Out of the past 11/2/14

1989

A Cape Girardeau Public Library Foundation has been formed to raise money for the library through donations and contributions; the library board of trustees hopes the foundation will raise $1 million.

St. Vincent's College might house a nutrition center for the elderly and a community center, with the grounds serving as a park; members of a special committee have focused on that idea as a way of converting the old Catholic seminary to public use.

1964

State College All-Conference fullback Norman Dockins is at practice in the afternoon and will be battering away at the Maryville, Missouri, line Saturday; fans were alarmed last Saturday, when the 225-pound star was carried unconscious off the field in the third quarter.

A 20-year-old Illmo man was treated early Sunday morning for buckshot wounds, which, he says, he received when a Scott City auxiliary policeman shot at him; he says he and nine other youths were ready to throw eggs at cars and people as a Halloween prank, when they were almost caught by the officer; after the boys failed to heed an order to halt, the auxiliary officer fired at them with a shotgun.

1939

If projected plans of the Benton and Webster societies, men's organizations at the Teachers College, bear fruit, both groups will within a year or so be housed in their own permanent buildings, establishments that will parallel the Greek letter fraternity houses at many other college and university campuses.

The business office of The Missourian hosts a bit of romance; Margaret Guest and LeRoy Loose, both of Belleville, Illinois, are married there in the morning, because the minister they desire to officiate is at The Missourian on business.

1914

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Sikeston police chief E.A. Arthur is shot through the abdomen in the morning when he attempts to intervene in a shooting scrape; the seriously injured Arthur, along with a the son of one of the men involved in the affray, are taken by train to Cairo, Illinois, shortly after the shooting and placed in a hospital there for treatment.

Garrett Glenn, one of Cape Girardeau's most popular young business men, is now associated with Shivelbine's Men's Shop on Main Street; he closed his gents' furnishing shop in the H.-H. Building to accept the new position.

-- Sharon K. Sanders