Crop Prospect Indicates Good Business Ahead
Southeast Missouri awaits a banner crop year with diverse production from soybeans, barley, alfalfa, cattle, and cotton. Improved harvests and strong farm income are expected as rains and fertilizers boost yields, while local retailers face a buyers market requiring stock of desired goods and aggressive merchandising to sustain trade.
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Missouri
Southeast
Sikeston
Neei
Sacha
United States
New Madrid Bank Opens Open House Sunday June 20
The Bank of New Madrid invites customers and friends to an open house on Sunday June 20 from 2 to 6 pm to view its handsome new banking house. The article recounts the bank’s 20 year history since its August 27 1934 opening with $25 000 capital and $5 000 surplus, now $50 000 capital and $100 000 surplus with assets near $3.93 million. It lists current staff including S L Hunter Sr president and Sam L Hunter Jr vice president, and notes deposits grew from $46,972.54 on opening day to $3,730,637.78 as of January 8 1954, reflecting strong local trust and growth. (Continued on Page Two)
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Bank of
New Madrid
S. L. Hunter, Sr
Sam Hunter
Missouri
Ss. L. Hunter, Sr
Hunter
George Whitt
Charleston
W. H. Coats
Bank of Marston
Eloise Matthewson
Bank of New Madrid
S L. Hunter
Sam L Hunter, Jr
George D Bock
LaVerne Sides
Anna Lee Hayes
Patsy Tisher
Sally Sterling
Cleta Duncan
June Higgerson
Doris Bramlett
Harnette L
S. L
L Hunter
Kees
Mia
Lewis Ferguson Hurt
Madrid
Winston
Institute of Winston- Salem
Kentucky Military Institute
Lownsville
Notre Dame
South Beno Inc
Briant-Stratten Bus
St Louis Deering
Cerkarg Rr V Brothers Star
Mtsas
Tockbottom
Sears
Arkansas
Mississippi
Lousiana
New Madad
Board of Appeals
Tennssee-Micoun Bridge
Open House Plans for Bank of New Madrid
In New Madrid the Bank of New Madrid prepares for its formal opening and open house next Sunday. Founder S L Hunter Sr and son Sam L Hunter Jr discuss the bank's history and community service, outlining a long career in farming hardware and theatre ventures, plus public service as a major and wartime official.
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New Madrid
Old Home Place
Joseph Hunter
Mr Hunter
W. P. Hunter
Sikeston
F S Hunter
Sam Hunter
Shap R. Hunter
Shirley Waters
Hunter Supply Co
Vincent H. Rost
i _ the county
Hunter
Rost
Dixie Theatre
Wind Storm Rips Through Farm Area Causing Damage
A freak wind storm Tuesday morning uprooted trees damaged farm buildings and wheat fields across several farms near Warduser and Scott County. Lightning struck 43 year old William Williams on a Bloom farm and he was hospitalized. Winds toppled a barn roof tore shingles and blew debris across yards, flattening corn and scattering farm items. No home injuries were reported though a tank and other farm equipment were moved.
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Vandaser
Wiliams
Joe Tucker
Bloomfnd
Delta Community Hospital
T G Johnson
M W Johnson
Ture
Wallace
Ao Omik
Ed McMillen
Johnson Farm
Vanduse
M. W. Johnson
Scott County Milling Co Buys Arkansas Mississippi Oats
Scott County Milling Co imports about 10 000 bushels of oats grown in Arkansas and Mississippi to Sikeston. The purchase marks the first time vats from Green ville Mississippi and Stuttgart Arkansas have been brought in. The grain is higher quality, ripens earlier, and costs less than local oats. Local farmers may hold wheat from Bailes harvest for feed amid market prices.
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Missouri
Scott County Milling Co
Arkansas
Mississippi
Oats
Sikeston
Scott County Milling Company
Greenville
Miss
Stuttgart
Ark
Scott Counts
Farm Goods Show Slight Sales Drop
The Agriculture Department reports farmers earned about 10.3 billion dollars from farm product sales in the first five months, down four percent from the prior year. Livestock receipts neared 7 billion, with crop declines led by wheat cotton soybeans tobacco and vegetables while hogs rose on higher marketings. May receipts were about 1.9 billion versus 1.975 billion last year. High walls of Marble Gorge stand 2,000 feet high in the Grand Canyon.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Son of Parker Rowe Aids Greece Rehabilitation Team
Burt Rowe, Kiwanis program chair, reviews Parker Rowe’s Greece work since March. The MU agriculture graduate joined a World Council of Churches team based in Tanma that travels Monday to Friday to assist rural rehabilitation, poultry and livestock projects, and irrigation on a 50 acre tract. Fellow guests included Bill Oliver, Bill Huff, Claude Huff, Bob White, and Lee Wood.
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Burt Rowe
Dunn Hotel
Parker Rowe
Greece
Young Rowe
University of Missouri
World Council of Churches
Tanma
Rowe
Young Bill Oliver
Bill Huff
Claude Huff
Ft. Smith, Ark
Bob White
Kirkwood
Lee Wood
Kansas City
Two Die in Wreck Near Lilbourn on Route D
Two Parma residents, Bill Brown and his fiancee Ola Licens, died after a 1348 Plymouth coach driven by Edward Overfield struck a parked pickup two miles west of Lilbourn on Route D. Overfield was hospitalized with non life threatening injuries. The report notes Brown was 28 and a Parma High School graduate who served in World War II, and Licens was 20 from Tallapoosa. Also listed are local Sunday school attendance figures and a steel factoid about auto body construction.
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Parma
Route D
Lilbourn
Plymouth
Edward Richard Overfield
Bill Brown
A D Brown
Ola Fave Licens
Theodora “Igons
Tallapoosa
Missouri Delta Community Hospital
Sikeston
Veterans Hospital
Poplar Bluff
Billy B Brown
Parma High School
Delano Brown
Mary Sue Brown
Yvonne Moore
Arva Lee Kerr
Paulelta Scott
Honolulu
Hawaii
Neely Lee
Ligons
Butler County
Gideon and
Risco
Laverne
Jack
Butch
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Vege
New Banking House
JS Wala
Amie We
Warduser
Johnen
Scott County
State
Legisla
Miss OG Johnson
Trdand
Sata
Marble Gorge
Grand Canyon
First Baptist Church
First Methodist Church
Assembly of God Church
Church of the Nazarene
Tanner Street Church of God
First Christian Church
Second General Baptist Church
First Presbyterian Church
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