Out of the past 2/11/13

1988

Cape Girardeau area residents must live charmed lives; for the third time this winter, the area has avoided a major snowstorm; this latest storm passed to the north of Cape Girardeau, leaving the city with only a dusting of snow.

Following a public meeting Wednesday, the Scott County Commission unanimously approved a motion requesting the Cape Girardeau City Council to extend its enterprise zone into the Scott County portion of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority.

1963

Richard L. Hill, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Wayne Hill of Cape Girardeau, received the Boy Scout God and Country Award at yesterday's worship service at Centenary Methodist Church.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education discusses a proposal to extend Central High School's teaching day; the North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges accredits the high school here on the basis of rigid academic standards, but the accreditation is in jeopardy because the school week in some courses is short of requirements.

1938

After a half-day of beating the brush over three square miles of rough land in the vicinity of Dutchtown and Blomeyer, 300 hunters armed with shotguns and accompanied by nearly 100 dogs, fail by noon to scare up so much as a single bobcat, the object of the organized safari.

With the arrival of warmer weather, roller skaters are coming out of winter hibernation, presenting a new hazard on Cape Girardeau streets and sidewalks; police ask skaters and automobile drivers to aware of each other, after a skater is bumped by a taxicab; the child is uninjured.

1913

J.A. Reed, formerly of this county and who has been working on a dam at Keokuk, Iowa, passes through Cape Girardeau on his way to Oak Ridge to spend a few weeks with his mother; several days ago, he had a thumb mashed and is unable to work at present.

John Hoehl, one of the oldest residents of Pocahontas, dies at his home there; Hoehl was 77 years old, a native of Austria; he emigrated to this country in the 1850s; he was a three-year veteran of the Union Army during the Civil War.

-- Sharon K. Sanders