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THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1939 THE SIKESTON (MO.) HERALD PAGE THREE Gwendolyn of the community ia the guest of Mrs. Ida VUlars in Urbana, 111 Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ancell Cape Girardeau were guests Sun- day of Mr. and Mrs.

Ralph AncelL Franklin Moore and sister. Miss Henrietta, have returned home from a week's stay at Hot Springs. Ark. Mrs. W.

D. KeLso sustained a tonsUectomy Monday morning ai the office of Dr. Howard A. Dunaway here. Mrs.

Louis Ferrell and daughter, Miss Eva New-ton, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Searls at Caruthersville.

Sunday. Mrs. E. A. Lawrence went to Clayton.

Monday for a visit of two weeks with her granddaughter. Mrs. Carl Setz. and family. Joyce Woodney.

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Woodney of St. Louis, came Tuesday for a visit with Louise, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

A. M. Jackson. Mr. and Mrs.

Joe Marshall of Advance were dinner guests of Mrs. J. L. Tanner. Mrs.

Yount and Mrs. A. C. Barrett on Thursdav of last week Mr. and Mrs.

L. Allard Jr. and daughter. Patricia Ann. were guests of Mrs.

Allard's parents. Mr. and Mrs Sanders, in Poplar Bluff Saturday evening Mr. and Mrs. Ray King of Detroit.

and Mr. and Mrs. O. Phillips of Benton. 111., spent last week here with Mrs.

King's sister. Mrs. A. Smith, and children Mrs Teen Walker. Mrs.

Vemor. Caddis and Bill Watson attended funeral services held at Pt. Pleas ant. Sunday afternoon Lau.s. aged resident of that place.

Miss Evelyn Holmes, a of Mr and Mrs. H. M. Holmes suffering from an attack of aDDendicitis. has hern confined to he-.

home the pas; threi- weeks. Mrs. Horace Payne and a ters. Suzanne a i Caroline of Miami. are guests of her rnother.

Mrs I H. Dunaway. am; brother. Dr a a ar.u family. Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Ferrell of the Miner community have as their guests this weeks Mrs. Ferrell's sister. Mrs. Walter Beausau.

and children. Mary Jane and Tommy. of St. Louis. Mr.

and Mrs. Butler and daughter. Ann. of Peoria. Til came Sunday for a visit of two weeks with Mrs Butler's mother Mrs.

K. Bone, and sister. i Janice Whybark. Mr and Mi's. Sam Wheeler of Kennett were guests Sunday ot Dr.

and Mrs McMullin. Mr and Mrs. Wheeler formerly resided in Sikeston and operated a store on Malone avenue- Mr. and Mrs A A. Harrison and Miss Florence Snivel left for a 10-day trip to the East.

They will visit the World's Fair in New- York and other cities of interest during their vacation Miss Gustme Swanagon. chie operator for the Southeast Missouri Telephone Companj ID Sikeston. is on a two weeks' vacation. a part of which will be spent in St. Louis with friends.

Mrs. J. Hicks, who spent last week here with her husband, has returned to her home in Cairo Mr. Hicks is superintending construction of the new Coca-Cola Bottling Work's plant in Sikeston. Fannie Kruaa spent Sunday with friends at Chaffee.

W. A. Humphreys of Cape Girardeau was a business visitor', in Sikeston Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs.

C. C. Cummins and daughters visited relatives in Louis several days this week. Mr. and Mrs.

O. N. Watts were; guests last Sunday of their rela-' lives. Mr. and Mrs.

C. V. Sigler. at HaytL David Heitmann and family near South Bend, Ind-, were guests last Friday and Saturday of his uncle. J.

E. Robinson, and family. Norval Anderson is attending the World's Fair in New York, in company with Mr. and Mrs. J.

Killion and children of Portageville. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Holmes and son. Joe Ralph, of St.

Louis visited Mrs. Holmes' parents. Mr and Mrs. George Hawkins, here over the week-end. Mr.

and Mrs. C. L. Collins spent the first of this week in Cairo. 111., guests of the former's mother, Mrs.

Nettie Collins, and aunt. Mrs. Wm. Hutchinson. Miss Myra Tanner and Mrs Harold Hebbeler.

the later of Cape Girardeau. returned Wednesday from St. Louis, where they had been visiting and shopping for several days. Mrs G. M.

