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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
10
A long roster of visitors and guests fills Sikeston and nearby towns as residents host relatives in Cape Girardeau Donalsonville Dexter Jackson and St Louis while others travel to Detroit Hot Springs and St Louis. Several weddings and family events are noted alongside medical visits and business trips.
The Sikeston American Legion Auxiliary will hold its next regular meeting on Tuesday May 25 at the Legion Clubhouse east of Sikeston. Details of the program will be announced later.
Regular Book Club meeting set for the afternoon of May 15 at the public library. Mrs John Sikes will review the novel Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Members of Eastern Star Chapters in the 50th District hold a school of instruction at the IOOF hall starting at 2 pm with Miss Nell Page of Canton, Missouri, grand lecturer guiding the session. A banquet at 6 pm at the Christian church is served by church ladies, followed by an evening session at 7:30 pm in the IOOF hall led by Miss Page. Sikeston Chapter hosts charter members of the district.
Members of the Federated Music Clubs of the Ninth District will hold their 1940 annual meeting in Sikeston next May. The decision was announced by district president Mrs. B. F. Blanton at Lutesville where the 1939 meeting occurred hosted by the Apollo Group. Sikeston participants included Mrs. Tom Allen and Mrs. W. L. Bowles, with Mrs. I. L. Parret of Lilbourn contributing two violin numbers.
Rebecca West's The Thinking Reed was reviewed by Mrs. Conly Purcell at the Sikeston Woman's Junior Chamber of Commerce gathering held Tuesday night at the Sikeston Library with president Miss Helen Virginia Keith presiding. Two new members, Mrs Ward Denman and Mrs D Belden, joined the group. Guests included Mrs James Stearns, Mrs Selma Robbins, and Misses Kathryn Burks and Mabel Waters. A party for the losing side in the membership drive was set for June 20, with captains Neva Mae Taylor and Juanita Cranford.
The Woman's Club received a pennant for paying its full endowment fund quota toward the Federated Clubs of Missouri. At the meeting at the public library Mrs. L. M. Hollenbeck announced the award and noted a constitutional revision plan dividing members into active and associate groups with dues of 100 and 1.50 dollars respectively.
Members of the Woman's Civic Club will attend a badge luncheon at 1 o clock next Tuesday at Hotel Marshall with hosts from the defeated campaign group. President Mrs Val Sharp, a delegate to the Federated Clubs tri annual meeting in St Joseph last week, will report on the meeting and outline the fall Ninth District Federated Clubs gathering in Charleston next October.
The King's Highway Chapter will hold an all day meeting on Saturday May 13 at Mrs E L Percy’s home in Canalea A covered dish luncheon will be served at noon Miss Isabell Hess will lead a program on Conservation with the subject announced
Miss Suzanne Corrigan, Sikeston native, will become the first bride in the new St Francis Xavier Church. She will wed Paul John Cornell of St Louis County on May 15 at St Francis Catholic Church. The ceremony includes a breakfast at Hotel Marshall and a two week honeymoon in the West. The couple plans to reside in Mexico Missouri after June 1.
A long list of relatives from Poplar Bluff St Louis Springfield Charlestown and Noble Arkansas attend a celebration for Miss Suzanne Corrigan with godmother Mrs Rodger Taylor and many Corrigan kin. The Herald notes the social gathering and names several attendees.
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