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RecordsOctober 20, 2013

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board is recommending new lighting for the Arena Building that would allow indoor sports activities to be held in the facility; the board voted last night to recommend the removal of the chandeliers from the Arena and the installation of new multipurpose lighting...

1988

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board is recommending new lighting for the Arena Building that would allow indoor sports activities to be held in the facility; the board voted last night to recommend the removal of the chandeliers from the Arena and the installation of new multipurpose lighting.

The elimination of Community Development director Gary Worth's position has prompted Planning and Zoning Commissioner Jack Higdon to resign in protest.

1963

Sixty-three horsemen from Cape Girardeau, Piedmont, Mo., Patterson, Mo., Greenville, Mo., Silva, Mo., Bragg City, Mo., and Poplar Bluff, Mo., ride the trails of Trail of Tears State Park; the visiting horsemen, most of them members of the Wayne County Saddle Club, come here with their mounts in trailers and then ride to the park.

Louis "Mud" Bona, football and track star at State College in the mid-1930s, dies at his Illinois home as he is preparing to go to church; Bona was a schoolteacher in Illinois.

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1938

Opening their annual meeting in Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri teachers in the morning hear stirring speeches on the outlook for democracy by George S. Counts of Columbia University in New York City and Rabbi Ferdinand Isserman of Temple Israel in St. Louis; the Southeast Missouri Teachers Association convention will conclude tomorrow.

Harry L. Coffman, a former city commissioner, is employed as temporary office manager of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce; he will succeed Don Foster, who has resigned.

1913

An investigation of the tax rate for school purposes in 15 of the larger towns of Southeast Missouri reveals the astounding fact that every one of those towns is paying from 10 to 65 cents more on the $100 valuation than Cape Girardeau; the highest rate is paid by Kennett, Mo., residents at $1.55 per $100 valuation, while Cape Girardeau's rate is 90 cents.

The first snow of the season is observed in the morning floating through the air; while there is no accumulation here, train passengers arriving at noon report that from Caruthersville, Mo., to Brooks Junction, 25 miles south of Cape Girardeau, fully an inch fell and in some places is two inches deep.

-- Sharon K. Sanders

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