State-wide Cotton Classing School at Caruthersville
The first annual State-wide cotton classing school will be held at Caruthersville July 25 to 29, with training in stapling and grading under government licensed classers. Admission costs five dollars for adults and two dollars for 4-H members, with notice requested to county agents to estimate participation. The event is a coop by Vocational Agriculture, Missouri Division of the Arkansas-Missouri Ginners Association, Mid-South Cotton Growers, and Agricultural Extension Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Madrid
Caruthersville
Missouri
Vocational Agriculture Department
Arkansas-Missouri Ginners’ Association
Mid-South Cotton Growers’ Association
Agricultural Extension Service
Pemiscot County
Grasshoppers Threaten Missouri Far Crops
Dr Leonora Haseman of the University of Missouri College of Agriculture says a severe grasshopper infestation threatens Missouri crops this season. A trip through southern Missouri over the weekend found unprecedented hopper numbers and warned that damage could be substantial if baiting is not increased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Leonora Haseman
College of Agriculture
University of Missouri
Haseman
Parma 4-H Pig Club Hosts Final Meeting and Awards
The Parma 4-H Pig Club held its final meeting on June 15 at Solon T. Gee’s home. Leo Webb presided with Graden Holmes and Donald Gee assisting. The program covered business, demonstrations including Building a Self-Feeder, Methods of Ear-Marking Pigs, and Building and Use of an Oiling Post. Assistant Agent Lane spoke on forming a Pure-Bred Gut Club. gifts for five boys were discussed. Members completing work: Leo Webb, Wallace Enright, Tracy Eaton, Junior Trousdale, Donald Gee, Robert Gee, Jack Gee, Ancil Jones. Webb, Teasdale, and Jones received first-year pins. Gee brothers Tracy Eaton and Wallace Knight finished second year without pins, eligible for future silver pins after a third year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parma 4-H
Solon T. Gee
Leo Webb
Graden Holmes
Donald Gee
Junior Teasdale
Jack Gee
Lane
Robert Gee
Wallace Enright
Tracy Eaton
Junior Trousdale
Ancil Jones
Gee Boys
Wallace Knight
Real Estate Transfers in Scotty County Report
A list of transfers includes Jack Phelps to Ruth Powell for lot 9 block 2 High School addition Sikeston priced at 1 dollar and multiple deeds in Sikeston Sikes ton Chaffee Lambert and surrounding areas with prices ranging from 1 to 1100 dollars and parcels including acres sections townships and ranges with Chamber of Commerce and Sunset additions noted along with other minor parcels and assignees
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Phelps
Ruth Powell
Sikeston
Ida Layne
A. J. Baugher
Vwand
Fred Mays
S. D. Woods
Sunset
Elmer Prindle
A. W. Halford
Elmer Uelsmann
Roy Varnon
Earl McAllister
Ebon McAllister
Oran
Andy Kappler
Missouri
Chamber of Commerce
Geo. J. Arnold
R. H. Allen
Dug Graham
Flavia Patterson
B. E. Patterson
McCoy-Tanner Ltd
C. E. Clark
Pauline Heisserer
Chaffee
R. L. Calvin
Opal
Nica Calvin
Barney Hearing
Henry Hearing
Gus Woods
C. C. White
L. A. Schott
Edgar
Audie Cooper
Ina Keller
McCov-Tanner
Mary Cooper
J. W. Stone
S B. Hardwick
R. P. Harris
Jacob Blair
Marley
Ginners Tour Planned From Missouri Delta to Stoneville
Three days of study on ginning cotton are set for July 12 to 14 at Stoneville Mississippi with visits to the U S Department of Agriculture Ginning Laboratories and Delta Experiment Station plus Stoneville Pedigreed Seed Farm and Delta and Pine Land Plantation. The group will meet at West Memphis Arkansas and travel in a Missouri delegation to Stoneville then return via Scott Mississippi. Local agents seek additional participants and help with transport and lodging.
