Sikeston Herald Publisher and staff details
The Sikeston Herald lists publisher Clint KL Denman with Ward Denman as assistant and notes publication every Thursday at 115 West Malone Avenue Sikeston Missouri. It provides yearly subscription rates for Beott and adjoining counties at 1.50 and elsewhere at 2.00 with payment in advance. Entered as second class matter March 9 1908.
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Clint KL Denman
Ward Denman
Malone Avenue
Sikeston
Missouri
Beott
Abandoned Farms Prompt Call for Aid and Change
The piece urges aid for displaced people along highways near Sikeston while arguing that pity alone won’t fix the underlying farm program failures. It criticizes current policy and stresses that only a revised, nonpolitical farm plan can help those left homeless.
Missouri's Folly Defeat Halts Gasoline Tax Plan
In November Missouri voters defeated a proposal to raise the gasoline tax from 2 to 3 cents per gallon. The loss, blamed on city interests, slowed highway construction and cut Highway Department staff. A bill to reimpose a 4-cent tax is to be introduced, underscoring the prior defeat's perceived folly and the state's tax burden.
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Missouri
State Highway Department
Financing the exodets movement of farm laborers to highways
Information from the Farm Security Administration in New Madrid shows about one thousand needy farmers applied for temporary grants and are receiving checks. A district official in Sikeston notes one quarter of highway laborers had prior grant applications, with grants of ten dollars for two persons or larger sums for bigger families. The grants are government checks to enable demonstrations opposing farm programs, while Sikeston residents offer aid to the displaced workers camping there.
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Farm Security Administration
New Madrid
Resettlement Administration
Sikeston
Mississippi
Matthews Lane
Marston
New Madrid County
Mooney Freed From Prison By California Governor Pardon
Thomas J Mooney, after 22 years in prison for the 1916 Preparedness Day parade bombing, is pardoned unconditionally by Governor Culbert Olson. Mooney, once a fiery labor leader, is urged to help prevent blood shed and chaos. Olson cited new information supporting Mooney’s innocence in a dramatic hearing.
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Thomas J Mooney
Timchne
California
Culbert L. Olson
Mooney
Olson
Twenty Years Ago Events In Sikeston January 1 1919
The Sikes ton Herald notes Theodore Roosevelt died at Oyster Bay at 4 15 PM with two sons in the army and one who recently sacrificed his life. A 210 citizen petition seeks a special election to bond for a light and power plant. library began operation in Scott County Affltinge Building with 700 chimes. Helen Kane’s song That’s Any Wee ss Now advertised at Young’s Place.
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Theodore Roosevely
Oyster Bay
Long Island
Sikeston
Woman's Club
Scott County Afflinge Company
Helen Kane
Victor
Young's Place
Highway Officials Cut Costs in 1938 by $900,000
The State Highway Department says it trimmed expenses by more than $900,000 in 1938 and discharged 722 employees. Commission Chairman Claude C. Earp cites heavy personnel cuts due to a reduced road building program, noting that Amendment No 6 failed at the polls last November.
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State Highway Department
State Highway Commission
Commission
Claude C. Earp
Mission May Be Established Here In Sikeston
Dr. J. H. Kready authorized by the Methodist church board to investigate establishing a mission in the Smith addition of Sikeston and to build a chapel if the proposal is found advisable and funding can be secured.
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J. H. Kready
Board of Trustees
The
Methodist Church
Smith Addition
Sikeston
Shower Given Monday for Mrs Homer Stallings
A miscellaneous household and linen shower was held Monday night for Mrs Homer Stallings at the home of her sister Mrs Carl Banks Wallace. Hostesses were Misses Florence Catherine Shuppert Edna Clinton and Maxine York. Many pretty and useful gifts were received.
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Homer Stallings
Carl Banks Wallace
Florence Catherine Shuppert
Edna Clinton
Maxine York
BFA-JON Society Social Meeting Announced
The Ben Jon Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will hold its regular social gathering on Monday night January 16 at Mrs Gene Potashnick's home on Gladys Street. Moss Wilma Ragins will assist as hostess.
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Ben-Jon Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Gene Potashnick
Gladys Street
Moss Wilma Ragains
Lions Observe Ladies Night Banquet at Hotel Marshall
The Lions Club celebrated Ladies Night with a banquet at Hotel Marshall last night. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Potashnick were honored guests as a handsome floor lamp was presented to the club president and his bride. Music for the evening was provided by Mrs. T. Elder.
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The
Lions Club
Hotel Marshall
Ralph Potashnick
T. Elder
Potashnick
First Diphtheria Case Reported in Sikeston
The first diphtheria case of the winter in Sikeston was recorded Tuesday. Kitty Anne Alberson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elvis Alberson, was quarantined at home on North Prairie Street. No other cases have been reported.
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Sikeston
Kitty Anne
Elvis Alberson
North Prairie Street
Missouri sharecroppers flee homes under CIO call to camp roadside
The report details a mass movement of Mississippi and New Madrid county sharecroppers driven from their farms after CIO leaders urged action. Hundreds camp along highways near Sikeston and New Madrid, many with families, some receiving Farm Security Administration checks while campaigning to protest farm policy. Authorities report no major disturbances as highway patrol catalogs campers and landlords.
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Highway 61
Emeras
Sikeston
Sunset
Mississippi
CIO
Owen H. Whitfield
LaForge Farm Security Administration
Israel
Exodusters Move to Roadside Camp Near Matthews
White and Black laborers protest farm conditions by leaving farms along Highway 61. Families from Arkansas and Mississippi County move their belongings to roadside camps near Matthews, while leaders deny eviction notices but call the action a labor demonstration against farm programs. Local officials report no federal funds yet, with relief uncertain for the gathered workers.
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Burleigh Horn
Highway 61
Matthews Lane
St Louis
Whirkpatrick
Will T Wells
Wells
Sikeston
Corona
J .A. Stovall
Matthews
the Herald
Wes Depro
Marty Jones
West Porter
Caruthersville
G. W. H. Presnell
LaForge
Depre
New Madrid
Mississippi
Scott County
Farm Bureau Service Declares Dividend
A five percent dividend on business done during 1938 was declared at a meeting of the board of directors of the Southeast Missouri Farm Bureau Service Company held here Monday night. Announcement of the dividend was made by Manager Alva Vaughn.
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Southeast Missouri Farm Bureau Service Company
Alva Vaughn
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Mooney Freed
General Revenue Fund
Greyhound Bus
Missouri Pacific
Mrs. Homer Stallings
JON
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St. Louis
TIO Movement
Whitheld
Hans H Baasch
Whitfield
Baasch
George Deumler
Butler
Bill
Harshbarger
Highway 60
Wyatt
CCC
Francis Cole
State Highway Patrol
W. R. Binford
Binford
R F Bradford
Charleston
Negro Baptist Church
Bradford
Kirkpatrck
Arkansas
S. V. Harshbarger
Social Security Administration
State Office
Farm Bureau Service
Schorle-Wood Realty Co
McCoy-Tanner Bldg
C. Clarence Scott
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