Out of the past: Jan. 14

1991

The switch from the traditional card-catalog system to a computerized card catalog and checkout system is finished at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. The cards previously housed in nine wooden filing cabinets -- six 60-drawer and three 30-drawer cases -- are slated for the recycling center.

State Rep. Mary Kasten of Cape Girardeau has captured a seat on the powerful House Budget Committee. The 30-member committee reviews recommendations from the five appropriations committees and compiles a final draft of the state's $8.3 billion budget for the full House to consider.

1966

Cape Girardeau County sides with the rest of rural Missouri and says "no" to the state reapportionment amendment proposal but goes along with the statewide trend on two other constitutional changes. All three proposals are approved over the state.

The Cape Girardeau Public School system will receive a planning grant for the operation of a team-teaching and non-graded system pilot project at Hawthorn School. The program is intended to encourage ingenuity and creativity in forming educational programs.

1941

Among three cases coming to Common Pleas Court here on changes of venue from the Circuit Court of Scott County is a suit brought by Mrs. Bernice Montgomery, asking for an injunction to restrain George Phillips from erecting and maintaining a skating rink tent on a main street of Chaffee, Missouri, and near property owned by Montgomery.

A delegation from the northwest part of the county appeared before the County Court again yesterday asking for a bridge over Cane Creek near Kurreville; at the same time another delegation from the same community or nearby appeared to protest against the proposed location of the bridge; after a lengthy discussion, the judges decide they should view the site before deciding the matter.

1916

A number of Paragould, Arkansas' young bloods rode into Illmo on a freight train early Tuesday morning and proceeded to try and drink Illmo dry. By noon, however, Marshal Hunt had them all safely stowed in jail, their dream of "drinking the Green River dry" rudely broken.

August F. Daues died in St. Louis last evening at age of about 51. He is the first of the large family of Daues brothers to pass away. He was in partnership with Fred, Chris and Will Daues in the brick-contracting business.

-- Sharon K. Sanders