Out of the past 12/24/13

1988

EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- Hoping for a lottery Christmas present, people assemble in long lines at the Illinois Lottery ticket window at the Purple Crackle here, waiting to buy tickets at a chance to win the $37 million jackpot prize; the jackpot is the third-largest in Illinois Lottery history.

More than $750,000 in building maintenance projects are planned this summer in Cape Girardeau's public school buildings; among the projects are installation of two elevators, one at Central High School and the other at L.J. Schultz School.

1963

The band room at the Junior High School on Pacific Street is awash with water, when an old water pipe in the ceiling breaks, spilling water into several rooms; cold weather is not blamed for the break.

City Commissioner J.L. Wieser yesterday became a candidate to serve a third term on the city council when he filed his petition with city clerk Verna L. Landis; he has been police commissioner since he was first elected to the council in 1956; he was re-elected in 1960.

1938

W.H. Bohnsack, who bought the Mrs. Ollie Kopper building on Spanish Street, is having the two-story brick structure re-roofed and will have windows put in; he then expects to leave the building standing a couple months, not yet having decided on details of rebuilding the interior; that building and the four-story one to the east were gutted by fire Nov. 28.

A variety of foodstuffs -- preserves, jelly, meat, potatoes, canned goods, coffee, lard, butter, candy, nuts and oranges -- were distributed among eight baskets by members of the St. Ann's Sodality for the needy of St. Mary's Parish yesterday and given out this morning.

1913

Cape Girardeau High School principal E.F. Hillebrand has handed in his resignation for health reasons and will not return after the new year; contributions from all the teachers of the high school purchased a gold watch fob for the retiring schoolmaster.

Santa Claus visits the children of the Methodist Church Sunday school in the evening and distributes Christmas treats.

__Sharon K. Sanders__