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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1941
Page
2
On Tuesday afternoon November 4 the Woman's Civic Club meets in the public library auditorium. Mrs Louis Ellen Sutton will present an engaging program titled Know Your Own Town. Hostesses are Mrs Paul B Kinder Mrs Alfred Graul and Mrs A D Martin.
Seventeen members of the Women’s Junior Chamber of Commerce attended a Halloween party Tuesday night in the basement of Dr and Mrs W J Sidwell at 201 South Kingshighway. Entertainment was planned by Meredith Lee Joe Sidwell Eli Ethridge Sally Husher and Mary Dixon Proctor. The group’s next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday night November 10.
At the first fall meeting in Sikeston public library auditorium, club president Mrs J W Foley urged members to budget time and money for ongoing and future projects. The program reported perfect attendance awards, fund-raising plans, and civic goals including a hospital fund library support street cleanup and beautification efforts. New members welcomed and next meeting set for November 11 with hostesses and leaders named.
Mrs Loomis Mayfield will host the American Legion Auxiliary meeting Tuesday night at her West Center Street home. Assisting her in the entertainment will be Mrs Jean Hirschberg Mrs James Kevil and Mrs. Lee Lawrence.
Miss Marie Esther Rigdon daughter of Mr and Mrs J A Rigdon of Cape Girardeau married Wm B Malone Jr at 4 30 pm Tuesday in an improvised fern change altar at the home of the bride. Rev T J Murphy officiated. Attendants included Anna Rigdon Kathryn Harris and Margaret Rigdon. Best man was Francis Rigdon with Jack Yount and Daniel Malone as ushers. A reception for 200 guests followed. The couple will live at 205 South Kings Highway Sikeston after a honeymoon to New Orleans and Oklahoma visits to relatives in Muskogee Oklahoma. Mrs Malone is a Cape Girardeau Central High and State College graduate and a former Washington School teacher. Mr Malone is a Brunswick Mo School of Pharmacy graduate and manager of Malone Drug Store.
Ruth Evelyn Reed of St Louis daughter of Cecil Reed formerly of Sikeston married Edgar Schulze son of Mr and Mrs Benjamin Schulze of Troy Illinois. The ceremony was Saturday October 25 at the home of the bride's aunt Mrs John C Way in University City with Rev E F Lange of Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church officiating. A reception followed for relatives and friends at Mrs Way's home. The bride, who finished high school in St Louis last spring, is known in Sikeston and has visited at her aunt Mrs Ruth Malone's home. Mr Schulze is a mechanical draftsman engineer in St Louis where they will reside.
Mrs Arden Ellise hosted a Friday supper for her daughter Pat's fifth birthday. Guests included Misses Margaret Ann Hatfield Jane Wilkerson Martha Stevens Eleanor McClure Betty Anderson Betty Hirschberg and Sarah Sue Keller.
The Mount Evans highway in Colorado reaches 14,260 feet, the highest automobile road in the United States, offering dramatic alpine views and a steep climb for drivers and travelers.
Furst notes Sikeston women seek the versatile three piece suit as a smart outfit for all seasons. The popular style can serve as a heavy winter overcoat a light topcoat or a warm weather suit with or without fur trim and is available at Sikeston stores.
Mrs Hazel Weltecke and Miss Beatrice Robbins hosted a dinner Tuesday night at the Dunn Hotel in honor of Miss Mary Lou Gissal who will depart Saturday for Alton Illinois. Gissal has been home supervisor at the LaForge Project and will become supervisor of an NYA residence in Alton next Monday. Guests included Misses Virginia Lee June Johanner and Helen Baker.
About twenty five members of the Women's Society of Christian Service at the Methodist Church met for the annual Week of Prayer. A retreat begun at 10 AM was led by Mrs A J Renner. Mrs Arch Russell outlined funds for two home divisions, Brewster Convalescent Home for Negro Children in Jacksonville Florida, and the Endowment Fund for retired deaconesses, plus foreign medical missions and Christian literature for foreign laws. The group plans a November 5 luncheon at 12:30 PM hosted by Mrs Frank Schulte and will hear reports from the nominating committee on next year’s officers.
Cotton hose gains popularity with full fashioned stockings that fit the leg curves. They are shaped on one knitting machine and finished by another for proper foot shape, featuring back seams, reinforced soles and two way stretch tops. Available in beige tan black white tweed blends and more colors.
Double-action coats with zipped-in linings, sometimes fur or rain-resistant, turn a topcoat into a rain coat quickly. In Southeast Musseu, these coats promise utility and style, making them a smart investment for versatile wear.
J. H. Yount Jr will attend the wedding of James Hourigan Jr of Columbia to Miss Mary Elizabeth Mattson of Kansas City at Country Club Congregational Church in Kansas City at 6 30 Sunday evening. Yount and Hourigan are Kappa Sigma members. Mrs Yount will accompany her son to St Louis and stay at her home there.
The marriage of Miss Jenalee Sells daughter of Mrs G E Daniel and Joe B Lambert son of Mrs C T Lambert of Omaha Nebraska was performed in St Louis this morning by Rev Stuart Edmundson at his residence Attendants were Mr and Mrs Robert Grundy of East St Louis IL Mrs Lambert has worked for R J Reynolds Tobacco Co for two years Lamparts is Flight Commander at the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics After a weeklong honeymoon in the South they will reside at 923 North Park
Mrs B Root of Uvalde Texas and Mrs T McClure visited Mrs A J Moore and Frank Moore Tuesday morning. Capt Root accompanied his wife and Mrs McClure to Poplar Bluff then Washington DC for official business. He will rejoin them this weekend before returning to Uvalde. Root is the former Miss Henrietta Moore. Capt Root was commanding officer of the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics and now holds a similar post in Uvalde.
Mrs Garwood Sharp will entertain a group of friends with a bridge party at her home tonight. On Friday she will entertain with a bridge luncheon.
Mrs L M Standley entertained yesterday afternoon with a birthday and Halloween party in honor of her daughter Jo Ellen Standley who celebrated her third birth anniversary. Guests included Judith Ann Murbach Patty Allard Bobbie Mow Joan Goetz Merlin Anderson D Anna Fowler Tony Heckemeyer Robert Harwell Harry G Sharp and Johnnie Corrigan.
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