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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1936
Page
6
Personal visits and family news from Jefferson City and nearby communities. Listings include visitors from Dexter, Cape Girardeau, St. Louis, Tupelo, Poplar Bluff, Maplewood, University City, and Colorado. engagements, arrivals, and a birth announced for May 12.
Local society notes list visits and guests across Cape Girardeau Gray’s Point and surrounding towns. Prominent residents attend dinners, bridge evenings, and family gatherings while others travel to Denver Little Rock and Willow Springs. Ben Hahn improves after surgery. Des Bloomfield plans a Denver visit. Claudine Reed remains in Tucson for work.
Lee Bowman served in St Louis as part of the Federal grand jury. Many local residents visited relatives or traveled for family and medical reasons including trips to Cairo Jefferson City Holdenville Fulton and Memphis. Mrs A C Johnson aged 85 suffered a broken hip during a visit with family in Sikeston.
Mr and Mrs A J Renner entertained Sunday for the former's brother Dr Dan Renner and wife and H T Mooseberger of Skillman New Jersey who visited from Friday to Monday They left for Kansas City to attend another medical meeting The visitors were guests of Mrs Georgia Donnell A J Renner Phil Renner and families Read more about out of town relatives and friends who attended the dinner including Mrs Sam Frizzell Mrs Mayme Hutchings Mrs Emma Jarnet and Mrs Helen Jones and their sons.
A Mother’s Day dinner and birth anniversary celebration was held Sunday for Mrs Wm Graham at her home on Dorothy Street. She came to Sikeston Missouri from Tennessee at age four and has spent most of her life there with her family contributing to local efforts. Twenty relatives attended including John Graham and family Lee Graham and his bride Harvey Graham Effie Lindley and sons E M Ratcliffe and sons and other Sikeston kin.
The Woman's Club plans a bake sale at the H. L. Drug Store on Saturday May 16 with Mrs C D Matthews Jr as ways and means chair and Mrs James Matthews leading the sale group.
The Missouri Federation of Woman's Clubs holds its triennial convention in Kansas City May 18 to 21 with the theme Education for Living. Butler’s Mrs DeWitt C Chastain opens the opening session. speakers include Dr Franc Le Cleur of Westminster College and Lloyd V King state superintendent. Sikeston club president reports no delegates will attend.
Anthony B. Ittner of St. Louis, former circuit judge, lectured at the I O O F hall as part of a school of instruction for Sikeston Masons. The session followed a postponement and included Dexter Masons on Tuesday night.
Several Sikeston men representing civic and municipal groups traveled to St Louis this morning to attend a dinner hosted by International Shoe Company officials. Attendees include W L Haters W E Hollingsworth Hubert Boyer N E Fuchs Frank Miller J W Foley and Harry Dover. They expect to return home tonight.
Members of the adult education class a Federal project gave a short program last Friday afternoon at the grade school with Martha Oliver Everett Fowler and Laverne Vinson in the cast. Mary Emma Allen Sikeston pianist was the guest artist. Mrs Celia Montgomery Scott County Supervisor for Adult Education attended but left due to illness. The class is taught by Mrs Rivers Tanner with 20 pupils enrolled. Classes continue under the Federal program until June 1.
Mrs. L. C. Lynn thanks Rev. E. H. Crear the Red Cross and Kiwanis Club for support with a tonsil clinic held last Friday that enabled two of her children to have their tonsils removed.
The Modern Woodman lodge invites all adult members to its annual fish fry tomorrow night in the Odd Fellows hall. There will be no junior meeting either afternoon or night.
A brief note highlights the Herald’s trusted reputation for local coverage and factual reporting, inviting readers to rely on its stories for municipal updates, community notices, and events.
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