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1988

Remodeling of the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse at Jackson is well underway; the public defender has moved into new quarters on the ground floor, and remodeling of space for a branch office for the Missouri attorney general is about a week from completion.

Historic preservation enthusiasts are gathered in Cape Girardeau for the third annual Local Preservation Conference, being held at Drury Lodge.

1963

For the first time since the congregation was founded in 1833, the School Sisters of Notre Dame are wearing newly designed religious habits; the Sisters, who teach at St. Mary's Elementary and Notre Dame High schools, are attired in new semi-tailored garb.

Sixteen new State Highway Patrolmen were graduated from the academy at Rolla, Mo., over the weekend, including former Cape Girardeau police officer Bill J. Adams; he will be assigned to the Kennett, Mo., zone; this will free Trooper L.L. Strayhorn, a former Cape Girardeau resident, for duty here.

1938

An office is established by Group Hospital Service Inc. in the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce building, preparatory to launch a campaign here to establish group and family hospitalization; the plan provides for low-cost hospitalization for industrial groups of employees and also permits a plan for similar hospitalization of the dependents of these employees.

The new brick gymnasium being constructed at St. Vincent's College will be completed this coming summer; some of the brick from the old convent property on South Spanish Street will be used as backing for the interior walls.

1913

Chief of Police D.A. Nichols, carrying on a white slave crusade as instructed by the city council, yesterday cleared a woman out of a house in the north end of town; area property owners had asked the council to run the woman run out of town.

Jake Bruihl, John Roth, Louis Albrecht, George Roth and Henry Uelsman came up from Illmo on Tuesday to consult with a Cape Girardeau mason regarding the construction of a house for the teacher of the Lutheran German school.

-- Sharon K. Sanders