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1989

The Cape Girardeau Convention/Tourism Bureau Advisory Board believes the city should have an official logo; the question came up during the board's monthly meeting following a discussion of new signs that will be installed at four entrances to the city.

Members of a task force to investigate the athletic program in the Cape Girardeau School District are announced; the 21-member panel will be led by school board president Carolyn Kelly and board member Pat Ruopp.

1964

The Cape Girardeau County Court will ask the state attorney general's opinion on the dispute between Cape Girardeau and County Collector Bill W. Rose over use of an office in the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau; in Prosecuting Attorney Bill D. Burlison's opinion, Rose has a complete right to keep his branch office in the courthouse, subject to the will of the County Court.

Approximately 150 Cub Scouts participated in the annual running of the Shawnee District Pinewood Derby yesterday at the Arena Building; taking top honors were Thomas Prost, John Bertrand, Dennis Brown, David Bertrand, Don Wilson and David Steinhoff.

1939

When classes begin again in September, the doors of the Shawneetown school will remain closed for the first time in more than 70 years; the attendance there has become so low that the board has decided to transport about seven or eight pupils to the New Wells public school.

Reports from Jefferson City, Missouri, that James E. Matthews of Sikeston, Missouri, might not be retained by Gov. Lloyd C. Stark as director of the department of penal institutions, to which he was appointed by Clark nearly two years ago, stuns politicians in Southeast Missouri.

1914

Edwin J. Deal of Charleston, Missouri, is unanimously elected president of the Southeast Missouri Trust Co.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Around 2:30 p.m., fire breaks out in the big storage shed of the Sikeston Mercantile Co. just east of the McCoy-Tanner building; in less than 10 minutes, the whole shed is a sheet of flames; several professional men with offices upstairs move their goods out onto the street; the storage shed is packed with goods of all kinds, including furniture, hardware, groceries, clothing and shoes; a fine hearse stored there is saved by volunteers, but everything else inside is lost.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__