Rye flour mill starts new Sikeston industry in 1918
Thirty years ago Sikeston began rye flour production at Mill B of Scott County Milling Co with 300 barrels daily capacity. Miller Gus Zacher guided a simple machinery corrugation to grind rye to meet government white flour reduction. The piece notes local Buy-at-Home push, library move, coal concerns, and civic efforts including a National Constitutional Prohibition day event and street cleanup by the City Council.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
Scott County Milling Company
Gus Zacher
Woman’s Christian Comperence Union
Leroy Moore
Gladys Avenue
Stubbs Clothing Company
H & H Grocery Company
Bank of Sikes
H & Grocery Company
the Herald
Sikeston to form a country club movement
Twenty five years ago on January 18 1923 leading community men met in the Chamber of Commerce room to launch a movement for a Sikeston country club. A temporary board of governors was elected to receive committee reports and advance the club with J S Kevil M Q Tanner A Ray Smith C F McMullin P H Gervig E C Matthews and L M Stallcup named. Stallcup acted as temporary chair and G M Greer as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Sikeston
J. S. Kevil
M. Q. Tanner
A. Ray Smith
C. F. McMullin
P. H. Gervig
E. C. Matthews
L. M. Stallcup
G. M. Greer
J. A. Andres
Prosperity Street
Ranney Applegate
Lacy Allard
SJ Harper
Etha Dye
Burnice Tanner
Marjorie Smith
Frances Baker
Mayme Marshall
Jake Sitzes
Otis Brown
J. H. Yount
Law and Order
Arthur M. Hyde
Missouri
Illinois
Peach trees flood local orchards from Arkansas nurseries
Twenty years ago on January 19, 1928 hundreds of peach trees were being planted by large and small growers. E. C. Matthews purchased 3800 trees more, adding to his 90 acre holdings. Scott county truck growers will learn cabbage plant sources and prices at a January 27 Farm Bureau meeting in Sikeston to organize efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arkansas
E. C. Matthews
Scott County
Sikeston
Farm Bureau
Womanness Wedding at Malone Theatre and Local Events
Local notes report an all star cast for the Womanness Wedding at Malone Theatre January 25 and 26. The list includes Jeff Sut ton and many prominent local names. Also noted are Ira Chaney using a 30 year straight edge face scraper and a surprise birthday party for Scott Alexander in Charleston. The Woman's Club meets on North Ranney to review Federated Charities support and voter turnout, plus a playlette titled Other's Silver Collar performed by club members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malone Theatre
Jeff Sutton
Judge T. B. Dudley
Loomis Mayfield
Dr. C. W. Limbaugh
Bill Sensenbaugh
Barney Forrester
Aven Kinder
Jimmy Johnson
John Fisher
Milburn Arbaugh
Curtis Peek
Howard Morrison
G. Todd
Hodge Decker
al Dailey
J. T. Baty
John Whidden
Harold Hebbeler
Herbert Moore
Ernest Harper
C. E. Felker
J. N. Ross
M. M. Beck
Fred Schorie
Herman C. Henry
Charles Mitchell
George A. Dempster
R. G. Harper
Gus Martin
Steve Humphrey
Ed Fuchs
Dick Hopper
Ray Oliver
J. O W. Mathis
M. L. Granneman
W. E. Derris
G. B. Greer
Wilbur Ensor
T. Wilson
John Young
F W. van Horne
C. C. White
I Becker
Ralph Anderson
Paul Jones
C. ©. Scott
Kemper Bruton
Clint H. Denman
Carroll Sutton
E. Schorle
Webb Colley
Lynn Swaim
Frank Miller
D. B. Kevil
John G. Powell
C. C. Earnhardt
S. H. Clelland
Herman Boyer
Federated Charities
Woman’s Club
Emily Blanton
Lillian Gail Applegate
Nanna Belle Wilson
Henrietta Moore
Laura Jo Smith
Ruth Ward Powell
Modern Woodmen Lodge Celebrates Fiftieth Anniversary
About seventy five members of the Modern Woodmen lodge with wives and children attended the installation of officers and fiftieth anniversary celebration at Odd Fellows hall last night. Also notes on local business moves and events including Sikeston Armory project, Albritton Undertaking expansion, and a February 1 occupancy plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodmen Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Co. B. Poage & Son
Matthews
al Daily
Sikeston Seed Store
Odd Fellows
Dempster Furniture & Undertaking Co
Albritton Undertaking Company
Albritton
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W. Caleb Smith
Minneapolis
Minn
Southeast Missouri Cotton Marketing Association
C. O. Raine
Pemiscot County
R. H. Bierschwal
New Madrid
Jefferson City
National Guard
C. L. Malone
Harry E. Dudley
E. EE
Almanag
I Anzio Beach
Incsicn O O Cn
Pinhppines
First Republic
Meee
Meen
Reder
Roben Bums
Bom
Michigen
Zdison Paten
Nonhves‘ema University
WNU Feaures
Sikeston Business Firms
Cook Book
Lewis Sales Co
the Elite Shop
E. C. Robinson Lumber Co
Faultless Cleaners
Lewis-Matthews Co
Kelley Bros Nash Jack’s “Y” Barbecue
Taylor’s Funeral Home
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Co
Superior Stationery
Sikeston Auto Sales
Lincoln
The
Sikeston Junior
Merly
Cabbage and Truck ‘Growing Association
Ira Chaney
South Kingshighway
Fifty-seventh
General Assembly
Robert M. Talbert
House Purchasing Committee
Joe Dye
Tanner C. Dye
Dye
Lena Matthews
Ben O. Matthews
Gene Potashnick
Lucille
Geraldine Moll
Bank of Sikeston
Federal Laboratories Inc
Pittsburgh
R. A. McCord
Christ Sunday School
Virginia Mount
Memphis
F. E. Mount
Mary Emma Allen
Tom Allen
Educational Music Magazine of Chicago
Mary Emma
Betsy Ross
Betsy
Gga
Cape Girardeau Baking Company
Cane Girardeau
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