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Feb. 27 , 1942 PARAGOULD , DAILY PRESS

MRS. SETTA JOSEPH

MRS. JOSEPH DIES AT HOME OF HER NIECE

WAS WIDOW OF THE LATE S.L. JOSEPH , PIONEER MERCHANT OF PARAGOULD

HAD RESIDED IN THIS CITY MOST OF HER LIFE

MRS. SETTA JOSEPH , AGED 77 , DIED LAST MIDNIGHT AT THE HOME OF HER NIECE AND ADOPTED DAUGHTER , MRS. SELMA JOSEPH KAUFMANN , IN NEW YORK CITY FOLLOWING AN ILLNESS DUE TO HEART TROUBLE . SHE HAD BEEN IN A COMA SINCE MONDAY , IT WAS STATED.

A NATIVE OF GERMANY , MRS. JOSEPH MOVED TO GAINESVILLE WITH HER HUSBAND SHORTLY AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE IN ST. LOUIS AND LATER MOVED THEIR STORE TO PARAGOULD DURING THE EARLY DAYS OF THE TOWN , NEARLY 60 YEARS AGO.

MR. JOSEPH DIED IN 1912 . MRS. JOSEPH , WHO HAD BEEN IN NEW YORK CITY WITH MRS. KAUFMANN FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS HAD CONTINUED TO CALL PARAGOULD HER HOME . SHE OWNED CONSIDERABLE PROPERTY IN PARAGOULD.

THE LATE MR. JOSEPH BUILT UP QUITE A LARGE MERCANTILE BUSINESS IN PARAGOULD , HIS ENTERPRISE DEVELOPING INTO A DEPARTMENT STORE , KNOWN AS THE S.L. JOSEPH MERCANTILE COMPANY , IN THE SAME LOCATION AS THE PRESENT STORE . UNDER MR. JOSEPH'S DIRECTION AND SUBSEQUENT MANAGEMENT UNTIL LIQUIDATED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, IT WAS RECOGNIZED AS ONE OF THE FOREMOST MERCANTILE ESTABLISHMENTS OF NORTHEAST ARKANSAS .

FUNERAL SERVICES AND BURIAL WILL BE CONDUCTED AT ST. LOUIS EITHER SUNDAY OR MONDAY , BUT ARRANGEMENTS HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETED.

SURVING IS ONE BROTHER , HENRY GOLDMAN OF HEBER SPRINGS , ARK. , HER NIECE , MRS. KAUFMANN WHOM SHE REARED FROM THE AGE OF TWO AND A NEPHEW , ALVIN SAMUEL , OF PARAGOULD , WHOM SHE REARED FROM THE AGE OF FOUR.

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Feb. 27 , 1942 PARAGOULD , DAILY PRESS

KELLY HERREN

SUFFOCATES AT N. LITTLE ROCK

PARAGOULD MAN WAS ON STUDENT RUN AS A MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY FIREMAN

N. LITTLE ROCK - FEB. 27 - WILLIAM KELLY HERREN ABOUT 35 , PARAGOULD RAILROAD EMPLOYEE WAS FOUND DEAD IN BED TODAY AT A PRIVATE HOME WHERE HE WAS ROOMING. DEPUTY CORONER C. C. REED SAID HE HAD SUFFOCATED.

DR. REED SAID OTHER OCCUPANTS OF THE HOUSE REPORTED HERREN TURNED ON A HEATER IN THE ROOM EARLY YESTERDAY AND THAT THE TEMPERATURE WAS UNUSUALLY HIGH WHEN HE RETIRED LAST NIGHT.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT THREE SUNDAY FROM THE CHURCH OF CHRIST . THE REV. F.L. PAISLEY , PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST WILL OFFICIATE . WAS ON STUDENT RUN

IT WAS REPORTED HERE THAT MR. HERREN WAS ON HIS FINAL STUDENT RUN BEFORE TAKING AN EXAMINATION TO BECOME A MISSOURI PACIFIC FIREMAN . SEVERAL SUCH RUNS ARE REQUIRED OF NEW EMPLOYEES IN ORDER THAT THE MEN LEARN THE ROUTES THEIR DUTIES AND OTHER NEEDED INFORMATION.

A NATIVE OF GREENE COUNTY , MR. HERREN RESIDED ON SOUTH SEVENTH STREET. HE HAD BEEN OPERATING THE HERREN TRANSFER HERE RECENTLY , MR. HERREN ALSO HAD BEEN ENGAGED A SHORT TIME AGO IN TRANSPORTING WPA WORKERS TO AND FROM THEIR WORK AND ALSO DELIVERED ICE FOR THE PARAGOULD ICE COMPANY.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIDOW , MRS. FLOSSIE HERREN , ONE DAUGHTER , MARY RUTH HERREN , TWO SONS , BOBBY AND RAY HERREN , ONE HALF SISTER , MRS. VAN COOPER OF ST. LOUIS AND THREE BROTHERS , ODIE HERREN AND JAMES HERREN OF ROUTE FOUR AND HOMER HERREN OF ROUTE FIVE.

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Feb. 27 , 1942 PARAGOULD , DAILY PRESS

CECIL SHANE

FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR CECIL SHANE , BLYTHEVILLE

NATIVE OF PARAGOULD HAD BEEN ACTIVE AND WIDELY KNOWN THROUGHOUT ARKANSAS

FUNERAL SERVICES OF ATTORNEY CECIL SHANE , 55 , WHO DIED YESTERDAY MORNING IN HIS OFFICE AT BLYTHEVILLE FOLLOWING A HEART ATTACK , WERE CONDUCTED AT TWO THIS AFTERNOON FROM THE SHANE RESIDENCE IN THAT CITY AND BURIAL WAS MADE AT ELMWOOD CEMETERY OF BLYTHEVILLE . THE REV. S.B. WILFORD , PASTOR OF THE FIRST METHODIST CHURCH OF BLYTHEVILLE OFFICIATED , PALL BEARERS WERE J.H. CRAIN OF WILSON , RAY MERIWETHER OF PARAGOULD , J. LOUIS CHERRY , RUSSELL PHILLIPS , J.A. LEACH , B.A. LYNCH , ELTON W. KIRBY AND ROSS D. HUGHES OF BLYTHEVILLE.

A NATIVE OF PARAGOULD , MR. SHANE GRADUATED IN 1911 FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AND TWO YEARS LATER FROM THE CUMBERLAND LAW SCHOOL AT LEBANDON , TENN. HE WAS FORMERLY A LAW PARTNER OF JOHN BATTEN HERE AND LATER OSCAR FENDLER AT BLYTHEVILLE . MR. SHANE SERVED SIX MONTHS OVERSEAS DURING THE WORLD WAR I AND WAS CAPTAIN OF THE LOCAL COMPANY H.

HE WAS PROSECUTING ATTORNEY FROM 1921 TO 1924 , INCLUSIVE MOVING TO BLYTHEVILLE IN 1923. HE WAS MAYOR OF BLYTHEVILLE FROM 1933 TO 1937 , PRESIDENT OF THE BLYTHEVILLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN 1938 AND FORMER MEMBER OF THE BLYTHEVILLE SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER OF ROTARY CLUB AND BLYTHEVILLE LIBRARY . HE WAS A PAST COMMANDER OF THE BLYTHEVILLE AMERICAN LEGION POST.

AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH , HE WAS VICE PRESIDENT OF THE ARKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION , A MEMBER OF THE STATE EDUCATION COMMITTEE AND HEAD OF THE CRIPPLED CHILDREN'S COMMISSION IN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIDOW , ONE DAUGHTER , TWO SISTERS AND THREE BROTHERS.

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