Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President and Mrs. Conant will be at home and glad to see all men who are students in the University at the President's House, 17 Quincy Street, on Sunday, February 26, from town be six o'clock...
...moderate position which the University took this year was regarded as a further concession to "town and gown" harmony...
Sikeston's "Pole Cat" is Editor Charles Blanton himself, a salty, 75-year-old veteran of small-town journalism whose son Henry is Federal District Attorney in St. Louis, whose daughter, Catherine, is Senator Pat Harrison's secretary in Washington. Incensed by the Negro sharecroppers who camped alongside a road in nearby New Madrid County last month, "The Pole Cat" backed up and let fly as follows: "The question was asked if the babies and small children in the exodus to the roadsides had milk to drink, and was answered by an onlooker that the only milk given...
...Publisher Anderson repeatedly urges his cattle-raising readers to go in for purebred stock and baits the power company for lower electric rates. He has lately installed a one-man photographic and engraving department that feeds his papers shots of local rabbit hunters, sorority initiations, farmers' wives in town to buy perfume. Best-played stories of a typical recent week in the Anderson papers: annual Chamber of Commerce meeting, opening of two new hosiery mills, the tale of a city girl who came to town, scratched her neck with a razor for unrequited love, was arrested as a drunk...
...Leon County, Editor Robinson takes off his shirt, deserts his type cases and rusticates along the river-bottoms. Returning from such" a vacation last year he scared the day lights out of most of Jewett with accounts of a mythical half-beast, half-man he had encountered. Sample Robinson "Town Note": "Some more mules and wagons in Jewett Saturday afternoon and not many cars, a little money floating around among such men as Profs. Travis Shepherd and J. A. Humphrey...