Army Worms Damaging Crops In Scott County Area
Farmers report army worm damage across level land and hills in Scott County. DDT dust is the primary control, 20 pounds of 5 percent or 10 pounds of 10 percent per acre, plus possible use of poison bran bait mixing sodium fluosilicate with bran and sawdust. Bait applied at 5:00 a.m. is effective for 1–2 days, DDT lasts longer. Poison bait stations exist at Charleston costing 3.25 per 100 pounds, with Scott County farmers to be served from there. Pasture animals should be rested for 60 days after chemical treatment.
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Scott County
Benton
Tom B. Stroup
Charleston
R. Q. Brown
Mississippi County
Stroup
Funeral Sunday for E. K. Ponder at Doniphan
Ezra Kinsey Ponder 63 died at Brandon Hospital in Poplar Bluff after a brief illness. Funeral held at Doniphan Presbyterian Church with burial in Doniphan cemetery. Survived by widow Laura Ponder of Sikeston, two sons John of St. Louis and E K Jr. of the Navy, daughter Nancy Squire of Fort Smith Ark., father J. P. Ponder, brother Willis Ponder, and two sisters. Attendees from Sikeston included several Highway Department colleagues.
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Presbyterian Church
Doniphan
Ezra Kinsey Ponder
Brandon Hospital
Poplar Bluff
Ponder
Doniphan Bank
State Highway Department
Sikeston
Missouri
Laura Ponder
John Ponder
St. Louis
E. K. Ponder Jr
U. S. Navy
Nancy Squire
Fort Smith
Ark
J. P. Ponder
Willis Ponder
Escapes Injuried When Car Ditches On Highway 60
A. F. Meeks escaped serious injuries after lights from an oncoming car blinded him near Brown Spur two miles west of Sikeston. His car veered into the bridge rails, fell into a drainage ditch, and rolled over. Meeks crawled free from the top of the wrecked vehicle, returning home from Sikeston church services. Crops affected include corn, wheat, barley, rye, alfalfa, meadows, and pasture grasses.
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A. F. Meeks
Highway 60
Brown Spur
Sikeston
Mr. Meeks
Morehouse
Elmer Grant Funeral Held Tuesday Afternoon
Funeral services for Elmer Grant were held Tuesday at Sikeston Methodist church with Rev. E D Owen delivering the sermon. Interment followed at Memorial Park Cemetery near Cape Girardeau with Welsh service. Grant, born September 15 1895, was a World War I veteran and survived by his wife Erma and four children.
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Scott
Elmer Grant
Delta Community Hospital
Sikeston
Sikeston Methodist Church
E. D. Owen
Baptist Church
M. G. Joyce
B. L. Schubel
St. Louis
Grant
Memorial Park
Cape Girardeau
Don Renner
Bill Baker
Joyce Emerson
Fremont Goetz
Ed Cline
Earl Allen
Morley
J. N. Grant
C. F. McMullin
Richwoods
Tanner Street
American Legion
Erma Elmore Grant
Marilyn Grant
Donald
Gene
Sherman Grant
Lucille Grant
Reece Mason
Emory Mason
Oran
Grover Sutherlin
Charleston
Billy Grant
U. S. Navy
Escape From Death In Cotton Hulls At Cairo Plant
Last Thursday at the Swift & Company cotton seed processing plant in Cairo Illinois two men Hervey Snow and Harvey Young fell into a bin of cotton hulls and were buried beneath the contents A fellow worker Sylvester Morgan dug them out they were almost suffocated and unconscious but are reported recovering.
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Hervey Snow
Harvey Young
Swift & Company
Cairo
Sylvester Morgan
April traffic crashes rise in Southeast Missouri
Eight fatalities and 77 injuries marked April in sixteen Southeast Missouri counties excluding Cape Girardeau and Poplar Bluff, with property damage totaling 87110. Scott, New Madrid, Mississippi, Stoddard and other counties reported multiple incidents while four-month totals show 313 accidents, 20 deaths, and 223 injuries in 1949 versus 249 accidents, 32 deaths, and 213 injuries in 1948.
