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1989

Members of the Scott City City Council and other city employees don work clothes to help move city offices into the new city administration building at 618 Main St.

Rick Harris has resigned as executive director of the Cape Centre Chamber of Commerce; Gwyn E. "Elaine" Poston, vice president of Health Services Corp. of America, has been named by the chamber board of directors to be interim director.

1964

The Cape Girardeau City Council turns down the city firemen's request for a $20 per month pay increase, but indicates the city's entire salary structure may be reconsidered at a later time.

Supporters of the Salvation Army and its officers are told the greatest need of the organization here is a new building to provide adequate space for activities and to give the youths of the community a place for development; Capt. Lee Hickam says a minimum of $150,000 is necessary if a proper youth program is to be developed and other facilities provided.

1939

Cape Girardeau and district are in the grip of their second severe snowstorm of the season, with a fall that had reached four inches by noon.

The board of directors of the newly organized SEMO District Fair Association will meet Tuesday night at the public library to elect officers; members of the board are Dr. O.L. Seabaugh, professor John H. Gehrs, Cape Girardeau County Collector W.F. Bergmann, Judge Silas P. Lail, C.C. Wilkening, Fred A. Keller, Herman Bremermann, Charles W. Weiss and Dr. I.W. Upshaw.

1914

Dr. Otis Miller has returned from Mexico to his old home in Millersville, where his mother lives and where his brother is in the mercantile business; he was employed as head physician by one of the largest railroad corporations in Mexico.

Cape Girardeau will finally have a first-class theater; a stock company composed of J. Winningham, Henry Sanders, R.M. Cowan and others have signed a lease for the building, which will be constructed by Otto Kochtitzky and H.E. Alexander, owners of the property; it will be on the vacant property opposite The Republican office on Broadway.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__