Two-Bale Cotton Club Proposed by Sikeston Chamber Bulletin
The Sikeston Chamber of Commerce bulletin urges forming a 2-bale Cotton Club to stimulate local agriculture and business. It outlines plans for a membership drive Operation Crossroads, upcoming club talks, and a Miami Beach vacation prize for top solicitors, as well as industrial prospects and farm outreach efforts for 1956.
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C. of C
Chamber
Sikeston
Missouri
Chamber of Commerce
Scott
Mississippi
New Madrid
Stoddard
Charleston Soil Session Focuses on Yields and Costs
The 21st annual county soils and crops conference in Charleston on January 13 features a full program at Mc Cutchen Theatre. Morning panels cover fertilizer use in 1955, lower-cost cotton production, and the ASC program with county leaders. Afternoon includes officer elections, 100 Corn Club members, corn borer talk by Arthur K. Burditt Jr., a movie Making the Most of a Miracle, and soil and crops practices by William J. Murphy.
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Charleston
McCutchen Theatre
J. R. Bain
Bill Burton
Richard Cantwell
W. C. Leigh
Lester Peters
J. M. Wallace
J. L. Crevidence
Ralph and
Charles Lingle
H. M. Dunn
Bernard Anselm
Sam Cox
Vernon Goodin
Charles Howton
J. L. Clevidence
ASC
Viverette Lee
Mississippi
Bob De-Laney
Missouri
Arthur K. Burditt, Jr
University of Missouri
William J. Murphy
Scott County Soil Program Next Tuesday
Scott County agricultural extension agent Tom Stroup announced the 22nd annual soils and crops program will be held at the Catholic grade school auditorium in Benton from 9 a.m. to 3 15 p.m. on January 17. Alfred Friga chairs the arrangements committee. Theme is Practices That Should Click in 56. Speakers include Millen Ghers on The ALS C Program for Scott County Starbog Guinn on Soil Samples and Interpretation of Test Reports Thatcher Scism on The 1956 Farm Outlook Al Hoskins presents Our American Heritage and John Leesing of Cape Central Airways screens Aerial Agriculture. A colored movie will also be shown. A noon lunch will be served by Home Economics groups.
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Tom Stroup
Scott County
Benton
Alfred Friga
Chaffee Rt. 2
Millen Ghers
ASC
Starbog Guinn
Thatcher Scism
Sikesten
Ass'n
al Hoskins
Missouri Conservation Commission
John Leesing
Cape Central Airways
Streup
Local Sikeston Teens to Tour England with Rotary Party
Southeast Missouri teens will join 25 Rotary District 197 youths on a month long tour of the British Isles as guests of the Rotary Club of London. The trip begins May 28 from Farmington with a June 2 departure from Montreal to Southhampton aboard a Dutch steamer. The party covers travel costs of about 400 dollars per member.
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England
London Rotary
Southeast Missouri
Sikeston
Rotary District 197
British Isles
Rotary Club of
London
Ed Nagel
Rotary Club
Rustic Rock Inn
Fred Hill
Nagel
Farmington
Montreal
Canada
Southhampton
London Rotarians
Rotary Ann
Fred Walker
Faston
Sikeston m Srs
Thea Reservatath
James Hale
Havert Restaicain
Sckheston
Rosary Dashce Hedks
Wes Omtraie
Toby Nathan Yortig Y Gat
Hales
Paris
Getatbice
Didi
Amyuni
Lance
Carson
Wahs
Enor Suard
9 “Pillman
Carethersville
Vongers
Dr W C Etheridge Dies Suddenly at 70
Dr William Carlyle Etheridge 70 longtime University of Missouri field crops chair and Southeast Missouri friend died of a heart attack Saturday. A native of Roanoke Island North Carolina he joined Missouri in 1916 and helped develop new crops and a flagship cooperative research program with the USDA. Survived by his wife Peg and four children his death ends a 40 year career in teaching and farm science.
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Southeast Missouri
William Carlyle Etheridge
University of Missouri
Etheridge
Missouri
United States Department of Agriculture
Howe'l Robertson Named Secretary-Treasurer of Farm Loan Association
Howe l Robertson is approved to serve as secretary treasurer of the Farm Loan Association as the Necurel Party directors gathered. Wiliam A. Dickison and Robert P. Mills attended the meeting. Robertson has for seven years represented the Sikeston Production Credit Association and will move to Caruthersville to join Equitable Life Insurance, with Fern Scott covering duties locally until his start.
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Necurel
Ted Te
Federal Land Bank
Aly Robertson
Robertson
Miss Fern Scott
Colwick Leads Bootheel Telephone Sales Contest
Bill Colwick, business representative for S W Bell Telephone, tops six month sales in the Bootheel District by selling forty extensions. Helen Perry led first period sales, with runners up Mrs Lamb and Mrs Bonnie Stowe. Colwick’s success boosts company recognition in Missouri Linnis Review Bulletin and other bulletins. He emphasizes customer benefits and time savings as key to sales. Survivors include wife Mary Martin, three children, sister Mrs Eva May, and other relatives.
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Bill Colwick
S. W. Bell Telephone Company
Bootheel
Commercial Department
Helen Perry
New Madrid
Oran
Benton
Arkansas Line
Charleston
East Prairie
Wyatt
Morehouse
Colwick
Lamb
Bonnie Stowe
Sikeston
Missouri
Linnis Review
Bill
Cas Tna
Sikestone
For Sale Piano and 200 Acre Farm Near Sikeston
An ad lists a new spinet piano with full guarantee and easy payments from Credit Dept. 336 Stowaway, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, plus a 200 acre farm for sale twelve miles north of Sikeston at $125 per acre. Johnson Paylor Realty and Insurance Co. phone 371. Contact Scott New Madrid Mississippi Electric Co op Sikeston for more details.
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Cape Girardeau, Missour
Sikeston
Johnson- Paylor Realty and Insurance Co
Slate Grain Inspector Stricken Here Sunday
Vermon G Gar for the Anssourt Gr Department reported a grain inspector felled by a stroke Sunday afternoon at his Maud Street warehouse. He was 46, born May 21, 1900, in St. Louis and had lived in Sikes for eight years, working as a grain warehouse employee.
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Vermon G. Gar
Anssourt
Adult Farming Session Set For Thursday Evening
An Adult Farming Class will meet Thursday night at 7 o clock at the Vocational Agriculture Building. Instructor Goodrich Talhen will speak on irrigation. Farmers and their families are urged to attend.
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Bustine Goodrich Tdalten
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ENC
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J. F
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James M. Beaird
Charles Mitchell
Beaird
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Cary
Carpenter
Farmers’ Home Administration
Missouri Soils Conservation Districts Commission
Missouri Association of Fairs
Democratic
Grundy County
Allis-Chalmers
Farmall H
Ford Tractors
Allis-Chalmers WC Tractors
N. Ranney
Sikeston, MO
Spapfe
Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Electric Cooperative
Elon
James Stephenson
Alwin Gasser
Scott County Soil Program
Howe'l Robertson
Farm Loan Association
W. Malone
Willie Tractor
Comneny
Sikeston, Me
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Harvid Hill Angus Farms
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Pine Crest and
Fenton
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Treezor
Crator
Frigidaire
Norge
Sanitary
Bendix
L& H
THY Sikeston Herald
Slate
F. L. Sisson
Offce
L. E. Bechtold Chiropractor
Front Street
Sikeston, Missouri
Hi Neightor
Rural Electrification Administration
REA
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
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