Out of the past 7/11/13

1988

Local postal officials are pleased with the news that full window service will be restored in September; the postmaster general announced late last week that managers have found enough savings in other areas to reopen windows Sept. 10 "to the same level of service that existed prior to Feb. 13."

More than 100 people, most of them property owners in the area proposed for annexation between Interstate 55 and Jackson's east city limits, turn out for a public hearing at Jackson's American Legion Hall to voice their concern and opposition to the annexation move.

1963

State College's complex enrollment procedures are in high gear to register more than 3,900 students for the fall semester; new student registration has been running 7 percent to 10 percent above last year.

At a town meeting last night, Pocahontas residents voted to go ahead with plans to buy firefighting equipment; the 233 persons present gave the board of trustees authority to proceed with investigations into equipment that might be purchased; to actually purchase the equipment will require a vote to increase taxes.

1938

Final approval and release of funds by the PWA in Washington for the construction of a library building and a men's dormitory building at the Teachers College here is given; Fred A. Groves of Cape Girardeau, chairman of the Board of Regents, said plans for the library will be released immediately to contractors for bidding.

Voters in the Jackson school district will decide tomorrow whether the district should be bonded to the amount of $75,000 for the acquisition of additional real estate and construction of a new grade school.

1913

Undertaker E.P. Thomas got back from St. Louis yesterday and announced he will go to Fredericktown, Mo., in the near future to take charge of an undertaking establishment.

M.M. Aldrich, state organizer of socialists, is scheduled to deliver a talk to the followers of socialism at the Common Pleas Courthouse tonight; he will "endeavor to tell them just what to do and what not to do to cut down their working hours and get more money for doing what they do."

-- Sharon K. Sanders