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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1940
Page
15
Superintendent R A Harper urges strict bicycle safety at schools as 230 plus riders crowd campuses. He cites common violations and lists 12 rules including lights, single rider, straight riding, pedestrian right of way, and helmetless enforcement requiring parent cooperation to reduce dangers.
Miss Beatrice Dobbins highlights new fall novels at the Sireston Public Library including Whiteoak Heritage and Mrs Miniver with notes on the Jalna series. Donations in memory of Dr J A Hess add Modern Home Medical Adviser How to Make Good Pictures Practical Amateur Photography and a Bible guide. A stray line adds a home remedy about castor oil and orange juice for a fussy child.
The Community Teachers Association met on October 8 to discuss School Finance with officers elected Garland Parker president Thurman Travelstead vice president and Lucile Mount secretary treasurer. Debates and four degrees of the National Forensic League were outlined with officers elected. A Scott Mississippi schoolmasters meeting, lyceum programs and a string of upcoming events from lyceum acts to a theater play and a student band concert filled the schedule.
A long list of Scott County real estate transfers is recorded, including Homer York to C R Foster for part of blocks in Sikeston and multiple parcels in Chaffee and Benton, with prices ranging from $1 to $12,000. The notices cover various lots, blocks, and acreages across Sikeston, Chaffee, Fornfelt, and Benton, reflecting activity in McCoy Tanner additions and other developments. The document also notes a school drama program recording an event featuring Georgina Ballina, a former Spanish citizen, who spoke about Spain’s alliance and her experiences in America.
A historical guide shows apples paired with onions sweet potatoes and bacon baked apples ice cream and hot apple sandwiches. Recipes include Baked Apple Ice Cream Fried Apples and Onions Sweet Potatoes and Apples and a Hot Apple Sandwich with bacon for a savory finish.
One medium home grown tomato supplies about half of daily vitamin C needs and about one fifth of daily vitamin A. It also adds small amounts of B vitamins and other essentials. A cup of thick tomato juice provides all the vitamin C the body can use in one day.
Peel and slice Bermuda onions into quarter inch rings, dredge in bread crumbs, fry until brown, drain and salt. Prepare a two inch thick sirloin or porterhouse steak, broil on high to sear both sides, then cook to medium rare after lowering heat. Do not pierce meat while turning, serve with butter and salt and pepper.
Scott County real estate transfers record multiple deeds: Nancy Allen to Prussia Allen for 1 acre in section 18 township 29 range 13 at $1. Leo Schott to Mary Diebold for 44.70 acres in section 29 township 14 range 12 at $1. Thurman Caldwell purchase by Geo. Pearman for 78.87 acres in section 11 township 27 range 14 at $22,000. and several Sikeston and Graysboro deeds including lots and blocks in Enderle and Cotton Belt additions with nominal $1 or $5 payments, all filed in Benton Democrat.
Sikeston public library offers New England Indian Summer, a Van Wyck Brooks sequel to The Flowering of New England. The work surveys New England minds in literature from 1815-1865 and Civil War era to 1915, with figures like Henry James, Emily Dickinson, Henry Adams, Eugene ONeill, Amy Lowell, Edna Millay, and Frost, praised as lively readable studies with vivid portraits.
In winter about one third of a home's heat escapes through the roof. Insulating ceilings is easier than walls since attics usually exist, allowing workmen to install one of many ceiling insulation types now on the market.
Approximately 80 delegates registered at the local Christian church for the Southeast Missouri Christian Missionary Society annual convention. Began last night, runs until noon tomorrow with the theme Thy Kingdom Come and text Upon this rock I will build my Church. Rev Walter A Smith of Dexter presided over the sermon, after reports and business led by Rev W P Glass Doniphan Rev R M Talbert Cape Girardeau Rev W H Eckroth Charleston and Rev J Clyde Wheeler Kansas City. Study sessions and group meetings will fill the day with reports and plans. A convention banquet is set for 6:30 PM in the church basement.
Funeral services for 77 year old Mrs Katie DeWitt were conducted at Little Vine Baptist church with Rev D A Griffy officiating. Interment followed at Big Opening cemetery. Survived by son J L DeWitt of Big Opening daughters Mrs Evert Hall, Ruth DeWitt, Oma DeWitt brothers Charles Shelby and Jake Shelby half sister Mrs Mattie Wiley. Attendees from Sikeston included Mr and Mrs W B Hollingsworth.
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