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PAGE FOUR THE SIKESTON (MO.) HERALD THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1941 The Sikeston Herald CLINT H. DENMAN Publisher Ward Deiuiiaii, Assistant Twenty-Five Years Ago PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY In 1916, as the year came to a close, The Sikeston Herald re- i corded the following news items: i A two-day strike by the roundhouse and yard men at Fornfelt the latter part of last week re- At 119 West Malone Sikeston, Missouri Telephone 1240 Yearly Subscription Rates: Scott and Adjoining Counties, $1.50. Elsewhere, $2.00 Terms, Strictly in Advance. Entered as second-class matter March 9, 1908, at the post office at Sikeston, Missouri, under the ITM 1 TM" race I n'Viinn nA- Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. SIKESTON WILL NOT FAIL Avenue suited in the men getting a desired raise in wages from $1.40 to $1.75 per day.

C. F. Bruton was chosen president of the Sikeston Commercial Club at its reorganization meeting held Monday night. R. F.

Anderson is secretary of the new group. The motor car has become such an essential part of life that seasonal changes no longer operate as hinderances. Motoring at all times healthful, is particularly invigorating in the cold and cooler seasons, and due to the fact that so many take advantage of the motor car's benefits, Americans are becoming each year a hat "softness" of which we hear so much is a fiction, and the motor car has made it so The good people of Sikeston Tvmit Years Ago Dec 23, 1921: are going to open their homes Christmas day to the cadets at i Walter E. Derris presented the the Sikeston Air School by en-1 teachers and pupils of the public A I I tertaining trlem at their noonday Christmas dinner. Already many homes have been listed, but there is need for more.

Surely in these days of needed generosity toward those who are serving or soon will be serving in our armed forces there is need that those away from home should have some home care at Christmas time. Every cadet at the air school will be offered a Christmas dinner in some Sikeston home. It must be done. IN AIR RAIDS Elsewhere in this issue of The Herald is published in full-page space the Government's advice on what to do in case of air raids. This space is contributed by The Herald at the suggestion of Mayor F.

L. LaGuardia of New- York, director of the United States Office of Civilian Defense. It is urged that this page be preserved and read repeatedly in order that readers may quickly recall what to do if and when air raids come--and they may come. The Herald will give space, from time to time, to other information concerning the. Government's plans for defense.

schools with a handsome victrola yesterday morning This is a regular school instrument with a large horn. On the evening of January 2, at the Hotel Marshall, the members of the Sikeston Woman's Club will give a reception to the members of the Sikeston Chamber of Commerce. Jack Bowman and Charles Matthews came home Wednesday from Western Military Academy in Alton, 111., to spend the holidays. Johnnie Welter, who is attending school at Clayton, came home yesterday to spend the Christmas holidays. Saturday evening a surprise party was given in Sikeston by the employees of the State Highway Department in the Sixth Division, complimentary to M.

S. Murray, division engineer. WE SERVE IN OUR FIELD The Herald, like other small- city newspapers, will be unable to give lengthly and detailed news of the war, such as is being given daily by the large metropolitan papers. But a summary of events in the war zones will be given each week by The Herald and every effort will be made to cooperate with our State and Federal Government in publishing such news as they expect us to publish and to refrain from publishing what is not But The Herald will continue, as in the past, to serve this community as a local newspaper, to present, in our news columns, each week a word picture of the community and the activities of its people. This has always been our mission, and it will so continue.

MOItEHOUSE W. C. T. U. HONORED OLDER WOMEN MORBHOUSE, Dec.

week members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union at Morehouse entertained the older women residents with a Christmas party at the home of Mrs. F. B. Rauch. The rooms were prettily with home- i grown holly, Christmas bells and wreaths.

