Seme News Briefly Told Aug 15 Congregational Meeting
Seme News Briefly Told takes effect August 15 and was accepted by a congregational meeting on Sunday morning. Rev. Gammon has led the church for nine years. Cape Girardeau Harry O. Coke 52, head of Marquette Cement Manufacturing Co for 13 years, died Monday after a brief illness. Funeral at First Presbyterian and memorial park interment. Charleston An alligator gar seven feet one inch, 126 pounds, killed near Belmont ferry by State Highway Department employee Walter Jackson. Skin to be mounted for Charleston courthouse display. Piedmont A Wayne County Cheese Co factory to open soon. machinery installing. Caruthersville James Skinner 50 begins 90-day jail term for contempt of court related to a May 7 1937 injunction against Skinner Woodland dance hall. After Nathan Terry, 23, died in a gang fight, contempt charges filed against Skinner and relatives. Jackson Cane Creek Homemakers Club marks 25 years of activity with a gathering at Cane Creek school on Highway 34 west of Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gammon
Cape Girardeau
Harry O. Coke
Marquette Cement Manufacturing Co
First Presbyterian Church
Memorial Park
Charleston
Belmont Ferry
Here
Walter Jackson
State Highway Department
Caruthersville
James Skinner
Skinner Woodland
Nathan Terry
Skinner
Jodie Skinner
Bailey Faces New Charge of Murder
Harry Bailey, owner of a State Line tavern, faced a new murder charge filed Saturday after a similar charge was dismissed at Caruthersville. A second warrant stemmed from an affidavit by Luther Burton’s father, related to Burton’s April 19 death during a melee at Bailey’s premises. Hearing date not set. Bailey held on felonious assault charge for shooting Hubert Utley. He pleaded self defense at the preliminary hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Bailey
State Line
J. D. Huffman
Caruthersville
P. D Burton
Luther Burton
Bailey
Burton
Hubert Utley
Holland
Governor Visits Wounded Trooper in Poplar Bluff
Governor Lloyd C. Stark and Major General Lewis M. Means visited State Trooper Nathan Massie of Troop E at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. Massie, shot on duty months ago, remains in serious condition and will stay hospitalized for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Massie
Lucy Lee Hospital
Poplar Bluff
Lloyd C. Stark
Lewis M. Means
Massie
Toronto Mothers Win $400000 In Stork Derby
Four Toronto women shared $400000 for bearing nine children each within ten years ending October 31 1936. The winners were Mrs Lucy Alice Timlock Mrs Kathleen Ellen Nagle Mrs Annie Katherine Smith and Mrs Isabel Mary Mac Lean all of Canada. Two runners up received $12500 each after dropping appeals as directed by Charlies Vance Millar executors who allocated most of his estate to the mother with the most children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toronto
Lucy Alice Timlock
Kathleen Ellen Nagle
Annie Katherine Smith
Isabel Mary MacLean
Canada
Charlies Vance Millar
Poplar Bluff Week End Draws Thousands For Big Ball
Approximately 30 000 people visited Poplar Bluff for a major event held over the weekend. Prominent figures including Lloyd C Stark Secretary of State Dwight H Brown and Major General Lewis M Means head of the State Highway Patrol attended. Miss Webb and Miss Marjorie Jones presided as hostesses with Miss Poplar Bluff also featured.
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Poplar Bluff
Lloyd C. Stark
Dwight H. Brown
Lewis M. Means
State Highway Patrol
Miss Webb
Marjorie Jones
New Cape hospital expansion begins on five story wing
Construction started Tuesday on a $175,000 five story addition to St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau following a Monday ground breaking. Officials from the city and Chamber of Commerce, hospital administration, priests from St. Marys and St. Vincents, and other friends attended. The fireproof wing will stand independently of the old building, increasing capacity to about 120 beds. The plan features four large operating rooms on the third floor with separate sterilizing rooms and a surgeon scrub-up room on the west side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Girardeau
City and Chamber of Commerce
St. Mary’s
St. Vincent’s Catholic
Fish Rodeo at Reelfoot Lake in June
A fish rodeo will be held at Reelfoot Lake Tennessee from June 4 to 7. Sportsmen from across the country are expected to attend. Highlights include a liar's contest with a top prize for the biggest yarn, and about 2500 dollars in prizes overall. Guides with lifelong lake experience will assist visitors.
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Reelfoot Lake
Tenn
Lead Workers Get Pay Reduction At St Joseph Lead Co
The St Joseph Lead Co at Bonne Terre Missouri on Tuesday gave a month's notice of wage cuts for 2500 daily paid workers effective July 1. Daily workers face a 9.1 percent reduction to the 1929 base or a $5 minimum per day while salaried employees take an 18.2 percent cut, placing salaries about 10 percent below the 1929 scale as mines run at 60 percent of capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph Lead Co
Bonne Terre
Cape Girardeau plant opens with 25 workers
First production operations began Tuesday at the new Superior Electric Products Corporation factory in Cape Girardeau. By mid June, officials expect more than 100 workers, with most machinery installed within ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Electric Products Corporation
Cape Girardeau
Worth End Grocery owner improves after illness
Russell Walker, proprietor of the Worth End Grocery, has been confined to his home the past week on account of illness. His condition today is reported as improved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Walker
Worth End
Shooks Former Wife Then Ends Own Life
Monroe Hargraves, 72, shot his former wife and her present husband, C. B. Wheeler, 33, at a home southeast of Kennett. Wheeler was wounded in the abdomen and Mrs Wheeler cut above the eye. Hargraves then killed himself, sheriff says after divorce from wife. The wife, 42, had married Wheeler two weeks earlier following their quarrel. No inquest planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Hargraves
Kennett
G. D. Miles
Hargraves
Mra
C. B. Wheeler
Wheeler
New Town Bird's Corner Emerges in Stoddard County
Bird's Corner is a newly formed town in Stoddard County, located five miles west of Salcedo at the Salcedo and Cline's Island roads junction. Development is rapidly advancing in the area with notable land growth underway.