Fowler and daughters. Laurene and Deanna. returned Sunday from a week's outing on Current River near Doniphan Mr. Fowler spent the week-end with them and accompanied his a i home. Mrs.

Standley of Ironton. Mr and Mrs. Lloyd Standley and son. Tommy, and Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Echermer of St. Louis were guests of their son and brother. L. M. Standley.

and family during the past week-end. Mrs. James Gossett and Miss Alice Daugherty will leave tomorrow to spend the week-end 1:1 Memphis with the former's daughter. Miss Ozella Gossett. who is employed as stenographer ir: larsre drus: house there.

Mrs. F. D. Lair of Sikeston. i Karl of Boyle.

and Lucille Hewlett of Charleston Tuesday for a weeks' of the Xew England states. They will also visit the World's Fair in Xew York during their tour Mr. and Mrs. George Kirk entertained at i Wednesdav night Rev. and Mrs Drear, the latter's mother.

Mrs Octavia Boles, and Rev. and Mrs. P. A Casey of Maiden and and Mrs. John L.

Taylor of Sikeston. Dr. and Mrs. H. E.

Reuber expect to leave the first of the week for a visit with the latter's relatives in S. Paul. Minn. If present plans carry- they will also spend a part of their three vacation in the Black HilN of South Dakota Miss Edna Hedden. who is ploved by the Southern Baptist Board in St Louis, is the guest of her parents.

Mr. and Mrs Ernest Hedden. On Saturday Miss Hedden will go to Atlanta. to a tend the Baptist World's Alliance, which will be in session for a Mrs. Jos Matthews spent yesterday and today in St.

Louis. She was accompanied to the city Wednesday by her son. Jos L. Jr who went on to Chicago for a week's visit in the home of Miss Gracia Tuttle. He will join his parents at Camp Franklin.

Woodruff. Wisconsin. July 29. for a stay of several weeks. Others in the Matthews party who will be at Camp Franklin are Mr.

and Mrs. Iyyman Bowman and son. Ben. Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Harty and daughter. Miss Eleanor, and Mr and Mrs. Leo Fisher of Maiden Mrs. R. A.

Moore was the guest of friends in Memphis one day last week. Emma Grojean of University City is the guest of her sister. Mrs. Jean Hirschberg. and family.

Miss Dessie Hydricks. who is employed in Poplar Bluff, visited friends and relatives here during the week-end. Margaret Ann White is the guest of her cousin. Josephine Sherwood, at Dexter this She was the guest of honor at a party given at the Sherwood home yesterday- Mrs. Mollie Harper, who had' been receiving medical treatment at St.

Francis Hospital in Cape! Girardeau. was released last Sat: urday and is now at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Clarence Vogel-! sang, at the Cape. Henry Williams, who is spending this month working in i orchards of Michigan, writes home that there is a prolific crop of ap- pies in Michigan this year and i many thousand people are finding employment in them.

Mr. and Mrs. Hans H. Baasch and daughter. Anna, left Tuesday for Indianapolis.

where Mr. Baasch is transacting business this week. From Indianapolis they will go to Wisconsin for a visit with relatives ant! friends Mr and Mrs Eugene Kin dred and children. Larry and Joy. and the former's mother.

Mrs. Kindred, returned thLs week from a ten-day trip to Fort Pierce. Florida, to visit Eugene's brother Tom J. Kindred, and family. D.

Kellev and his parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Kellev. of East Al ton. drove to Sikeston last Sunday and accompanied home the former's wife, who had been 1 spending ten days here i her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

H. Wood Mrs. Jas Wallace a major operation at St a i Hospital in Rochester. i July 13. from which she is said be r-ecovering satisfactorily Mr Wallace, who to Rocheste: last week, "-i-tui-ned boiv night.

Miss i a brought to her home here from St Mary's I i a Cairo, where she recently i i -i successful a Her mother. Mrs W. Holhngs- worth. who had been i her in Cairo, accompanied her home Mrs. Lee McDougal has been released from the Colonial Hospita 1 in Rochester.

i i a surgical operation, anil is nov convalescing at the Canton there If her condition continues to improve she will be brought to her home in Sikeston next J. L. Jefferies. brother of Mrs. McDougal.

and her niece. Miss Mary Lee Jeff lies, of Dexter are ii 1 Rochester this week i Betty and Bobby Deneke. children of Mr. and Mrs. E.

