Sikeston Herald publisher and address notice
The Sikeston Herald lists CLINT H. DENMAN as publisher and Ward Denman as assistant. It notes publication every Thursday at 119 West Malone Avenue Sikeston Missouri with telephone 1240. Yearly subscriptions are 1.50 in Beott and adjoining counties and 2.00 elsewhere, with terms in advance. It is entered as second class matter March 9 1908 at Sikeston post office.
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Malone Avenue
Sikeston, Missouri
Beott
Sikeston
Missouri
Armory Managers Open Showers for Visiting Soldiers
Captain Loomis May field and Sikeston Armory managers opened the armory showers to hundreds of soldier visitors during an overnight stop. Soldiers used the facilities past ten o'clock at night, finding the showers clean and refreshing. The gesture is praised as a thoughtful service aligned with the armory’s purpose.
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Sikeston
Loomis Mayfield
Sikeston Armory
Armory
Sikeston Council Approves City Hall Lab Space
The Sikeston city council votes to let the State Board of Health use the upper floor of city hall for a district laboratory and agrees to fund preparation and installation costs. The Herald notes the city cannot afford this contribution but hopes the lab proves useful and that the state reimburses expenses in time.
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Sikeston
State Board of Health
The
Herald
Missouri
Butler to Fund Malone Park Playground Equipment
C H Butler a Sikeston grocery man and city council member seeks to equip Malone Park with playground gear worth about 500 dollars He aims to raise half the sum with the city likely to fund the other half A friend has offered 100 dollars and Butler hopes to raise 150 more soon The note urges public support for the charitable effort
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C. H. Butler
Sikeston
Malone Park
Alreday
Butler
Congratulations to Our Motorists
Sikeston motorists and Southeast Missouri residents kept safe during Labor Day weekend with no major crashes on crowded highways. The record contrasts with past years when the region was known as a death trap due to speeding temptations and high fatalities statewide.
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Sikeston
Missouri
Sikeston building boom includes new elevator and depot
Twenty five years ago Sikeston reported a surge in construction with major projects such as Scott County Milling Company elevator, Iron Mountain railroad station, Farmer's Supply Company building, and numerous homes. A four hundred strong crowd attended Mr and Mrs Limbaughs silver anniversary at their home two miles south. Ed Fuchs visited Cairo for Chevrolet agency business and Sidney Schillig of Oran Bank spent weekend in Sikeston.
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Sikeston
Scott County Milling Company
Iron Mountain
Farmer’s Supply Company
Robert E. Limbaugh
Ed Fuchs
Cairo
Chevrolet Automobile Agency
Sidney Schillig
Oran Bank
Cotton bale marks early ginning season at Sikeston
Fifteen years ago on September 9 1926 F M Sikes led the first bale through Sikeston Gin ning Company plant this year the bale with seed cotton yielded about thirty percent lint sold at 64.4 cents per pound. Also notes local visits enrollments camping trips and hometown events including Bailey at Jefferson City and residents moving to Sikeston.
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F. M. Sikes
Sikeston Ginning Company
R. E. Bailey
Jefferson City
Republican State Committee
Mesdames J. EF. Cox
C. H. Vanson
Lee Bowman
Cairo
Lucille Mount
Ruth Bateman
Osie Killgore
Nelle Vanson
Cape Girardeau
State College
Frank van Horne
Bill
Big Spring
Chris Francis
Almaretta Sidwell
Charleston
Elevator and aviation school projects unfold in Sikeston
Work began Monday on a new elevator for Scott County Milling on Mill A grounds. The Missouri Institute of Aeronautics will start office and air corps reserve pilot training next week. Sikeston plans a one hour downtown parking limit on four busy streets amid pleasant September weather.
