Pioneer Quilting Bees in Missouri
Compiled by the State Historical Society of Missouri the piece recalls historic Missouri quilting bees from the early 19th century to the 1880s. It describes male intrusion in early days, the social dances, food, and the shift to hen parties, frame setup and operation, chalk diagonals, sewing the quilt, and the family inclusion in the crazy quilt as evening ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Historical Society of Missouri At
Columbia
Floyd C. Shoemaker
Missouri
Toose
Moses E. Lord of Liberty
Surrey
Agencies Affirm 22 Members in War Fund Drive
The National War Fund’s membership rose to 22 agencies including USO United Seaman's Service War Prisoners Aid Belgian War Relief Society British War Relief Society United China Relief American Relief for Czechoslovakia American Denmark Relief Inc American Relief for France Inc Greek War Relief Association American Relief for Italy United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America Friends of Luxembourg American Relief for Norway Philippine War Relief Polish War Relief Queen Wilhelmina Fund Russian War Relief United Yugoslav Relief American Field Service Refugee Relief Trustees U S Committee for the Care of European Children. The drive to raise funds begins in the coming days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National War Fund
USO
United Seaman's Service
War Prisoners Aid
Belgian War Relief Society
British War Relief Society
United China Relief
American Relief For
Czechoslovakia
American Denmark Relief, Inc
France
Greek War Relief Association
Italy
United Lithuanian Relief Fund of America, Inc
Friends of
Luxembourg
Norway
Philippine War Relief
Queen Wilhelmia Fund
United Yugoslav Relief
American Field Service
Refugee Relief
U. S. Committee For the Care of
U S War Spending Totaled 288 Million a Day in August
Government war spending ran at 288,300,000 dollars daily in August, up 2.1 percent from July, with total August outlay at 7,798,000,000. From July 1, 1940, to Aug 1944, war expenditures reached 215 billion, including Treasury-cleared checks and RF C net outlays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Production Board
Treasury
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Federal workforce nears three million in July total
The Civil Service reports 2,938,602 paid civilian employees in the continental United States at month end, up 20,315 from June. About 384,700 workers were employed outside the continental U S, and 295,433 nonpay or nominal pay employees exist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Continental
United States
Civil Service
Fund Started For Patton In Fort Worth
Fort Worth supporters started a fund for General Patton after his remark about not having seen a $1000 bill. They proposed sending him to Berlin with a thousand dollar bill and have now doubled the goal to two $1000 bills for his march into Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Patton
Berlin
Highway Patrol Notes Driver Faults in Accidents
The highway patrol states that over 85 percent of traffic accidents stem from driver errors in judgment, lack of skill, or other faults of the operator.
Land Transfers in Scott County Reported in Property Records
A list of Scott County land transfers shows numerous conveyances between multiple buyers and sellers. Notable entries include W. B. Smith to Fred Black for parts of lots in Vancuser. Agnes and John Wipfler exchanging a 80 acre tract. Margaret Mason to J. H. Bollinger Jr. in Imo. and several additions in Sikeston, Diehlstadt, and Fornfelt with prices ranging from $1 to $4500, reflecting a flurry of private real estate activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wipfler
Agnes Wipfler
John Healy
W. C. Johnson
L. P. Mankin
John R. Gary
Perry Mott
Willard Westmoreland
Margaret Mason
J. H. Bollinger Jr
Roth
Imo
Fannie Bain
Bell
Fornfelt
Walter Brock
Shirley Ames
B. F. Marshall Jr
Jesse Lambert
Blodgett
Elmer Couch
John Jordan
Lillian A. Smith
Sikeston
Dickie Taylor
Chester Frobase
Benton
Fred Smith
Josephine Jimerson
