Legion Auxiliary Meets At Carroll Home
The American Legion Auxiliary gathered Tuesday night at Mrs. W. O. Carroll’s North Kingshighway home. With presiding officer Mrs. E. E. Leighninger due to the president’s absence, plans for a joint Legion and Auxiliary installation at the Armory were formed. Reports on the September State convention in Jefferson City were given by Mrs. Sid Schillig, Mrs. Steve Penrod, and Miss Jane Cummins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion Auxiliary
W. O. Carroll
North Kingshighway
W. H. Sikes
Robly Lennox
C. C. Cummins
E. E. Leighninger
American Legion
Armory
Sid Schillig
Steve Penrod
Jane Cummins
Jefferson City
D A R Chapter Meeting Set in Cape Girardeau
Members of the Kings Highway Chapter D A R and the Cape Girardeau chapter will join at Mrs. R C Evans home in Cape Girardeau next Saturday afternoon at 2 30. Regent Mrs A J Renner will attend. The program theme is Our Constitution.
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Kings Highway
Daughters of the American Revolution
A. J. Renner
Cape Girardeau
R. C. Evans
Mrs Taylor Named Financial Secretary
Mrs Ray Taylor was appointed financial secretary of the Women's Benefit Association effective September 1, succeeding Mrs John Fox who held the post for over 30 years and resigned due to ill health.
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Ray Taylor
Women’s Benefit Association
Taylor
John Fox
Canalou Girl Married to Army Sergeant
Mr and Mrs George Lefler of Canalou announce the marriage of their daughter Miss Imogene Lefler to Tech Sergeant Troy B Cooper. The ceremony took place in Paducah Kentucky on Saturday August 19. Rev A M Parris officiated. Imogene is a 1940 graduate of Canalou high school and works at Pittsburg Steel Company in Memphis. Sgt Cooper is the son of Mrs George W Cooper of Bruton Alabama and has been stationed at Camp Breckinridge Kentucky for the past year.
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George Lefler
Canalou
Imogene Lefler
Tech
Troy B. Cooper
Paducah
A. M. Parris
Immanuel Baptist Church
Canalea High School
Pittsburg Steel Company
Memphis
Sgt. Cooper
George W. Cooper
Bruton
Alabama
Camp Breckenridge
Miss Celeste Givens and Camille Hendley in Louisville
Miss Celeste Givens and Miss Camille Hendley are guests this week of Mrs. B. D. Warner in Louisville Kentucky. A special sale on coal heaters is now going on at Lair's.
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Celeste Givens
Camille Hendley
B. D. Warner
Louisville, Ky
Lair’s
Dr Russell to wed Miss Nelson October 16
Announcement notes the approaching marriage of Miss Margaret Nelson of Brittany Woods University City Missouri to Dr Alex Russell son of Mr and Mrs Arch Russell of Sikeston. The ceremony will be at the bride’s home on October 16 with attendance by Mrs Arch Russell and family. Dr Russell is a Saint Louis University graduate and resident physician at Firmin Desloge Hospital in St Louis.
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Margaret Nelson
Arthur KE. Nelson
Brittany Woods
University City
Alex Russell
Arch S. Russell
Sikeston
Russell
Emily
Arch S. Russell Jr
Arch S
New York
St. Louis University
Firmin Desloge Hospital
St. Louis
Fidelis Class to Meet Tuesday Night
The Fidelis Sunday school class of the First Baptist Church will meet Tuesday night September 12 at the home of Mrs. Louis Schultz on South Scott Street. Assistant hostesses will be Mrs. E. H. Page, Mrs. G. L. Pharris, Mrs. David Elrod, and Mrs. Margaret Joyce.
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Fidelis
First Baptist Church
Louis Schultz
South Scott Street
E. H. Page
G. L. Pharris
David Elrod
Margaret Joyce
Date set for Sikeston Kiwanis election Friday Sept 29
The Sikeston Kiwanis Club will elect officers on Friday night Sept 29 with a primary nomination on Sept 15 at the Dunn hotel. Superintendent Tharon E. Stallings urged local schools and community cooperation, praising new principals Bremen Van Bibber and Thurman Travelstead and noting stronger math focus among pupils. New member H C Fisher joined, and Pharmacist's Mate Frank Belken Jr. visited. Delegates for the Kiwanis convention in Kansas City were F D Harris, L M Standley and J A Macabee, with alternates E E B Leighninger, R D Williams and Ralph Reid.
