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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1939
Page
11
The Sikeston Herald is published every Thursday from 119 West Main Avenue Sikeston Missouri. The paper is entered as second class matter March 9 1908 at the Sikeston post office under the March 3 1879 Congress act.
A fragment lists Pulitzer prize winning novels from 1919 to 1938 with authors such as Booth Tarkington, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Edna Ferber, Sinclair Lewis, Pearl Buck, Josephine Johnson, Margaret Mitchell, John P Marquand, and Thornton Wilder. The text appears as a catalog plus a dated poem reflecting on praise and future lines.
The Herald urges prudent city finance with focus on light and power fund limits and the urgent need for an additional water tank. It argues the council must tighten general fund management to avoid relying on ratepayer subsidies and funds from the light and power department for nonessential projects.
Southeast Missouri publishers and guests attended a Friday breakfast hosted by Fred and George Naeter at their Cane Girerdeau home and by Mrs Fred Naeter at Boulder Crest. The event featured fine hospitality at Arboreta and the Kelso estate. Guests enjoyed scenery, gardens, and trees, with entertainment for guests and visitors from Cape Girardeau. Mr and Mrs Wayne Bess visited McKensie Town on business.
Muss Zelma Kem spends the week in Sikeston with friends. Wale Gruen visited relatives near Canalo Sunday afternoon. Evelyn Porter vacationed at Morehouse with sister Mrs Clyde Hostier. Rev and Mrs Roscoe Pady and children were guests of A J Houser. John Adcoch and family visited Diehlstadt couple Chester Staf ford. Minnie James hosted a party Wednesday night. Roscoe Pady preached at Quin church Sunday. Margaret and Mildred Crosno from Cape Girardeau spent the weekend with their parents, joined by Sybil Holmes. James Lomax hosted dinner with Mrs Francis Rhodes and son, Mrs Charles Rhodes and baby, Mamie Johnson and daughter, Joe Seaton and baby.
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