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Scott County Milling Company
Mill A
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, Inc
Missouri
Silkeston
Sikeston
Cadet Officers Named for Flying Class at Missouri Aero
George R Graviss leads the advanced aviation cadets at the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics serving as Aviation Cadet First Captain. The list includes Captains Nicholas T Nonnemacher John J Caldwell Dayton J Kingsbury Lieutenants Gareth F Gibson Irving H Ward Edward I Finneburgh John E Rees Stuart V Forest Richard E Stanley Sergeant major Robert V Doenges First Sergeants Harold J Gerow Walter E Kelley Harrington E Draker Jr Color Sergeant Alexander E O Nunsell Platoon sergeants Joe E Jenkins Howard C Deakyne Jr Herman L Smith James T Bull Bernard A Goncher Edward J Burke.
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George R. Graviss
Missouri Institute of Aeronautics
Nicholas T. Nonnemacher
John J. Caldwell
Dayton J. Kingsbury
Gareth F. Gibson
Irving H. Ward
Edward I. Finneburgh
John E. Rees
Stuart V. Forest
Richard E. Stanley
Robert V. Doenges
Harold J. Gerow
Russell Wilson Promoted Editor Of Bulldog Barker
Russell Wilson becomes editor of the Bulldog Barker for the year, after serving on Sikeston high school’s newspaper staff for two or three years. Journalism class members will assist weekly, with an assistant editor to be chosen next week.
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Russell Wilson
Sikeston
Barker
Wm. C. Hopkins
Mary Anne Lankford
Patty Hudson
Margaret Hart
Charles Heath
Mabel Greenlee
Dora Ann Dunn
Anthea Moore
Jeanne Edwards
Anna Lu Lewis
School Bank to Sell Defense Stamps at Sikeston High
An addition to the Sikeston high school savings bank is the sale of defense stamps. The student operated bank will resume on September 15 with officers chosen from bookkeeping students next week.
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Sikeston High School Savings Bank
Local youths charged with theft of cars
Walter W. Carter 20 and Henry C. Ziehl 19 of near Oran were arrested by Sgt. Melvin Dace for stealing two automobiles. A 1938 Chevrolet sedan near Kelso was taken August 23 and found abandoned near Brosley on August 28. A 1936 Ford sedan, owned by Gus Leible of Commerce, was stolen August 30 from Sand Hill Tavern on Highway 61 near Morley. They were jailed in Benton after waiving preliminary hearing and await circuit court action. bond not made.
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Walter W. Carter
Oran
Henry C. Ziehl
Melvin Dace
Kelso
Brosley
Sikeston
Tongate Family Announces College and Hospital Plans
Mr and Mrs Dick Tongate will take their son Dick to Fulton Missouri Sunday for entry to Westminster College. They will be joined Tuesday by Miss Fern Bowman who will enter Barnes Hospital for observation.
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Dick Tongate
Fulton, Mo
Westminster College
Fern Bowman
Barnes Hospital
Chain stores plan defense stamp sale at Palace Cafe
Plans for the sale of National Defense Savings Stamps in local chain stores were made at a meeting of chain stores managers and workers at the Palace Cafe last Thursday night. The stamps will be placed on sale as soon as a supply is received here for that purpose. Their purchase will be suggested by the salespeople in the stores, it was said.
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National Defense Savings
Palace Cafe
Sister of Sikeston Man Named Cosmetic Inspector
Mrs. Viola Dickerson of Bonne Terre Missouri has become inspector for the South east Missouri district in the cosmetology and hairdressing department. She replaces Mrs. Walter A Post of Cape Girardeau and is one of ten inspectors statewide under director Ramona Grims ley of St Louis. Her brother is Wayne Bess of Sikeston.
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Viola Dickerson
Bonne Terre
Southeast Missouri
Walter A. Post
Cape Girardeau
Dickerson
Wayne Bess
Sikeston
Ramona J. Grimsley
St. Louis
Sikeston Hospital Notes Highlight Local Surgeries and Recoveries
The Sikeston hospital reports several patients including Mrs. E O Nichols of Canaloa undergoing appendectomy August 29 with favorable recovery, Elvis Martin in satisfactory recovery from August 29 appendectomy, and Mrs Brady Feltner admitted for appendectomy. Other notes include minor surgeries, an auto accident injury recovery for Lee Warrington of Harrisburg, and a newborn who lived six hours in New Madrid. Since opening, 851 patients treated, 90 major surgeries, 68 births, and all running expenses paid from receipts.
