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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1940
Page
8
Mrs. Nona Crafton is confined to her home with a serious illness. Numerous visits and social calls flow among residents of Benton, Chaffee, Charleston, Perryville, and surrounding areas. The community notes a church conference trip, a marriage in Jackson, and school and club activity including a PTA and Boy Scout formation. Volunteers, families, and friends are frequently listed with places and kin.
Mrs M B Moore lauds convalescence after weeks at home. Miss Marjorie Glastetter visited grandparents Mr and Mrs Frank Ambrein in Oran. Mr and Mrs Marion Stuckey and grandson joined Mr and Mrs Leslie Sneeze in Benton. Guests from Shawnee Town included Mr and Mrs Henderson Howard and Mrs Cameron of Oran. Morley visitors Mr and Mrs Paul Foster and Oran guests Mr and Mrs H Gateley and Glenda Lee, with H Gateley Sr hosting. Further Benton guests included Mr and Mrs Albert Dannenmueller and Mr and Mrs Dennis LeGrand with children.
Frank Dirnberger and daughter Miss Viola, Mr and Mrs Robert Dirnberger, Mr and Mrs Frank Effink and son Richard Scheerer of Portageville, Mrs Henry Welter of New Hamburg, and Miss Marie Jansen with Mr and Mrs Arthur Dirnberger and son are named in a local social roster.
Mr and Mrs Dean Gilliland and children moved to Oran Monday. Local schools dismissed for cot ton vacation. Supt Dennis Revelle of Marston visited his father. Miss Virginia Bachus and Miss Ruth Bachus of Ste Genevieve spent the weekend here. Wm Lemsey of Farmington visited friends. Ina Hester of Cape Girardeau spent the weekend with her sister Vina Hester. Tilas Randle Jr and wife welcomed a daughter October 3. Tom Anderson of Detroit visited his mother Mollie Anderson. Dr and Mrs Frank Sisson attended a horse show in St Louis. Rev H Patterson planning remodeling on the Ed Bashear property. Clarence Cannon returned home from St Francis Hospital. Rev H M Andews left for Jefferson City for Methodist conference. J D Andrews taught at Big Island near Commerce and spent the weekend here. School masters club met at Fornfelt. Elmer Daugherty of Herculaneum visited. Nellie Drissler from Koch was here on business. remembered as former resident Nellie Gordon. Nelson Mize headed to Long Beach with relatives. Cole Lancaster and son Max left for Las Vegas after visiting Morley family. John Lee received word of a daughter born to Rex Boyce in Hollywood. Morley high school softball team beat Diehlstadt 16 to 4. Roy Ragains, Monroe Rhodes and WM Black accompanied. Alfreda Shortz of Charleston and Welton Watson of East Prairie announced marriage. Rev H Patterson officiated at his home. Mrs Watson is Charleston High School graduate. Welton is East Prairie High graduate and Tolkoff employee.
C L Dance of Sikeston visited Commerce Monday. Alex Lawrence and family visited Cape Girardeau friends. H M Zarkor and son De Wint of Sikeston visited in Commerce. Lester Gaines spent Sunday in Hope Arkansas with his father John Gaines. Mrs Wm Lashley was ill last week at home. Mrs B Russell Bom and Kay Ellen returned from St Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Mrs A A Hudnell of Sikeston and Mrs Tillman Anderson of Cape Girardeau visited Commerce. G C Darby entered St Francis Hospital for minor operation, condition satisfactory. W L Rankin of the dredge boat St Paul near St Charles Mo spent weekend here with wife. Mr and Mrs H T Proetz and
Children Richard and Patricia of St Louis were weekend guests of Mrs Elizabeth Bull mother of Mrs Proetz. Mr and Mrs Robert Butler of St Louis, Mr Conran of Jackson and Mr and Mrs Ira Wright Jr were guests of Mr and Mrs Ira Wright Sr Sunday. Glenn Beardslee returned home Monday after medical treatment in Cape Girardeau with slightly improved condition. Mrs George Johnson and Mrs Ulysses Edmonds attended the Baptist Ladies Missionary Association meeting at Sikeston Tuesday. Mrs L S Brock of Benton spent Tuesday with her parents and attended the Missionary society birthday party with her mother. A T Born hosted guests J L Madole of Barlow Ky and Lillian Britton of St Louis Saturday night at Jackson. Mr and Mrs O L Reynolds, long-time Cape Girardeau residents, moved back to their farm south of Commerce on the Charleston road.
