Van Horne returning from Mexico and advocates for a community house memorial, a municipal light and power plant, a parent teachers association, a public library, and concrete road construction in Scott County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston Herald
Scott
New Madrid
Sikeston
Columbia
College of Agriculture
Rank van Horne
Mexico
Is. L. C. van Horne
The
Herald
Twenty Years Ago January 1 1925 Highlights Sikeston area
In Sikeston the Girl Scout troop grows to 25 with Ruth McCoy as captain and Mildred Bowman and Bonnie Keith as lieutenants. Rev J M Fontaine becomes regular pastor at the Presbyterian church. Fern Scott Bowman wins Essex coach in The Herald subscription contest. Sheriff Wm E Kirkendall hands over office keys to Everett Dye. New Year's Eve dance at Lynn Stallcup home draws about 75 guests with E P Coleman helping host.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
Ruth McCoy
Mildred Bowman
Bonnie Keith
J. M. Fontaine
Fern Scott Bowman
Essex
The
Herald
Scott County Court House
Benton
Wm. E. Kirkendall
Everett Dye
Lynn Stallcup
E. P. Coleman
Fifteen Years Ago January 2 1980 Highlights Sikeston
A 1980 item notes work slated for a new $60,000 Sikeston post office per Congressman Dewey Short though no local assurances exist. Also recaps a NYE flight by Art Steiger and friends, a 1935 Rose Bowl TV debut, a Dover wedding, and Gov Park urging a higher state sales tax as holiday deaths near six hundred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sikeston
Dewey Short
Art Steiger
Boyer <Aircraft Corporation
M. C. Cunningham
J. E. Dover
California
Lacy Allard
Edward
Westminster College
Ward Denman
Jack Yount
Harry Young
Bill Malone
van Sharp
Charles Cook
Don Karsch
Farmington
Park
58Th
Missouri General Assembly
First snowy Christmas morn chills Southeast Missouri
The season opens with 20 degree temperatures and a snowy Christmas. The Foley Motor Company Sikeston Ford agency changed hands this week to Herbert Walton and Ralph Williams of Cape Girardeau. Weather last December brought rain fog cold and sleet with a brief sun. A hangar at Missouri Institute of Aeronautics South Field burned down on Christmas morning. Over five hundred Sikeston residents hosted cadets for Christmas including hotel dinners. Lieut. Jean Klein, commissioned at Fort Sill last week, returns home to visit his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley Motor Company
Sikeston Ford Agency
Herbert Walton
Ralph Williams
Cape Girardeau
Missouri
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
South Field
Sikeston
Jean Klein
Fort Sill
Okla
Murray Klein
Miss Evelyn Holmes Weds Benton Man in Benton Home
Miss Evelyn Holmes of Sikeston wed Lieut. Wm. R. English of Benton in a Christmas Eve ceremony at the groom’s parents home. Rev. T. L. Bess officiated. The couple, attended by Mrs. Bradford and Lester Miller, planned a honeymoon in St. Louis and Kansas City before Mrs. English possibly joining her husband at Camp Shelby after his furlough.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Holmes
Sikeston
Wm. R. English
Benton
W. A. English
T. L. Bess
T. C. Bradford
Lester Miller
Caruthersville Pilot Promoted to Major in England
John B. England, 21, of Caruthersville, promoted to major at a Ninth Air Force fighter station in England. A fighter veteran since 1942, he is credited with destroying 18 German planes and recently four in a single dogfight. He holds the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf Clusters and the Distinguished Flying Cross with one Oak Leaf Cluster. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. England.
