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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1948
Page
18
Local notes show residents attending Crowder singing convention and various visits. Roy Newton of Detroit visits relatives. Imogene Newton hosts a party. siblings Ernest and Wallace King mourn a mother in Blytheville. Several trips to Poplar Bluff Sikeston Bertrand Memphis and Memphis. Lumber shipment to New Madrid. mule incident during storm. community notices and requests for sightings.
Mrs Floy Jones reports numerous weekend visits across the area. Bert Melton visited relatives in Oran last Sunday. Several families hosted guests from Vandyser Essex Morehouse Senath and Cape Girardeau. A Veterans Hospital patient Richard Hicks spent the weekend at home. A community banquet honored county high school superintendents. Danny Melton left with grandparents for McNeil Arkansas.
Glenda Rister visited her sister Mrs Bud McPherson last week. Verna Jean Dunn of St Louis visited Mr and Mrs W A Beggs during the weekend. Baccalaureate services set for May 9 at 8 p.m. at the Methodist church. Norman Mounds and daughter from Peoria visited Mrs Mounds’ mother Mrs Howard Scudder. Lee Ella McPherson and Glen of Alton visited their grandparents Mr and Mrs W E Bradley. Gilbert Crabtree and Jimmy Crabtree of Sikeston visited Mr and Mrs Charles Miller. Ralph Secudder reenlisted in the Army. his wife and son stay with Mrs Scudder’s parents Mr and Mrs Rowlett Reynolds. Mary Stevens and son Howard of Bloomfield with Mrs Rotha Asa of Miner Switen and John Evans family visited Mr and Mrs Tom Evans. Extension Club met with Mrs Wesley Strayhorn with five other members present. Young Adult Class hopes for good attendance next Sunday and will honor oldest and youngest mother with corsage. Special program planned for Mother’s Day. Mrs Roy Evans hosted the WV S C S. attendees included Mesdames Nunnelee, Murrel, Walton, Davis, Graham, Berges. Mrs Walton reported on Sikeston conference. Louise Graham’s surprise birthday party held April 27 with many guests. Mrs Melton to visit son Dan Melton and family soon.
Mrs Glenda Conrad reports on visits and gatherings across Matthews. Westward trips are noted for H H Yates and the Grahams family, a 4 H tie demonstration by Raymond Wheatley, and county agents Stroup and Hubbard at the meeting. Community Club, school masters, and a math of local weddings and outings fill the page along with a note on a 17 billion dollar printing analogy.
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