__Nov. 21, 1923__
• The board of directors of the Patterson Bank will go over the report of the state bank examiner as to the bank’s condition in a meeting on Thursday (Nov. 22), at which time it will be decided whether to re-organize the bank, pay the depositors or liquidate the bank.
Examiner Harrison said he had finished the audit of the bank, but he is not allowed by law to give out any information until after the bank’s board meets. No word has been heard of the absconding cashier, C.T. Kinder.
• Billy Keith of Ann Arbor, Michigan defeated “Sunflower” Virgil Dabbs in two successive falls last night (Nov. 20) before a good audience at the A-Muse-U theatre in Neelyville. Keith won the first match in 4 1/2 minutes with a head scissors and single wrist lock. He won the second match in 21 1/2 minutes with a bear hug head lock. Spectators declared Dabbs showed the most science, but lack of training and experience helped to defeat him.
__Nov. 21, 1973__
• Dr. B.M. McLain, a prominent local physician andcivic leader, was killed late last night (Nov. 20) when his car ran off Highway 67 about a half-mile north of the Call of the Wild museum, the Missouri Highway State Highway Patrol reports.
Trooper Charles Powers said McLain’s southbound 1971 Cadillac left the highway at 11:30 p.m. Tuesday and hit some small trees. He was thrown from the vehicle, which rolled over him. McLain was taken to Lucy Lee Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
McLain was a former president of the Poplar Bluff R-I board of education, which he was still a member of, and had been elected president of the Southeast Missouri School Boards Association earlier this year.
• James F. Marvel, the grandson of Poplar Bluff cemetery superintendent Grover Greer, will be honored as the first member of the armed forces memorialized by the flying of an official American flag in the Veterans Plot at City Cemetery.
The official flag, given to the family by the department of Defense, will be flown Friday at City Cemetery in memory of Marvel on the 10th anniversary of his death, according to his grandfather.
Marvel was killed in a traffic accident near Winslow, Arizona on Nov. 23, 1963, as he returned to duty after visiting his family in Poplar Bluff.
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