Sikeston’s municipal pool nears completion after three-year wait
After cautious planning and repeated reversals the Sikeston Jaycees now oversee a pool project funded by bond issues approved in 1937. Excavation runs this summer with concrete work and roofing underway, cooling equipment installed, and a chlorinator pending. The pool targets a spring opening following testing later this season.
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Sikeston
Air College
Johnny Weismuellers
Chamber of Commerce
Taylor Street
Jaycees
Chaffee
Purcell
Webster Groves Woman Visits Cousins En Route Home
Mrs. Jess Burgeois of Webster Groves Missouri was the guest Monday of her cousin Mrs. Frank Van Horne and family while traveling from Memphis to her home. Mrs. George W. Kirk will join guests at a dinner party tonight hosted by Mrs. Ralph Carson at her Charleston home.
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Jess Burgeois
Webster Groves
Frank van Horne
Memphis
George W. Kirk
Ralph Carson
Charleston
New Superintendent for Sikes ton Compress and Warehouse
Co. F. Manly of Osceola Arkansas arrived yesterday to assume duties as manager of the Sikeston Compress and Warehouse Co. He succeeds T. R. Coppedge who has headed the plant since its establishment over a year ago. The Cop pedges and their son Tommy are on vacation in Mississippi and will move to Memphis after returning to Sikeston.
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F. Manly
Osceola
Ark
Sikeston Compress and Warehouse Co
Manly
T. R. Coppedge
Funeral for Robert S Rutledge Held in Cape Girardeau
Mrs Jennie Mitchell and others attended the funeral of Robert S Rutledge 77 at Walther Funeral Home Cape Girardeau Tuesday morning. He died Sunday afternoon in St Francis Hospital. Interment was at Memorial Park cemetery. Born Pierce City Missouri he was a longtime lawyer in New Madrid and helped draft drainage regulations for the district. Survived by wife Sarah Maulsby and two sons Robert E Kalamazoo Michigan and Frederick Evanston Illinois.
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Jennie Mitchell
H. G. Sharp
C. A. Mitchell
Val Sharp
Garwood Sharp
Walther Funeral Home
Cape Girardeau
Robert S. Rutledge
St. Francis Hospital
Memorial Park Cemetery
Mr. Rutledge
Pierce City
Mrs Bettie Matthews Sprains Ankle During Hannibal Visit
Mrs Bettie Matthews returned home Sunday from Hannibal Missouri where she spent two weeks with her granddaughter Mrs Paul Cornell and family. While there she suffered a sprained right ankle from which she is slowly recovering.
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Bettie Matthews
Hannibal, Mo
Paul Cornell
Matthews
Negro Youth Stabs Father in Sunset Dispute
Charles Turner 21 and his father Walter 40 were fined in city court for fighting after a family row that began Saturday night. Charles stabbed his father in the neck and head with a knife during a Sunday morning fracas in Sunset addition. The wounded man was treated by Dr. M. C. Mill and is expected to survive.
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Charles Turner
Walter Turner
Charles
Joe
Henry Jones
Harold Wallace
Sikeston
Charleston
M. C. Mill
Wallace
John Tandy
Highway Patrol
Wallace Nelson
Brown Jewell
Sunset Addition
Golden Gloves
Burin Ashley
J. W. Briggs
Briggs
George Jones
Sikeston Trooper Chiefs Midwest Shooting Honor Run
Trooper V P Boisaubin of Sikeston and Sergeant O L Wallis of Poplar Bluff, Missouri State Highway Patrol pistol team, returned from Springfield Illinois where they competed in a Midwest regional tournament for expert marksmen. Boisaubin and Wallis earned second and third honors in multiple events. The Missouri team captured two first place honors in the .38 caliber national match and the .22 caliber match, defeating the St. Louis police department and United States Infantry teams.
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V. P. Boisaubin
Sikeston
O. L. Wallis
Poplar Bluff
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Springfield
Ill
Boisaubin
Wallis
Missouri
St. Louis
Sikemons Home From West Point Visit
Mr and Mrs Harry Dover and nephew Paul Bowman returned Thursday from a two weeks trip to New York and other Eastern points visiting their son Joe Dover a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point. They were guests of Giles and Girard Dover in New York and also visited Annapolis Valley Forge Washington D C and other places. Paul will spend the summer with his uncles in New York having secured employment there.
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Harry Dover
Paul Bowman
New York
Joe Dover
United States Military Academy
West Point
Sikeston
Mr. Dover
Giles
Girard Dover
Annapolis
Valley Forge
Washington, D. C
Paul
Giles and
Miss Frances Ann Sitzes Visits Whiteners at Cadet Mo
Miss Frances Ann Sitzes is spending a week’s vacation with her uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. A C Whitener at Cadet Missouri.
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Frances Ann Sitzes
Mrs
A. C. Whitener
Cadet, Mo
Wheat Harvest Reaches High Yield and Quality in Sikeston District
Farmers report heavy wheat yields between 30 and 40 bushels per acre with No 1 quality possible. Barley and crimson clover were harvested together yielding about 45 bushels per acre of barley and 200 pounds of clover seed. Notable fields include a four acre wheat patch producing 200 bushels and Greer farm fields near Brown Spur with 40 bushels and 19 pounds per acre.
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Sikeston
Crouthers
R. P. Schuchart
Greer
Brown Spur
Case
Oliver
Dover family heads to New York for summer visit
Mrs. J. E. Dover left this morning for an extended summer visit with her sons Giles and Gerard Dover. She was accompanied to St. Louis by daughter-in-law Mrs. Harry Dover and her mother Mrs. A. W. Wiley. Mrs. Wiley stayed in St. Louis to visit her daughters Mrs. Frank Carroll and Mrs. Roy Colbert. Mrs. Harry Dover was met in St. Louis by son Bob, who just completed eight weeks at the U S Naval Training School Great Lakes and will take a 10 day furlough before his next post.
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J. E. Dover
Giles
Gerard Dover
St. Louis
Inlaw
Harry Dover
A. W. Wiley
Great Lakes
Homecoming for Mrs Jas Wilbur After Florida Visit
Mrs Jas Wilbur returns from a seven week visit with her daughters Mrs M P Clark and Mrs L J Prosser in Plant City Florida. She arrived as her grandson Moring Peal Clark Jr returned from Chanute Field Ran toul Tl to visit his parents. After a week he headed to Hamilton Field California for further training.
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Jas. Wilbur
M. P. Clark
L. J. Prosser
Plant City
Fla
Wilbur
Moring Peal Clark Jr
Chanute Field
Rantoul
Clark
Hamilton Field
California
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Conly Purcell
Jaycee Committee
Anes Store
Sikeston, Missouri
O. L
Lee) Gregory
Eae
DAVIS
Davis DeLuxe
Pyntin
Western Flyer
Stlves
Weppa
Charles Leonard Kirk
Carl Voigt
Chas. Witte
Mr. Kirk
Sikestonians
Firestone
EVER\ Firestone
Truckers
C. & M. Oil CO
Highway 60
Sikeston, Mo
Coxie
Joe Crouthers
Lough
Florida
B. Morgan
Linn Street
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