Out of the past 1/2/14

1990

Carolyn Kelley and David Goncher file for seats on the Cape Girardeau School Board; Kelley, the board president, is seeking a third term, while Goncher, a member of the school district's athletic task force, hopes to be elected for the first time; Dr. Thomas Harte says he won't be a candidate for re-election.

Members of Teamsters Local 574 and Operating Engineers Local 513 are picketing the entrance to West Lake Quarry near Scott City; a union contract with the quarry expired yesterday.

1965

The Cape Girardeau Jaycees will make their annual free Christmas tree pickup Sunday afternoon; trees collected will be burned at Arena Park in the late afternoon.

Mrs. William Bodine announces she has purchased the building housing The Novelty Shop, 823 Broadway, and has changed the name of the business to Bodine's Gift Shop; Bodine acquired the business six years ago from her aunt, Minnie Brandon, who has been associated with it for 22 years.

1940

BENTON, Mo. -- Fire, believed to have started from a roof spark, destroys the St. Denis Catholic Church and parochial school here, with a loss estimated at about $7,000; the church and school, both frame structures and built together, are a mass of flames within a few minutes after the blaze is discovered by pupils in the school shortly before noon.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Lieut. Col. Harry E. Dudley of Sikeston is elected commanding officer of the 140th Infantry, Missouri National Guard, by officers of the regiment; with the election his rank is raised to colonel.

1915

The Sherman-Cofer clothing store in Haarig, which opened its doors just a few weeks ago, was entered by robbers last night and robbed of some clothing and shoes, and then set afire; why the robber would want to set fire to the store after he had stolen the goods isn't known, unless he did it just for downright meanness.

Chris Freeman and Henry Strain, managers of the Princess Theater on Main Street, are greeted by a tremendous crowd in the evening, when they open the doors of the place once more; the pictures shown are highly satisfactory and afford good amusement.

-- Sharon K. Sanders