- Mayor Ford, Kiwanis light up Capaha Park's diamond (4/16/24)1
- The rise and fall of Capaha Park's wooden grandstand (4/9/24)
- Death of Judge Pat Dyer, prosecutor of the famous peonage case here in 1906 (4/2/24)2
- A third steamer Cape Girardeau was christened 100 years ago (3/26/24)
- Cape Girardeau christens its namesake (3/19/24)
- The humanist philosophy of Lester Mondale (3/12/24)1
- Cape Osteopathic Hospital opens its doors (3/5/24)
1939 wheat harvest
A story about a wheat harvest in June 1939 caught my eye as I was collecting materials for the Out of the Past column.
Actually, it was the photographs that ran with the story -- unusual for that era -- that attracted my attention. I had seen them before among G.D. Fronabarger's unidentified images. Now, at last, two mysteries were solved. The third photo of three boys holding rabbits that was published with the article, however, has yet to be found among Frony's negatives.
Scenes like the above are common throughout the district this week as farmers harvest their 100,000-acre wheat crop. This photo was made on the Sam Neece farm, near Chaffee, while a combine was cutting and threshing a crop that is yielding 20 bushels per acre. Glenn Grindstaff is driving the tractor and Carl Skaggs is a tender on the combine. The combine is fast replacing the binder in this section.
It's a great satisfaction to the farmer to sit atop the wheat sacks in his truck as the golden grain of the annual wheat harvest is turned out by the modern combine. Above are shown Kelly Grantham, Charles Neece and L.D. Yount atop the sacks in a truck on the Sam Neece farm near Chaffee.
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