Record Snow Forces Early Closing in Sikeston
Thirty years ago Sikeston faced a severe snowstorm that curbed fuel use and prompted early closing hours. A wood committee led by Denman Bailey and Smith sought to relieve shortages, while another panel regulated heating hours for offices. A shed collapse at E C Robinson Lumber caused about 1000 dollars in damage. A White House letter thanked Sarah Willson Black for wristlets sent to President Wilson. Harry Dudley, Naval Reserve, visited Sikeston early in the week.
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Sikeston
C. H. Denman
R. E. Bailey
Harry Smith
W. H Tanner
J. H. Kready
H. L. Smith
E. C. Robinson Lumper Company
Charleston
Sarah Willson Black
Wilson
White House
J. P. Tumulty
Harry Dudley
Uncle Sam
Parris Island
Sikeston teams beat Charleston on their court in 1923
Sikeston high school boys and girls defeated Charleston squads on Charleston's court last Friday night. Scores: Sikeston boys 19 Charleston boys 17. Sikeston girls 18 Charleston girls. Also notes US business changes and local events including Stubbs store sale, greenhouse move, oxen crossing Kingshighway, and Dr C W Limbaugh moving his dental office.
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Sikeston
Charleston
Stubbs
Jos. Stubbs
H. E Lehman
Pocahontas, Ark
J. T Foster
Warrensburg
Cc Bowman
Dexter
Scott County Miling Company
Hill Counties
Cape Girardeau
Frisco
Cotton Belt
Thebes
St. Louis
Sikeston Greenhouse Company
Kingshighway
Wright
Puxico
Morehouse
C. W. Limbaugh
Malcolm Building
Front Street
McCoy Tanner Building
Wind damages Sikeston grade school and rooms
Twenty years ago on January 26 1928 a winter wind damaged Sikeston grade school and several smaller buildings. A capola was harmed at the school and a window in Miss Smiths room shattered. County extension agent J J Renner notes two truck meetings are planned one at the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce at 745 PM and the other at Baker's store Salcedo at 2 PM. Frank Van Horne and W H Sikes have rented the Sikeston.
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Sikeston
Miss Smith
J J Renner
Sikeston Chamber of Commerce
Baker's Store
Salcedo
Frank van Horne
W. H Sikes
Sikes
Sikeston Builds New Municipal Well and Boxing Night
Sikeston reports completion of a new municipal well ready for pumping with a bottomed strainer at 370? feet. The Sikeston Armory hosted local and visiting boxers in several three round bouts. Red Cross sewing room aims to finish unfinished articles this week if enough help is found. Loafers Club met at Shell Service Station for a ham and egg supper and a children’s serving after. Mrs W H Sikes hosted a bridge afternoon for Mrs Brower of Clark South Dakota and Mrs Hetherington visiting daughters in town.
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Sikeston
Red Cross Sewing Room
Loafers Club
Shell Service Station
Highway 61
Ethel St
W H Sikes
Bridge
W C Brower
Clark
South Dakota
J. E. Hetherington
Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills play by JC of Sikeston
The Junior Chamber of Commerce presents Thar's Gold in Them Thar Hills at Sikeston high school gymnasium on Monday night March 21. The community event showcases local youth talent in a stage production.
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Thar
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Sikeston High School
Sikeston Building Boom Shown In Annual Review
The Herald’s Building Review highlights Sikeston growth with new homes on Dorothy and Southwest streets and on North Kingshighway. It notes the Glen Matthews Jr residence, Ben Sells home, and the Kirk house as standout projects, plus Homestead and Grass hotels, filling stations, library plans, a new country club house, and early work on the Sikeston Armory led by J A Sutterfield.
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Glen Matthews Jr
Dorothy
Southwest St
Ben Sells
North Kingshighway
Sikeston
George W. Kirk
J. A. Sutterfield
Sikeston Armory
Building Review
the Herald
Southeast Missouri Dairy Plant Operators elect chair
L M Standley was elected chairman of the Southeast Missour Dairy Plant Operators at a meeting of 27 district dairymen at Reiss Dairy. Plans to rebuild the Essex public school, destroyed by fire, are underway with hopes for temporary classes early next week. Mrs Garwood Sharp honored her husband with a dinner party on North Kingshighway celebrating his birth anniversary.
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L. M. Standley
Southeast Missour
Reiss
Essex
Garwood Sharp
North Kingshighway
Barton Family Reacquires Trainsback Plantation In Missouri
For a second time in two weeks the 4000 acre Trainsback plantation southwest of Sikeston changed ownership last Saturday. The property moved from P M Barton to David M Barton of Catron and Tom F Baker III of New Madrid. Mrs Kenneth Hocker hosted a covered dish luncheon last Monday for Mrs Gerry Harwell who moved to Poplar Bluff with guests including Mrs Stanley Woods Mrs Earnest Dunagan Mrs Leland Hill Mrs Drury Wake and Mrs Marvin Collins.
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Sikeston
P. M. Barton
David M. Barton
Catron
Tom F. Baker III
New Madrid
Kenneth Hocker
Gerry Harwell
Poplar Bluff
Stanley Woods
Earnest Dunagan
Leland Hill
Drury Wake
Marvin Collins
Sikeston Residents Tour Edison Winter Home in Fort Myers
Fort Myers Florida January 28 visitors from Sikeston Mr and Mrs J W Cope toured the Thomas A Edison Winter Home. The Edison Home and laboratories were given to Fort Myers by Mrs Nina Miller Edison and opened to the public last November after Edison's 1886 winter site choice.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Thomas A Edison
J. W Cope
Sikeston
Edison
Nina Miller Edison
Mr. Edison
Press attitudes and old savory anecdotes gathered
A compendium of 19th century clippings from various papers reprinted by the Missouri Historical Review. Includes the Kansas City Enterprise 1856 note on Kansas name origins, Paris Mercury 1886 anecdote on a Salisbury train standoff over taxes, Carthage Republican 1884 jab at fashion, St. Louis Enquirer 1819 mail delay, Bowling Green Times 1888 strange bed lamp incident, Jefferson City People’s Tribune hog law gripe, and a May 1888 coffin trade pitch from Ashley.
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Bowling Green Times
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Kansas
Momitor
James G Blaine Bom
U.S
Guam
Tt Gaels Paar
Polly
Thomas A. Edison
THE
Sikeston Herald
Missouri Historical Review
Kansas City Enterprise
Kansas Territory
Nebraska
Congress
Paris Mercury
Salisbury
Kansas City
Moberly
Municipal Corporation of
Carthage
Republican
St. Louis Enquirer
Jefferson City
Bowling Green
Ashley
C. C. Burks
Fuller
E. L. Woodward
Sikeston, Missouri
Betsy Ross
America
le Cape Girardeau Baking CO
Cape GirardeAu, Mo
Leb Warkbuars
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