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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1945
Page
3
Local notes list numerous visits and gatherings across Oran and nearby towns. Families travel from Sikeston, Parma, Cape Girardeau, Newport, and Dexter to visit relatives, attend socials, and host guests including Miss Frances DePriest nursing in St Louis and Mrs Dorothy Galley from Salem, Ky.
A Riverside Extension Club meeting featured a covered dish luncheon with rug making demonstrated. Guests included Mrs Horace Clarke and children Ruth Ann and Edward from Cape Girardeau visiting Mr and Mrs Walter Wise. Local social attendees at Lois Reed’s birthday party included N J Goddard and grandson Ronnie, Walter McCarthy family, Dorothy Clymer, Hattie Varnon, Eva Reed family, Marie Hitt Ursery Wright Wise Bollinger and others.
Mrs W D Gaines of Bertrand and Mrs George Proffer underwent medical events this week while families from Wardell Thayer and St Louis hosted relatives. Local social ties are shown through weekend visits, dinners, hospital stays, and a graduation ceremony attended by relatives and friends.
A townwide note includes Ike Marshall a business visitor in Sikeston on Tuesday. Hits of last weekend show Mr. and Mrs G Pearman of Oran visiting here, J T Marrs of Tampa spent a week with friends, and Supt L F Evans with son Bobbie of Advance visited Friday. Various local residents and visitors from Cape Girardeau, Morley, Detroit, St Louis, and other nearby towns appear in social rounds and family visits.
Southeast Missouri items report deaths in Charleston and Birds Point floodway, a child’s death near East Prairie, a trauma clinic in Kennett, State College enrollment for Cape Girardeau, and Richard Edwards ending 41 years as a locomotive engineer in Chaffee. Survivors named for Dugan and Smith families. Bender son assists after boat accident. clinic details. Navy term figures. Edwards’s railroad career ends.
At a regular Salcedo Extension club meeting held at Mrs. Ivie Lewis home last Thursday rag making was demonstrated by Mrs. Hazel Evans Benton home demonstration agent for Scott county. With ten members present for a luncheon and meeting Mrs H A Southern presided in president KE M Crooks absence. Guest Mrs Herbert attended the Head club.
About 30,000,000 Americans have been injured in home-front accidents since the start of the war. The figure underscores the broad domestic impact of wartime conditions on everyday life and safety practices nationwide.
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