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Newspaper
Sikeston Herald
Location
Sikeston, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
6
Commerce Missouri reports Mrs. Elizabeth Lunsford celebrated her one hundredth birthday last April 25 while still in good health. Nearby social notes list visitors and relatives from Cape Girardeau St Louis Sikeston Oran Morley Eureka and Fort Lauderdale. James D Vogt plans study in Washington DC after returning Monday.
Marshall Craig visited Jackson on business. Mrs Joe Ellis Jr and Karen travel in Sappington Missouri this week. Frances Murray enrolled at State Teachers College Cape Girardeau for fall and winter terms. Spencer Love returned to Fulton after visiting his parents. Mrs RL Shelby and sister Mrs J J Johnson went to St Louis for the former's health. Mr and Mrs Chas Bell announce a son Donald Lee born Sept 1. Jesse Downs and Kid Downs went to Fulton where Ed reentered Westminster College. Mrs Frank Morris of Detroit visited near Bertrand and worked a business trip in Charleston. Mrs Roy Harold and infant Tula Kay visited with Mr and Mrs Mac Williams in Carterville Illinois. Pauline Marable and Lorene Marable Drury head to Washington DC and New York City. Max Friedman and Sidney visited St Louis then Boonville for Kemper Military Academy term 1940-41. Willis Ashby Charles Brown and Emory Brazil of St Louis visited George Ashby in Columbus Kentucky. Mississippi County Women’s Democratic Club met at East Cypress Street home of Mrs Lynn. Bird’s Point Sewing Club members had fish dinner at Boyette’s on Reelfoot Lake. Illinois Misses Miller stayed with Mrs Altus Barnbrook. Mrs Carl Heath returned to St Louis after visiting her mother Mrs Myrtle Maddox. Heath family reunion held at Mrs P A Heath’s in Cape Girardeau. Mrs Kirk Anderson hosted Gravel Ridge Home Extension Club with 22 ladies and nursery gifts for L T Howard.
Miss Doris Deem enrolled at the State Teachers College for the fall term. Local softball reports show Matthews girls beat Canalou girls while Canalou boys lost 8 to 2. Planned Friday games at Libourn and next week county softball in Lilbourn conclude with a note on profitable milk sales.
Miss Capitola Cole daughter of J D Cole and Cleon Ball son of Forrest Ball wed Friday September 6 at the Chaney home in Sikeston Rev Chaney Nazarene pastor officiated Mrs Ball a church leader active in revivals in Memphis St Louis and other cities Ball a respected Matthews youth member of the Southeast Missouri Trooper Band The couple are prominent in local young peoples circles and will be watched by many friends.
Officials offer 25 dollars to the person delivering the tallest corn stalk for exhibition at the festival. Judges will measure from the first ring above the root to the tassel end.
The new Washington DC airport will feature an asphalted area including four large runways and surrounding parking and access roads, totaling the equivalent of 83 miles of an 18 foot wide highway.
New York's surging Yankees travel to Sportsman's Park to face the St. Louis Browns in a four game set, with a long distance hitting contest featuring three Yankee sluggers and three Brownie sluggers. The double-header starts at 12 45 with the first game at 1 15.
In memory of our beloved mother Virginia E Deane who departed September 9, 1935. We miss you dear Mother more than anyone knows. We think of you as Asleep in Jesus and hope to be with you again someday. Sadly missed by her children Mrs Roy E Alsup Mrs Robert Binford William H Deane Jr.
The piece notes that the largest area of quicksand in the world is said to lie at Diamond Shoals, near Cape Hatteras in North Carolina.
The Missouri State Singing Convention will be held in Poplar Bluff in 1941, city chosen after the 1940 convention. C. E. Porter of Campbell was reelected president for the sixth consecutive year, and W. M. Middleton was reelected secretary. More than 5000 people attended the convention with participants from about a dozen southern states. Singing conventions began in Texas over two centuries ago.
During the 76 days the municipal pool was open in Jackson this summer, 3,602 persons used the facility. Of these, 200 Boy Scouts did not pay. Paying patrons contributed $811.45 in pool fees.
Charles Hornbuckle succeeds Mrs Paul Simpkins as assistant cashier at the First Bank of East Prairie. Mrs Ed Moss joins the clerical staff and assumed duties Monday.
The cotton term at State Teachers College in Cape Girardeau is delayed until September 23 due to too few teachers entering earlier. Read the ads for news and opportunities.
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