Sunset
John Nations
Homer Stamp
Fairview
O. H. Hayse
B. L. Bridges Jr
McCoy- Tanner
Conly Purcell
W. B. Seabaugh
Ezra Riddle
Lillian Thomas
J. L. Mabry
Otto J. Ressell
R. D. Clayton
T. R. Tindle
Parkland
Jean Girtman
J. L. Moody
Murphy & Wall
Clyde Sanders
Lou Ashmore
DichIstadt
R. A. McCord
Otto Lawrence
Sunset 2Nd
M. E. Gisi
Leo Goetz
Ella Carbaugh
Eugene Cunningham
Chaffee
John Miederhoff
West Long
Sikes
L. M. Blaisdell
L. C. McFerron
August Herod
Sunset 83Rd
Peter Kappler
Emma Brady
A. J. Matthews
Oran
F. L. Sisson Jr
Hast Acres
W. H. Keasler
Leona King
Siketon
Ray Richards
Sam Cole
Sikes Avenue
Harvie Smothers
Eugene Powell
Real estate transfers span Sikeston and surrounding towns
A coastal list of property deeds records transfers across Sikeston, Chaffee, Illmo, and nearby additions. Transactions note grantees such as Lydia Chaney, Elmer Couch, Andy Ackley, and Samuel Legrand with lots, blocks, and additions like Lillian A Smith and McCoy Tanner. Prices range from $1 to $12,000 plus, with multiple parcels, surveys, and townships listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Chaney
Paul R. Eakins
Chaney
Sikeston
Maggie Irwin
W. H. Irwin
Rice
Albert J. Day
Theodore Horn
E. B. Schwab
Bell
Fornfelt
N. E. Fuchs Jr
Assembly of God
McCoy-Tanner
Elmer Couch
H. A. Bach
Lillian A. Smith
Andy Ackley
Kenneth Johnson
Chaffee
Gean Girtman
Barney Stubenranch
Andy Diebold
Hugo Robert
Marion Killian
Robert Edwards
Matthews
Vancluser
Thomas Holderby
G. C. Duncan
Henry Uelsmann
Frank Broadhacker
Murphy & Wall
Illmo
Tommy Treadway
LaDonna Fisher
McCord
Wm. Northington
Milton Cope
Needham Sikes
Adam Felter
Sylvester Felter
la Land Survey
Co. B. Adams
F. M. Craig
Lightner
Ilimo
M. Craig
C. B. Adams
Ilmo
Tom Eldridge
W. A. Modgilin
Co. D. Matthews JV
Henry Bartlett
Sunset
Ruth Legrand
Mary Hogan
Gertrude Colley
Leonard Colley
Silkkes
Bennett Strack
Cletus Foster
Commerce
EK. B. Moore
Frank Merritt
Chamber of Commerce
Norma
John J. Glennon
H. H. Kendig
H. L. Smith
Geo. Dockins
W. C. Pattengill
Louis
Howard Ellsworth
Christie Schott
Lambert
N. F. Anderson
W. H. Holmes
Raymond Love-lace
Sam Potashnick
Bill Pratt
Melvin Lipe
W. FR. Carlton
Mark McCormick
O. J. Crandall
McCoy- Tanner
E. J. Cunningham
C. W. Vickery
I. C. Westerfield
Vandyser Gin Co
Vancuser
Local Directory Fragments Prompt Short Answer
A fragment from a directory note hints at questions about numbers. The readable text is limited and no clear fact beyond a prompt about numbers in the directory can be established.
Gift food packages to cost less says OPA plan
The Office of Price Administration states gift packages of food should cost somewhat less in retail stores this season under a new pricing method. No exact savings estimate was provided. OPA notes that under the old method some distributors charged prices higher than legally allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Also Mentioned on This Page
U. S
U.S
THE
Highway Patrol
Bulldogs
Sikeston, MO
Scott County
W. B. Smith
Fred Black
Louis Keesee
Edgar Gibson
Wells
Russell Deschamp
L. I. Denton
G. E. Tucker
J. C. Wylie
L. J. Lindeman
Louise Stephens
Opal Heisler
Martin Hillemann
E. J. Ross
Nolan Taylor
Diehlstadt
Albert Loose
Ela Summers
Alec Gudder
Ernest Kellett
Nora Couch
G. Q. Briggs
J. O. Reynolds
Vernon Kelly
Addie
Mattie Green
Fairground
Robert Jones
Lucille Rowland
Dologne
Stanley Hastings
W. T. Bell
Fletcher
W. H. Fowler
F. S. Rafferty
Floyd Matthews
John Eads
Crowe
John Eades
W. J. Cates
Garvin Collins
W. G. Etherton
S. A. Irvin
Sallie Layne Et al
H. D. Hood
Ulmo
Lacy Allard
T. F. Ellis
Martin Rahmoeller
O. F. Burns
Blumenberg
W. F. Baker
W. A. Williams
Williams
W. H. South
Cecil Jones
Elmer.Oliver
Joe Hawkins
W. W. Noland
Sol Dockins
Charles Kielhamner
L. W. Little
P. M. Ritchie
Ss. B. Hardwick
J. L. de Witt
Simpson Anderson
E. C. Graham
T. J. Evans
Joe Farris
Ben Phillips
Robert Scott
Jas. Belmar
Southeast Missouri Telephone Company
S. H.S
East Prairie
Firestone
Chevrolet
Mitchell-Sharp Chevrolet Co
Chevrolet Building
Center Street
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