The dining table, with I its lace cloth, was beautifully decorated with a small Christmas tree, trimmed with tinsel and colored lights and under the tree were fifty wrappings. gifts The in attractive entertainment DEFENSE COMMITTEE HELD INITIAL -MEETING Following receipt of instructions from Committee, the State Defense the Local Defense Fifteen Years Ago--Dec. 23, 1926: Miss Lillian Bone of Monroe, arrived home Sunday to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

R. Bone. Congressman R. E. Bailey came in Tuesday morning from Washington, D.

C. His daughter, Honora, who has been studying voice in Philadelphia, accompanied him home for the holidays. The municipal Christmas tree arrived last Friday and was erected in Railroad Park on Saturday. Ten Years Ago--Dec. 17, 1931: The lowest temperature recorded during the past week was 25 degrees, recorded yesterday, while the highest temperature, that of 76 degrees, was recorded Friday.

Plans are being made to reopen the first National Bank at Chaffee, which closed November 28. Committee, recently appointed by Mayor G. W. H. Presnell, will organize a working unit to function in Sikeston in accordance with defense measures which will be prevalent throughtout the State.

F. E. Mount, chairman of the Local Defense Committee, presided at a meeting in the library auditorium last night at which representatives of various service clubs and civic organizations were present to discuss plans for local defense. Serving with Mr. Mount on the committee will be the following who were recently appointed by Mayor Presnell, the honorary chairman: W.

H. Sikes, Grover Baker, E. P. Coleman H. L.

Harty. Loomis Mayfield, Jas. S. Kevil, Earl Allen, LeRoy Heisserer, E. F.

Schorle and Charles Dement. All local -defense council members in the State have been asked to attend meetings to be held next Tuesday in each of the 10 highway divisions of the State. The first step, that of selecting a strong representative volunteer committee, has been taken by Sikeston. and organization will follow the meeting to be held Tuesday. BOBBY BYRNE BAND FOR HOLIDAY DANCE Bobby Byrne and hLs 15-piece orchestra will play for the holi- dance to be given at the Sikeston Armory under the auspices of the Junior Chamber of Commerce on Saturday night, December 27.

The Bobby Byrne orchestra, one of the outstanding orchestras in the nation, appeared on the Raleigh cigaret program which was broadcast over NBC. A feature article about the orchestra also appeared in November 1 issue of Collier's Magazine. In addition the orchestra has recorded twelve features with the Decca Record Co. and is currently on tour broadcasting over CBS. See or call George Hale Jr.

for table reservations, telephone No. 686. program included readings and games and stories told by various guests present. Nine women, all past 70 years of age, were honored by being allowed to choose their gifts first, after which others came for their gifts. The refreshments were delicious and were in keeping with Christmas.

Those who enjoyed the party were Mrs. J. F. Grant, Piedmont; Mrs. L.

H. Blackby and son, Donnie 'Gene, Grape Vine, and Mesdames Rockanna Howard, Etta Chambers, Liza Stokes, Mary Frances, Maggie Sherrard, Josie Keeling, Lena Wofford, Zora Brown, Fred Shipman, Erma Ray, W. H. Neal, Margaret Spence, Gallic Crosno, Eva Laminack, J. W.

McNabb, Ida Cornell, Jessie Cowell, J. W. Owings, Lenna Hellem, Martha Peoples, Alice Faris, H. J. Richardson, Pearl Edwards, Artie Cassie, Martha Esmon, Frances Barnett, Eva Spence, Nora Spence, Cora Rauch, I.

A. Graham, Mary W. M. Mathis, Ernie Myrdoc, Otilla Headlee, Bertha Savage, J. W.

Murphy, F. W. Leming, Ellen Ray, Ida Parrish, C. A. Brown and Harry Dillon and Miss Marie Rauch of Morehouse.

Canalou Girl Bride of Morehouse Man. Miss Naomi Muffett of Can- NEWS FROM SIKESTON GENERAL HOSPITAL Medical patients admitted to the hospital last week were Mrs. John F. Wood, who is seriously ill with pneumonia, W. F.

Lair, instructor at the Missouri Institute of Aeronautics, and Mrs. Ruby Spencer of Matthews. Mrs. John Peters of Bertrand and C. J.

