Rural Electrification Drive Expands In New Madrid County
The Scott New Madrid Mississippi Rural Electrification Cooperative conducts a membership drive with educational meetings led by H M Zarkor. In Keewanee on January 13 and Cade School on January 14, committees were appointed to canvass for stockholders. The Rural Electrification Administration seeks about 600 paid stockholders to approve loans for 140 miles of electric line and potential extensions as demand proves.
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Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Rural Electrification Cooperative Corporation
H. M. Zarkor
Kewanee
Cade School
Cooperative Corporation
Rural Electrification Administration
Parma women organize Wo men s Club at Gee home
A group of farm women met at Mrs Solon Gee s Parma home on January 11 to form a Women s Club electing Mrs Solon Gee president Mrs Graden Holmes vice president and Mrs Lester Parker secretary The club will meet on the third Tuesday monthly A special meeting at Mrs Walter Holmes home on January 31 will outline the year s program All community women are invited to attend
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Solon Gee
Parma
Graden Holmes
Lester Parker
Walter Holmes
Club Completes Work With Supper for Mothers
The Careful Cooks Club of Catron finished their work by entertaining their mothers and Miss Silers at a schol house supper on Thursday evening January 27. The menu included pork chops mashed potatoes carrots peas hot rolls and butter banana and lettuce salad with fruit salad cake and coffee for dessert. The dinner was well cooked and nicely served. The girls earned the money by sewing cotton last fall and two girls move out of the community, ending the project.
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Careful Cooks Club
Catron
Miss Silers
Schol House
Steers and Mixed Yearlings Decline at National Stock Yards
National Stock Yards cattle prices eased from the prior week with steers unevenly steady to 15c lower, mixed yearlings and heifers 35c lower, cows steady, bulls 25c slower, vealers 75c lower. Hogs under 230 lbs steady to 10c lower, lambs steady to 25c lower. top steer sale 850 for 985-lb yearlings, bulk sales 6.50 to 7.75 per cwt.
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National Stock Yards
St. Louis
New Madrid County Public School News and Meetings
Superintendent Miles R. Davis reports Southeast Missouri Board and Schoolmasters Association met January 17 in Gideon auditorium to discuss a health program and upcoming meetings. WPA work funds new outbuildings at Dawson School with sanitary toilets and urinals. Regional meet in Sikeston today under Blanche Griffith. Honor roll lists across district include LaFont, Farrenburg, Dawson, St Mary, Conran, Beech Grove, Little River and Beernie Curis, with numerous students named.
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Miles R. Davis
Southeast Missouri Board and Schoolmasters’ Association
Gideon Auditorium
Fred Miller
Elvins
J. H. Bailey
Dexter
M. C. Willis
Poplar Bluff
RM. Pierce
Caruthersville
James F. Miller
Gideon
Lowrey Muller
Cape Girardeau
R.A. Harper
Sikeston
George Pritchard
Cape Girardeau College
Ralph McCullough
New Madrid
Jefferson City
Dawson School
State Board of Health
WPA
Albert Ransburgh
Deck Hawkins
Lilbourn
LaFont
Bermard
Rerouting Highway 60 Through Charleston
Works Progress Administration workers clear right of way to widen Highway 60 through Charleston from Main Street east to the shoe factory. Utilities have moved wires and poles. large trees removed. Plans call for a five foot concrete slab beside the existing 18 foot pavement with widening from Bertrand to Cairo.
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Works Progress Administration
Charleston
Main Street
Missouri Utilities
Southeast Missouri Telephone Company
Bertrand
Cairo
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Missouri approves more rural schools and boosts state program
The Missouri ed cs system expands from 215 to 9985 schools since 1955 under Lieven Wo Rong, now head of the State dept. Public schools become a $40 million annual enterprise with salaries and free text books funded. New services include curriculum research, speech training for defectives, health education liaison, and broadened vocational education including retraining for handicapped workers and 29 new vocational agriculture departments.
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Missouri
Lieven Wo Rong
Sas Ag
Tte
State Department of Health
Farm Accounting Contest Opens for 4-H Members
Charles Boyce of Boyce Farm Equipment Co announces International Harvester fifth annual Farm Accounting Contest for 4-H Club members. Rules at store. prizes total 105,000 dollars including merchandise certificates and cash. Open to bona fide 4-H members during 1938 club year for best kept farm business records and 1000 word analysis.
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Charles Boyce
Boyce Farm Equipment Company
International Harvester Company
West Malone Avenue
McCormick-Deerng
AfcCormick-Deering
Cate
McCormick-Deering
National Committee On Boys and
Extension Service
Harvester Company
Farm Machinery Auction Of Broad Farm Equipment
A large inventory of farm machinery includes two new W-40 McCormick Deering tractors and one Hart-Parr Row Crop Tractor with multiple plows disks harrows binders planters and threshers plus harvesters mowers rakes hay gear tractors and wagons. Heavy feed and grain stock listed with dozens of sundry tools and items for large farm use.
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McCormick Deering
Hart-Parr
Keck-Gennerman
Keck Gonnerman
John Deere
Oliver Corn
Oliver
Waterloo
Chevrolet
Wilsons
Laredos
Kingsway
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Farm News of
New Madrid County
Scott County Abstract Company
Benton
Harris D
Mandeee
Schoobmasters’ Club
Conran
Juanita Savat
Manon Cook
Margaret Pardon
Virginia Pardon
Jewel White
Belva Swilley
Anna Adcock
Junior Swilley
Daniel Hawkins
Claude LaFerney
Viola LaFerney
Leroy Willams
Helen Curtis
Mary Belle Curtis
Rudy Curtis
Mary Alice Nipper
Ruth Atterberry
Louise Cathey
Marcela Bartlett
Richard la Ferney
Tommy Robins
A V. Jeffries, Ltd
Grape Ringe Willa Jean
The
Herald
Boyce Farm Equipment Co
Malone Avenue
Lowsparer Habhiv
Extery Farm
Farmall
Bis
G. B. Greer Estate
G. B. Greer
Highway 61
G.m.greer
Juanita Greer van Horne
R. A. McCord
Glenn Matthews
Kenneth Stallings
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