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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1944
Page
6
Cecil Shell is ill and confined to home. Numerous guests and visits populate the week, with many calls to Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, Portageville, and St Louis. Recitals, plays, and church events share the social calendar, alongside military inductions and local obituaries.
Local residents and former inhabitants are mentioned in a week of visits, relocations, and events. Mrs Ducky Wofford stays at Wappapella Lake with friends while Miss Sally Wofford vacations in St. Louis. The Morehouse Scout Troop enjoyed an outing at Wappapella Lake. Several residents travel, relocate, or receive updates on jobs and military service with notes on connections to Sikeston Cairo Blodgett Idalia Cape Girardeau and England.
Local residents and visitors are noted in a series of brief items. G C Darby transacted business in Cape Girardeau, Albion Anderson and James F Ross visited Benton, and Mrs R L Hill of Miami is visiting her mother in town.
A pamphlet titled Bag of Tricks for Home Sewing promises tips to craft towels and napkins from cotton bags, with embroid ery ideas and colorful designs to brighten kitchens and baths. The National Cotton Council offers the illustrated booklet free by mail from Box 18, Memphis 1, Tennessee.
The Fifth War Loan is tentatively set for early June with a target of 14 billion dollars, the same level exceeded by 2.73 billion in the January February Fourth War Loan. The note adds that the colon and semicolon debuted in English in the 16th century.
Regular services are held at the Church of the Nazarene in Morehouse with Rev. Harry McElrath preaching. Sunday morning worship begins at 11 o clock with Sunday school at 9 45 led by superintendent Guy Owing. Attendance goal is 100. Young people meet at 7 Sunday night and the evening sermon topic is Five Robbers.
A cordial invitation is extended to the public to attend all services. Mrs. Joseph Read and son Ivan, former Sikeston residents, were guests of Mrs. Read's cousin, Mrs. Hobart Ashby, on Tuesday. Dr. B. L. McMullin and Dr. H. E. B. Reuber traveled to Cape Girardeau Sunday afternoon for the Southeast Missouri Osteopathic Association quarterly meeting. Small birds are the singers, large birds are unimportant as songsters.
The Office of War Information released revised totals showing U S military casualties since the war’s start at 165,061. The breakdown lists 38,846 dead 58,964 wounded 35,521 missing and 31,730 prisoners of war. Of the POWs 1,894 died in camps, largely in Japanese territory. Food can shorten the war make it fight.
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