The first of Cape Girardeau's disaster warning system sirens was installed yesterday off Gordonville Road, east of Saint Francis Medical Center; workers for Alert Systems Inc., of Paducah, Ky., which sold the $109,800 system to the city, are installing 14 sirens throughout town.
As February fizzles, March fumes, making a lion's entrance into the area in the morning with bitter cold temperatures and blowing snow; Cape Girar-deau receives only about two inches of snow, but high winds drift it into considerably greater accumulations.
Red Star Baptist Church begins paying off $8,300 of the first bonds it sold to help finance the construction of a new church plant; the bonds are being redeemed from a sinking fund created by $200 weekly payments made by the congregation from its Sunday collections.
A school bond issue for the district centered in Advance fails to get the necessary two-thirds majority approval in a special election; funds would have been used to build a 12-room elementary school structure and make other improvements, including alterations to the present high school building.
M.J. Davidson and Co. was low bidder for the construction of U.S. 61 between Benton and Ancell, Mo., when bids for this gap of the road were received yesterday by the Missouri Highway Commission.
Oliver Boswell, 1213 N. Spanish St., files his petition as candidate for the office of city commissioner; he is the eighth person to file for the office.
The new dormitory for the young women attending the Normal School will be ready for occupancy the last of this week; today, there are dozens of workers inside and out putting on the final touches; fires have been started in the furnace and kitchen range, carpets and rugs are being laid, and every little detail is receiving attention.
The little houseboat belonging to Murrel Walker of Muscatine, Iowa, which sank in the ice Sunday, is dragged from the river in the morning; the entire boat has to be pulled out before the hole in one end can be reached for patching.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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