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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1938
Page
7
New Madrid county farmers planting cotton for the first time in 1938 on new farms may apply for cotton allotments. Applications must be filed with the county committee by June 15. Allotments come from a 4 percent reserve held by the State Board for new cotton farms.
Sikeston Auction Company to offer more than one hundred goats described as good and fat at the weekly sale Saturday. Milk cows and calves featured last week with a strong market. Also many head of other livestock. Furniture sale begins at 10, livestock at 12 noon. Last week 345 cattle and 415 hogs sold.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reported May farm prices at the lowest in four years. Surpluses and weaker consumer demand from the business recession pushed the price level down 30 percent from a year earlier, with all major farm commodities participating in the decline.
The Pork Producers Club of Neuman led by Harold Sloas has ten members each raising a pig fed by best market methods. Olaf Haubold presides, with David Sloas as VP, Joe Haubold secretary reporter, and Doyle Sloas game leader. The group expects to top the St. Louis market with their dogs in late August.
Ed Stewart claimed the first wheat harvest in Mississippi County, cutting 40 acres for the week with an average yield. In Scott County the first wheat was cut May 24 at the State Experimental Station near Sikeston.
The Baker Health and Sanitation 4-H Club will hold its next meeting at the Baker school house on Friday, June 3. Insects and Vermin was the subject of the program at the last meeting at the home of Mrs. Orval Tate.
At a series of meetings on the 1938 agricultural conservation program in New Madrid county 595 farmers asked about removing a nurse crop of oats. Carl Luper of the State committee explained oats can be pastured or clipped before grain forms and left on the ground without being classed as depleting if not harvested for grain or hay. Oats are still considered a general depleting crop.
County agent Leslie B. Broom warns several grasshopper species may hatch over the next weeks and threaten crops in New Madrid County. He urges monitoring fence rows and protected areas where eggs overwintered and recommends preemptive poison bait to save labor and crop harm, with cooperation from the county insect control committee.
J F Putz a long time Canalou resident died at Southeast Missouri Hospital Cape Girardeau May 28 after an emergency appendectomy May 21. Funeral held at St John Lutheran Pocahontas with Rev Gustav Wittke officiating. Interment in church cemetery. Born near Pocahontas September 13 1861. Survived by five of nine children Walter Pilger Nebr Ernest Gilmore Texas Hierbert Tulsa Okla Mrs Bertha Bamberger St Louis and Mrs Alma John New Wells. Also ten grandchildren two great grandchildren one sister Mary Schirmer St Louis and two half brothers Henry W Putz Pocahontas and John G Putz Jackson.
Jefferson City officials announce a Citizens' Road Association drive to circulate initiative petitions for a new ten year state highway program across all precincts. The effort follows a May 10 statewide meeting that adopted the program and outlines revisions to highway classification and funding to maintain federal aid. Petition filing must occur by July 2 with Secretary of State Dwight H. Brown, while campaign headquarters are in Jefferson City under E E Cramer.
Miss Glenda Waters of Matthews and B B Conrad of Marble Hill wed at noon Sunday in Sikeston Christian church with Rev R S Rains officiating. Bridesmaid Miss Helen Waters and best man William Roberts attended. The couple will teach in Matthews next year and reside there after a summer in Cape Girardeau.
A group of Sikestonians attended a Skelly products salesmen and station employees meeting at St Clair Friday. E A Bandy Sikestone district representative attended all sessions with his family. Herman and Raymond Bandy Bus Matthews and Wyatt Shankle joined later for the remainder of the meeting.
A lightning storm in the Southeast Missouri bootheel area killed Ray Lillard, 38, instantly as he drove a tractor near Caruthersville. He was married with five children. Crops were damaged substantially by the same storm.
Suits brought by three members of Dr W R Limbaugh of Hayti against Carson Righter Trucking of Sikeston over injuries from a Highway 61 crash north of Sikeston last July 14 were settled on Tuesday in Scott County Circuit Court moments before trial. Settlement reported at 6000 with Mae Limbaugh to receive 5000, daughter Annabeth 500, and Dr Limbaugh 500 for medical expenses.
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