The Daily Standard from Sikeston, Missouri • Page 15

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7, 1948 PAGE EIGHT SIKES70N, MISSOURI STANDARD, DAILY THE 3rd. Year in Sikeston 5th. Year in Blytheville It is with pleasure and satisfaction that Bakery looks back over its first five years in N. E. Ark.

and S. E. Mo. We are proud of the record of increased production we have achieved during this period and cf the growth of our business to its present importance as an industrial employer of the community. Figures best tell the story: Loaves Of Bread Baked Daily 1943 300 1944 1200 1945 2000 10,000 1947 615,000 NUMBER CF EMPLOYEES (Sikestcn and Blyiheviile) 1943 12 115 3rd.

Year in Sikeston 5Hi. Year in Blytheville THE MEN WHO BRING YOU HART'S BREAD Siar.dinq left to right: John C. McCrary, Ellis 3. Webb, Laurell Walter Waddy. Henry Hazel.

John Cook Glenn Mitchell J. W. Hartzog, W. G. Norman, Otto Tate, Kirk DukEdward Brown, W.

J. C. Simpson, Jack Henry, Jesse Ward, Harold Hamilton, Leon McGarrity and L. S. Hartzog.

Kneeling left to right: Yvon Burgess, Howard Chronister, Alford McCrory, Walter Lufcy, Thomas Gwcltney, Wilson Godwin and William James. In the large photo at upper right is shown the present staff of driver-salesmen vho deliver Bread daily in more 70 communities of Southeast Missouri Cr N. extending fiom Jackson and Cape Girardeau on the north to Osceola on the South and from Cairo on the east to Poplar Bluff and Walnut Ridge, Ark. on the west. It is a far cry from this large group of driver-salesmen to the staff of four with whom Blytheville bakery began in 1943, shown in the photo at lower left.

A portion of the Sikeston truck fleet is shown in the photo at lower ight, in the loading bay in front of new bakery near the Frisco railroad station. If is our hope to continue to serve the people of Southeast Missouri and N. E. Ark. for many years to come.

We are grateful for the appreciation ani acceptance shown our product, but we feel that such appreciation and acceptance would not hevC been given had the product not been of superior quality. The exfra twist given feature originated by Harts that quality that has made Dread a leader in its field..