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DOROTHY MIRGEAUX
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
Dorothy Mirgeaux of Route 2, Cape Girardeau, died Aug. 26 at the Oakhill Hospital in Joplin. She was the wife of Joe Mirgeaux. Arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel.
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THANKS COMES A LITTLE BIT LATE FOR TEACHERS
(Column ~ 08/27/93)
When I was a boy, I walked to school, I tell my kids on the off-chance they're listening to something other than a Walkman. Sometimes, I had to walk in the snow. I give almost a pioneer flavor to the story, just as my parents did for me. It's all true, you know. ...
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BIG EVENTS: OUTDOORSMAN EXPO AND SPORTING CLAYS TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
The "Para-Plane" could be a crowd attractor at this weekend's outdoor expo to be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus in Cape Girardeau. "I think paraplaning will become a fascinating new sport," says Buck McNeely, who is conducting the first annual Buck McNeely Outdoorsman Expo & Sporting Clays Tournament...
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FINS FEATHERS, FURS
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
The Cape Girardeau County Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will holds it annual Ducks Unlimited Sponsor's Dinner and Auction Monday. The fundraising event will be held at the N'Orleans Restaurant. Reservation are available by calling 335-3307 or 651-5503...
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HIT-AND-RUN CRASH KILLS MAN
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
COOTER, Mo. A 38-year-old Caruthersville man was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Pemiscot County early Thursday. A spokesman for Missouri State Highway Patrol said that Joe D. Wells was walking south on Missouri Route H about three miles north of Cooter, Mo., when he was struck by an unidentified vehicle at about 5 a.m...
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HEAT AND THE CHALLENGE OF REFORMS GREET SCHOOLS
(Editorial ~ 08/27/93)
School days, school days. The bells ringing this week and last are calling elementary and secondary students back to school. The lucky ones returned to air conditioning. But most area schools are not so fortunate in terms of air conditioned facilities. Several schools have been forced to cut short these first few days of classes due to heat. Although temperatures have been in the 90s, humidity has pushed the heat index over 100...
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BUFFORD BENNETT
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
MARBLE HILL -- Bufford Bennett, 81, of Marble Hill died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 30, 1911, the son of Mason Alexander and Cora Jane Fox Bennett. On Jan. 5, 1933, he married Josie Rosebud Abernathy, who preceded him in death July 5, 1989...
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ERWIN FRED SCHILLING
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
PERRYVILLE -- Erwin Fred Schilling, 76, of Perryville died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1993, at St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born April 22, 1917 in Frohna, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schilling. He was a self-employed painter. On July 16, 1986, he married Ruth L. Rust in Ste. Genevieve. She survives of Perryville...
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CHARLES E. NEACE
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
Charles E. Neace, 55, 410 Second Street, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born March 8, 1938, in Chester, Ill., son of George and Ann Reese Neace. On May 30, 1959, he married Deloris Uelsmann. Neace had worked more than 30 years at Florsheim Shoe Company, and previously worked for Drury Company. He also was active in local athletics, and for nine years was commissioner for fast- and slow-pitch men's and women's softball in Southeast Missouri...
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GEORGIE M. DANIELS
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
CACHE, Ill. -- Georgie Marie Daniels, 68, of Cache, died Wednesday, Aug. 25, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Formerly of Mound City, she was the daughter of John and Cordie Wilson Gunn. She married Floyd "Red" Daniels. Daniels attended the Pentecostal Church...
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AUDREY A. SCHAFFER
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Graveside service for Audrey A. Schaffer, formerly of East Prairie, was held Thursday at Dogwood Cemetery, with the Rev. Bob Williams officiating. Shelby Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Schaffer, 91, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 1993, at Pine Lawn Residental Care Center in Puxico...
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GRACE M. FRY
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
Funeral service for Grace Marie Fry of Houston, Texas, willl be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Jimmie Dace will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...