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E. O. Nichols
Canaloa
Jesse L. Murphy
Sikeston
Elvis Martin
Wm. Helms Or Matthews
Brady Feltner
Lee Warrington
Harrisburg
Bill Kelley
Ellise
Clinton
Miner
H. T. Howser
New Madrid
A . Véeasman
Donald Wheeler
Blodgett
Fires cause minor damage this week
The fire department was called Monday at 11:00 to 803 Kathleen avenue when an oil stove exploded. No damage occurred. Later at 1:30 a.m. the department responded to Gilbert Clinton Cafe on North Kingshighway for a pan of fruit juice left on the stove catching fire. Smoke caused the only damage.
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Kathleen Avenue
Gilbert Clinton
North Kingshighway
Aged Razor-Blade Peddler Found Dead with Cash Stashed
In Philadelphia an elderly street peddler of razor blades, who rented a $2-a-week room, was discovered dead with $1900 in cash sewn into his ragged clothes and a bankbook showing deposits exceeding $12,000.
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Philadelphia
Sikeston Theatres Back U S O Fund Drive
Sikeston theaters under Manager Pete Medley join a nationwide drive to raise funds for the United Service Organizations for National Defense. The effort funds recreation facilities for soldiers sailors marines and defense workers in camps bases and plants. The campaign uses educational films and theater staff to collect donations.
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Sikeston
Pete Medley
United Service Organizations For
National Defense
U. S. QO
Dog names decide dog ownership in Georgia courthouse
In Hapeville Georgia Justice of the Peace Neil Leach let a bulldog choose its owner. The dog skippily jumped to Mrs. Hover then to Nichols but finally returned to Hover. On neighbor testimony and dog behavior Leach ruled the dog Skippy Foxy Hotshot incompetent as a witness and awarded custody to Mrs. Hover.
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Hapeville
Boston
Justice of the Peace
Neil Leach
T. W. Hover
Skippy
C. S. Nichols
Toddler undergoes tonsillectomy at St Francis Hospital
Theodore Kelly Jr aged two, son of Mr and Mrs Theodore Kelly, had a tonsillectomy yesterday at St Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
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Theodore Kelly Jr
Theodore Kelly
St. Francis Hospital
Cape Girardeau
Rites Held At Essex For Mrs Stitt
Funeral services for Mrs Martha Jane Stitt will be held at the Methodist church in Essex at 2 p m Friday. She died at her daughter Mrs R K Stewart s Kennett home September 3 from complications of diseases. Rev Pulliam will officiate with interment at Poplar Bluff cemetery. Survived by daughter in Kennett another daughter Miss Sibyl Stitt of St Louis and two grandchildren.
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Essex
Martha Jane Stitt
R. K. Stewart
Kennett
Pulliam
Poplar Bluff
Ellise
Stitt
Sibyl Stitt
St. Louis
Ben Bowmans Move Into Maplewood Drive Home
Mr and Mrs Ben Bowman moved today into the residence on Maplewood Drive formerly owned by Mr and Mrs Clyde Matthews The house had been purchased last week by Franklin Moore who immediately sold it to the Bowmans who had priorly lived at 214a North Kingshighway
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Ben Bowman
Clyde Matthews
Maplewood Drive
Franklin Moore
Bowman
North Kingshighway
New Arrivals Report Multiple Local Births
Marguerite Jo born August 28 to Mr and Mrs Edward Roberts of Vancluser. Otis Derril born September 1 to Mr and Mrs Dan L Hartman at home. A daughter born September 1 to Mr and Mrs Virgil Ford of Sikeston. Merlin Ray born September 2 to Mr and Mrs W G Gillal of Blodgett. Robert Dean born September 3 to Mr and Mrs W H Mays of Morehouse. Ann Elizabeth born Tuesday to Dr and Mrs Frank Sisson Jr at Sikeston General Hospital. Earl Roper and wife welcomed a daughter born at New Madrid hospital last night. Claude Praul of Commerce born September 1 at Sikeston hospital.