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John B. England
Caruthersville
Eighth Air Force
England
B. H. England
Former cadet Harding on Jinny Sim's show
Major Robert Johnson of Lawton Oklahoma and Class 42 F at the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics appeared on Jinny Sim's program Tuesday night. He earned the Purple Heart Air Medal Silver Star and Distinguished Flying Cross with seven Oak Leaf Clusters and is credited with downing more than 27 German ships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Johnson
Lawton
Okla
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
Army Air Forces
Jinny Sim
Christmas Party for P. E. O. Chapter Hosts
Miss Myra Tanner hosted a P. E. O. Chapter H. B. Christmas party last Friday at the home of her niece Mrs. Ted Kirby on North Ranney Street. A world record price for an Aberdeen Angus champion bull was paid in Buenos Aires this week, with La Danesa ranch purchasing "Better of Berculich."
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myra Tanner
H. B
Ted Kirby
Ranney Street
Buenos Aires
LaDanesa Ranch
New Year Reflections and Small-Town News
A Sikeston column blends light social musings with local notes from the waning year. It recalls 1944 resolutions, a shared poem about time and change, a dramatic hospital moment after a package opening, Leap Year chat, war-time dating odds, and ice-damaged Sikeston trees recalling a 1937 storm.
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Sikeston
Walker aids England engineers in upgrading airfield runways
Cpl. J. N. Walker of Sikeston is serving with an Engineers company stationed in England. He helps grade and concrete runways at an Eighth Air Force fighter base used to support Lt. Col. Kyle L. Riddle’s 479th Fighter Group bomber escort and strafing missions. Walker, a former Crenshaw Candy salesman, is married to Edith Hulsey Walker. his mother is Myrtle Walker. Madeline Bergmann of Cape Girardeau visits aunt Mrs. KE Matthews before reporting for Red Cross duty in January.
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Cpl
J. N. Walker
Eighth Air Force
England
Germany
Cpl. Walker
Edith Hulsey Walker
Sikeston
Kyle L. Riddle
479Th
Corps of Engineers
Crenshaw Candy Company
Myrtle Walker
Madeline Bergmann
Cape Girardeau
KE. ©. Matthews
Bergmann
American Red Cross
Army Man’s Mother Dies During Furlough
Pfc. Andrew C. Burns of the Aviation Engineers Division in the Aleutians was home on furlough with his parents near Sikeston for several weeks when his mother Mrs Elizabeth Burns died. He will leave Monday for Greger Field Washington for further assignment to duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew C. Burns
Aviation Engineers Division
Army
Aleutians
E. R. Burns
Sikeston
Greger Field
Wash
Elizabeth Burns
Tuberculosis Seals Fund Drive Urges Immediate Payment
Jos. A. Leslie, president of the Scott County Tuberculosis Association, requests that all recipients who were mailed Christmas Seals send in their checks promptly. So far $949.85 has been received toward a county goal of $1500.
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Jos. A. Leslie
Scott County Tuberculosis Association
Card of Thanks for Elizabeth Burns
The Burns family thanks friends for support during illness and death of Mrs. Elizabeth Burns. E. R. Burns and Family.
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Elizabeth Burns
E. R. Burns
Mule Killed by Oil Truck on Highway 61 North of New Madrid
A mule wandering on Highway 61 five miles north of New Madrid was struck and killed early this morning by a Cape Girardeau oil truck driven by Arnold A. McClard. McClard was unhurt, the State Highway Patrol reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Madrid
J. D. Streeter
Cape Girardeau
State Highway Patrol
Arnold A. McClard
Souvenir Rifle Fatality Claims Piedmont Youth
George L. Lewis, 21, son of Mr and Mrs Lee Lewis of Piedmont, was accidentally killed at the family home while showing a Japanese souvenir rifle from his Navy service. He arrived home Friday to spend the holidays with relatives when the gun discharged, striking him in the head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George L. Lewis
Lee Lewis
Piedmont
United States Navy
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Malone Avenue
Sikeston, Mo
Fort Riley
Kan
J. S. Beauregard
Cavalry
Miss Evelyn Holmes
Hhard
P. EB. O
Weber
Front Street
Associated Press
Donna Smith
Oh-h-h
Southeast Missouri
Pickins
N. Walker
Engineers
Pitman
Uew
New Madrid County Farmers
Mutual
Burt H. Rowe
Stallcup Building
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