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G. RAY HITT
(Obituary ~ 08/27/93)
ADVANCE -- George Ray Hitt, 63, of Advance, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 3, 1929, at Arbor, son of Arthur A. and Sarah Morland Hitt. He and Marjean McLane were married June 26, 1971, in Advance...
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BOAT COULD SPUR PORT DEVELOPMENT
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
The potential of 700 jobs and an influx of revenue that would pay for major infrastructure work to attract more industry and create additional jobs. That's what has commissioners of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority excited about the prospects of a riverboat gambling operation at the port...
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SOME HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PURSUE COLLEGE CREDIT; DUAL ENROLLMENT HELPS TO ENHANCE COURSE CHOICES
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
Notre Dame High School senior Nicole Friedrich is exploring career choices and earning college credit at the same time. Like a handful of other high school students, Friedrich turned to Southeast Missouri State University to enhance her course choices...
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UE WORKS TO REPLACE NATURAL GAS LOOP LINE
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
A project started last year by Union Electric Co. to replace all of its cast-iron natural-gas-main distribution system in Cape Girardeau with more durable plastic mains is continuing this summer. Work is now going on in the south part of the city, in the alley between South Sprigg and South Ellis, from Good Hope to Hackberry. Because of the construction, east-west streets between Ellis and Sprigg have been closed for one or two days as the main is installed southward toward Hackberry...
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EMERSON SCHEDULES FARM TOUR NEXT WEEK
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Mo., will visit fields and production facilities in southern Missouri next week. The four-day tour will start at noon Monday at Rosener's restaurant in St. Francois County and end at C&F Foods in Sikeston at about 3 p.m. Thursday...
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`TIE 'EM UP TIGER DAY' SET FOR EIGHTH AND NINTH GRADERS
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
The Central Junior High School PTA and St. Francis Medical Center are sponsoring a "Tie 'Em Up Tiger Day" Sept. 11 for eighth- and ninth-grade students. The event will be held on the junior high campus from 10 a.m. to 12:30 .m. A tie-dye T-shirt contest, refreshments, games and prizes are planned. Music will be provided by Manassa Galaxy Sound Systems and K103-FM's Kent Crider and Bob James will be broadcasting live...
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CAPE SCHOOLS WILL DISMISS EARLY TODAY DUE TO THE HEAT
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
Despite high temperatures and an early close, the first day of school in Cape Girardeau public schools went smoothly. Classes will dismiss early again today, said Jim Englehart, director of secondary education. Elementary students will go home at noon and secondary students will go home at 11:30 a.m. No lunches will be served...
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BOHEMIA COMES TO CAPE GIRARDEAU: HIGHWATER CAFE, A HOME AWAY FROM HOME FOR ARTISTS
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
The Highwater Cafe is the Cape Girardeau version of a coffeehouse that could have been in Berkeley or Greenwich Village 25 years ago. Espresso-fueled conversations about art and the Big Picture and the littlest things drift from the tables, and the walls are cluttered with love-it-or-hate-it artwork. ...
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TOUR HAS OPENINGS
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
Tickets are still available for Sunday's second annual Victorian Driving Tour and Progressive Dinner in Jackson. The tour will begin at 12:30 p.m. at Hubble Creek in Jackson City Park and will end at 5:30 p.m. The tour includes rides in antique cars, dinner aboard the St. Louis Iron Mountain Railway, and a tour of the Oliver House among other attractions...
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COMPTON HEIGHTS BAND TO GIVE SOUSA-STYLE CONCERT LABOR DAY
(Local News ~ 08/27/93)
The Compton Heights Concert Band of St. Louis will present a Sousa-style concert at 6 p.m. Sept. Sept. 6 at the Capaha Park Band Shell. The ban, under the direction of Gregory C. Fox, will present a varied program of patriotic favorites and marches, to be concluded with a fireworks show coordinated with the playing of Tchaikowsky's "1812 Overture."...
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