Southeast Missouri news items from Main Street area
Readers receive a collage of local briefs from Dexter to Fredericktown. Stolen pullets, opossum surpluses, new Extension Agent appointments, fatal auto crash near Cape Girardeau, a $100000 exchange building contract, school office break-ins, a deadly house fire near Poplar Bluff, missing boys near Bonne Terre, and obituaries including a diphtheria death and a baby’s graveside service. Also notes on oil stove fire origin and veterans’ and actors’ recognitions.
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Kennett
Southeast Missouri TelePhone Company
Poplar Bluff
Clarence St Cin
St. Cin
Former Sikeston Man Dies in Cape Girardeau
A. E. Hunze a former Sikeston agent for the American Railway Express Agency died of a heart ailment at his Cape Girardeau home. Born Oct 26 1891 in Cape Girardeau he later worked in real estate. Funeral services were at Haman Funeral Home. Survived by wife Hedwig three sons John Albert K and Robert a daughter five grandchildren two sisters and four brothers. A $20 million loan to Yugoslavia by the Import-Export Bank includes $12 million for immediate use to buy American materials and equipment for rehabilitating the mining industry.
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A. E. Hunze
American Railway Express Agency
Sikeston
Cape Girardeau
Hunze
Hedwig Hunze
John Hunze
Albert K Hunze
Robert Hunze
Fort Worth
Texas
J. Frank Hodges
Otto Hunze
St. Louis
Emil Hunze
Ed Hunze
Ben Bueltemann
Bertha Beckman
Yugoslavia
Cotton Pickers to Compete for World Champion Title
Cotton pickers from across the region will vie for the World’s Champion Cotton Picker title and a $1000 grand prize at the National Cotton Picking Contest in Blytheville Arkansas on October 7. Awards total $2500 in prizes from $25 to $250 with special prizes for seniors and children.
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Blytheville
Ark
Funeral today for Vanduser citizen Leslie Woodward
Funeral services are held this afternoon at the Baptist church in Vanduser for Leslie Eugene Woodward who died Tuesday at his home. Rev. Haupe presides with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery and Welsh service. Woodward, born August 2, 1884, is survived by his widow Ina Fern Woodward, a daughter Mrs. John Glueck, a sister Mrs. Amy Lancaster, two brothers R. L. and Bryan Woodward, and two half sisters Mrs Norman Murphy and Mrs Homer Brandon.
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Memorial Park Cemetery
Daniel LaCroix
Edwin LaCroi
Delta Community Hospital
Louise
Lar
Baptist Church
Vanduser
Leslie Eugene Woodward
Haupe
Woodward
Vanclyser
Ina Fern Woodward
John Glueck
Chaffee
Amy Lancaster
St. Louis
R. L
Washington, D. C
Bryan Woodward
Norman Murphy
Morely
Homer Brandon
Fort Riley
Kan
Death of man hit by unidentified motorist near Hayti
Lucian Wiles age 69 died at Delta Community Hospital Sikeston from injuries after being struck by an unidentified motor vehicle on Highway 61 near Hayti last Sunday. The body went to Welsh Funeral Home and was moved to Huntington Tennessee for funeral services. Survived by daughter Mildred Vickery of Chaffee and six sons.
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Lucian Wiles
Delta Community Hospital
Sikeston
Hayti
Huntington
Tenn
Mildred Vickery
Chaffee
Parma Child Victim of Diphtheria Attack
Robert Louis Dodson aged 4 died from diphtheria at his Parma home early yesterday. He died at his grandmother Nelia Wilburn's house at 322 Kendall Sikeston. The Rev Hillan Kindred officiated a 10 am service at the Baptist church. Burial was in Big Opening cemetery. He is survived by his parents Homer and Mrs Dodson, five brothers Jimmy Jerry Bennie Joe Travis Gene Lonnie Roy and two sisters June and Phyllis plus his grandmother.
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Robert Louis Dodson
Homer Dodson
Parma
Nelia Wilburn
Kendall Street
Sikeston
Taylor
Hillan
Cild
Jimmy
Jerry
Bennie Joe
Travis Gene
Lonnie Roy
June
Phyllis
Southeast Missouri Duroc breeders host show and sale in Cape Girardeau
The Southeast Missouri Duroc Breeders Association holds its second show and sale since formation. On Thursday September 22 at Arena Park Cape Girardeau consignments from 38 open gifts and 16 spring boars are offered by members including Fuerth Brothers Harold Gosche Henderson Howard Harold Pobst and many others. The show begins at 10 a.m. with Livestock Director Rolla Singleton classifying animals into three quality groups. At 1 p.m. Colonel Guy L Pettit Bloomfield Iowa will auction the animals with Bob McCord and Lindsay Beck as ringmen.
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Southeast Missouri Duroc Breeder’s Association
Arena Park
Cape Girardeau
Moore Quality Farms
Kirkwood
Raymond V. Moore
Lutesville
Herbert Niehaus
Florissant
Byron Phillips
Bloomfield
Roth Bros
Frolina
Bill Sifford
Puxico
Morris Vincent
Campbell
Robert Wunderlich
Edward Zeller & Son
Bufordville
Rolla E. Singleton
Missouri State Department of Agriculture
Jefferson City
Guy L. Pettit
Iowa
Bob McCord
Lindsay Beck
Sikeston
Baby Dill Dies in Cape Girardeau Hospital
A two week old girl Sally Ellen Dill daughter of Mr and Mrs Hildreth Dill of Sikeston died at Cape Girardeau hospital Friday night. Funeral held 3 oclock Saturday at Welsh Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by parents and grandfather Gord Dill of Sikeston. Born August 26.
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Sally Ellen Dill
Hildreth Dill
Sikeston
Cape Girardeau Hospital
Memorial Park Cemetery
Gord Dill of
Lair's Ad Promotes Sofas And Theaters In One Place
An ad lists sofas studio couches club chairs platform rockers in plastic covers from Lair's. It promotes attending the Air Conditioned Mall Lone and Rex as first and second run theatres, highlighting furniture and cinema offerings in one location.
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Lair’s
Malone and Rex
Former Sikeston Man James Barnett Dies in Colorado
James Henry Barnett a former Sikeston resident died of a heart ailment last Sunday at his home in Julesburg Colorado. He was born October 17 1867 in Princeton Kentucky and moved to Sikeston in 1904. He later led the Sikeston Heading Company and lived in Denver before moving to Julesburg. He is survived by his widow a daughter Dess Bloomfield two sons Richard and Archie a sister and two grandsons with funeral services held at the Methodist church in Sikeston.
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James Henry Barnett
Sikeston
Julesburg
Colo
M. G. Joyce
Memorial Park Cemetery
Mr. Barnett
Princeton
Bobbie Davis
Baker-Matthews Lumber Company
Denver
Methodist Church
Dess Bloomfield
Richard
Archie
Charles George
Princeton, Ky
Lee Walton
Dick Bloomfield
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American Cancer Society
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