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Marguerite Jo
Edward Roberts
Vancluser
Dan L. Hartman
Otis Derril
Virgil Ford
Sikeston
Merlin Ray
W. G. Gillal
Blodgett
W. H. Mays
Morehouse
Robert Dean
Ann Elizabeth
Frank Sisson Jr
Sikeston General Hospital
Earl Roper
New Madrid
Claude Praul
Commerce
Sikeston Hospital
Police Court Fines For Drunken Acts In Sikeston and Benton
Otis Lambert of Sikeston and Freeman Myers of Benton were arrested yesterday and fined eight dollars each in police court for being drunk. Nathan Kennedy of Canaloa was fined eight dollars last Monday for careless and reckless driving.
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Otis Lambert
Sikeston
Freeman Myers
Benton
Hess Perrigan
Grover Lewis
Brown Jewell
Nathan Kennedy
Canaloa
Melvin Dace
Charleston Sawyer Died This Morning
Frank K. Ashby of Charleston former prosecuting attorney of Mississippi county died at 10 30 AM at St Marys Hospital in Cairo Indiana after a ten day illness due to high blood pressure and complications. Born February 14 1893 in Charleston he studied in local schools and earned a law degree at the University of Missouri. He served three consecutive terms as Mississippi county prosecutor and was a partner in Ashby Banta Law in Charleston. Funeral services are set for 4:00 PM tomorrow at Charleston Methodist Church with Rev W C Brodersen and Rev J C Montgomery assisting. Interment will be in Odd Fellows cemetery. He is survived by his wife a daughter Ruth Ann a son Roderick and two brothers Alfie and Oscar Ashby, all of Charleston.
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Frank K. Ashby
Charleston
Mississippi County
St. Mary’s Hospital
Cairo
Mr. Ashby
University of Missouri
Mississippi
Ashby
Ashby & Banta Law Firm
Missouri
Charleston Methodist Church
W. C. Brodersen
Baptist Church
Brodersen
J. C. Montgomery
Ruth Ann
Roderick
Alfie
Oscar Ashby
Baptist Association to Meet Next Week
The Charleston Association annual meeting will be held on September 10 and 11 at New Bethel Baptist Church. A large number of Sikeston Baptists are expected to attend.
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Charleston Association
New Bethel Baptist Church
Sikeston Baptists
Man escapes jail leaving razor blade bar tale
McLeansboro Illinois. Deputy Johnson says George Brown of Harrisburg escaped from the county jail by a ceiling hole after sawing a bar with razor blades. The note claims thirty days of work using five packages of blades to free himself from an armed robbery hold.
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Mcleansboro
Ill
Charles G. Johnson
George Brown
Harrisburg
Hamilton County Court House
Johnson
Brown
Lake of the Ozarks Mecca for Midwestern Vacationers
The Lake of the Ozarks spans 129 miles of central Missouri with 95 square miles of water and 1 400 miles of shoreline. Formed by Bagnell Dam on the Osage River the area is America’s largest man made water resort boasting 201 000 horsepower hydro plants. Five highways access the lake with Route 5 surface upgraded 25 miles into the heart of the region. Good roads fishing beaches scenery and clean air draw fishermen vacationers and nature lovers from the Midwest.
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Lake-of-the-Ozarks
Missouri
Ozark
Bagnell
Osage River
America
Missouri State Highway Department
Middle West
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Sikeston Public Schools
J. E. McCord
Little
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Little Son
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Bulldog
Clarence Weekley
Ralph Wuitkey
A. J. Moore ,Jr
Byron Crain
Louis Scott
Clarence Dowdy
Duard King
Parker Adams
Jack Lancaster
Festus
Laverne Yoffie
Nathan Yoffie
Harry Harry
Bloomfield
C. E. Brenton
Ranney Street
Wm. Tanner Jr
Demna Parker
Cape Girardeau County
Jackson
U.S
Bulldog Barker
Chain Stores Plan Defense Stamp Sale
Sikeston Man
Sikeston Theatres
Ben Bowmans
Charleston Sawyer
Baptist Association
Barl
Missouri's Lake-Of-The-Ozarks
Bagnell Dam
Norway
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