Out of the past 8/1/13

1988

The Soviet way of life is the focus of a series of articles that begins running in the Southeast Missourian; the articles were written by Jon Rust, a junior this fall at the University of North Carolina, who spent a month in the U.S.S.R. this spring.

BENTON, Mo. -- The Scott County Commission has filed an application with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources to allow vertical expansion of the existing landfill near Morley, Mo.; that landfill is slated to close Aug. 15, but could reopen next year with DNR approval.

1963

A Missouri Pacific Railroad official from Little Rock, Ark., yesterday surveyed the deterioration of Independence Street between the railroad tracks and said that corrective measures would be started soon; a company work crew now smoothing rough crossings here will be put to work on Independence Street immediately upon completion of its current task.

Sudden death strikes two Poplar Bluff, Mo., cousins, when the south wall of an excavation for a new bridge over Ramsey Creek at Scott City collapses and buries them under six feet of earth.

1938

The Rural Electrification Administration in Washington, D.C., has given preliminary consideration to an application of the Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Cooperative Association for an additional loan to extend its rural power lines in Stoddard, Mississippi, New Madrid and Scott counties; the proposed extensions would total 175 miles of line to serve 613 new customers.

Clifton Sherwood and Gilbert Sievers are the champion fishermen of Cape Girardeau County; over the weekend, they caught 17 catfish in Whitewater, the entire catch weighing 65 pounds.

1913

The hoodlum element of Thebes, Ill., is up in arms and making threats because the decent element has dared to have a tent revival; evangelist O.L. Martin from Barlow, Ky., has been threatened and attacked repeatedly since he began the tabernacle meeting July 22.

The Brunke brothers have been given the contract to build the new Saint Francis Hospital on Good Hope Street; they expect to begin work on the new building next week.

-- Sharon K. Sanders