Morehouse News Highlights Local Visitors and Events
Morehouse notes show visits from Steele Missouri New Madrid and Cairo Illinois. Scouts from Troop 49 went to Benton. Baseball teams, Rebekah lodge and Odd Fellows Memorial services, and a pie supper are recorded with various local residents traveling to Sikeston Tiptonville Miner and Mobile. A player transfer to St Louis and a kitchen stove payment are also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sue Owings
Steele, Mo
Hattie Tullie
New Madrid
Morehouse
Benton
Eva Laminack
Arkansas
Mary Asberry
Tiptonville
Tenn
Ruth Gregory
Peggy Stewart
Sikeston
Marshall Spence
Bearcreek
Hubert Carrington
Lalbourn
Herbert Brown I Jr
St. Louis
Joe Thompson
Carolyn
Dexter
Maggie Lawless
Cairo
Ray Marshall
M. E. McCurry
Malden
Bert Shelby
Dick Bryant
Jane
Ruth Ann Thompson
Cr. H. Pease
Branden Hospital
Poplar Bluff
Miner
Lelia J. Hinson
Harold
E. B
Mobile
Ala
John Hutson
Marilyn
Atkins
Ark
R.C Savage
Morehouse Lumberjacks
Tiptonville Merchants Club
Jess Hendon
Frank Evers
Jefferson City
Ernie Arbor
Miami
Fla
John Carrington
Louise Carrngton
Miami University
Rebekah Lodge
Odd Fellows
Grady Anderson
The
Baptist Church
Union City
R C. Savage
Russell Sloan
J. R. Hutson
Johnny
Eugene Bohannon
Delta Savage
Hank Savage
C. Savage
Grffin
St. Loui
Bank
Griffin
Rebekah
Highway Condition Bulletin June 16 1948 Regional Closures
Period ending June 16 1948 outlines Missouri routes with construction and traffic impacts. Major closures on Route 67 between Fredericktown and Poplar Bluff require detours via Route 61 and 51. Also notes one way traffic on Route 60 and 62 segments with minimal delays, plus several ditching, shoulder, and paving works across Butler, New Madrid, Dunklin, Scott, and Pemiscot counties. Premature birth noted as leading cause of infant deaths in Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Rt
Butler County
Fisk
Poplar Bluff
Scott County
Sikeston
New Madrid
Hayti
U. S.S. Rt
Madison
Wayne
Butler
Fredericktown
Stoddard
Bloomfield
Quinn
Dunklin County
Campbell
Holcomb
Risco
New Madrid County
Malden
Rt T
U. S
Lake Wappapela
Rt. T
Rt. 60
Cape Girardeau County
Rt. V
Egypt Mills
Rt P
LaForge
Pemiscot
Rts. C
Oran News Highlights Local Social and Navy Training Moves
Mary Purcell correspondence and list of Oran residents visiting relatives. Lee Mabrey and grandson Billie Mabrey of Fornfelt joined C C Myers for a recent visit. Pfc Raymond Bickings transferred from Keesler Field to Tin dall Field. Dannenmueller family naval training and reburial updates.
Island transfer and local summer college enrollments noted
Hollingsworth moved here last week. Jester transferred to Guam from Maryland. Summer term enrollment at State College in Cape Girardeau includes Miss Henrietta Fulton Hannah Languell and Gill Watkins with Mesdames Charles Baty Thelma Maddox R H Henson and Wilbur Smith Finley Maddox and Melvin Gatley. Mr and Mrs Wesley Hodges and family of Tanner visited Oran and Wappapella, enjoyed meals and fishing. Sgt and Mrs Reece Venable of Spokane arrived for a 15 day furlough to visit relatives and arrange transport for their children ahead of a return to Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfc
Raymond Bickings
Oran
Keesler Field
Miss
Tindall Field
Ray B. Lucas
Kansas City
Anna Lucas
James Bryant
Sikeston
Arthur McCray
Elmer Heney
Bill, Dean and Bird
Betty Ventres
St Louis
Douglas Blankenship
University of Missouri
Columbia
Harry Lipe
Jerry
Carbondale
Ill
Mary Dillon
Carl Lipe
Cora Sears
Randles
Masteline
Wanda West
Owens
Vancuser
Vernon Jester
Aberdeen
Maryland
Lizzie
Hollingsworth
Guam
State College
Cape Girardeau
Henrietta Fulton
Hannah Languell
Gill Watkins
Charles Baty
Thelma Maddox
R. H. Henson
Wilbur Smith
Finley Maddox
Melvin Gatley
Wesley Hodges
Tanner
Joe A. Miller
Wappapella
Reece H. Venable
Spokane
Wash
Longtime St Louis matriarch Mae Dillingham dies
Mrs Mae Dillingham aged 471 years died at home in St Louis after a long illness Monday night. Funeral services were held at Oran Baptist church conducted by Rev C B Warren. Interment in Friend cemetery. Born Mae Gross near Oran she married in 1917 and lived in St Louis 25 years. Survived by husband, daughter Maxine Schumacher of St Louis, two sisters Roxie Halter and Clara Maddox of Oran, a stepsister, a half-sister pair, two half-brothers and other kin including Barney Hayden in Navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae Dillingham
Orville Dillingham
St Louis
Oran ‘Baptist Church
C B. Warren
Friend Cemetery
Mae Gross
Dillingham
Oran
Maxine Schumacher
Roxie Halter
Clara Maddox
Tom Smiddy
Charles Baty
Claude Wood
Jerome Blocker
Wilbur Smith
John Hayden
Barney Hayden
Navy
Traffic Safety: Laws on Stopping on Highways
Rural highway safety guide explains Missouri Motor Vehicle Laws 8385 and 8386 r. Vehicles not in motion must pull to the right, lights required when parked, and warn moving traffic. Avoid stopping on traveled portions, near hills or curves. better to move to a safe location even with a flat tire. Pedestrians are highlighted as key in safety.
Pedestrian safety rules urged after traffic death study
A study of urban and rural pedestrian fatalities finds crossing against signals most hazardous, with 27 percent of crossings at intersections without signals and 10 percent at signalized ones. Safe actions urged include crossing only at intersections and walking with traffic, plus night visibility and rural facing traffic. The city allocates playground funds and installs 21 cent parking meters as mayor Bowman announces plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
J. R. Bowman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Morehouse News
Lois Heaton
Missour
Oran News
Mary Purcell
Lee Mabrey
Billie Mabrey
Fornfelt
C. C. Myers
Donald Lee Bollinger
Rosa Hooker
John Thompson
East Prairie
Dogwood
John Limbaugh
Jack Limbaugh
Great Lakes
Clifford Dannenmueller
Naval Reserve
Harris Field
Leo Dannenmueller
Leo H Dannenmueller Jr
Scott County Advisory Health Council
Coveraprice
Cheywsbet
Chevrolet
Too Will
Aed
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Company
West Center Street
Sikeston, Missouri
Highway Patrol
NEW Madrid County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Inc
Scott, Mississippi
Pemiscot,Dunkiin and
Burt H. Rowe
Realms
Stailcup
and Tire Company
Highway 61
W. N. (Boyd) Crowell
Ethridge
Highway
Puppelee
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