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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1938
Page
3
A long list of social visits fills Sunday as residents from Sikeston Benton Cape Girardeau and surrounding areas travel to see family friends and attend events. Notable entries include Porters Emersons Fosters May family and several out of town guests with multiple weekend gatherings and a Mother’s Day program at Sikeston. The week also features local travel to St Louis Cape Girardeau and Ar kansas for business and leisure.
Matthews area notes report alumni banquets, school changes, and visits from relatives and friends. Included are engagements of teachers, upcoming commencements, a May 7 birth, a broken collarbone incident, illness improvements, and Canalou teams sweeping Parma while facing Lilbourn in softball.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Jones of Canalou visited relatives here on Sunday. Mr and Mrs Altom Evans visited relatives at Bragg City. Miss Lorene Graves and Inez Harris visited relatives near Sikes ton last week. Miss Anna Epperson of Canalou.
Ford Motor Company unveils a four section exhibit titled The Road of Tomorrow at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Edsel Ford describes advances in transport and the elevated highway ride featuring V S and Lincoln Zephyr cars, a glowing display of floodlit shifting shadows and a tunnel of photomurals. The building sits at the highest fair location and uses white, red and blue floodlighting.
Miss Evelyn Porter visited the Sherman Ferrells in Morehouse while families including Adcock and Harris shared time in Parma and near Buckeye. A child remains ill at home. many neighbors hosted and traveled to Malden, Mathews, and Columbus for gatherings and a track meet. Death of Henry Scoville of Gould, Colo., brother of Mrs. Townsend, reported.
Duard Damron of Campbell and Dale Smith from St. Louis are visiting relatives this week. Miss Frances Akley, employed in Sikeston, spent the weekend with kin. William Metz, former patient at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, returned home Sunday. Miss Dorothy Thomas was admitted to St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau for surgical care. Walter Beyers, a CCC enrollee at New Madrid, spent the weekend with family. Miss Catherine Harty of Bloomfield is noted in transit.
Sikeston youths Lawrence Adams and Harold McClure were elected vice president and sergeant at arms of the Webster Literary Society at Teachers College. They will assume duties at the start of the fall term.
Jum Jefferies and Fioya Soehlig are named individuals linked to a brief notice involving Jenkins and colleagues Bernard Tenkhoff Ken Brockett. The item likely reflects a personnel or social notice with potential affiliations or roles indicated in the readable fragments.
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