McFarland of Morehouse were admitted for observation and Simeon Sturgeon, of near Sikeston, was treated for injuries received when he was struck by a car. The injuries included lacerations on his head and a broken right leg. Doyle Heckert of Bertrand and Jim Flanigan of Kewanee were released and taken to their homes in the Taylor ambulance. AMERICAN FORCES HOLD IN PHILIPPINES (Continued from Page One) J. Roberts, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court; Rear Admiral Joseph M.

Reeves, retired, former commander-in-chief of the United States fleet; Frank R. McCoy, retired; Jos P. McNarney of the Army Air Corps, and Rear Admiral Wm. H. Standley, retired, former chief of naval operations.

The assignment of this board is virtually without precedent, although its procedure is clearly set by law. In many respects it is like a grand jury, with powers to study and recommend but not to discipline. Hong Kong Pressed. Hong Kong, meantime, yesterday rejected a second Japanese overture for its surrender. The first Japanese ultimatum to the besieged Chinese city was issued last Saturday.

War with Russia. And on the other side of the world, Russian Army troops are reported officially to have thrown the Germans back almost 100 miles beyond Moscow in a 16-day winter offensive to lift the sieges GIVE I Gifts He'll Appreciate FOUND AT SHAINBERG'S alou and Glen Rodgers of More- of Leningrad in the north and house were united in marriage Sevastopol in the south. Adolf TT4 T-ii 4-QTi i-r-nnrtc? t-a COUNTY AGENT GIVEN HONORS AT COLUMBIA THE ENEMY WITHIN OUR GATES. The Missouri State Highway Department makes the timely suggestion that Missourians. in- Five Years Ago--Dec.

17, 1936: The State Highway Department officials here report that the plans for the beautification of Highway 61, both north and south, is being disrupted and the work already completed damaged by the theft of evergreens planted along the highway. It is supposed that the evergreens are being stolen to be used as Christmas trees. The lowest temperature recorded this week was 19 degrees. Miss Anne Sillers. Home Demonstration Agent for New Madrid county, was signally honored at the Annual Extension Conference at Columbia last week by being elected president of the Missouri Chapter of Epsilon Sigma PHi.

National Extension Agent's fraternity. Only agents who have been in Extension work for ten years or longer are ili.gible -to membership in the fraternity. RITES FOR L. CULP TO BE HELD TOMORROW tent on an "all out" for democ-1 on Saturday night, December 12, and the week's high was 59 degrees, recorded on both Tuesday and Wednesday. A ceremony of interest to many Sikeston friends will take at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon, December 20, when Miss Mayme Jean Wilbur will become the bride of Elmer Poage.

racy, must not forget another first line of defense--that of saving lives on our own streets and highways. Americans were fiery over the incident at Pearl Harbor December 7. It is right they should. Likewise, it is time for red-blooded persons to become excited over the unwarranted loss of life in automobile accidents. This accident problem of ours Funeral services will be held at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon at the Baptist church for L.

W. Gulp, resident of Sikeston for the past 40 years, who died at Benton yesterday from the effects of a paralytic stroke sustained last Monday. The body was brought to the lome of his granddaughter, Mrs. Sid Schillig, today. Funeral ser- ices will be conducted by Rev.

E. D. Owen, pastor of the church. Interment will be made in the Cemeteiy. Mr.

Gulp was bom in Kentucky, January 29, 1861. He was united marriage fifty years ago to Miss Fannie Bryant, who pre- La.st Year--December 19, 1940: Four officers and enlisted men is getting entirely "out of hand." TM U1 0 of Company K. 140th Regiment of By the end of the year, accord-! ing to the National Safety Coun- Infantrv a 20 members of the cil, 40,000 persons will have been killed into auto accidents. Missouri, too. is going to have at least a 25 rise in fatalities.

National Guard of the United States will be mobilized here Monday, December 23, on the first peace-time Day." The lives of these were I a mcetin of th Home Guarc held the Armory here las important. We need the mustered effort of every man, woman and child. We need their help to fight and keep the national spirit. These persons might have fill- at the Baptist church at Canalou at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Rev.