F. Deneke. have returned from a visit with relatives in Cape Girardeau. Betty visited her grandparents. Mr.

and Mrs. Harrison Lufcy. and Bobby was the guest of Mr. arid Mrs. Cnas.

McNeill of near Cape Girardeau. Mrs. L. E. Mitchell of Slater, who was the guest of Miss Ruth McCoy here last week, re-1 turned to her home last Sunday i She is the former Miss Glen Hos-' kins, daughter of Mr, and Mrs.

i Walter Hoskins. now of Slater, but for several years residents of Sikeston. Mr. and Mrs. Woolard i daughters.

Florence Ar.r. a Charlotte. of Memphis guests of Mrs. Baker's parents Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. Dover. oth- er relatives here Sunday All but Florence Ann. who remained for a visit of three weeks, returned to; Memphis Sunday night.

i Mr. and Mrs. Gene Aiifdenberg: left Tuesday for a visit with friends in Jefferson City They i will also spend sometime at Bag nell Dam and Big Spring before returning home Friday. During their absence their wil! be guests of their grandparents. Mr.

and Mrs. H. A. Aiifderibeii; in Cape Girardeau. Misses Lucille Mount O'Hara.

Electa Shankle Lou Schroff and Billy Shar.kle Wednesday for New York, they will visit the WorKi's They will also make a to.ir into Canada and Maine i Niagara. Falls arui places of interest before r-'mrrunt: to Sikeston in two week-E. P. Coleman has from Cody. New Brunsv.

Canada, where he and Mrs. Coleman went a month ago and Mrs Coleman will remain for a-i a i tional month with her mother. Mrs E. Hetherington. sister.

Mrs. McClure. i dren, at Mrs. Hetherip.gtt::': sum mer home. route to I and Mrs.

Coleman stopped i a few davs in Boston, Mi Coleman a the a a i union of his class in a a I'niversity Grover Baker. Frank Home and son. Bill, and H. Jr returned home hist Sunday i a Southern trip i i i i .1 few days spent at cotton niental farms and ginning tories at Stoneville. Miss They also visited Mr Baker's d.u:i;htet.

Mrs. James Malone. and husband at New Orleans. Other visited included Natchez. Baton Rouge.

Mobile Ala and Pensacola. Florida They were among several other east Missourians who a a meeting of cotton growers at experimental cotton fields ir. Mississippi Mrs. Gale Hoffman and Azalee Edwards have returned from a visit of ten days with relatives in Dupo. m.

Mrs. Wm. Northington was hostess to members of her club at a luncheon given Wednesday at her' home on North Kingshighway. Mrs. O.

N. Aby and son. Norris. of Jackson. visited their husband and father in Sikeston, this week.

Mr. Aby. representative for a meat company, has head; quarters in Sikeston. Miss Dorena Leigh, who a been a patient at St. Mary's Infirmary.

Cairo. 111., for the past week, was returned to her home near here in the Arden Ellise ambulance Monday. Miss Leigh has been suffering with arthritis for the past three weeks. Mrs. Chas.

Stearns was called to Johnston City. 111., last Friday on account of the illness of her sister. Mrs. Edgar Rodeck. whose condition is now improved.

Mr Stearns went to Johnston City on Sunday and accompanied his wife and sons. Billy and Bobby, home Another sister. Mrs. Chas. Pinnell.

of Blytheville and husband also went to Illinois Sunday to be with Mrs. Rodeck. Mr. and Mrs. E.