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Bird's Corner
Stoddard County
Salcedo
Cline’s Island
Potosi Rejects Second Offer For Moses Austin Body
Texas failed for the second time to obtain the body of Moses Austin founder of Potosi Mo. Last week Mayor W L Edmonds rejected a $1000 Texas bid to erect a monument in Potosi in exchange for the body s burial in Texas memorial cemetery.
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Texas
Moses Austin
Potosi
W. L. Edmonds
Lone Star State
Austin
Texas’ Memorial Cemetery
New Madrid CCC Camp Seeks Dedicated School Building
Capt Robert G Johnston at New Madrid CCC camp submits request for a dedicated school building to expand an ongoing year round educational program. Currently using a barracks, the camp aims to house and educate 197 enrollees with a proper facility to aid teachers and enhance the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Madrid
CCC
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
Robert G Johnston
Extensive remodeling planned for Chaffee Theatre Horstman name change
The Chaffee theatre will undergo major remodeling costing 15000 with a neon marquee and glass front. It will reopen in June 135 under the Horstman name honoring C H Horstman, bought the theatre 17 years ago, with Mrs Dana Horstman active in management. The front will feature black porcelain enamel and four neon colors, and new upholstered chairs will be installed.
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Chaffee
Horstman
C. H. Horstman
Dana Horstman
State Teachers College enrollment tops 1136 for term
Enrollment at the State Teachers College Cape Girardeau reached 1136, 17 below the summer term peak. Classes began at 7 a.m. Wednesday and run through mid August.
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State Teachers College
Cape Girardeau
District CCC Camps To Be Continued
Three CCC drainage camps and one side camp will be retained after June 1, announced by CCC director Robert Fachner. Camps at New Madrid Delta Haiti and Kennett side camp will continue operating.
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CCC
Robert Fachner
Civilian Conservation Corps
New Madrid
Delta
Haiti
Kennett
Missouri cotton crop of 1937 tops prior records
Missouri reports a revised 404000 bales from 358000 acres harvested in 1937, with an average lint yield of 346 pounds per acre. The state’s 569000 acres cultivated and 2 percent abandoned show the largest 1937 cotton area and production on record, with nationwide figures also revised higher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Missouri
Missouri Agricultural Conservation Committee
Missour
United States
New Ohio River Bridge at Cairo to Open Sept
The new bridge over the Ohio River will open to vehicular traffic around September 1 linking Dinos and Kentucky. The Cairo Mississippi bridge has long served travelers and with the new Ohio River span visitors can cross the two rivers quickly. The ferry remains in use downstream to Wickliffe, Kentucky, about five miles from Cairo, where travelers toss pennies into the river junction for luck.
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Ohio River
Dinos
Kentucky
Mississippi River
Cairo
Witnois
Ohio
Mississippi
Wickliffe
Examinations for 400 unemployment jobs planned
Examinations for 400 unemployment compensation commission jobs will be held in five Missouri cities on June 25 July 2 July 9 and July 16. June 4 is the closing date for applications to be filed with Dr. W. W. Burke of Washington University St Louis supervisor for the examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unemployment Compensation Commission
Missouri
W. W. Burke
Washington University
St Louis
Plans Announced for Missouri Boys State Camp
Thomas Reed of Sikeston will attend Boys State at Fulton representing Sikeston American Legion post. About 300 Missouri youths will take part in the camp June 18 to 25, with two political parties and city, county, and state government simulations. Governor Stark will allow one day in Jefferson City. Colonel B M Casteel directs. Attendance requires a $12.50 fee plus travel.
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Thomas Reed
Sikeston
Fulton
American Legion
American’ Legion
Missouri Department of the American Legion
Missouri
Stark
Jefferson City
B M. Casteel
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Harry Gambrel
Americanism Commission
Tad Reid
Maryville Teachers College
American Legion Junior Baseball Commission
Rotary Clubs
Lions Clubs
Kiwanis
Chamber of Commerce
Churches
Legion
Many Deaths From Crossing Accidents Reported
The Interstate Commerce Commission said 1875 people were killed and 5136 injured in crossing accidents last year, the highest toll since 1930.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Sikeston Homet 1910 Christmas edition rediscovered
Old Sikeston paper from December 23, 1910, a 16 page Christmas issue owned by City Clerk A. C. Barrett and published by Guy E Cooksey. It features locals such as Leonard McMullin home for holidays and Dr A A Mayfield visiting Morley after auto trouble. Southeast Missouri note reports Mrs Lucy Williams in Poplar Bluff recovering from a copperhead bite.
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Sikeston
A. C. Barrett
Poplar Bluff Hospital
Miss Helen Sanders Visits Poplar Bluff Guests
Miss Helen Sanders of Poplar Bluff is the guest this week of her sister and brother in law, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Allard, who spent the week end with her in a family gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Sanders
Poplar Bluff
Edward Allard
Investigators Probe Death at New Madrid CCC Camp
Arthur C. Reichardt safety engineer with the U S Forest Service and Clark E Jacoby drainage inspector for the Bureau of Agricultural Engineering conducted a special inquiry at the New Madrid CCC camp into the recent overturning truck accident that killed 18 year old enrollee James L Wise man. No findings were announced yet as investigators examined the fatal incident and CCC equipment safety.
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Arthur C. Reichardt
U. S. Forest Service
New Madrid
CCC
U. S. Bureau of Agricultural Engineering
James L. Wiseman
Clark E. Jacoby
Bureau
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Chip’s
Malone Theatre
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