Surprise birthday dinner honors G. D. Drake in Canal
A Sunday gathering celebrated G. D. Drake with a bountiful noon dinner. Numerous friends and family members attended, including Roy and Bessie Hilton, Roy and Rabbit Johnson, Cleatus Horr, Carolyn Drake, and many others. Afterward gospel songs were sung, and attendees extended birthday wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. D. Drake
Roy Hilton
Roy Johnson
Rabbit Johnson
Billy Newman
C. C. Blankenship
Bessie Turner
Tommy Gray
Alioe Cooper
Raymond Myrick
Cleatus Horr
Rosa Lawson
Raymon Newman
Shirley Newman Scott
Marvin Tierney
Carolyn
Artie Scott
Fern Kirtley
Merl Evans
Bernard Crain
Roy Bixler
Hampton
Daphne Evans
Gene Drake
Mary Tharp
and Myrs_ Cleatus Horr
Carolyn Drake
Mr. Drake
G. D
Gean Drake
Mr. Rampton
Crowell
Texas
Emma May Blankenship
Weavrer
South Dakota
Calvin
Early Mays
Air Force
Biloxi
Miss
Fuzzy Mays
Gravel Ridge Club Meeting at Mrs. Kirk Anderson Home
The Gravel Ridge Club met May 27 at 2 00 at Mrs. Kirk Anderson home. Officers reviewed April minutes and discussed Sunshine Club date June 13 hosted by Mrs. Vern Anderson. Members planned birthday dinner decorations and a Cancer Crusade report showed 92000 collected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gravel Ridge
Kirk Anderson
America
R. L. Hodges
Sunshine Club
Vern Anderson
Fred Shawnmaker
Ed Black
Alma Catt
Mable Smoot
Fred Showmaker
Marshall Stallings
Walter Cheatham
Cancer Crusade
Walter Smoot
Missouri Governor Addresses Licensing and History Notes
Governor reports in Jefferson City on June 11 detailing stalled driver license staffing until now, classroom training for 35 State Highway Patrol personnel, and plans for county exams every two weeks. He cites university commencement, armed forces commissions, and the Missouri 35th Division reunion, plus notes on Missouri’s early legislative history and Platte Purchase land gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Patrol
David E. Harison
State Fair Grounds
Sedalia
Mussour
St. Louis
Test Soil Now For Fall Crops Warns County Agent
County agent Leroy Rottman urges testing soil now for fall sown crops and permanent pasture. He notes 10 days to two weeks for test results and recommends applying lime stone potash and phosphate fertilizers early to boost pasture alfalfa and small grains growth. The article adds an orphaned fact about chimpanzee lifespan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy Rottman
Two Die in Head On Crash on Highway 61 Near Hayti
Two men died and seven were injured in a Thursday night head on collision on Highway 61 near Hayti. Leon ard S. Shade 59 of Caruthersville and Mancel G. Lusk 83 of Canalou were killed. Shade rode with Hugh Tistadt 64. Tistadt and his wife Phila Magee Tistadt 56 were seriously hurt. Lusk was in a car driven by his son Marlon Lusk 55 of Charlotte North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayti
Leonard S. Shade
Caruthersville
Mancel G. Lusk
Canalou
Shade
Hugh Tistadt
Phila Magee Tistadt
Lusk
Marlon Lusk
Charlotte
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Miss Wohrl
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Miss McMullen
Peerie, I
Bauman
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Owens Corning
Ideal Insulation CO
Everett Thrower
Dexter, Mo
Alton Box Board Company
Alton & Carlyle, Illinois
SELEC
Sikeston Farm Equipment Co
N. Ranney
Sikeston
Gravel Ridge Club
By Forrest Smith
Missouri
Jefferson City
Capitol
University of Missouri
Brewer Field House
Springfield
House of Representatives
Cape Girardeau
New Madrid
St. Charles
Ste. Genevieve
William Clark
James Madison
Congress
Platte Purchase
Atchison, Adren, Buchanan
Holt, Nodaway
Platte
Daniel
F. L. Sisson
L. H. Sharp
Highway 61
N.et Lake St
Optometry
Nat M Snider
Armory
Sikeston, MO
W. M. Sidwell
O. P
McCoy-Tanner
LAW Blanton & Blanton Attorneys-at-Law
Derris Building
Phone
Automobile
General Contract Loan Company
West Front Street
Carson W. Smith, Dexter, Missour
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Crown Finance
Buckner-Ragsdale Building
Chain Store
Rawleigh
Rawleigh’s
Dept
Memphis
Tenn
Hollywood
Sikeston Mattress Co
South
Shakespeare
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Dead Animal Disposal Co
Southeast Missouri
National Gas Company
Sireston, Moo
Dempster
Berlou
Pitman Tailors
North Kingshighway
EL Patio
Brentwoost Blvd
Ce. Lenkford
Bertrand
Bath
Dorothy Street
Scott Insurance Agena
Wirbeag
Angel Bulls
Harold Ham
Sikestonk
U.S
Tide
Carter’s
Sikeston, Ms. Se
White’s
Scott
Stalkup Bldg
Sizemore’s Tin Shop
Scott Street
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