Allie Sullivan, Morehouse minister, performed the ceremony. The bride was dressed in blue velvet with accessories to match. Her corsage was of pink flowers. Miss Mildred Dockins of Sikeston, the bride's attendant, was dressed in pink and wore a yellow corsage. Raymond Robinson of Morehouse, who was on furlough 'from Camp Robinson, was the groom's attendant.

A supper was held, following the ceremony, at the home' of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Muffett. Friends from Morehouse who attended the wedding were: Mr. and Mrs.

Estelle Rodgers and daughter, Louise, Mrs. Robley Rodgers and Mrs. G. Rodgers. The couple will makes their home at Morehouse, where the groom is employed.

Other Morehouse News. R. B. Miller, who died at her! Dcrcy Brown transacted busi- Hitler's frost-bitten troops are reported to be retreating "as fast as they can," with the severe Russian winter having proved a deadly foe. ATTENDED RITES HELD IN TEXAS FOR SISTER Miss Ruth McCoy, who has been employed for the past several months in Jefferson City, returned to her home here last Friday.

Her mother, Mrs. Dan McCoy, who has been receiving treatment at St. John's Hospital in St. Louis, will return home tomorrow'. SHIRTS $1.65 $1.98 --By Shirtcraft Other Good Makes $1.25 Headquarters for Manhattan Shirts Professional Cards LAW Dr.

H. M. Kendig returned homa today from Hereford, Texas, where he had been called because of the death of a half-sister, Mrs. home there last Saturday of a complication of diseases. Mrs, Miller, who was aged 43 years, had visited Dr.

Kendig and his family here on several occasions and was known to several Sikeston friends. WHY GERMANS ARE CALLED "IIEINIES" ceded her husband in death sev- called smart "Why are Germans "Heinies?" asked one school boy of another. The second smart boy aptly eral years ago. Before his re-1 replied, "It's because that is the tirement, because of ill Mr. Gulp was an employee of the Scott County Milling Co.

The survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Henry Smith of Sikeston and Mrs. Mary Ferguson of Farmington; one son, Hollis Clup of Sikeston, and three step-sons, J. N. and Jeff Nickell all of Sikeston.

Lyman Nickell, a grandson whom he reared, and nineteen other grandchildren also survive. oich onl sid of the Germans which health. the Russians have seen NEW ARRIVALS Mrs. F. A.

Wright and daughter, Miss Mildred, of Portagevillc were guests Tuesday of the former's brother, Tom Gardner Later they went to Cape Girar- to visit their sister, Mrs Mary Gardner, of Lilbourn, who is receiving treatment at St Francis Hospital. Mrs. Gardner fell in her home Monday and broke her right leg. night, Loomis Mayfield was elected captain of the new protective group. Five hundred farmer-friends of ed another army training center- thc Sikeston Tractor and Imple- Wce our own Fort Leonard Wood, i mcnt Com PTMy cre in Sikeston Tuesday to attend the fifth annual farmers' day, sponsored by the John Deere agency.

Or they might have meant two or three defense plants. Or stout-hearted defenders, or planes or guns. Who knows? Keep this thought in mind when you start to step on the gas a little too hard, or when you are tempted to take a foolish chance. Secretary of War Stimson urges the House military committee to approve promptly far-reaching extensions of the draft act to provide a "great pool of men" to meet any eventuality. He asked for registration of all men from Loomis Mayfiolfl Joan 18 to 6'J, inclusive, and make men K'ein.

Floyd A. Virgil from 19 to liable for military Vaughn and G. B. Grcor. students i duty.

Brig. Gen. Lewis B. Her- Help lives. do your part by saving Mr.

and Mrs. Edwin R. Schrader are the parents of a son, Eddie Ray. born last Friday at St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

Peggy Sue is the name given to thc daughter bom December 11 to Mr. and Mrs. Ragain Harris of Oran at the Sikeston General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs.

Harold Cox are thc parents of a son, James Allen, bom December 14 at the Sikeston General Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kappler Jr. are the parents of a daughter, Andrea, Ellen, born at their home here December 11.

