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After six months of work, the Independence Street widening project has been completed, and the street reopens in the afternoon. City officials from Cape Girardeau and Jackson will meet in Perryville, Mo., Monday in an effort to reach an out-of-court settlement in their annexation dispute; Cape Girardeau is seeking to annex right of way on both sides of Interstate 55 from north of the I-55-U.S. ...
1988
After six months of work, the Independence Street widening project has been completed, and the street reopens in the afternoon.
City officials from Cape Girardeau and Jackson will meet in Perryville, Mo., Monday in an effort to reach an out-of-court settlement in their annexation dispute; Cape Girardeau is seeking to annex right of way on both sides of Interstate 55 from north of the I-55-U.S. 61 intersection south to the municipal airport; Cape is also seeking to annex acreage just north of the intersection, which includes a 70-acre tract Jackson wants to annex.
1963
Margaret Shaw, missionary to the Republic of the Congo, is guest speaker at the morning worship service of First Christian Church; Shaw was commissioned as a medical missionary by the United Christian Missionary Society in 1949.
Soloists, men of the Choraliers and the Mamma-Nettes highlight the Salvation Army Tree of Lights program presented by the Cape Choraliers at Central High School in the afternoon.
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1938
Jackson's most courteous children are revealed by Mrs. Joe M. Knox, president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which sponsored the secret contest; Betty Bon Grossman and Harold Grant each receive $5 as first place winners, while second place winners Adelle Rose Illers and Charles Kies are given $2.50 each.
Using a 45-foot wooden gin pole, workers last night removed the massive steel beam that remained 40 feet in the air after the Elks building fire on Themis Street; while 200 shivering spectators watched and spotlights illuminated the scene, the beam was safely lowered to the grounds by means of a Caterpillar tractor.
1913
Harold Morscher is in Cape Girardeau testing the grates in the powerhouse of the Missouri Public Utilities Co.; Morscher was formerly a schoolmate of professor Seth Babcock, while he was in school at Lawrence, Kansas.
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A new "movie" show is being installed here; George Martin, formerly of the Red Bud Theater of Oran, Mo., is the promoter of the new theater, which will be in the room where Frank Black conducted a restaurant.
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