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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1948
Page
2
The Herald recalls a thirty year saga in Scott County as road building began with bond funds after a rejected initial vote. An advisory committee and county court were urged to follow law in designating roads and letting contracts, a struggle that cost the paper business and led to prosecutions for some opponents.
Twenty five years ago on July 12 1923 nineteen Missouri School of Journalism students and Dean Walter Williams toured Southeast Missouri with motion pictures shot in the Sikeston area. Prosecuting Attorney Stephen Barton wed Frances Agar in Chicago. Company K and the 140th Infantry HQ moved to Nevada Missouri for a two week camping period. C Hanson began construction of a Front Street building for a new jewelry business.
July 12 1928 news notes police Chief Walter Randall orders muzzling or restraining all dogs after a mad dog scare. Farmers replant crops ruined by June floods. The Herald begins delivering papers by car. Weddings include Anita Winchester and Dr John Stokes of Mayfield Kentucky. Sikeston baseball loses first game after eight straight wins, list of players including Dowdy Crain Dudley Smetzer and Haman.
Obituary for James Rodger known as Uncle Jimmie Rod gers who died at his son's Benton home. Civil War veteran in Joseph Wheeler’s Confederate cavalry with battles Lookout Mountain and Shiloh. Sikeston mill fire caused about 100000 in damages. Herman Proctor 19 died on a Frisco line near Commerce after sleeping on a trestle. Fred L Mills Commerce postmaster found dead allegedly from heart attack. J S Wallace merchant of Morehouse and Sikeston appointed deputy finance commissioner to liquidate four New Madrid banks.
Ten years ago on July 14 1938 Mrs M M Beck won a crate of Sunkist oranges for supplying the last line in a limerick. Gerald W Russell Jr of Charleston died of heart trouble after diving into a water ditch east of Sikeston. Sikeston area faced crop losses from rain shortage. The Missouri State Conservation Commission announced an agreement to purchase the nucleus.
Mrs. Josefina Guerrero, a Filipino war heroine, was welcomed in San Francisco after receiving the United States Medal of Freedom. Veterans greeted her with flowers as she faces leprosy treatment at a Louisiana leprosarium, the first foreign leprosy patient admitted for care in the United States. An order from Attorney General Tom Clark enabled her admission to the National Leprosarium near Carville, Louisiana.
A local brief notes the establishment or designation of Big Oak State Park in Mississippi County. The item references regional land use, a state initiative, and potential recreational development affecting nearby communities. No dates or figures are provided in the readable text.
Five years ago Sikeston honored civic leader John A. Young who died at his North street home. Missouri newspaper folks visited Jefferson Barracks for Army Reception Center events. Two million U.S. armed forces were overseas. Sikeston business changes included Gilbert Clinton resuming Gilbert's Cafe management, Palace Cafe sold to Frank and Peters and J G Webb, and Carl Banks Wallace starting as district salesman for Scott County Milling Company after 13 years at Kroger.
R M James MD Missouri Health Director notes polio cases varied yearly from 87 in 1942 to 1267 in 1946 and 131 in 1947. He urges cleanliness, proper waste disposal, non polluted waters, early symptom recognition headaches fever stomach upset and rapid physician contact. Adults can be affected. 1948 could follow pattern.
Last year a rice combine aided wheat harvest in the region as Imo city filed for Scott county equalization and new real estate assessment. Sikeston board of education planned a new building for veterans on farm training in agriculture. Named Sikeston residents include Miss Louise Jackson Hiram Allen Williams Miss Elizabeth Ann Northington Ernest Le Roy Tongate Jr Miss Lillian Taylor and John William Workman of Kansas City.
The semi final Security Loan Sales Report shows a total of 4,856,395 dollars in E F and G Bonds sold in the state but fails to meet the required quota. The report highlights lower demand or distribution gaps across districts contributing to the shortfall.
Missouri permits sale of colored oleomargarine despite federal tax, per Attorney General J E Taylor. A 1929 statute allows sale if the container bears the word Oleomargarine, reviving former restrictions.
At a St Louis meeting of Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy alumni, officers approved moving five veteran professors from Rolla to teaching jobs at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The transfer sparked criticism amid controversy over separating Rolla from the State University.
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