Out of the past 3/31/14

1989

Workers are raising the roof three feet above the doorway at one of the old IXL Manufacturing handle-factory buildings in Jackson; this will allow some of the larger pieces of equipment that make up the Oldtimers Agricultural Museum at Altenburg, Mo., to be moved into the new museum quarters; the move should begin tomorrow.

With longtime Jackson football coach Paul Webber leaving for Poplar Bluff, Mo., Carl Gross has accepted the invitation to become the Indians' new head gridiron coach.

1964

Jean Paul Bradshaw, a Springfield, Mo., lawyer and Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, makes a stop in Cape Girardeau in support of his candidacy; he hopes to challenge the Democratic incumbent, Sen. Stuart Symington of St. Louis.

BiState Machinery Co., with headquarters in Kirkwood, Mo., plans to establish a construction equipment sales and service operation within a year south of Cape Girardeau; it will occupy the northeast corner of Highway 74 and Interstate 55 on a two-acre tract it is buying from the Burton J. Gerhardt Construction Co.

1939

The adventures of Lloyd Thompson, "skipper" of the washtub "clipper," have ended; the heavy truck tire inner tube that supported his No. 3 galvanized wash tub blew out yesterday near Memphis, Tenn., sending the "craft" to the bottom of the river; Thompson was pulled from the river by Woodrow Wilson of Cairo, Ill., who had been following him in a skiff.

Far surpassing even the fondest hopes of those who planned the spring rose-planting campaign for Cape Girardeau, the movement resulted in 5,000 bushels being set here.

1914

Rudolph Crosnoe, the well-known painter who recently built a new home on Bloomfield Street, had a narrow escape Sunday; he had climbed into the recently dug cistern to inspect the work; finding everything in fine shape, he ascended the ladder and walked away; 30 minutes later, he returned to the cistern and was horrified to see the ground cave in all of a sudden and fill the hole with dirt.

Frank Sieb, the Dexter, Mo., cigar manufacturer, has bought out William F. Baumann, the Haarig cigar maker, and has taken over the business.

-- Sharon K. Sanders