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1989

Cape Girardeau police are investigating how three city residents came to have a tombstone and other apparent graveyard property in their apartment; they hope to find the origin of a small, marble tombstone and white, 165-pound angel statue and small cross; police found the items while serving a search warrant at 129 S. Lorimier St.

Southeast Missouri State University will meet the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the NCAA Division II Elite Eight; action is scheduled to get underway shortly after noon at the Civic Center in Springfield, Mass.

1964

Musicians representing more than 50 district high schools perform for judges on the State College campus in the annual music festival; the top rated vocalists and instrumentalists will go on to compete at the State Music Festival in Columbia, Mo., next month.

A third architectural viewpoint has been solicited by State College to settle a difference of opinion in the make-up of the planned new dormitory complex; the question is whether the facility will consist of two high-rise buildings or more smaller ones.

1939

A petition is being circulated asking the Cape Girardeau City Council to order the paving of approximately 3,500 feet of Perryville Road, to connect the pavement constructed last year and the Cape Rock Drive northwest of the city; under a plan proposed by the Cape Special Road District, property owners would pay about half the cost and the district the remainder.

Annexation by the city of a large area at the western limits of Cape Girardeau is proposed by City Commissioner Phil H. Steck at a meeting of the city council; Steck says the area extends as far northwest as Hopper Road, including the Rodney Vista area, the new city park, the Broadway junction property and a strip along U.S. 61, possibly to Bloomfield Road.

1914

Leo King of Cape Girardeau and Frisco agent A.E. Dean of Seventy-Six, Mo., won quite an honor, as well as a reward of $100, Tuesday night when they captured an escaped convict from the Illinois penitentiary at Chester.

Priscilla Hardesty, sister of lawyer B.C. Hardesty, will leave Monday for Lewisburg, Pa., where she has accepted a position as teacher of piano and pipe organ at Bucknell University.

-- Sharon K. Sanders