- -30- then and now (8/22/18)2
- Meet Mable at Mable's Cafe in Chaffee (8/20/18)
- Willow Grove Rockets Skate Club (8/15/18)
- Central Municipal Pool built in 1979 (8/13/18)
- Hecht's Store founder returns to Main street (8/8/18)
- Land acquired to build SEMO Port (8/6/18)
- St. Vincent's Seminary ends after 136 years (8/1/18)1
These turkeys are being shipped for holiday market by Clyde Whaley of Sedgewickville, probably in the 1950s. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)
Read about the turkey business in Sedgewickville in this previous blog.
Out of the Past, Feb. 21, 1949
Cape Girardeau County's $750,000 annual poultry industry was given once-over here Wednesday by 400 farmers and their wives who attended second annual Poultry Improvement Day under sponsorship of county extension office and Jackson Chamber of Commerce; meeting was held in grade school; one of highlights of day was exhibition of turkey tom weighing 39 pounds; it was owned by Clyde Whaley, assessor of Bollinger County.
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