Out of the past 8/10/14

1989

As of the end of July, the Cape Girardeau City Jail quit detaining federal prisoners for extended periods of time; the jail will still hold prisoners for a few days, a weekend, or during federal trials here.

St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. has been given a $197,000 Mo-Bucks loan, which will enable the tourist railroad line to increase its marketing and promotional activities.

1964

A child will select one of two envelopes to declare a winner in the Republican primary election contest for county judge of the First District, if that race remains deadlocked at the end of the official canvass; Judge Alvin F. Klaus of Jackson and Herbert L. Brune of Daisy are tied with 405 votes each.

Work is still stopped on the new Jackson Junior High School, as union pickets again appear and workers refuse to cross the picket lines; School Superintendent R.O. Hawkins says he still doesn't know why the school building is being picketed.

1939

ORAN, Mo. -- Fire at 2 a.m. practically destroys the H.B. Womack drug store and the Kroger grocery store here; although no estimate has been made of the damage, the side walls of the buildings, both of which are owned by Womack, are buckled; the ceilings, part of the flooring, plate glass windows, doors, plastering, lathing and studs are seriously damaged.

A vacation camp for housewives has opened at the old Rotary Lodge camp on Castor River near Grassy, Missouri, in Bollinger County; eight Cape Girardeau County women, along with 10 women from Bollinger County, 10 from Perry County and four from Madison County, are taking part in the three-day mothers' vacation camp.

1914

Mary Stehr, widow of the late Conrad Stehr, died at her home on North Middle Street yesterday at age 72; she was born in Prag, Bohemia, and came to this country in 1858, when she was 16; two years later she married Stehr, who died last December.

Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Courleaux return from a few days' visit in St. Louis and will spend a few days more here with Mrs. Courleaux's mother, Mrs. D.A. Nichols, before returning to their home in Birmingham.

-- Sharon K. Sanders