Out of the past 3/4/14

1989

Cape Girardeau County Clerk Rodney E. Miller was recently sworn in by Sen. John Dennis of Benton, Mo., as president of the Missouri Association of Counties for 1989.

CHESTER, Ill. -- Tolls again will be placed on Chester's Mississippi River bridge, if a measure proposed by U.S. Rep. Glenn W. Poshard becomes law; Poshard has introduced the same legislation his predecessor, Kenneth Gray, unsuccessfully tried to get through Congress before he retired last year.

1964

SENATH, Mo. -- A tornado tears through Senath in the morning, knocking in the roof of a temporary school building but leaving the 55 children inside unhurt; the twister destroys three other buildings and injures one man.

Robert Stallings, owner and operator of the Broadway Radio Shop, has filed his petition of candidacy as city commissioner; Stallings was a member of the Cape Girardeau Police Department for nine years and held the rank of sergeant when he left the force two years ago.

1939

It is reported that the American White Cross Laboratories Inc. will move its plant from Cape Girardeau, but the rumor cannot be confirmed at the office of the local plant, although it is indicated that such a plan is under consideration.

The debate team from the high school at Jackson wins the annual district debate tournament held at Teachers College, defeating Sikeston, Mo., in the final contest; the winning team -- L.R. Seabaugh and Paul Mueller -- upholds the affirmative side of the question, "Resolved: That the United States should establish alliance with Great Britain."

1914

About 60 men and women gathered in the circuit courtroom at Jackson recently to perfect the organization of the Jackson branch of the Cape Girardeau County Anti-Saloon League; after numerous talks, M.G. LaPierre arose and began to read an agreement, calling all that were in favor of the prohibition movement to come forward and sign up, whereupon those that were in sympathy with the league signed their names, while the indifferent or opposed scattered.

Adjusters for the insurance companies that had policies on Centenary Methodist Church, after careful investigation, declared the edifice a total loss; the companies will pay out $20,000 in benefits.

-- Sharon K. Sanders