The holiday season of late 1929 was busy and festive. Children in the county schools were preparing Thanksgiving baskets for the poor under the direction of their teachers, county school Superintendent Clyde Scotten and superintendent of the Pettis County Welfare Association Mrs. J.C. Connor.
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