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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1939
Page
2
The regular meeting will be held Monday night May 29. Miss Rebecca Pierce reports on the State convention she attended in St. Louis this week. Refreshments will be served after the program and business portion. All members are urged to attend.
At a Tuesday meeting held at Mrs Arch Russell's country home the Woman's Club voted 100 for the Federated Clubs of Missouri Scholarship Loan Fund. The fund aids high school graduates needing financial help to continue education. The loan rests on applicant integrity. Thirty five members and guests attended.
Mrs John Rell reviewed the poetry volume A Book of Americans by Stephen Vincent Benet and Rosemary at the Sikeston library meeting of the Sikes ton Woman's Junior Chamber of Commerce. Seventeen members and three visitors attended with guests from Sikeston Farmington.
A Woman's Club committee will sponsor a book review at the public library on Thursday night June 1 aims to raise funds for the club's general fund. Mrs M M Beck will review Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. Tickets available from Mrs Harry Dover at telephone 385.
Mr and Mrs C C White and Charles Bethunen returned home from Mexico Missouri after attending the annual convention of the I O F and Rebekah Judges. More than 700 Missouri members of the two lodges attended the meeting. Boonville was chosen as the 1840 convention city for the Missouri Odd Fellows and Rebekahs assembly. E J Campbell Butler was elected grand master with Walter Gordon Jefferson City deputy grand master, Ben Weidle St Louis secretary, D B Reist Kansas City treasurer, W K Chattan Cameron chaplain and George R Starrett Columbia and Al Siepman St Louis representatives.
Mrs J M Pitman will review the book Millbrook by Dela T Lutes at the concluding meeting of the Book Club next Monday afternoon at the public library. Telephone news items to 99.
Mrs Olen Critchlow entertained a large group of children ages 2 to 4 at her Matthews home on Wednesday afternoon for her daughter Sue Carolyns birth anniversary. Mrs Alfred Byrd assisted in hosting the gathering. Ruth Putnam plans to visit Ava Missouri later this week to spend the summer with her son and daughter in law John and Mrs. John Putnam. You can believe what you read in The Herald.
Mr and Mrs Sam Bishop of Ulmo celebrated their Golden Wedding Day at home with over two hundred relatives and friends. Married in St Louis on May 21 1889 they moved to Illmo 24 years later. Attendees hailed from Commerce Benton Cape Girardeau Perryville Yronton Fornfelt Grays Point Charleston Chaffee St Louis East St Louis Ill. Prior to a reception a dinner for fifty one relatives was hosted by Everett Cruse family. Five daughters also attended.
Mrs. Irma Allen and son Joe will attend the wedding of her nephew Jasper Jackson Wilson to Miss Evelyn Gregory of Jefferson City at the United States Military Academy West Point New York on June 12. Jasper will graduate as a second lieutenant. Following commencement the couple will summer in Jefferson City.
J L Hatfield son of Sikeston residents and Kathryn Agnes Hallvax of St Louis married at 4 pm May 20 at the parish priest’s home in St Louis. Immediate families attended. They spent the weekend in Sikeston and will visit Hattiesburg Miss with Hatfield’s brother. Hatfield a Sikeston HS graduate and Swift & Company representative. Mrs Hatfield educated in St Louis, later at a Catholic college.
James B. Eads a noted Missouri engineer and "Napoleon of Engineers" shaped river navigation and bridge building. He advised Lincoln on western river defense, built seven iron clad ships in days and the Saint Louis Bridge, deepened the Mississippi mouth, and influenced harbor projects in Toronto and Liverpool before his death in 1887.
Lawrence Ray and family will move to Van Buren as Rev Ray accepts the pastorate of the Baptist church. He previously led the Morehouse church and earlier served at Miner Switch and worked at the International Shoe Factory. He has long participated in Sikeston Baptist activities as deacon and Sunday school superintendent.
County Assessor Lynn Ancell attended a gathering of county assessors in Jefferson City this week, engaging with peers on appraisal methods and policy implications for local property evaluation.
City police continue the hunt for George Rollins, a 31 year old Negro charged with shooting a man on the grounds of the south grade school on Saturday morning May 20. The victim, Sinclair Rogers, also colored, named Rollins as the assailant. Rogers was struck in the arm and shoulder but not seriously hurt. Rogers was walking with Rollins wife at the time. Mrs. J. H. Galeener, visiting relatives near Sikeston and St Louis, will return to Houston, Texas this evening.
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