Out of the past 1/13/14

1989

An Ohio-based company that manufactures and distributes components for the automotive and trucking industry has announced it will locate a $23 million facility at Cape Girardeau; Dana Corp. will employ 200 people within its first year of operation.

Southeast Missouri State University has a new mascot, "Thunderbird," which made its debut at the Southeast versus Rolla, Mo., basketball game Wednesday evening.

1964

Nearly constant snowfall from Saturday afternoon through this morning collaborated with bone-chilling temperatures to give Cape Girardeau a new helping of polar weather; while in town the snow measures only about two inches in depth, there are reports of five-foot drifts on rural roads in the county.

Longtime Cape Girardeau businessman Barrett Cotner, 74, dies at a local hospital; in partnership with his late brother, Alvin Cotner, and a brother-in-law, Frank Clippard, Cotner founded the Auto Tire and Parts Co. in 1909; he managed the enterprise until retiring in 1952.

1939

Cape Girardeau and district received their heaviest snow in two years overnight, three inches falling here, and there's the prospect of additional snow or rain; about an inch of snow remains on the ground after the all-night storm, most of it melting as it fell and creating an icy slush on streets and sidewalks.

With midwinter here, the relief situation in Cape Girardeau County isn't improving; 33 families were added to the relief status group during December; there were 372 families in the county on relief Dec. 1 and 405 on Jan. 1.

1914

Rudolph Schmitt, an old and widely acquainted resident of Scott County, died Jan. 9 at his home in the hills between New Hamburg and Rockview, Mo.; the 84-year-old man, a veteran of the Civil War, was laid to rest Saturday at the Catholic cemetery at Kelso, Mo.; he leaves an aged wife, four sons and a daughter.

Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Franz and Frederick Gritz, a party of Germans, arrived here last night; today, the men are out searching for work; none speaks English, but they are having no trouble finding people here with whom to converse.

-- Sharon K. Sanders