RecordsAugust 22, 2013
Out of the past 8/22/13
Southeast Missouri State University begins fall semester classes with electrical power to all campus buildings; officials don't anticipate any major problems as a result of an electric generation snag that developed last week. Work on the first phase of the Independence Street project is nearing completion and planning continues for another street project: Construction of an access street to the Schnucks/K Mart commercial area...
1988
Southeast Missouri State University begins fall semester classes with electrical power to all campus buildings; officials don't anticipate any major problems as a result of an electric generation snag that developed last week.
Work on the first phase of the Independence Street project is nearing completion and planning continues for another street project: Construction of an access street to the Schnucks/K Mart commercial area.
1963
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Ralph Mattocks has sold his Chaffee Signal, a weekly newspaper, to Bob Kielhofner, 27, of Chaffee, but will remain with the paper six months; Mattocks' father, C.E. Mattocks, published the Signal from 1910 to 1924, when the son became the owner.
The former Colony Club site at the junction of Highways 3 and 146 near McClure, Ill., has been purchased by a St. Louis syndicate which proposes to build a cafe, lounge and motel.
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1938
The Corning Theater building at Corning, Ark., leased by Robert Wilson and Edwin L. Kies of Jackson, was destroyed by fire last night; the two opened the theater about seven months ago after leasing the building from Mary Ware of Corning and spent about $14,000 remodeling it.
Efforts to have the city council reconsider its recent action overturning a merit system ordinance have been dropped by the League of Women Voters; although the league still maintains its stand on employing public workers on a basis of merit rather than under the spoils system, the local issue has been abandoned, at least for now.
1913
Girardeans are happy with the 2 1/2 inches of rain they received overnight, when two storms passed over the city; the rainfall was the largest the city has received since the spring; the last rain of any consequence was July 12, when 2.10 inches fell.
The Cape Girardeau School Board is arranging to give Professor John Cobb, at Lincoln School, an opportunity to make a record for himself this year; work benches and a complete set of tools for a manual training course will be installed at Lincoln next week; Cobb has long complained that about the only tool he had to work with in his manual training department was his jack knife.
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