Highway Hostesses Aid Travelers Across Phillips Territory
Sylvia Calhoun Phillips 66 hostess spends her time helping motorists with routes hotels and restaurants while carrying first aid equipment and water. She is one of eleven hostesses promoting clean rest rooms and extended traveler comfort through roadside service and guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvia Calhoun
Phillips 66
Information Bureau
Calhoun
Phillips Petroleum Company
Phillips Territory
Improvement in State Crops During August
The Federal State Cooperative Crop Reporting Service shows August weather boosted corn sorghums soybeans and hay prospects. On September 1 1940 corn production was forecast at 112 090 000 bushels up from 110 124 000 in 1939 and above the 10 year average. yield rose to 28.5 bushels per acre. Tame hay production was 3 158 000 tons. oats yield averaged 27 bushels per acre total 50 220 000 bushels. Pasture condition improved to 81 percent of normal with record pasture gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal State Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
Missouri educator Harris shaped St Louis schools for many years
A historical sketch chronicles William Torrey Harris born 1835 who shaped St Louis public education. He joined Yale briefly, embraced German philosophy, led reforms from kindergarten to high school, and influenced international education. He served as US commissioner and earned honors before his 1909 death in Providence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Torrey Harris
Connecticut
North Killingly
Yale
Hegel
Association of Philosophers
St. Louis
Harris
Clay
Officier de l’Academy
Susan E. Blow
Peoples’ College
Bureau
Harrison
United States
America
United States Bureau of Education
Missouri
Penn
Appleton Publishing House
Appleton
Concord
Massachusetts
Orchard House
Emerson
Concord School of Philosophy
Brussels
Twenty Lions Attend Lions Club Meeting At Hudson's Cafe
Twenty members of the Sikeston Lions club attended the regular weekly luncheon meeting at Hudson's Cafe yesterday at noon. Charles Dement vice president presided in the president's absence, Wm Woehlecke. John D Hux, an employee in the E P Coleman Company office, was a guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikeston Lions Club
Hudson's Cafe
Charles Dement
Wm. Woehlecke
John D. Hux
E. P. Coleman Company
Presbyterian Ladies to Have Supper September 16
Members of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian church will host a potluck supper in the church basement on Monday night September 16 with Mrs Mae Martin as supper chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Auxiliary
The
Presbyterian Church
Mae Martin
Ben Jon Society Meeting Set for September 16
The Ben Jon Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet at Mrs Clyde Matthews home on Moore avenue Monday night September 16 at 7 30 oclock. This will be a social meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Jon Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Clyde Matthews
Moore Avenue
Mrs Bettie Matthews and Camille Klein Visit Relative in St Louis
Mrs Bettie Matthews and Miss Camille Klein, while in St Louis early this week, visited the former’s niece Mrs J H Yount who is a patient at St Luke's Hospital. Her condition is reported as improved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bettie Matthews
Camille Klein
St. Louis
J. H. Yount
St. Luke’s Hospital
Also Mentioned on This Page
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Missouri Historical Society
Missourian
BEN Jon Society
Tindals
Rustic Rock
Blytheville, Arkansas
Maghive
C. Tindal
Bluff City Sign & Neon Company
Poplar Bluff
Cherry ST
Bert Pinkston
Whiteway
Tanner ST
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