Out of the past 1/19/14

1989

Cape Girardeau Fire Department training officer David Suttles will be leaving next month to become a deputy chief for fire safety inspections with the Missouri fire marshal's office in Jefferson City.

Southeast Missouri State University women's basketball coach Ed Arnzen has received a note of confidence in the form of a new, three-year contract.

1964

The Cape Girardeau Jaycees are looking for talented people to take part in their Jaycee Follies on Feb. 7 and 8; a "meet the director" party will be held Tuesday evening at the Arena Building for all those interested in participating; this year's Follies will be directed by Barry Lyndall of the Jerome Cargill Producing Organization of New York.

Mrs. Dale Wuest, president of the Jaycee Wives, presented a silver plate to Mrs. Paul R. Williams yesterday at a tea at First Christian Church, naming Williams "Outstanding Young Woman of Cape Girardeau for 1963."

1939

As whips cracked and hammers pounded, 295 head of horses and mules were sold yesterday at the A.E. Miles livestock barn on U.S. 61; bidders were present from 10 states, including Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas; some of the mules auctioned were exceptional ones, and one brought $240.

Thad Snow, the philosopher of Mississippi County, is in Cape Girardeau visiting friends; asked about the recent sharecroppers strike in Missouri's cotton country, Snow says, "The sharecropper demonstration just had to come; it was the protest of an exploited element against a condition that continues to go from bad to worse, and certainly some good must come from it."

1914

Editors representing 20 afternoon newspapers in Missouri outside the five largest cities met in St. Louis last week to form an organization for the betterment of the papers; the first object of the association will be to supply a state news service; representing Southeast Missouri in the organization will be The Daily Republican of Cape Girardeau and the Poplar Bluff Republican.

Brick layers start to work on the new building for the S. Albert Grocer Co. across from the train depot in the morning.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__