Out of the past: March 23

1991

The Southeast Missouri State University Otahkians are unable to overcome the final hurdle in their quest for an NCAA Division II women's national championship. The Otahkians fall to North Dakota State, 81-74.

Republican officeholders turn out in the evening for the annual Lincoln Day dinner at the A.C. Brase Arena; they include Attorney General William Webster, State Rep. Mary Kasten, Congressman Bill Emerson, Secretary of State Roy Blunt, Congressman Fred Grandy of Iowa, State Treasurer Wendell Bailey and State Rep. David Schwab.

1966

Councilman W. Glenn Bishop gathered 76 percent of the votes in yesterday's city primary election and will be opposed in his bid for a three-year council term by the Rev. W.E. Pitts. Pitts, a Baptist minister, gained the April 5 general election by outdistancing Charles A. Palis by 25 votes in the regular balloting.

The Jackson R-2 School Board has started planning for additional elementary buildings to meet school space requirements. The construction envisioned would require a bond issue for all or part of the building program.

1941

Fifty-five new members of the First Baptist Church, most of them received during a two-week revival that ended last Sunday, are baptized in the evening at the church. The ceremony is conducted by the pastor, Dr. H.H. McGinty.

Five hams are stolen from a Nenninger Packing Co. truck at the rear of its market at 614 Good Hope St., early in the evening. The driver, Jim Shannon, had placed the meat in the truck and had gone back inside the building for a minute when the hams, valued at about $15, were taken. Shannon was filling a special order, preparing to take the hams to a local establishment where they were to be barbecued.

1916

A bulletin just issued by the Little River Drainage District officers shows two of the 26 general contracts have been completed; 32 of the 85 ditches to be dug in the district have been completed. The district officers have paid out $1,068,634.24 to contractors for the work they have performed so far.

Mrs. Florence Boone opens her millinery store in the morning in the Elks Building on Themis Street. She has a complete line of pattern hats. They were being held by an express company at the time fire destroyed her previous shop. These and others have arrived since the fire and are on display.

-- Sharon K. Sanders