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Missouri
Cape Girardeau
Poplar Bluff
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Scott County
New Madrid
Mississippi County
Stoddard
Pemiscot
Dunklin
Butler County
Iron County
Bollinger County
Rites Yesterday For New Hamburg Resident
Mrs. Mary Anna Miederhoff aged 90 of New Hamburg died at 10:45 last Sunday at the home of her daughter near there. Funeral services were held yesterday at St. Lawrence church with Rev. Herbert Melies presiding. Burial followed in the church cemetery. She is survived by four daughters, a son, two sisters, a brother, 16 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren.
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Mary Anna Miederhoff
New Hamburg
Louis Halter
St. Lawrence Church
Herbert Melies
Josephine Richardson
Ida Palmer
Fort Dodge
M. Clarrencia
Chicago
Barney Miederhoff
Malden
Carolina Miller
Oran
Martha Westrich
Near Commerce
Louis Kilhamer
Chaffee
Accident on open highway in April 1949 ends with five involved
In April 1949 a driving party of five on an open highway collided while three were passengers and two were pedestrians. The crash occurred during travel with four remaining passengers or witnesses.
Daughter born to Col and Mrs Root in Ogden Utah
Friends announce the birth of a daughter to Colonel C. B. Root and his wife in Ogden Utah on May 4. This is their third child and first daughter. Mrs. Root was formerly Miss Henrietta Moore.
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C. B. Root
Ogden
Utah
Col
Lair's Delker platform rock ers handle over twenty years
The Los Angeles area shop Lair's offers famous Delker platform rockers crafted in plastic or fine fabrics and handled exclusively by the store for more than two decades.
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Delker
Lair’s
Poplar Bluff Firms Win Southeast Missouri Road Contracts
Two Poplar Bluff contractors gained road work awards in Dunklin Pemiscot and New Madrid counties. Paul Montgomery and J W Githens Co won bids of 31334 and 31613 for Route N road segments, while Porter DeWitt Construction Co bid 211014 for 8.2 miles of grading surfacing and bridges from Parma to Lilbourn. Also noted is health update on J W Hines, recently hospitalized and now improving at home.
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Poplar Bluff
Missouri
State Highway Department
Dunklin County
New Madrid County
Coney Slough
Parma
Lilbourn
Porter-DeWitt Construction Co
J. W. Hines
Mr. Hines
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Girardeau
Sofas and Chairs in Plastic Covers at Lair's
At Lair's a range of sofas studio couches and club chairs are shown in plastic covers. Available in all colors. Furniture inventory highlights comfortable style and protection. Local shoppers invited to browse the collection.
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Lair’s
Special Campaign For Sale of Bonds
The United States Treasury will run a special campaign to sell U S Savings Bonds called Opportunity Campaign. It starts May 16 and runs through June 30 with Missouri a total quota of 32 280 000 in Series E bonds and Scott County 131 380. Other district counties and quotas include Bollinger 5180 Butler 122 987 Cape Girardeau 232 740 Dunklin 104 264 Madison 60 263 Mississippi 46 042 New Madrid 125 570 Pemiscot 85 865 Perry 113 950 Ripley 13 558 St Francois 243 714 Ste Genevieve 52 616 Stoddard 49 066 Wayne 22 273.
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Scott County
Bollinger
Butler
Cape Girardeau
Dunklin
Madison
Mississippi
New Madrid
Pemiscot
Perry
Ripley
St. Francois
Ste. Genevieve
Stoddard
Wayne
Three Divorces Granted in Circuit Court Monday
Judge R. B. Oliver III presided as three divorce cases were granted in Benton Circuit Court on Monday. Laura M. Hopke obtained a divorce from August M. Hopke of Tilo, who faced an attempt to kill his wife. she was awarded custody of their teenage son. Geraldine Winlow was granted a divorce from Joseph Winlow, and Queen Estes Houston from Mose Houston. Mrs. Houston received custody of their minor children.
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R. B. Oliver III
Benton
Laura M. Hopke
August M. Hopke
Tilo
Hopke
Geraldine Winlow
Joseph Winlow
Queen Estes Houston
Mose Houston
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Wopa
E. K. Ponder
Naebrow
Sikeston’s Terminal
Righter Trucking Co., Inc
Dean Righter
Sikeston, Missouri
Hamburg
The
United States Treasury
U. S
Erator
Satai
Missour
Menen Crenan
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