Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau Organized
Thirty years ago leading district farmers formed the Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau at Sikeston for mutual interests and farm product sales. Thad Snow of Charleston was president with T J Dougasse of Kennett as vice president and Rennphon Caverno of Canaloa Treacher as treasurer. An exhibit of district farm samples was planned and later shown at Union Station in St Louis under Irl A Wormwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paarty
Southeast
Iowa Agricultural Bureau
Sikeston
Thad Snow
Charleston
T. J Doug‘se
Kennett
Rennphon Caverno
Canaloa
Treacher
John T. Stinson
Local business changes and improvements noted in Sikeston
On June 24 Jesse Kimes sold her interest in the Buckner Rags store to J A Martin of Herieston and ended ties with the firm. George Lough replaced the seven year manager and O W McCutchen installed new meats at Malone Theater. Attendees praised the theater’s improvements and the higher quality films. A mass meeting on Friday June 20 supported an artesian well plan for Sikeston, urged by A L of Arkansas, promising a wetter water supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Kimes
Esnterest
J. A. Martin
Herieston
George Lough
O. W. McCutchen
Malone Theater
Teese
Ikeston
A. L. O At
Arkansas
Sikeston
Scott County Republican committee meeting in Weston
Ed Hollingsworth sought postmaster at Sikes to succeed the late Wm H Seer. The meeting noted routine committee work, while local events included a drill on the IL tract, a Sunnyland passenger derailment with no injuries, and various local honors and appointments including Boy Scout merit badges and a Red Cross award. Residents Jules Greer heads to New York, and a bacon recipe from Mrs Bailey surfaces in congressional cooking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott County Republican Committee
Weston
Ed Hollingsworth
Aeei
Sikesyn
Wm. H.seer
Burney Wagner and Associates
Pe IL
Sunnyland
Uiam
Deveia
Sikeston Yards
En- Curtis
Iron@aie
Sikeston Boys
Harry Young
John Denman
David Keasier
Ben Carroll
Basseary
Charles Cook
Woodrow Hardin
Red Cross
Ward Denman
Robert Dempster
Sikeswm
McCoy-Tanner
Swendelyn Kirk
George Kirk
Scott County Woman's Christan Temperance Union
Bapti. Church
Tee Specter
Calvin Greer
Skeston Jules
New York
Srenda
Holland-Amercan Line
Bailey
Seemer
R. E Bailey
Congressional Cook Bank
Congress
Sional Club in Washington Draws 115 Women
The Sional Club in Washington hosted a gathering attended by one hundred fifteen women, highlighting local social and cultural engagement in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sional Club
Washington
Sikeston News: Lions Club secretary treasurer honored again
Ten years of service as secretary treasurer for Ralph Anderson in Sikeston. David Lumsden, longtime Sikeston resident, dies in St. Louis at Lutheran Hospital after a long stomach ailment. W. Edwin Hartford named principal of South Grade School, succeeding Tharon Stallings. Two Sikeston youths, Joe Dover and John Webster Bowman, head to West Point and Annapolis. Fifty businesses attend Kiwanis sponsored motion picture at Malone Theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Lumsden
Sikeston
Lutheran
St. Louis
Board of Education
W. Edwin Hartford
Columbia
Tharon Stallings
Joe Dover
John Webster Bowman
West Point
Annapolis
Malone Theater
Kiwanis Club of
Red Cross chairman named in Scott County meeting
Rev. R. M. Talbert of Sikeston was chosen chairman of the Scott County Red Cross at the annual chapter meeting held June 16 in the Sikeston Library Auditorium. More than a million dollars was invested in war bonds by Scott county people since the Fifth War Loan Drive began on June 12. Lieut. Sonny Waggener was among those noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Talbert
Sikeston
Scott County Red Cross
Sikeston Library
Scott County
Sonny Waggener
Air Corps honors mother with plane name Ise
In the South Pacific a serviceman named his plane Ise in tribute to his mother Isebell Waggener. Her son Sonny gave the name while his brother D B notes her as Bell. Cpl Joe Arbaugh, son of Milburn and Mamie Arbaugh, returns from a west coast Marines post on a secret mission.
