1987

Despite low water conditions in the Mississippi River channel between St. Paul and Baton Rouge, there has been no serious disruption of commercial navigation on the river; at Cape Girardeau, the stage in the morning is 9.3 feet.

Funding is now in place for the widening of a section of Independence Street; the $364,000 project, which has been on the drawing board for years, involves the widening of Independence from Kingshighway to East Rodney Drive.

1962

Electric traffic signals will be installed at the Broadway intersections of Fountain Street, West End Boulevard and Caruthers; plans for the general upgrading of the city's traffic signal system also may call for either the replacement or overhauling of existing stop-and-go lights at six intersections.

ADVANCE, Mo. -- A well-dressed, undisguised bandit pretending to be a St. Louis attorney, holds up the Bank of Advance at gunpoint; he forces two tellers to empty their cash drawers and herds the five women employees into the vault, making his escape with $9,637.

1937

Moving into its third day, the session of the St. Louis Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, being held at Centenary Methodist Church, takes on the spiritual seriousness of "crusading"; Bishop John M. Moore, the presiding officer, of Dallas, Tex., calls on church leaders for a "re-awakening of our morale."

A 60-foot steel stack fabricated in the foundry of the Southeast Missouri Machine Co. shop, 20 N. Spanish St., is sent by truck to Chaffee, Mo., to be installed at the new shoe factory; built in two sections, the stack weighs 3,000 pounds.

1912

There are numerous doctors in Cape Girardeau, as they are coming from all points of the 15 counties composing the Fourth Health District for a meeting of the Southeast Medical Association, the state medical board and the county and city medical boards.

Judge Alex Ross, for 26 years a referee in bankruptcy for the southeastern part of Missouri, has been reappointed to that position; Ross is almost 80 years old, but the native of Scotland enjoys strong mental faculties.

-- Sharon K. Sanders