Local News Notes Highlight Nearby Town Visits and Births
Sikeston and surrounding communities are featured with visits from relatives and friends across New Madrid Jefferson City Union City and Sullivan. Notable events include a September 26 birth of Catherine Marie to Clyde Reynolds and a 90th birthday celebration for Fred Tickell with family and friends from multiple towns invited. The Matthews Community Club hosted a public school faculty party September 24 with Ann Sillers supervising games and a bountiful supper.
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Charles
Louis Jones
Ernest Jones
Blytheville
Harry Buckles
Louisville
Barney Jones
Sikeston
Matthews Community Club
Ann Sillers
Matthews area social news and church bake sale announced
Marion and Claude Revelle of Oran visited friends Sunday while L D Waters toured Cape Girardeau. Matthews residents attended the district fair in Cape Girardeau. Florence Green of St Louis visited her sister Mrs Oscar Fotherston. The Zimmer and Story families joined gatherings in Cape Girardeau and Charter Oak. A Ladies Aid Bake and rummage sale is planned near W F Story & Son. A Matthews Choral Club pot luck supper closed the week at the high school music room.
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Marion
Claude Revelle
Oran
L. D Waters
Cape Girardeau
Matthews
Florence Green
St. Louis
Oscar Fotherston
W. Zimmer
Zimmer
Don Story
Martha Ann
James Hull
Rome
Caruthersville
Clifford Sutton
Olen Crichton
Excelsior Springs
Ladies Aid Society of the Christian Church
Satuday
Story & Son
B. A. Stobaugh
Betty
Alene
Charter Oak
S Kennedy
H Plout
Cow Girardeau
Dee Beason
Kewance
Clarence Sutton
Jimmy
Geo. Reid
W. C. Critchlow
Matthews Choral Club
Paul Jones
Charleston Area Busy Social Calendar Recounted
Miss Feronia McClanahan guest of Mr and Mrs Harold Littles in Charleston. Numerous visits and gatherings span Benton Sikeston Manilla and East Prairie with families including Schneider Pattengill Miller and Haws. Weddings and baptisms noted. local band progress. CCC alumni returnees. multiple travel and hospital arrangements.
Oran Rural News Local Visits and Family Gatherings
Co M Reynolds and son Gordon were visitors at Fornfelt. Mr and Mrs H M Gateley and children were guests Sunday of Mr and Mrs Ira Moxley at Van Clyser. Fred Trost and children and Robert Trost and Mr and Mrs Robert McBride attended funeral services for Weldie Trost at Oran Monday. Mr and Mrs Clark Ervin of Cape Girardeau spent the weekend with the Moores. Other guests at the Moore home Sunday were Mr and Mrs B G Gateley and daughters.
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Co. M
M. B. Moore
Moore Home
B. G. Gateley
Guest Bill Seeger Visits Sikeston Area Home
Bill Seeger of St. Louis spent last Saturday and Sunday as a guest of J. H. Yount Jr. at his residence north of Sikeston, enjoying a brief stay.
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Bill Seeger
St. Louis
J. H. Yount Jr
Sikeston
Dexter visitors and Canalou school vacation noted
Marvin Keathley and George Smith of Dexter visited John Warn Sunday. Canalou schools closed Friday of last week for a cotton picking vacation. Mrs. Orville Jones and Mrs. Norvill Harrison visited the grade.
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Marvin Keathley
George Smith
Dexter
John Warn
Canalou
Orville Jones
Norvill Harrison
Local social notes from Commerce area visit relatives
Mr and Mrs W B Sander and daughter Dorothy visited relatives in Poplar Bluff Sunday. Mr and Mrs Ira Wright Jr Girardeau Friday. Mrs T W Andrson of Cape Girardeau was a business visitor here Monday. Mr and Mrs O L Reynolds of Cape Girardeau visited friends at Commerce Monday. Mr and Mrs C C Foster spent several days last week in St Louis. Mr Foster attended a meeting of the Masonic Grand Lodge. Mr and Mrs Ward Smith were guests of relatives in Cape Girardeau Sunday. W R Beardslee, recently in St Louis for medical care, has returned home. Mr and Mrs B R Bom are the parents of a daughter born at St Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau Sunday September 29. Mr and Mrs Vernon Lawrence of Cape Girardeau were guests of Mr and Mrs Alex Lawrence Sunday. Mrs Wm Bell of St Louis, former Commerce resident, spent several days here last week with Mrs Elizabeth Bull. Mr and Mrs Harold Beardslee of Detroit attended the funeral of Paul Darby here early this week. Mr and Mrs Harry Brewer Jr of St Louis stopped here last week en route home from Indiana. Mrs P B Held accompanied them home and returned to Commerce Sunday.
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Brady Feltner
Sikeston
A. F. Stanley
New Madrid
Nora Smith
Viola Boone
J. W. Wilkins
Ethel ‘Elder
Hilary Boone
Jefferson City
Claude Diday
Union City
Tenn
Chas. Sherrard
Clyde Reynolds
Catherine Marie
Lyman Bakers
Martha Schuchart
Harti School
J. Schuchart
Polly Rogers
Beaver Westbrooks
Flavia Patterson
Junior Ferris
Dallas
Tex
Robert Boone
Sadie Breck
Jo Ann
Omar Walls
Yrelatives
Linden
Bill Dillon
Morehouse
Minnie Hall
Jewel Shoptow
Sullivan
Ind
John Bates
Bates
Fred Tickell
Tickell
St. Louis
M. D. Wilson
Fredericktown
G. R. Fisher
Warry Hunter
Robert
Buck Tickell Mirs
Lula Pinnell
Eda Grider
Joe Thorton
Near East Prairie
Albert Parks
Leonard Baughn
Rachel Coppage
Cape Girardeau
Charles Breuer
Owen
Appalone Taul
J. W. Leonberger
John Greene
Lilbourn
Canalea High School
Ernest Muffett
Hammond
W. B. Sander
Dorothy
Poplar Bluff
Ira Wright Jr
T. W. Andrson
O. L. Reynolds
Commerce
C. C Foster
St Louis
Foster
Masonic Grand Lodge
Ward Smith
W. R. Beardslee
B. R. Bom
St. Francis Hospital
Vernon Lawrence
Alex Lawrence
Wm. Bell
Elizabeth Bull
Harold Beardslee
Detroit
Paul Darby
Harry Brewer Jr
Indiana
P. B. Held
Margie Cannon
Leonard Ford
Alden Pinney
Benton
Bryan May
Wentzville
Alas Foster
Louis Matthews
Lee Strayhorn
Harold Perdue
Baby
Racine
Wis
Lilla Foster
Roy Kilmer
Dexter
Mary Harris
Thomas Hawkins
M. L. Taylor
Wm. Clayton
Portageville
O. D Clayton
J. D. Andrews
Big Island
H. M. Andrews
L. E. Seabaugh
Harry Daugherty
Roy Ragains
Max Bollinger
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Ford 1941 Models Offer Larger, Softer Ride in Sikeston
Clarence Scott bought the first 1941 Ford in Sikeston, a maroon super DeLuxe two-door, as Walton and Williams Motor Co announced. The 1941 line features longer wheelbases, bigger bodies, increased interior space, wider front seat, lower transmission ratios, improved ride with new frame, springs, and shock absorbers, and enhanced luxury options across DeLuxe and Super DeLuxe models.
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Ford
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