RecordsOctober 31, 2013
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Cape Girardeau County Sheriff Norman Copeland says he is seeking another term because he wants to continue the same level of quality law enforcement his office has provided the last two-and-a-half-years he has held office; William Stone says he is running for sheriff because the department has become stagnant under Copeland...
1988
Cape Girardeau County Sheriff Norman Copeland says he is seeking another term because he wants to continue the same level of quality law enforcement his office has provided the last two-and-a-half-years he has held office; William Stone says he is running for sheriff because the department has become stagnant under Copeland.
The city of Cape Girardeau has filed its second annexation petition in circuit court in less than a month in an effort to pursue the third phase of its annexation plan; the petition seeks a declaratory judgment that would allow the city to submit the proposed annexation to a vote; the city wants to annex a 159-acre tract northeast of the Interstate 55-U.S. 61 intersection between Cape Girardeau and Jackson.
1963
Apparently Halloween started a little early at a county road bridge near Neelys Landing; a school bus driver from that vicinity reports that the flooring on a wooden bridge there had been partly removed, making the bridge impassible; the bridge will have to be completely rebuilt.
Dr. W.T. Holland, pastor of Cape Girardeau's First Baptist Church, was elected president of the half-million member Missouri Baptist Convention last night.
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1938
Maier Auto Supply moves from its old business location at 718 Broadway to 733 Broadway; the latter location is the new building built by Joe L. Moseley on the site of the old Bartels Mercantile, which burned in the winter of 1937.
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee stages its fourth Halloween Carnival and parade in the evening before a crowd of 3,000 persons, climaxing the celebration at midnight by enthroning Ruth Freeman, a member of the high school senior class, as "Miss Halloween."
1913
Troop No. 1 of the Cape Girardeau Boy Scouts of America was marched to the Cape Girardeau Business College, where members were examined by a court of honor as to their ability of reaching the rank of tenderfeet.
The Western Dye Works is being moved from the old quarters at Broadway and Sprigg Street to the Meyers building on Broadway, next door to the Meyer Brothers' meat market.
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