Out of the past: Feb. 26

1990

WASHINGTON -- Missouri death-row inmate Jerome Mallett, convicted in 1986 of killing state highway patrol trooper James Froemsdorf of Perryville, Missouri, loses a Supreme Court appeal; the court, over three dissenting votes, lets stand rulings that Mallett received a fair trial and was properly sentenced to death.

In reference to a 6 percent drop in attendance at Trail of Tears State Park last year, park officials say it is a minor fluctuation and nothing to be concerned about.

1965

March 15 has been tentatively selected as the date for the opening of the 150th anniversary celebration of the city of Jackson; March 15 is Andrew Jackson's birthday, for whom the city was named.

M.E. Snider, Missouri's chief highway engineer, says the state may take bids this summer for right of way plantings along Interstate 55 from Fruitland to Scott City; in addition, he indicates the state may provide a rest area along the interstate in Cape Girardeau County, if a suitable location can be found.

1940

Having lost a wager on the outcome of the Cape Girardeau-Warrensburg (Missouri) basketball game, three Teachers College students push three other young men in wheelbarrows from Cheney Hall, where they all live, down Broadway and to Main Street; losers are Bob Will, George Williams and Earl Lake; winners are David Marshall, Homer Sheppard and Stanley Cohen.

Woodrow Jeffries of Lancaster, Missouri, has been added to the staff at the Standard Hatchery on the Bend Road; he will assist with sex sorting of chickens, as well as helping in general hatchery work.

1915

The Republican newspaper will distribute its Tenth Anniversary Edition tomorrow; owing to the weight of these magazines, the carrier boys will begin delivering them early in the morning; each subscriber will receive a copy, and extra copies can be purchased at the newspaper office.

Henry Uelsmann, a former bookkeeper with Leming Lumber Co., who recently passed the civil service examination and has been working in Washington, D.C., returns to that city after spending a week at Illmo with his ill mother.

-- Sharon K. Sanders