The SEMO District Fair, which closed Saturday, attracted 86,949 in its weeklong attendance; at Arena Park today, crews from Coglizer Tent and Awning Co. of Joplin, Missouri, are busy taking down tents and turning the fairgrounds back into a park.
The Jackson Board of Aldermen vote unanimously to reduce the amount of land they plan to annex from 2,400 acres to 909 acres; officials will focus on a 2,000-foot corridor along U.S. 61 totaling 909 miles.
Central High School students are caught between the morning rain and a bomb scare; an anonymous bomb ruse causes the school to be evacuated while authorities search the building; heavy rain drenches many pupils and teachers before they are allowed to return to the school.
SEMO District Fair workers struggle throughout the day to get the track in shape for the auto thrill show, after rains Thursday and this morning turned it into a sea of mud; the heavy turnout, combined with the wet grounds, leads to king-size traffic and parking problems.
Martha Ann Anderson, a daughter of Mrs. Virginia Anderson of Cape Girardeau, has been named "queen" to represent Cape Girardeau at the annual Sikeston (Missouri) Jubilee on Sept. 29 and 30; Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce will provide a float for the celebration's parade; it will be built by Al Huhn.
Art pieces and other Mexican objects owned by Girardeans are on display at the Teachers College museum in the new library; the display, organized by Mrs. B.C. Hardesty, illustrates a program on Mexico held by the local chapter of the PEO.
The first rock crusher, to prepare limestone for fertilizing purposes, was received in Oak Ridge this week; it was purchased by Wash Miller, John R. Jenkins, Burdette Crites, Watt Clippard, Frank Clippard and B. Clippard; the first experiment with the crusher will be watched with great interest by the most up-to-date farmers in the county.
Thomas Baird, the 12-year-old nephew of Dr. C.B. Ruff, has the misfortune of breaking both bones in his left arm between the wrist and elbow while playing in the gymnasium at the Normal School.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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