Out of the past 1/16/14

1989

Dr. Leslie Cochran, provost at Southeast Missouri State University, is the keynote speaker for the third annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Celebration; about 150 persons attend the celebration at the University Center.

After two years of discussion, a committee studying a proposed 8,200-acre lake in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties will hear estimates this week of the cost of the project; the firm of Freese and Nichols of Fort Worth, Texas, will report on its feasibility study for the lake tomorrow night.

1964

Unemployment benefits paid in Cape Girardeau County last month jumped to $41,651 from the $25,325 paid in December 1962 and the $24,902 of November 1963; the State Employment Service here reports that most of the jobless claims made last month were from workers under seasonal layoff.

All pupils in Cape Girardeau's elementary schools are examined in the morning by local dentists to determine the state of dental health in the community and to locate serious individual dental problems.

1939

The Jackson Presbyterian congregation, at its morning service yesterday, selected a building committee and decided to begin the work of building a new church early in the spring on the lot on North First Street; the building will occupy a site on which formerly stood the Episcopal Church, which was destroyed by a storm.

A.G. Boren, who has purchased the Felden Roofing & Material Co., 2149 Independence St., from F.G. Felden, says he may form a partnership to operate the business.

1914

Mrs. Amanda Williamson Wood, 92, probably the oldest woman in the south part of Cape Girardeau County, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. P.N. O'Brien, at Whitewater; a native of Baton Rouge, La., she was married to Curtis Wood, who owned a large plantation near Vicksburg, Miss.; the family moved to Cape Girardeau during the Civil War.

Four of the seven regents of the Normal School meet here to look over the financing of the big institution; one of the largest improvements at the school undertaken since the last regent meeting is the building of an athletic field for students.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__