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Sikeston Kiwanis Club
Dunn Hotel
Tharon E. Stallings
Sikeston Public Schools
Sikeston
Stallings
R. M. Talbert
Bremen van Bibber
Thurman Travelstead
Louis C. Bona
M L Stewart
L. M. Standley
J. A. Macabee
E. E B. Leighninger
R. D. Williams
Ralph Reid
Miss Mary Louise Jones Weds In Sunday Ceremony
Miss Mary Louise Jones married Castor Alsup in a 3 PM Baptist church ceremony with Rev. B. D. Owen officiating. The bride wore slipper satin, a Juliet cap veil, and carried a Bible with tube rose bouquet. A reception followed at the Fish home, then a Memphis honeymoon and return to Sikeston. Attendants included Rovenia Guest and Marjory Alsup. ushers Clifford Jones and Rufus Alsup. Out-of-town guests came from Raleigh IL, Cobden IN, Anna IL, Centralia NL, and Memphis.
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Baptist Church
Mary Louise Jones
Castor Alsup
B. D. Owen
Rovenia Guest
Rawleigh
Ill
Marjory Alsup
George Lough
Betty Jane Taylor
Clifford Jones
Rufus Alsup
Rnest Alsup
Glenn Fish
Memphis
Sikeston
Trotter Street
D. Williams
Rovina Guest
Raleigh
August wedding announced for Ora Summers and Alva Evans
Relatives and friends in Luckeston report the August 21 ceremony near Matthews at Blytheville. Mr and Mrs John D Barnes attended. The Evans couple reside at their Matthews area farm. Mrs Evans, formerly a local, has practiced nursing in Kansas City.
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Lukceston
Ora Summers
Alva Evans
Matthews
Blytheville
John D Barnes
Evans
Kansas City
Unusual overseas wedding of Sikeston doctor
The story follows Dr. Bill Sidwell and American Red Cross worker Winifred Hasterby who wed August 6, 1944, on a New Guinea mission hilltop, officiated by a European missionary and witnessed by Allied officers, nurses, and natives. The bride wore a mosquito net gown. the groom used rings fashioned from Australian shillings with a Cat's Eye shell. The ceremony featured native flowers, a hibiscus Bible, and a five layer cake baked by Army bakers, with improvised cake-cutting equipment. They honeymooned in the mission village after the ceremony.
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Sikeston
Bill” Sidwell
W. E. Sidwell
Sidwell
South Pacific
Red Cross
New Guinea
Winifred King Hasterby
Hartford, Conn
Madamoiselle
Helen Adams
Ridgewood
New Jersey
Quartermaster Corps
Wiliam Maxwell Sidwell
Medical Administrative Corps
Tropics
Dover
Del
George A. Cason
Baton Rouge
Set Anthony Resei
Philadelphia
Pan Phonograph
Mission Compound
Mission Village
Methodists' Fellowship Dinner on September 13
Members of the Methodist congregation will host a fellowship dinner in the church dining room on Wednesday night September 13 Rev EW Bartley pastor will review The Church After the War by Bishop McConnell following the meal
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EW. Bartley
McConnell
Yankee Law and Justice Tales Entertain Local Librarian
Mrs. Jack Lair reviews humorous spoofed autobiographies linked to Ephraim Tutt and Justice Holmes. The article teases "Yankee Law yer" by Arthur Train detailing Tutt’s legal era and "Yankee from Olympus" about Justice Holmes, praising wit and law saga from Harvard to New York.
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Jack Lair
Ephraim Tutt
Tutt
Meh
Calvin Coolidge
Eph
Harvard
New York
News of service men wanted by the Herald
The Herald requests relatives to send news of service members for publication in the home town columns. Messages will be circulated to servicemen receiving the paper worldwide, with local delivery options noted at Lair's for recent orders and deliveries.
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News OF Service
the Herald
Herald
Globe
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JOCTE
Mrs. Taylor
DR. Russell
Miss Nelson
Kiwanis
E. C. Robinson Lumber CO
R. L. Guthrie
Sikeston, Missouri
Bill Sidwell
Methodists
Scott County
Public Library Notes
Mr. Tutt
Arthur Train
Kee
Olymus
Justice Holmes
Lair's
Scher
Ssouri
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