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New Madrid
Stonevill
Mississippi
Missouri
Lane
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Stoneville
Charles H. Bennett
Farge Delta Experiment Station
Mississippi College of Agronre
Homer C
Delta
Pine Land
West Memphis
Arkansas
Scott
Pine Land Plantation
Drunk court penalties stack up in Sikeston rough weekend
Sikeston police court handed heavy penalties for drunkenness over the weekend. Sam Washington, repeatedly before the court, received thirty days on the streets for petty larceny and shoplifting from Cut-Rate Department Store. Earl Acres of Kennett drew thirty days on the streets after a prior 15‑day suspended sentence. Bill Adams, with a long record, was given thirty days on the streets and faced potential force to serve the sentence due to past evasions. Tom Smith, 73, was arrested for being drunk and got a 15‑day suspended sentence after a court lecture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Washington
Washington
Earl Acres
White
Kennett
Bill Adams
Brown Jewell
Adams
Jewell
Tom Smith
Sly Old Foxes Capture Ends in Four by Four Car Chase
Young Greer and helpers capture two red foxes on G B Greer farm near Sikeston after a long chase across uncut wheat fields. Foxes are placed in a pen and later bound for possible shipment to the St. Louis zoo if no local sale occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Fox
Southeast Missouri
Moore Green
Ranney Avenue
G B Greer
Sikeston
Mr. Greer
G. B. Jr
Charles Rushing
Robert Sizes
Greer
G. B Jr
Fox
Lonus Greer
Young Greer
Rushing
Sitzes
St. Louis
Man Charged With Criminal Assault Near Sikeston
Vester Hester Dickerson about thirty was arrested by Trooper Melvin Dace and Constable Bill Elis on charges of criminal assault against fourteen year old Alice Yours near Sikeston. Preliminary hearing waived to August term. bond set at 2000. Dickerson jailed in Benton after court appearance. He had earlier faced a disturbing the peace charge in May. Aged man threatened relatives with a shotgun. investigators traced tip to his brother. If convicted under Missouri law he could face the death sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vester Hester Dickerson
Melvin Dace
Bill Elis
Alice Yours
Sikeston
Dickerson
Brownr Jewell
Scott County
Benton
Brown Jewell
Jake Sitzes
Missouri
Lawyer Sharon Pate urged suspended for six months
Atty. M. E. Montgomery of Sikeston, special commissioner for the Springfield Court of Appeals, recommended that Sharon Pate of Caruthersville be suspended from practicing law for six months. Testimony was heard last January, and the court will act on the recommendation next October. Pate, appointed drainage tax attorney for Pemiscot County, is accused of filing about 500 suits against landowners and discouraging buyers, allowing landowners to bid in property for delinquent taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atty. M. E. Montgomery
Sikeston
Springfield Court of Appeals
Sharon Pate
Six Hereford Bulls for E P Coleman Herd
E P Coleman bought six purebred Hereford bulls from Bonne Terre Farming and Cattle Company at Bonne Terre for his herd of 150 cows. He earlier purchased 1000 young Herefords in Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. P. Coleman
Bonne Terre
Tragic Milwaukee Olympian Crash Toll Reaches 46
Milwaukee Railroad reports 46 dead in the Olympian wreck at Custer Creek near Miles City Montana with 35 of 38 bodies identified. About 100 workers labor amid twisted rails and flood damaged trestle, wreckage still reachable as officials call it the nation s worst railroad disaster in two decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee Railroad
Custer Creek
Miles City
Mont
Sutton Bros Grocery Closes. Insolvent, Assignment Made
Sutton Bros Grocery on North New Madrid street failed to open Monday as insolvency declared and assignment to George Kirk attorney for creditors made. Owners Jake and Jeff Sutton ran the store, Jeff having withdrawn months earlier. an outside party may seek to take over and continue the business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutton Bros
New Madrid Street
George Kirk
Jake
Jeff Sutton
Methodist church to start young peoples class here
The Board of Christian Education of the Methodist church will open Sunday a class for college age students, including high school graduates, now on summer vacation. Rev. John L. Taylor will teach the class.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Christian Education of
the Methodist Church
John L. Taylor
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