Melvin Henson of Bell City helps John Crosno with plumbing and electrical work. Nora Atherton of Sikeston visits Paul Witt and his wife. The Crosno and Witt families attend Caruthersville fair. Mrs. John Crosno attends Methodist Missionary tea in Morehouse. Rev. Smith from Cape Girardeau preaches at church. Dinner guests include Arnie Heusser and family. Highland Illinois visitors join Willie Gruen and Fred Geske families for an afternoon gathering.
A busy week in Matthews includes a Saturday band concert at Morehouse, fish fry by the Matthews band, and multiple visits and trips among residents. Notable items: families and guests travel to Doniphan, Cairo, Cape Girardeau, Bertrand, Caruthersville, and Rolla. Pauline Kennedy visits grandparents. a miscellaneous kitchen shower for Mrs. John Leech. and a Cape Girardeau hospital visit for Hershel Yates' family with the Yates newborn. Rev Yates welcomes a second son.
Hayti farmer Jess F. Johnson, 45, was burned to death Friday night when a kerosene can exploded after his mule wagon collided with an automobile on Highway 64 west of Hayti. In Charleston Mississippi county, the first oil lease was recorded this week by ex officio recorder Ellis Howlett. W. W. Lipp of Haubstadt Indiana bought the lease from Perry S. Harmon. The land is in the Brewers Lake region.
Parma resident James Blinn reports 91 bushels per acre from a Parma area corn field. A 10 acre plot yielded 958 bushels. Wheat averaged 41 bushels per acre and oats 50 bushels per acre across Blinn s crops this season.
Funeral services were held at Immaculate Conception Church in New Madrid for Clay W. Dawson a 80 year old farmer and merchant who died at his home Friday from a heart ailment. His wife Elizabeth Ellis of New Madrid preceded him in death nineteen years ago. Surviving are a son George Dawson of Pontiac Michigan and four sisters Mrs L B Howard Mrs J W Jackson Mrs A S Davis of Malden and Mrs D L Keller of Cape Girardeau.
The grand jury indicted twenty seven people including all August election judges in two Kennett precincts after concluding its investigation. Charges allege presence during ballot counting, usurping election judge duties, and unlawfully refusing to perform required election duties.
A repair job accident occurred when a striking car was hit by a truck that veered into a ditch and struck a girl standing nearby. Authorities investigated the scene and reported injuries to the girl with no further details provided.
Poplar Bluff authorities hold 39 year old Wilburt Johnson a Black man charged with first degree murder in the deaths of Willis Mitchell 16 and Sarah Mitchell 15 near their grandparents home Mr and Mrs W N Mitchell. He was bound over to circuit court without bond and returned to Butler county jail pending trial.
The L. Berry gin at Holland in Pemiscot county burned Thursday morning October 3 causing an estimated loss of 20000 dollars. Owner L. Berry plans immediate rebuilding.
President Roosevelt named Joe Alvin Hux among several candidates for postmaster positions in Missouri this week, as part of a broader slate of nominations.
A coroner's jury ruled John L. Shirley aged 85 died after drinking rubbing alcohol. His body was found behind a blacksmith shop in Piedmont A. Four other men who drank the liquid were reported to be recovering from illness.
Rev. Floyd E. Brower is named pastor of the Methodist church in Caruthersville by Rev. E. H. Crear superintendent of the Poplar Bluff district. The appointment was announced this week.
The Canalou Ladies Club met last Thursday with Miss Larkin state health nurse delivering a talk on how the club can aid community health. Members read Riley poems and demonstrated carrot salad and spiced prunes with tips from Flora Carl. Rummage sale is set for October 9 followed by an achievement day program October 23 at Matthews. The club reports a new trombone for the high school band.
Walter Richardson of New Madrid offered to bet his first bale of 1940 cotton and the season’s first ginned cotton in the New Madrid area on Wendell Willkie’s election. G D Long of Moscow Arkansas, who ginned the county’s first cotton bale, said he communicated with Richardson and backed Roosevelt’s re election with his own bale. Long also offered seed from the cotton, claiming Richardson made a bad bet.
On October 21 1940 between 9 AM and 5 PM at the front door of the Post Office Sikeston Scott County Missouri I will as Trustee sell for cash to the highest bidder the property described as Lots 15 16 and 17 in Block 15 of McCoy and Tanners Second Addition Sikeston Missouri with all improvements and fixtures to satisfy the note secured by a deed of trust dated December 1 1936 and recorded January 8 1937 in Book 51 pages 299 300. W F Sterett Trustee
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