Out of the past 12/11/14

1989

Instead of pay raises next year, the Cape Girardeau County Commission has decided to pick up the employees' contributions to their retirement program.

After being deadlocked in committee over the election of a chairman, the full Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority Board of Commissioners elects Charles Blattner chairman on a secret ballot, 5-3.

1964

About one inch of rain fell over most of Cape Girardeau County yesterday and early this morning; generally, the rain fell slowly, providing little runoff for farm ponds; with December relatively wet so far and the last half of November also on the damp side, it appears the drought that gripped the county this fall has been broken.

Cape Girardeau County Court has decided to add two members to the county committee on Trail of Tears State Park and to change the name to Cape County Park Board, giving the group a broader area in which to work.

1939

St. John's Lutheran Parochial School at Pocahontas is closed because of a whooping cough epidemic in that community; also temporarily suspended is the Sunday school at the Corinthian Baptist Church in Jackson for the same reason.

Fred A. Groves of the Groves Motor Co., speaking before the Jaycees at the Alvarado, says the present status of the controversial merchants city license has stopped local business firms from cooperating with civic projects; he says a feeling of unstableness exists among merchants, and until a ruling on a test case is handed down, community progress as a whole will be delayed.

1914

Gov. Elliott Major was so well entertained here yesterday afternoon and evening he remained over this morning and visited many personal and political friends; after meeting with the Normal School student body and faculty in the afternoon, he dined at Elmwood with Louis Houck, who had a few friends there to meet the governor; in the evening, Major returned to the city and stayed overnight at the St. Charles Hotel.

The Caldwell-Sherman store has awarded the contract for its new building to the Steffan Woodworking Co. of St. Louis; the brick work, carpenter work, plumbing and the like will be sublet to local men, while the St. Louis concern will put in the interior.

-- Sharon K. Sanders