F. Mouser re- turned home Saturday from a visit with their daughter. Mrs. Dodson. and family in Mo.

They also spent a day at the uncompleted Washington State Park near DeSoto and several days at Big Spring near Buren. During the former's absence from his duties as manager of the Kroger Store on Malone avenue. Harold Wallace was in charge Mr. and Mrs Jack Lancaster. Mr.

and Mrs. L. M. Hollenbeck. Mr.

and Mrs Ted Kirby and Mr. and Mrs Ralph Potashnick among the many Southeast Missourians who spent Saturday night and Sunday on an outing near Current River Mr and Mrs. C. L. Malone joined the party and spent the day i them Mrs A McDougal.

had been in Rochester. Minn for weeks i her i i a M-s Lee McDougal. home 0:1 Sunday She a accompanied by her husband and brother-in-law Lee McDougal. who to Rochester last week to visit trv latter's i and to a a Mrs A McDougal home. Mr.

and Mrs Ray Oliver and sons. Tommy and Buddy, of Winston Salem. North Carolina, were guests of fnends here Tuesday They were residents of Sikeston some years ago when Mr Oliver was employed in the office of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company They aie spending a few- days with Mrs. Oliver's biother. Dale Blankenship.

at Dexter, a i they will i on a .1 a i i to Mexico Citv SIKESTON GIKL WEDS AJIMY LIEUTENANT i Announcement has been made of the wedding of Miss Inez Chambers of Sikeston and Lieut. Kiah Harper of Fort Riley. Kansas, which occurred in Columbia, on July 7. Dr. Lemons, pastor of the Christian church in Columbia.

was the officiating minister. Mrs. Harper, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chambers of Sikeston.

is a graduate of the East Prairie high school. the family having been residents there before coming to Sikeston. Lieutenant Harper, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Harper of East Prairie, is a graduate of Missouri University.

Columbia, and at present is located at Fort Riley. Kansas. SIKESTON WOMAN WAS MARRIED SATURDAY There are nearly 500 Laboratories allied with the automobOa industry, engaged in trying to ftarf ways of making the automobile better and safer. MALONE A Sikeston Missouri COOLEST PLACE IN TOWN Mrs. Susie Walden of Sikeston and Rev.

W. A. Humphreys, superannuated Methodist minister of Cape Girardeau. were married on Saturday night. July 15.

at the home of Rev. J. C. Montgomery of Jackson, the officiating minis ter. They will make their homt in Cape Girardeau.

where Rev. Humphreys is engaged in the insurance business. Mrs. Humphreys lived for a number of years at Morehouse but for the past few years has made her home in Sikeston. Thinly sliced bread, spread with cheese and rolled, makes dainty tidbits to serve with fruit or vegetable salads Toast the tiny rolls just before serving and bring them to the table hot PROGRAM JULY 20 TO 27 INCLUSIVE THURSDAY.

JULY 20 BASIL RATHBONE DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR. News Comedy FRIDAY. JULY 21 MORGAN'S ONE-HORSE COAL COMPANY Special On Coal $3.25 TON In Five-Ton Lots Single-Ton Lots $3.75 ton Telephone 719 AFTERNOON SHOW: Children lOc. Adults 16c NIGHT SHOW: Children Adults 26c News Comedy SATURDAY. JULY 22 Here's How To Look and Feel Perfectly Fresh You'll find that it's easy! Just send all your clothes to NuWay.

There your clothes are perfectly cleaned by special processes developed for summer clothes. Prices are moderate. Send your whole wardrobe. Telephone for immediate pick-up service now! Complete Family--Household Services Pick-Up Service Just Telephone 705 NuWay Cleaners LOOMIS MAYFIELD, Prop. ASK ABOUT OUR LAY-AWAY PLAN WIN A BLANKET HEKE'S CAN I Set" the larjje block of ice i HUinket frozen in renter.

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6 CARTOON" SUNDAY MONDAY JULY 23 ujid 2t 'Man About Town' JACK BENNEY DOROTHY LAMOUK News Comedy TUESDAY. JULY A RNGDYNA Lamvirr OLIVIER Moths can't haxrn this big long-wearing blanket, it's mothproofed! Sturdy close weave, with a thick resilient nap. In good- looking mottled colors with smart striped borders. Long wearing! Size A real bargain! Last Year's Price, Part Wool PAIRS $198 Larger! JJ) Heavier! M. Pair An astonishing saving! They're extra size, extra weight and not less than wool! Plaids in beau- i colors with 4-inch bindin You sateen Won't want to miss these! Size A i i (loiids Over Europe wirti RALPH IKHAiDSOM csur A COLUMRU FAL NUiHT ot Short A AND THl KSD VY :6 and '27 AT LAST ON THE SCREEN! News Comedy NEWSPAPER!.

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Years Available:
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