Out of the past 3/1/14

1989

With the help of motorists-turned-cowboys, the Jackson police herd about 50 head of cattle owned by Myron Lang of rural Jackson; part of a fence around their pasture east of the Lee-Rowan plant was down due to the construction of a new sewer main, which the cattle used to make their escape.

Nine years after the project was conceived, Southeast Missouri State University has fired up its $4.7 million fluidized bubbling-bed boiler; the steam-generation plant began burning high-sulfur coals last week, and Monday night provided for the first time the entire energy load on campus.

1964

A new education building of Emanuel United Church of Christ is dedicated in Jackson, with an open house held in the afternoon; the brick, two-story structure has been completed at a cost of $136,996.

The Cape Girardeau County Grand Jury was dismissed Friday after giving its report to Circuit Judge W. Osler Statler; in the final report, the jury noted it had issued 22 indictments.

1939

Professor John H. Gehrs, head of the department of agriculture at the Teachers College, has been elected president of the board of directors of the newly-organized SEMO District Fair Association; other officers are vice president, Dr. O.L. Seabaugh, and treasurer, Herman Bremermann; members of the board of directors are W.F. Bergmann, Fred A. Keller, Judge Silas P. Lail, Dr. I.W. Upshaw, Charles W. Weiss and C.C. Wilkening.

The old Sturdivant Bank clock, recently purchased by H.I. Himmelberger, is to be put in good repair and mounted at the southeast corner of the H.-H. Building.

1914

Mail service between Cape Girardeau and Ancell is initiated over the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad, the train leaving here at 5 p.m. and arriving at Ancell a half-hour later; the pouch will return to Cape Girardeau tomorrow morning.

George Kaschner, who is visiting friends and relatives in this county with his wife, having arrived from California several weeks ago, meets with a serious accident while driving a team belonging to Frank Sander of Tilsit; while traveling to Burfordville, one of the horses pushes the other in a ditch, upsetting the surrey and spilling all the occupants out; Kaschner's right leg is broken just above the ankle.

-- Sharon K. Sanders