Local News Roundup from Nearby Towns
Local items report Joe Kappler’s move to St. Louis to join the army and numerous visits, guests, and family events across Oran Benton Deering Cape Girardeau and nearby towns. Notes include hospital news, engagements, church events, and travel by residents to St Louis Fayette and Memphis with many kinship ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Kappler
St. Louis
Ray B. Lucas
Benton
Oran
Murray Powell
Floyd Gillem
Detroit
Effie Grant
New Madrid
Emory Mason
I. C. Mattingly
Boyd Crafton
Wentzfield
Charles Schaeffer
Pittspureh
E. H. Loest
Reed
Sikeston
Ralph Maddox
Harry Gleason
Levi Bess
Rotha Nell Halford
Memphis
G. W. Heslar
Fayette
Harlie Carter
Miss Evelyn Glastetter Returns Home From St Louis Visit
Miss Evelyn Glastetter, previously in St Louis for three weeks visiting friends, returned home Saturday according to local notes in Oran Rural News.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Glastetter
St. Louis
School Children Must Salute American Flag
Washington DC Supreme Court upholds a Minersville Pa school board flag salute requirement in an 8 to 1 ruling. Justice Frankfurter says patriotic training is not for the court to question. Stone dissents. Also notes on living sponges with fleshy bodies resembling a liver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Justice Frankfurter
Minersville
Frankfurter
Justice Stone
Fisher Family Travel to Annapolis Visit
Mr and Mrs D L Fisher left Friday for Annapolis Ind to visit their son Roger who is at tending a Naval Academy there. They plan several weeks at Logansport Ind with their daughter Mrs Sam Med bourne and husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deering
Dora Day
Norman Bugg
Margaret
Chaffee
J. A. Cline
Jack Arhens
St. Louis
Wm. Kilhafner
Kelley
Hannah Volkert
DeSoto
Harry Gleason
Everett McGinnis
Army
California
Medical Department of
C. L. Halford
Shirley Marie
Andrew Halford
Vanclyser
Lynn Bollinger
Nancy
F. M Friend
Harold Graviett
Ed Graviett
Seifert Smith
Alpha L. Jennings
L. E. Jennings
Hazel Jennings
J. E. Sutterfield
George Venable
Sllmo
Venable
Kroger
I . Mattingly
Pulaski
Inl
C. C. Richardson
Hillene
O'Connell
Walter Crafton
Leland Fritz
Bobby Lou Gateley
Cape Girardeau
Clark Ervin
Alfred Denney
Denney
Chicago
Frank Glastetter
Orville Hanselman
St. Francis Hospital
Alice Cauttrell
Oran
Orville Headlee
New Madrid
Emma Catlett
Flint
Mich
Joe Burton
T. M Spence
Cecil Crabtree
Blodgett
Daicy Brown
Harry Dillon
Ira Smith
Dorothy Mae Wyrick
Wilson, Ark
Ina Walters
Charleston
Dullen Theatre
Old Fellows Hall
Sylvia Harris
Cleveland
Ohio
R. W. Bryant
Walter Mills
Matthews
Fred Lommack
Freddie
Ural
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Janet Hinson
Missouri University
Columbia
Lelia Hinson
J T. Yeager
Hopkinsville
Ira Marlowe
D. L. Fisher
Annapolis
Ind
Roger
Logansport
Sam Medbourne
Missouri 1938 Tax Returns Totals Announced
Washington reports 145,800 Missouri individual income tax returns filed for 1938 through December 1, 1959. National total 6,250,739. New York leads with 1,070,341. Missouri ranks eleventh. Jackson County had 32,380 returns, St. Louis 64,053, and 1,719 nonresidents filed in Missouri districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Missouri
Internal Revenue
Guy T. Helvering
New York State
Nevada
Jackson County
St. Louis
Memories of a Room and the Road Safety Message
A reflective note recalls a room’s past and a boy who did not run away but left to try a new fielder’s glove. It warns that over 3,000 youngsters will be hit by autos this year and urges careful driving as the Maryland Casualty Company of Baltimore promotes road safety without demanding time or money from readers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topor Ors
Auticrcobile
Maryland
Casuality Company
Baltimore
Memorial Day Auto Classic Won on Firestone Tires
Wilbur Shaw won the Indianapolis 500 for the third time, becoming the first to win two consecutive races. Firestone tires equipped all cars, with foreign drivers switching to Firestone after testing. Rex Mays finished second and Mauri Rose third as rain delayed the finish in the 375th mile. Firestone later used insights to improve tire design for general motorists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Firestone
Akron
Ohio
Wilbur Shaw
Lou Meyer
Shaw
Indianapolis
Rene Dreyfus
Rene LeBegue
France
Paul Riganti
Buenos Aires
Rex Mays
Mauri Rose
Mays
Rose
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Reading Paper Held Aid to Longer Life
Dr William Lyn Phelps told Jefferson Medical College graduates that regular newspaper reading extends life. He called the 3 cents spent on a paper a major vitality aid, noting newspapers offer interests beyond self to combat despondency and lengthen life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lyn Phelps
Associated Press
Yale
Jefferson Medical College
Resolutions of Respect for James Albert Hess
In memory of Brother James Albert Hess who died June 7 1940. A Mason who completed life’s trestle, the Herald records the tribute and confirms the fraternal notice from the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Albert Hess
Mason
Herald
Sikeston Masonry Lodge Mourns Death of Brother
Sikeston Lodge No. 310 A F and A M of Sikeston Missouri mourns the passing of a respected member who joined the Grand Lodge of the New Jerusalem. The lodge drapes its charter for thirty days and sends condolences to the family, with resolutions approved by Frank Dye F E Mount W Cc Bowman Sr and committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Lodge of the
New Jerusalem
Sikeston Lodge
Sikeston
Missouri
Stopping Distance Question and Bicycle Riding Rule
A driving safety snippet asks how many feet to stop from 60 mph and asserts 267 feet. It then presents a bicycling rule stating riders should travel on the left near the curb with True False answers and indicates the correct stop distance is 267 feet while stating bicyclists belong on the right near the shoulder.
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Standard Oil
Whiteway
Tanner St
Tanner-Killgore
Center St
Kingshighway
Ralph Reid
Jack Lancaster
Nall’s Country Club Highway
Orville Smith
McMullin
WM. Moore Canalou
Caverno
Canalou
Blodgett Mercantile CO
Blodgett Homer York Salcedo
D. A. Utley Crowder
Oran Rural News
Midwest
Quaker State
Pennsylvania
Standard Oil Products
Gene Kindred
Tanner Street
Highway 61
EAGLE
Une Cagle
Killgore
Center Street
Quaker State Motor
Morehouse
Eeautaiene
Sikeston, Mo
Wourd
Chevrolet
Veen
Supren
Phigh
Privet
Ody
Les
Mitchell-Share Chevrolet Co
Chevrolet Building
West Center Street
Sikeston, Ma
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