Cotton Returns Glow in Sikeston District Corn Dominates Later Years
The Sikeston area shifts from cotton to corn as price incentives push planting, with 1917 Corn output surpassing 1916. Mills and elevators face storage challenges while gins report 2000 bales ginned. Local events include a Sikeston High game loss for Malden, a fatal auto accident involving nine year old Robert Louis Weekly, and a church pastor return by Rev S P Brite. A Sikeston couple Harold Pitman and Helen Estelle McMullin wed, and J B Rothreck and son bought Roll Groves restaurant.
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Sikeston
Anssouri
Robert Louis Weekly
Russell
Missouri Supreme Court
Missouri Utilities
Harold Pitman
Helen Estele McMullin
Bloomfield
S. P. Brite
First Baptist Church of
Laramie
Wyoming
J.B. Rothreck
Major C L Malone Elected Legion Commander
Major C L Malone was elected commander of the Hy Mel drum Post of the American Legion. Deaths of the past week included Charles L Stubbs of Blodgett, a well known businessman in the district. Approximately 12 000 people attended the third annual Neighbor Day at Benton. Six square miles of St Louis was devastated by a tornado. Sheriff Everett Dye arrested five bootleggers after three robbed the other two of their liquor cargo and their automobile. The Weltecke Lumber Company was a new business institution in Sikeston. For the first time long distance telephone service between Sikeston and certain cities in Mexico was available to the public.
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C. L. Malone
Hy Meldrum
American Legion
Everett Dye
St. Louis
Sikeston
Mexico
Charles L. Stubbs
Blodgett
Weltecke Lumber Company
Benton
Fifteen Years Ago Queen Crowned at Neighbor Day Event
Miss Geneva Foster of Morley was chosen to reign as Queen at the 13th annual Neighbor Day at Benton. Thirty-one janitors from southeast Missouri schools attended a school of instruction held in Benton prior to the event.
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Geneva Foster
Morley
Benton
Southeast Missouri
Sikeston
Burt Rowe
Sikeston Kiwanis Club
Milburn Arbaugh
Mussouri Banks
Assembly of God Church
Fred Andres
Thomas Jackson
Geneva Miller
Alfred Newman
Sikeston Items Include Armories Bank Plans and Marriages
Local notes report Frank Miller appointed alderman for Ward Two replacing Hubert Boyer. Sikeston to receive one of Missouri’s new National Guard armories while 50 tons of scrap metal were collected by schoolchildren. A Sikeston brokerage branch from Cairo is planned, and city officials target removal of outlawed outdoor toilets. Marriages include Lieut Joan Bowman and Eleanor Hempstone Noyes. 60th anniversary for J. C. Davis couple. Mary Dover and Harold Atwell wed.
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Frank Miller
Hubert Boyer
Sikeston
National Guard
Missouri
James FE. Bennett & Company
Cairo
Joan W. Bowman
Eleanor Hempstone Noyes
Washington, D. C
J. C. Davis
Mary Dover
Harold Atwell
J. J. O'Neill
The Big Smear mudslinging report
Washington a hyena Lincoln a traitor FDR a dying cripple and now both Eisenhower and Stevenson attacked by opponents H V Kaltenborn reports on mudslinging in The American Weekly and Sunday Herald American Chicago Herald American coverage.
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George Washington
Lincoln
Fdr
Hisenhower
Stevenson
American Weekly
Herald- American
H. V. Kaltenborn
Chicago Herald-American
Prices to Fit Every Purse Terms to Suit Any Income
A short promotional notice proclaims prices tailored to all budgets and payment terms to accommodate diverse incomes. The ad highlights affordability and flexible financing as its core appeal, inviting broad customer access.
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LAIR
Polio Cases Reported in Scott County This Year
A March of Dimes check for 900 dollars arrived at the Scott County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to aid polio patient care here as polio cases total ten this year in Scott County.
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Scott County
National Foundation For
Polio funds strain Scott County March of Dimes chapter
Otto Schoen, Chapter Chairman, said January fundraisers leave half locally and half to National Headquarters for research and aid. He cited a 1952 Scott County case where 273.72 was used up by September, prompting emergency support. The year sees ten current patients plus twelve from prior years.
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Otto Schoen
Schoen
National Foundation
Scott County
Four Sikeston Students Enroll at Anderson College
Anderson Ind. Four Sikeston, Missouri students join Anderson College for the 1952 53 fall term. Albert Gene Chandler a freshman business major Betty Sue Keasler a junior history major Betty Jo Lenon a sophomore elementary education major Teddy C Lopp a freshman pursuing a bachelor of science degree.
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Sikeston
Anderson College
Anderson, Ind
Albert Gene Chandler
Albert Chandler
Lake Street
Betty Sue Keasler
W. H. Keasler
Taylor
Betty Jo Lenon
Otto Lenton
Matthews
Teddy C. Lopp
Joseph A. Lopp
Mot her of Counties forms many Missouri districts
Missouri earns the nickname Mother of the West while Howard County stands as its core. From this county 36 Missouri and 10 Iowa counties trace origins or include parts, highlighting its historical influence on regional boundaries and development.
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Missouri
Howard County
Iowa
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the Bank of Sikeston
Missouri Council of Churches
Russell Davis
M. C. Anderson
Gideon
Miner
M & M. Grain Company
Joseph H. Allen
New Madrid
Missouri Sunday School Association
Morris H. Pullin
Jefferson City
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Clinton County
Leadeship Department
Washington
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Lammerce
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