Out of the past 2/15/13

1988

Southeast Missouri State University incidental fees are increased an average of 6.9 percent, and room and board fees increased a maximum of 12 percent at a meeting of the university Board of Regents; both hikes are effective in the fall.

Remodeling of vacant offices in the county courthouse in Jackson is underway; Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep explains the work will be done a few offices at a time and should be finished during this year.

1963

Work on Lake Girardeau near Crump will begin in July and open to fishing in 1966, if the U.S. Department of Commerce approves the project; the fishing lake project would become a reality even without federal aid, but would be delayed without it.

Edwin L. Kies, 63, Jackson real estate dealer, former county clerk and active Republican party worker, dies in the morning at a local hospital, having undergone surgery earlier in the week.

1938

An ordinance placing approximately half the appointive city officers and employees under civil service, or merit rule, was passed by the city council yesterday; placed under the rule by the ordinance are firemen and police patrolmen; excluded are municipal posts such as city clerk, city attorney, assessor, treasurer, engineer, chief of police, fire chief, chief judge, street commissioner, common labor, assistant city attorney, mayor's secretary, market master, auditor, city physician, library trustees and elected officials.

Details are almost completed for Headquarters and Service companies of the Missouri National Guard here to take over the former laundry building on South West End Boulevard as an armory under a short-term lease.

1913

Kenrick D. Burroughs of Cape Girardeau is announced as the scholar leader of the junior class at Yale University for the two and a half years just closed; he averaged 366 on a scale of 400 in his studies.

Dr. C.B. Ruff has bought the J.C. Stone home at the corner of Ellis and North streets; the Stones have shipped their household goods to St. Louis, and the family will leave tomorrow.

-- Sharon K. Sanders