Thirty years ago Sikeston wheat yields hit high levels
A 30 year old Sikeston district report recalls wheat as the leading crop with Homer Decker threshing 13 000 bushels on his southwest of Sikeston farm and 3 000 more on nearby farms, totaling 16 000 bushels in 13 days. Wheat yields were generally strong that year with Cloverdale Stock Farm near Oran at 34 bushels per acre and Grover Health at 26 bushels per acre near Champion.
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Sikeston
Homer Decker
Cloverdale
Oran
Grover Health
Champion
SikestonHigh School addition contract awarded to Roscoe Weltecke
Roscoe Weltecke won the contract July 31 1924 to erect a seven room addition at Sikeston High School and began work immediately. Company K Sikeston unit of the 140th Infantry returned from Camp Clark with a loving cup as drill competition winners for the fourth straight year. Mrs Maude Stubbs Sunday school class held a cake sale at Hess Drug Store. Malone Theatre ran Jackie Coogan in Trouble with matinee prices 10c and 20c and night 15c and 25c. Upcoming: Jackie Coogan in The Boy of Flanders.
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Roscoe Weltecke
Sikeston High School
Sikeston
140Th Infantry
Camp Clark
Maude Stubbs
Hess Drug Store
Malone Theatre
Jackie Coogan
Flanders
Concrete pavement plan on Route 61 through Scott County
At a State Highway Commission meeting it was decided to construct the proposed concrete pavement on Route 61 through Scott County along the present Kingshighway alignment. First prize of 100 dollars was awarded the Sikeston Lions Club Chorus for the best entertainment feature at the International Lions Clubs convention in Grand Rapids Michigan. Barry Truman, candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator, was to speak at Sikeston August 11. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Gene Potashnick, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baker Jr. entertained guests at a country home near Sikeston including Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Dudley and son, Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Allard and children, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Baker Sr., Mrs. Margaret Harper and Miss Florence Baker. Waterworks Park, improved by Water Superintendent Lon Swanner, was abounding in flowers in Sikeston. A card from Cadiz Spain dated July 14 noted a pleasant trip being taken by Mrs. Calvin Greer.
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State Highway Commission
Scott County
Gene Potashnick
J. W. Baker Jr
Sikeston
T. B. Dudley
Lacy Allard
J. W. Baker Sr
Margaret Harper
Florence Baker
Waterworks Park
Lon Swanner
Calvin Greer
Cadiz
Spain
Sikeston Lions Club Chorus
International Lions Clubs
Mich
Local post office reports solid out lock boxes for rent
For the first time in the history of the local post office all lock boxes were solid out. Postmaster Fess Malcolm said there were 287 boxes for rental purposes. Mrs Bettie Matthews arrived in Cape Girardeau to greet her great grandson, Tigan, as local officials attended the annual meeting.
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Fess Malcolm
Bettie Matthews
Cape Girardeau
Cramsen
Tigan
Sen Wm
Corman
Grace
Ve Anderson
Schoo
Bani Cmd
Joann Charlies Corof
Sitzes
Betts
Arcadia
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Preliminary hearing in police killing case held in town
On duty in the South Pacific action is noted. Sikes Teen Town reports large attendance with age brackets 12 to 19. A preliminary hearing occurred for Policeman Marshall Knight charged with killing Mear Hale. Wm Woehlecke a Sikeston florist was elected district representative for the Florist Telegraph Delivery Association.
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South Pacific
Sikes
Marshall Knight
Mear Hale
Wm. Woehlecke
Sikeston Florist
Florist Telegraph Delivery Association
Washington University honors Dona Lee Tanner in arts school
Miss Dona Lee Tanner, daughter of Mrs. Ned Tanner, receives honors for outstanding work in the Washington University School of Fine Arts. Wedding plans are announced for Miss Tamara Rohald to Raymond Louis Rushevsky, and a Cape Girardeau inquest probes the death of Elizabeth Burchfield and Phil Bowman in a traffic tragedy. Frigidaire refrigerators and ranges promoted by LAIR'S with theatre ads for Lone Lone and Rex shows.
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Dona Lee Tanner
Ned Tanner
Washington University School of Fine Arts
F. X. Schumacher
Vernoon Avenue
Cape Girardeau
Elizabeth Burchfield
Phil Bowman
Tamara Rohald
Sam H. Rohald
Raymond Louis Rushevsky
Joe Rushevsky
New York City
Former Sikeston Teacher Appointed President in Kansas
Morton C. Cunningham, a former Sikeston resident and teacher, was unanimously named president of Fort Hays State College in Hays Kansas by the Kansas board of regents. He has served as Sikeston high school principal, Desloge district superintendent, and as a state education official in Jefferson City, and was dean of Maryville State College at the time of appointment. He is the son in law of Mrs. J E Dover of Sikeston.
