Christmas Guests and Travel Notables Across Region
Christmas visits span multiple towns with families hosting relatives from St Louis Kennett Portageville and Jackson. Residents traveled to Florida for a two week stay and others celebrated at Cape Girardeau Dexter and Columbia. Local birthdays weddings church events and a New Year gathering cap the holiday period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. F. Duckworth
North Kingshighway
Frank Dischinger
St. Louis
Wayman Lutén
Margaret
Union
City, Tenn
William Luce
Memphis
G. Moore Greer
Earl Aldrich
Methodist Leaders Discuss Objectives In Benton Dinner
Forty lay leaders of Methodist churches in the Cape Girardeau district met at Benton to outline objectives for the coming year. District lay leader John Fred Nunnelee presided, with W. W. Parker of State College Cape Girardeau delivering an inspirational talk and Dr. John L. Taylor outlining plans for denomination efforts. A laymen meeting at Sikeston on January 13 will feature Bishop Ivan Lee Holt as speaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Girardeau
Benton
John Fred Nunnelee
Charleston
W. W. Parker
State College
John L. Taylor
Kennett farmers petition county to form soil district
Three hundred farmers in Dunklin county petition the county court to establish a soil conservation district. Drive slowly. children move fast.
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Kennett
Dunklin County
Kiwanis Officers to Be Installed Next Tuesday
Kiwanis club officers for 1949 will be installed at the regular weekly meeting at the Dunne Hotel on Tuesday night January 4. Lt.-Gov. Earl Collins of Cape Girardeau will serve as installing officer. Robert A. Dempster, president, has named committees across Youth Services Citizenship Services Kiwanis Administration and more with chairs including H. E. Dudley E. Urban James Bonner and Clint Denman Jr. for various divisions and duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Dunne
Earl A. Collins
Cape Girardeau
Robert A. Dempster
Youth Service Committee
H. E. Dudley
A. C. Wilim
James Bonner
Jack Hinchey
C. L. Kirk
E. D. Urban
M. C. Mill
B. L. McMullin
R. E. Bailey
A. A Grugeget
Musical program for Rotary Club members
A Rotary Club meeting featured Mrs L M Canedy singing a set of solos arranged by Merle Canedy with Mrs Elmer Childress at the piano. Harold Pitman joined Rotary, welcomed by President Wm Z Baker. Guest George Modersbach of St Paul, brother of Rotarian Bill Modersbach, attended. The road sign marker project for four city entrances was to be discussed by the committee with Merle Canedy. Lowell Webb will plan next week’s program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L.M. Canedy
Rotary Club
Merle Canedy
Elmer Childress
Lowell Webb
End of Plan Profit Sharing by Emerson Electric
Emerson Electric Company of St. Louis has ended its profit sharing plan after eight years. The program paid bonuses to about 4000 employees, totaling 150,000 dollars in 1948 and 275,000 the previous year, with changing business conditions cited as the reason for stopping the policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson Electric Company of
St. Louis
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Pauline West
Bartley R. Schwegler
Louis Kem
G. L. Bohannen
Dogwood
Eva Ramsey
Odis Ramsey
Morehouse
Ruby Lisky
Brosely
Mose Mitchell
Hershel Patterson
Portageville
Hillary Patterson
Tom Lett
Bertrand
Lett
John Lett
Joe Ryan
Poplar Bluff
Vernon Guttenfelder
Canalou
McMullin
Glen Keller
H. C. Keller
Dickie
Jimmie
Carol Ann
Bennie Morrison
A. D. Rankin
Southeast Missouri
O. V. McReynolds
East Gladys Street
Jimmy Wayne Sanders
Santa Claus
Jimmy Wayne
Kay Tetley
Glennie Matthews
Gretchen Caverno
Barbara
R. L
Larry Richards
Ruth Link
Duggie
Elaine Decker
Billy Rodgers
Jeanet Bomer
Jessie Ann Long
Burt Rowe
van Strickland Jr
Forest Parks
Gregory Martin
Wm. Critchlow
Robert
Southwest Street
Homer T. Rowe
Dyer, Tenn
Tom H. Catliph
Claire Rowe
George. Cain
Mary Jane Cummins
C. C. Cummins
Betty Wayne
R. L. Weaks
Sitter Lane
Edgar Crouthers
Jean
Bill Acord
Billy
Jake Weaks
Prudy Margaret
Gary Phillip
Carl Parks
Sandra Sue
Sikeston
R. M. Talbert
The
Christian Church
Talbert
M. M. Beck
Columbia
Centralia
R. E. Ausmus
Gene
Jimmy
Robert Mow Jr
Bobby
John Beck
Priscilla
J. N. Ross
Charles Sayers Tanner II
Methodist Church
Ross
C. S. Tanner
Lakehurst
N. J
W. H. Sikes
Una Tanner
Sikeston, Mo
Ca Cda
Citizenship Services Committee
Agriculture and Conservation Committee
R. D. Williams
Max Chandler
E. L. Corbin
J. O. Hahs
F. W. van Horne
Jim Hannah
Public Business Affairs
James Brasfield
C. H. Denman Jr
J.S. Kevil
J. A. Sutterfield
Burt H. Rowe
J. A Mccabee
Kiwanis Administration
Clint H. Denman Jr
R. A. Dempster
BR. Schwegelr
James N. McClennan
J. T. Palmer
J. A. Shain
House
Richard Marth
H. L. Lane
William Clyde Poe
R. Paul Buchmueller
George L. Hale
Mittee
George W. Kirk
A. C. Willi
W. H. Guttenfelder
Kiwanis Education Committee
Earl M. Allen
V. H. Guttenfelder
J. S. Kevil
Avin Boise
Harold L. Lane
B. & L. Grocery & Market
Putnam’s
G. C. Baker, Jr. — Owners
Myrtice Limbaugh
Sikeston, Missouri
Ars
Likeston, Mo
Chaffee
Thomas Geraghty
Catholic Church
Louisiana, Mo
Walter Craig
Center Street
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Katherine Hepburn
Arizona
Tex Ritter
Canadian Mounted No
Wm. Elliott
Soxer
Betty Davis
Montgomery
Cary Grant
Shirley Temple
Mexico
Wm. Lundegan
Robert Mitchum
Betty Grable
Dan Dailey
Gene Autry
Dick Tracy
Peggy
Jeanne Crain
Wm. Holden
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