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Air Corps
South Pacific
Ise
Lenda Corbin
Mary Emma Waller
State College
Cape Girardeau
Sikeston
Harvey Parks
Wheat floods Sikeston as trucks pile in grain
A flood of wheat arrived in Sikeston with three abreast trucks delivering thousands of bushels to weighing stations. Captain Lewis Conley noted no mass rush of youths seeking draft exemptions under the new selective service law. International Shoe plant workers to take July 5 to 13 vacation. The Whiteway Standard and Stacy Fleetway stations opened formally. Sikeston summer band enrolls 151. Miss Lorraine Graber, daughter of Louis and former Sikeston residents, wed Elliott Kolker in Memphis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston
Lewis Conley
140Th Infantry Headquarters
Missouri National Guard
International Shoe Company
W. L. Haters
Herman Mattlingly
Frances
New York
Washington
D. C
Virginia
Whiteway Standard
Stacy Fleetway
Elliott Kolker
Memphis
Funeral Tuesday for Aged Perkins Resident
Funeral services for M. L. Pirtle 80 were held at 2 p.m. last Tuesday at the Perkins Baptist church with Rev. Luther Moore of Sikes ton officiating. Pirtle died Monday at the Perkins home where he had lived 46 years. Born in Broughton Illinois he wed Delia Allen in 1888. They moved to Perkins in 1903. Survived by wife two sons three daughters a sister 21 grandchildren and 33 great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. L. Pirtle
Baptist Church
Perkins
Luther Moore
Sikeston
Pirtle
Broughton
Delia Allen
Pemiscot County Hospital Contract Granted
Caruthersville reports the Pemiscot County Memorial Hospital Association Board has let the contract for the erection of the hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caruthersville
Board of Commissioners
The
Pemiscot County Memorial Hospital Association
Polio case, resurfacing plan, and a child’s death in county
Pemiscot county reports a second polio case for the year with four year old Billie Fays Blair Carmean treated at Children’s Hospital St Louis for neck paralysis. In Charleston major streets will be resurfaced and reconditioned this summer following city council action. Clark Allen Jackson 11, died after a three month brain tumor illness at his home on West Commercial Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caruthersville
Billie Fays
Blair Carmean
J. W. Carmean
Children’s Hospital
St. Louis
Pemiscot County
Charleston
Clark Allen
Corky) Jackson
Jesse J. Jackson
W. Commercial Street
Kennett concert program tentative after meeting
The Dunklin County Concert Association has drafted a tentative program following a meeting with a representative from the Columbia Concert Service. The discussion aimed to plan future performances and confirm possible ensembles for the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennett
Dunklin County Concert Association
Columbia Concert Service
Patterson Dies From Car Crash Injuries
Jesse Freeman Patterson, 49, of Quinn, died at Presrell Hospital from injuries after his car collided with another near Caruth last Saturday. The crash occurred Monday morning was the fatal culmination of the accident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennett
Jesse Freeman Patterson
Quinn
Presrell Hospital
Patterson
Caruth
Drowned man on fishing trip near Horine Missouri
DE de Soto Festus resident DE soto LeRoy Winkler 27 drowned after falling from a boat on Joachim Creek near Horine on a Sunday fishing trip with his brother and two companions Coroner Darel J Mahn of Jefferson County said Winkler could not swim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DE Soto
Charence LeRoy Winkler
Festus
Joachim Creek
Horine
Winkler
Darel J. Mahn
Jefferson County
Pemiscot Broadcasting Co forms for 1000 watt station Ca ruthersville
Pemiscot Broadcasting Co filed to build a 1000 watt radio station in Caruthersville. The group plans the new station as the town expands its broadcasting service. PUxico reports chamber plans to construct a cement block city fire building beside the jail, with detailed blueprints and site layout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caruthersville
Pemiscot Broadcasting Co
Puxico
Chamber of Commerce
Dexter Girl Loses Sight At Graduation
Eighteen year old Betty Joiner daughter of Mr and Mrs John Joiner of Dexter lost sight of one eye during Dexter high school baccalaureate services. She had earlier lost sight in her other eye after a green walnut strike. While dizzy and seeing spots she was aided to her seat and now lies in Firmin Desloge Hospital St Louis where doctors operated on the eye and hope to restore some vision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Joiner
John Joiner
Dexter
Betty
Firmin Desloge Hospital
St. Lows
Foundation to lay corner stone at Cape Girardeau building
Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation at Cape Girardeau will lay the cornerstone of the new foundation building with a 3 00 p m ceremony on Sunday June 26 A program will include messages by Walter H Ford of Cape Girardeau Dr W W Parker president of Southeast Missouri State College and Dr T W Medearis Missouri Baptists General Secretary There will be special music and group singing Plans will be made for comfort of attendees The service will be outside in front of the building Chairs will be provided to allow all to see and hear Ample parking space provided Public invited and a large crowd expected
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation
Cape Girardead
Walter H. Ford
Cape Girardeau
W. W. Parker
Southeast Missour State College
T. W. Medearis
The
Missouri Baptists
Social Security rep to meet in Sikeston on June 28
Louis R. Stone, field representative of the Cape Girardeau SSA office, will be at Sikeston city hall on Tuesday June 28 at 10:00 a.m. to discuss filing age 65 and death claims, issue original or duplicate account number cards, and help with name changes on Social Security records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis R. Stone
Cape Girardeau
Social Security Administration
Sikeston
Stone
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Southeast Missouri Agricultural Bureau
Wenty
Steele, Mo
Faund Griity
Frank van Horne
Sikes
Custer
S la Stand
Army of
Panama Canal
Eugene V Debs
Ralph Anderson
Lions Club
NEW Madrid County Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Inc
New Madrid
Scott, Mississippi
Pemiscot, Dunklin and
Stoddard
Burt H. Rowe
Stallcup Bulding
Powell Insurance Agency
Sikeston, Missouri
Missouri
Gordon Wright
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Poplar Bluff
Hollis Lohmeier
Route 3
Merrill Floyd Plunk
James Frizzell
Uregas
Chef
American Stove Company
Lewis Sales Company
Ayr
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