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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
6
Local notes list dozens of visitors from Parma to St Louis and Cape Girardeau. Families and service members share weekends with relatives in Benton Allenville Chaffee Sikeston and Vanduser. a school play raises funds. a home fire damages Oran residence with most belongings saved.
Morehouse residents share news of military relatives visiting home on leave and attending family gatherings. Dozens of area residents, including Mrs. Coleman Burgess and Anna Ruth Welshmann, are noted for hosting, visiting, or resigning positions. In church life, the Women’s Service Society met at G. W. Marshall’s with delegates chosen for a Cape Girardeau conference.
Matthews and Alton residents heard of the March 4 wedding at Blytheville first Baptist Church as Dorothy Bosley became Mrs Wade Waters. The couple, returning to Alton after a brief Memphis trip, reside at 414 West Fourth Street. Wade Waters is a metallurgist with Western Cartridge Company in Alton.
Cape Girardeau church will host Rev True Taylor delivering the morning address at 11 o clock Sunday with public invited. The Community club sponsors a party for seventh to ninth graders in the gym Friday night, games directed by County Agent Rolf. Bonnie Jean Ray, ten, daughter of Mrs B H Ray, was taken to St Marys Infirmary Cairo Tuesday for blood poisoning from an abscessed tooth. A large audience attended four one act plays by high school English classes last Friday in the gym under Miss Bette Bankhead. Homer Spradling, ill with rheumatic fever on Army Air Corps furlough, was moved from Harris Field Hospital Cape Girardeau to Malden Hospital. condition unimproved. Cpl and Mrs Burl Givens visiting East Prairie parents. Givens completed aerial gunnery school at Fort Myers and will report to Barksdale Field after furlough. You can believe what you read in The Herald.
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Britain enacts tight travel restrictions between Britain and Northern Ireland and Erie in a swift response to Prime Minister Eamon de Valera's refusal to expel Axis diplomatic representatives from Erie. The order affects both civilians and service personnel.
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