Out of the past: Jan. 9

1991

Hoping to catch people's attention and keep them from breaking the law, Municipal Court Judge Ed Calvin has raised most city fines; changed most dramatically are the driving while intoxicated fines.

Three vacancies will be filled in the April Jackson school board election; the third vacancy occurred yesterday, when board member Nancy Shafer resigned, effective today; she is moving this month to pastor a church in St. Louis; she has been pastor of Zion United Methodist Church in Gordonville.

1966

Pupils from Central and Notre Dame high schools and students from the Sigma Chi fraternity of State College collect a record $857.16 in their bread sales to benefit the Cape Girardeau County 1966 March of Dimes; 2,999 loaves of bread are sold, and the 3,000th loaf is to be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

BENTON, Mo. --The Scott County R-4 School District has received word from the State Department of Education that its application for a kindergarten has been approved; any child in the district who was 5 years old by last Oct. 1 is eligible to enroll.

1941

Establishment of a relief operators' station in Cape Girardeau by the East Texas Freight Lines is announced; six families are moving to Cape Girardeau from various points in Texas and will reside here permanently; the big freight line, which operates from virtually all points in Texas, Arkansas and into Missouri, will have these truck drivers here as an exchange or relief crew.

Phases of the government's farm program have been extended to orchards in Cape Girardeau County with owners, who qualify, being paid an average of 30 cents per tree for all apple trees removed from their tracts; unprofitable trees or those yielding fruit of a variety no longer in demand may be cut out, and the owner may replant with more profitable varieties.

1916

A meeting is held at Centenary Methodist Church, attended by a half dozen Protestant preachers and two laymen from each church, to discuss whether to hold a big revival meeting in Cape Girardeau; it is unanimously agreed that the town is ready for another big religious awakening.

The manufacturing plant of the Miesner Lumber and Manufacturing Co. of Wittenberg, Missouri, a small town on the Frisco about 30 miles north of here, was destroyed by fire last night; the plant, containing the machinery, the patterns and considerable furniture ready for shipping, was destroyed.

-- Sharon K. Sanders