Melbn Fay is the name given the daughter, born to Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Houser of Matthews December 16.

More than 50,000 horses are in use in London since the restrictions on gasoline were imposed due to the war. Announce your baby's birth Beautiful announcement cards a The Herald office. Mr. and Mrs. Ike Jenkins of at Missouri University.

Columrvi. shey, selective service director, will be here Friday to spend the; said that it was probable men near Sikeston are the parents of holidays with their respective; from 21 to 15 would be called be- a son, Carroll Dean, born at their parents. fore those aged from 19 to 21. (home December 13. BAILEY BADLEY Attorneys-at-Law Phone 254 Room 206 McCoy-Tanner Bldg.

SIKESTON, MO. ness at Charleston Monday. Mrs. Dan Mocabee shopped in 'ape Girardeau last Friday. Mrs.

Dorcy Brown and Mrs. Harry Dillon spent Monday shopping in Sikeston. Mr. and Mrs. John Inman of Sikeston were guests of Mr.

and VTrs. Ed Buser Sunday. Herbert Sliger. Earl Cheats ind Lee Hileman attended the Odd Fellows' meeting held at Dexter Monday night. Mrs.

Huley Williams and children, Ann and John, went to Houston, Texas, last week, where they are visiting her sister, Mrs. Thelma Mocabee. Bill Dillon. Kinnard Dillon. Thomas Sheeter and Lloyd Cox attended a Masonic meeting held in Mayfield.

Monday night, where five candidates were given the degree work. The Morehouse Eastern Star chapter initiated two new members Tuesday night who were Mrs. Rosie Previtt and Neil C. Aslin, the latter of Canalou. Plans were made for a joint installation with the Masons to be held on Monday, January 5.

After the initiation the members adjourned to the dining hall, where refreshments, in keeping with Christmas, were held. GEORGE W. KIRK Attorney and Counsellor Applegate Bldg. Phone 32 SIKESTON, MO. ROBERT A.

DEMPSTER Attorney-at-Law 226-227 McCoy-Tanner Building Telephone 43 SIKESTON, MO. MEDICINE DR. E. J. NTENSTEDT 112a Front Street Day Phone 135 Night Phone 135 SIKESTON, MO.

DR. MERLIN G. ANDERSON Physician and Surgeon Derris-Malcolm Building Phones: Office, 830; Residence, 831 Office hours: 8 to 12; 1 to 6 By appointment, 7 to 8 SIKESTON, MO. An ox has only one-half the carrying power of a camel. STOKER COAL We've Got It! JEWELL Coal Yard Phone 69 i Coal, Quality, Service The Sikeston Herald DR.

HOWARD A. DUNAWAY Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Office in McCoy-Tanner Building Telephone 606 SIKESTON, MO. OSTEOPATHY DR. B. L.

McMULLIN Osteopathic Physician Specializing in the treatment of Hemorrhoids (Piles), and other Colon Diseases. Phone 562 Home Phone 265 Office in Stallcup Building SIKESTON, MO. DR. F. L.

SISSON The Chiropractor X-ray, Neuromcter PHONE 626 20,3 North Kingshighway $3.98 $5.00 --By Manhattan $1.65 $3.98 --By Shirtcraft Wembley Nor'east Ties $1.00 Handkerchiefs 4 --By Manhattan --By Munsingwear Parkway Robe $1.98 $2.98 $3.98 $4.98 $5.98 $6.98 Bill Folds 98c $1.50 and $1.98 Military Sets 98c $1.50 $1.98 $2.98 HOUSE SLIPPERS MALLORY HATS GLOVES SWEATERS JACKETS OF ALL KINDS SHAINBERG'S i SHOP OUR WINDOWS OPTOMETRY DR. W. M. SIDWELL Optomctrist Office in McCoy-Tanner Building Telephone 606 SIKESTON, MO. TAKE YOUR CHANGE IN DEFENSE STAMPS EWSPAPERt NEWSPAPER!.