1988

Beginning this fall, Southeast Missouri State University will offer a new undergraduate degree: a bachelor of science with a major in health management.

A divided Cape Girardeau City Council, on a 4-3 vote, agrees to meet behind closed doors with area officials to discuss a proposed recreational lake project; the meeting in the Cape Girardeau County Commission chambers at Jackson lasts about 15 minutes and involves about 20 officials, including the Jackson Board of Aldermen, the Cape council, Marble Hill Mayor Shirley Cooper, and Bollinger County and Cape County commissioners.

1963

Rear Admiral Howard A. Yeager, who recently assumed command of the Ninth Naval District, is the guest speaker at the quarterly meeting of the Cape Girardeau Council of the Navy League.

A firefighting unit available for use throughout Cape Girardeau County is expected to be ready for operation next week, reports Dale Schneier, captain of the Sheriff's Patrol, a Civil Defense organization; the Patrol's firetruck was constructed with volunteer labor from parts of trucks, using the Bangert garage for most of the work.

1938

A final $16,874.49 in the receivership of the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad has been paid out, and the C.G.N. case, on the Common Pleas Court docket for 24 1/2 years, has been closed.

Although falling about 20 feet from a second-story window to the ground, Nancy Suzanne, 3, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Lewis, escapes serious injuries; the child is playing with neighbors Elizabeth and Emma L. Fuerth, when she falls through a window on the north side of the house at 328 S. Spanish St.

1913

Messrs. Miesner and Miller of the Miesner Manufacturing Co. of Altenburg are in Cape Girardeau to consider the removal of their plant to this city.

Local Boy Scouts reorganize their company; after a period of several months' torpidity, since Scoutmaster Frank Schulte left town, new life is breathed into the troop by leaders Sam Sherman, Charles Boutin, Robert Lamkin and Arthur Bowman, who have taken over sponsorship of the organization.

-- Sharon K. Sanders