David Angier
NewsOctober 14, 1997
HIGH WINDS CAUSE CITY POWER OUTAGE; BUSINESSES REPORT LOSS DUE TO FAILURESome businesses along Broadway were cleaning up and making repairs Monday after a power outage Sunday. High winds on Sunday might have blown a high-voltage power line feeding the Union Electric Clark Street substation into another line, eliminating power to a quart...NewsOctober 13, 1997
KETTLE CORN BOOTH DRAWS BIG CROWDThe line to the Ma and Pa Kettle Korn booth Sunday at the Black Forest Village's 7th Annual Octoberfest was the longest of any attraction. Inside the booth were Vickie Jennings and Nathan Wyrick who were doing their best to fill in for the grandfather of kettle cor...NewsOctober 13, 1997
FAMILY FINDS CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S GRAVEIt took four years for Rose Mary Bayer to find her past. When she did, Bayer found it buried under nearly 60 years of underbrush and fallen trees. Bayer of Huntsville, Ala., arranged a ceremony Sunday for Confederate Army Pvt. Perry P.W. Hopper, who died in 1923. H...NewsOctober 10, 1997
MISSISSIPPI TRIP PROVIDES PAIR NEW FREEDOMEAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- Andrew Holm and Caroline McCrea have found freedom. Holm, 20, of Rockford, Ill., and McCrea, 19, of Pittsburgh, are 1,500 miles into a canoe trip down the Mississippi River. Thursday, they were camped on the Illinois bank of the river a...NewsOctober 10, 1997
SCOTT CITY RALLIES FOR FIRE VICTIMSSCOTT CITY -- It's too late to save Norma and Adam Eads, but the residents of Scott City are coming to the aid of those who are left behind. Norma Eads, 38, and her 3-year-old son Adam died Wednesday morning in a house fire that not only took their lives but destro...NewsOctober 8, 1997
TWO SCOTT CITY EMPLOYEES GIVEN 30 DAYS TO COMPLY WITH ORDINANCESCOTT CITY -- The Scott City Council is giving two city employees 30 days to come into compliance with a special-use ordinance or face the possibility of legal action. A Planning and Zoning Committee member told the council late last month that Public Works directo...NewsOctober 8, 1997
EX-PERRY DEPUTY ENTERS GUILTY PLEANine of the 10 charges against a former Perry County sheriff's deputy were dropped Monday after he pleaded guilty to the remaining charge. Daniel R. Bowman, 39, of 605 Parkview in Perryville, was arrested in August and charged with four counts of possession of Xana...NewsOctober 7, 1997
SCOTT CITY SPECIAL-USE VIOLATIONS ALLEGEDSCOTT CITY -- The Scott City Planning and Zoning Committee will be asked to call a special meeting as quickly as possible to address a number of possible special-use violations. Two of those accused of violating the ordinance governing special-use permits are Publi...FeaturesOctober 7, 1997
SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: REPORTER LEAVING FOR THE FLORIDA SUNSHINE AND HOMEDon't cry for me Cape Girardeau -- the truth is I've never really been here. It's a poor paraphrase of Evita, but what the heck, it's my last column. I'm moving. I've landed a job back home in Florida and I leave Oct. 15. I'll be home in time for the second-half of...NewsOctober 6, 1997
FORMER ART STUDENT HONORED WITH RECEPTIONThe works of Jake Wells joined his legend Sunday in the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. "Everybody has a Jake Wells story," said Dr. Jenny Strayer, museum director. "That's one of the reasons that the work is so important to us. But it's just one reason...Advertisement
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