Out of the past 10/21/14

1989

State Sen. John C. Dennis, D-Benton, has been named the 1989 "Friend of the University" by the Southeast Missouri University Foundation; he will be honored at a Copper Dome breakfast Saturday during a Homecoming event.

Unless the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad soon comes up with $30,000 to $40,000, chances are it will be moved from Jackson to St. Charles, Missouri; the railroad venture, which represents an investment of about $470,000, is struggling financially.

1964

The Jackson City Council this week has been discussing adopting a council-manager form of government, as it prepares to move upward from a fourth-class to a third-class size; the city has been operating with a semi-manager form for a number of years; the city superintendent has been, in effect, an unofficial city manager.

Bill's Drive-in, a short-order restaurant, recently opened in Cape Girardeau; it's in a building recently constructed and owned by Bill Brandt on Broadway, just west of Henderson Avenue.

1939

A throng of 1,227 boys and their leaders, the largest in the history of Scouting in Cape Girardeau, attended the annual Fall Roundup of the Southeast Missouri Area of Boy Scouts in Cape Girardeau yesterday; the Scouts represented 34 troops in 23 district towns; after a feast of hot dogs at Courthouse Park, the boys paraded out Broadway to Houck Stadium, where they watched the Teachers College Indians and the Warrensburg (Missouri) Mules play to a scoreless, Homecoming tie.

Marian Tyner of St. Louis, a junior at Teachers College, last night was crowned the 1939 football queen at the Homecoming dance in Houck Field House.

1914

Jane Addams, America's foremost and most beloved woman, will speak Saturday afternoon at the Normal School and that evening at the courthouse; she will speak on behalf of the women's suffrage movement.

K.O. Grassham of Paducah, Kentucky, is in Cape Girardeau seeking a location for a manufacturing business, which he expects to open Dec. 1; he is representing a company that owns the formula for a popular new drink called "Chero-Cola."

-- Sharon K. Sanders