Out of the past: Feb. 20

1991

The Cape Girardeau City Council takes the city staff to task over its policy of investing city funds out-of-state to achieve better interest rates; all the council members present tell City Manager J. Ronald Fischer and Assistant City Manager Al Stoverink they think city funds should be invested locally.

DEXTER, Mo. -- Marilyn Williams, who lives on a farm with her family near Dudley, Missouri, in Stoddard County, yesterday won a special election for the 156th District over Republican Jerry Seabaugh, a car salesman from Dexter.

1966

Members of the Maj. Gen. L.J. Sverdrup class of Eagle Scouts receive Scouting's highest honor in an afternoon ceremony at State College; the class is made up of 61 Southeast Missouri boys, representing 22 communities and 36 Boy Scout Troops or Explorer Posts.

Monsignor Leo P. Kampmann, pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral, explains the new regulations for Lent at morning Masses; the days of fasting and abstinence from meat have been reduced in the new rules.

1941

After listening 1 1/2 hours to arguments for and against a student-initiated petition for an "open house" at Central High School at least once a month, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education approves the plan, placing the entertainment under the supervision of the Parent-Teacher Unit and the student council; the one dissenting voice in the debate was the Rev. J.H. Sherrill's, pastor of the Church of God; he presents a petition of 49 names protesting the plan.

Another winter will soon be tucked away, and Girardeans are getting used to something unusual: an ice-less Mississippi River; for the first time in a great many years, there has been no floating ice here; there have been no reports of ice jams along the stream anywhere north of here either.

1916

Judge John A. Snider was elected Common Pleas Court judge yesterday by a majority of 283 votes over Sen. Thomas F. Lane.

The day is celebrated in the Bible school of the Christian Church as Washington's Birthday Sunday and Parents' Day; the young people of the congregation have the church appropriately decorated for the occasion, and the special exercises in connection with the regular program are enjoyed by all.

-- Sharon K. Sanders