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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1940
Page
16
E M Crooks notes a 200 bushel yield from four acres by Joe Crouthers and a 532 bushel total from 9.8 acres, averaging over 54 bushels per acre. The grain weighed 58 pounds per bushel and graded No 2. Threshing by Sayers Tanner used a re cleaner to remove cockle and cheat.
A new Phillips 66 service station owned by Roy E. Alsup begins operations a mile east of Sikeston just south of the airport. Alsup, long employed by Local Truck System and formerly at the Ford garage, is a well known local figure.
A Dodge delivery truck owned by Dempster Furniture Co. was destroyed by fire last Saturday near Poplar Bluff while furniture was being delivered. Deliverers Orville Taylor and a Black assistant named Wright managed to save the furniture.
Mrs Mary Boyce of Anna Illinois is visiting her son Charley Boyce and family this week. local note mentions office forms of every description available at The Herald and hints at community notices.
New Madrid County sent twelve of thirty seven participants to the Stoneville Mississippi ginners and farmers tour led by County agent Herlinger. Highlights included the cotton zoo with nearly 2400 strains from over 400 varieties, plus visits to the Cotton Ginning Laboratory the Quality Testing Laboratory and plantations of Stoneville Pedigreed Seed and Delta Pine Land. Local attendees listed include Arline Avery Ott Burnett R. P. Christeson Gus Eiceman Fred Geske W. E. Hammond E. V. Jewett C. W. Jones Harold Sloas C. S. Smith A. F Tinsley W. T. Watson and Agent Herlinger.
New Madrid county beef cattle raisers are invited to a cattle grading meeting Wednesday July 24 at 7 30 a m at the C H Post farm west of Parma. County Agent Herlinger says E S Matteson extension livestock specialist will discuss feeding and other management practices. A salesman from a commission house on the St Louis market will sort cattle into market classes and quote prices at St Louis. Every farmer interested in raising or feeding beef cattle is cordially invited.
Dave Drake this week announces Pontiac Sales a new automobile agency on Highway 61 at East Gladys Street. It will be headquarters for the Pontiac Sixes and Eights and include a service department with factory trained mechanics. The remodeled showroom and office building features glass enclosures and a modern display for the new cars.
Mr and Mrs Sid Meesey, their sister in law Mrs Corbit Fears and five children were hurt when their truck veered off a highway near Houston Mo and hit a ditch bank returning from a church conference. Meesey suffered a cut lip and bruises while Mrs Meesey sprained ankle knee injuries and facial wounds. Mrs Fears and baby in cab seat broke a left collar bone. The four other children in the truck body were uninjured. Truck damage estimated at $200.
More than 100 truck operators and drivers joined Ralph Williams and Herbert Walton of Walton & Williams Motor Co to view Ford V-8 Mercury and Lincoln Zephyr displays. The event featured a Ford educational film, a World's Fair 1940 models tour, and remarks by R W Kaercher and Harry Eschenroeder before refreshments.
Plans are set for Company K of the Missouri National Guard and 45,000 troops to train for three weeks at Camp Ripley Minnesota this summer replacing the two-week camp at Camp Clark Nevada Missouri. Regular Army and National Guard units from 13 states will move by road and rail totaling 3,667 motor vehicles and 811 railroad cars to the 900,000 acre area.
Washington reports the Burke Wadsworth compulsory military training bill outlines registration of all male citizens and selected aliens aged 18 to 65, universal liability for training and service for 21 to 45, eight month initial training with possible longer service during war, a 10 year reserve term, and yearly training for reservists. Drawings will select trainees by age, with specific group percentages and presidential authority to defer or call matches as needed.
In the playing card production industry, plates of pure nickel are used in the printing process to ensure a smooth, slick finish on the cards.
Mrs. Raymond Bressler, 31, fatally stabbed her three children Carolyn 6 Paula 16 months and Robert 6 months in a second floor Oregon Missouri flat last Friday then died by inhaling gas from a stove. Bodies moved to Chaffee for funeral at St Ambrose with Rev W C Craig. interment near Delta. Former Sikeston resident Mary Florence Wilkinson taught and worked for the government in Washington and later married in 1933.
Caruthersville cafe operator Aubrey Smith, 32, was fatally shot early Sunday by Ola Stacy, 32, a cafe employee. The incident occurred at the Caruthersville cafe, details forthcoming as authorities investigate.
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