Out of the past 12/13/14

1989

The St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railroad will operate a full train schedule in Jackson next year; the announcement comes after the Cape Girardeau Convention and Tourism Advisory Board approved an expenditure of $2,925.32 for printing of 100,000 three-panel, four-color advertising brochures for the railroad.

Plans to buy stationery magnetic resonance imaging units at both Saint Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital are approved, as is a $1.2 million expansion at Southeast; the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee authorizes the projects.

1964

With the singing of the hymn "Christ I Made the Sure Foundation," members of the congregation of Christ Episcopal Church Thursday night passed in a procession through the newly dedicated church building into the Parish House, where a reception was held; officiating at the dedication was the Rt. Rev. George L. Cadigan, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Missouri.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has been asked to consider an agreement with the federal government, whereby the government would construct a fallout-protected area in the basement of police headquarters for the civil defense emergency communications system.

1939

Three more men -- Henry Haman Jr., Clinton C. Moore and J. Morton Thompson -- have been selected for holiday work in the clerical division of the Cape Girardeau Post Office; eight others have been approved for holiday carrier service.

The Central High Tigers drop their opening basketball game of the season to the College High Reserves in Houck Field House, 33-23; 22 players see action, 12 Reserves and 10 Tigers.

1914

Billy Woods Friday got a judgment for $270 in Common Pleas Court against the Stecker Brewing Co. of Murphysboro, Ill., for rent; he asserted the brewery owed him $45 a month for use of the first floor of the Woods Building near the city hall, from Jan. 25, 1911, to July 25 1911.

When a group of Cairo, Ill., residents, woodsmen who knew just where in Kentucky to get a tremendous evergreen Christmas tree for the town, ventured out to get the tree Saturday, it found the tree demolished; a bolt of lightning had struck the forest giant and rent it in two; a smaller tree, but perfectly formed, was then chosen and transplanted to Halliday Park.

-- Sharon K. Sanders