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Sikeston
Morton C. Cunningham
Fort Hare State College
Hays
Kansas
Cunningham
Kansas Board of Regents
Topeka
Sikeston High School
Desloge
Jefferson City
Maryville State College
Maryville, Mo
J. E. Dover
Lottie Dover
Farm Safety Week Urges Caution On Dangerous Farms
Accidents on farms are common with over 2000 daily nationwide. In 1948 one in six farms suffered an accident, causing many severe injuries and deaths. County agents urge checks for hazards such as stairs without rails, faulty equipment, frayed cords, unsafe ladders, rotten boards, loose nails, gasoline containers, trash, oil rags, trip hazards, exposed explosives, loaded guns, and poisons.
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United States
Bennett Commer
New Madrid County
Herbert Rolf
Southeast Missourians Visit President Truman
A group from Missouri led by Ronnie F. Greenwell of Hayti met with President Truman last Friday to discuss weather and crop conditions. The visitors, en route home from New York where Greenwell joined the International Lions Clubs board, included C. M. Bell, Ray J. Campbell, Ed Britten, Mrs. Ella Buckley, and Greenwell’s children Ronnie Jr. and Henriette.
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Ronnie F. Greenwell
Hayti
Truman
Missouri
Greenwell
Cotton Producers’ Association of Missouri
White House
New York
International Lions Clubs
C. M. Bell
Ray J. Campbell
Pemiscot County
Ed Britten
Ella Buckley
Washington
Ronnie Jr
Henrietta
Missouri Airports to Get Federal Aid
Civil Aeronautics Administrator D. W. Rentzel announced that 20 Missouri airports are included in a 314 airport program funded by federal aid for fiscal year 1950. Missouri projects total about $664,527 with Excelsior Springs municipal receiving $21,000 and Lambert-St. Louis Field among others.
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Missouri
Illinois
Arkansas
Civil Aeronautics
D. W. Rentzel
Excelsior Springs Municipal
Lambert-St. Louis Field
Municipal Class Funds Report Highlights Sponsors by Class
The document lists sponsor and federal amounts for multiple municipalities across classes. Kansas City and Springfield show Class 4 totals of 57 527 and 16 000 respectively, while Malden provides 5 000 and Gideon 21 000.
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Gideon Municipal
Kansas City Municipal
Malden Municipal
Springfield Municipal
Goal set for Missouri CROP relief program in 1949
Columbia Missouri leaders and Jos Caldwell met at the Tiger Hotel to set a 200 car Missouri quota for 1949. The Goals Committee plans a CROP organization in every county and notes last year Missouri sent 19 cars of soybeans 13 of corn 2 cars of wheat and 150000 cans of evaporated milk to Europe and Asia. Commodities were distributed by Church World Service Catholic Rural Life and Lutheran World Relief.
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Columbia
Earl Brown
H. E B. Klinefelter
Ed R. Caldwell
A. C. Brittain
Christian Rural Overseas Program Goals Committee
Tiger Hotel
Jos. C. Caldwell
Christian Rural Overseas Program
Ed. R. Caldwell
Production Marketing Administration
Baxter Hall
Missouri
Europe
Asia
Church World Service
Catholic Rural Life
Lutheran World Relief
Federal rent control held unconstitutional by Chicago judge
A Federal district judge in Chicago on Monday ruled the 1949 rent control act unconstitutional. Judge Elwa R. Shaw said an included clause allowing states and divisions to end the act by local option unlawfully delegated congressional power. An immediate appeal to the Supreme Court was announced.
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Chicago
Elwa R. Shaw
Shaw
Congress
John P. Lulinski
U. S
Former Sikeston Man Dies in Arkansas
Paul J. Wharry aged 60, a traveling salesman and former Sikeston resident, died suddenly of a heart attack last Thursday at his Littl Rock Arkansas home. Born in Dexter, he lived in Sikeston and Charleston. Surviving are his wife Louise Bransford of Crosno Mississippi County, four daughters and a son, his mother Elizabeth Wharry of Sedalia, three sisters in Charleston Sedalia and Laguna Beach California, and nephew Robert Rowe near Sikeston.
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Paul J. Wharry
Sikeston
Littl Rock
Ark
Wharry
Dexter
Charleston
Louise Bransford
Crosno
Mississippi County
Elizabeth Wharry
Sedalia
Seth Rowe
Joe D. Williams
Mildred Brightman
Laguna Beach
Calif
Robert Rowe
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Barry Truman
Sikeston August Il
Mogmy
White's Drug Store
Sikeston, Mo
SPAP
Calvin Coolidge
Harding
Rvard
Yale
Terman
America
Lair’s
Malone and Rex
Kansas College
Southeast Missouri Telephone Company
Joie Chitwood
President Truman
Overseas Relief Agency
Wartley E Schwegsler
Sikeston, Missouri
E. Malone Ave
E. Malone
Hudson
Sky
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