1988

Dr. Dean Monahan, an English professor at Southeast Missouri State University, will be the first visiting professor of American studies in a new faculty exchange with West Germany; he will teach at the University of Erlangen next fall.

After having narrowly lost bids to win Marvin Proffer's House seat in 1984 and 1986, Kevin Phillips of Jackson has filed a third time as a Republican candidate for 158th District state representative; the only other candidate for the seat Proffer is vacating is Republican David Schwab, a farmer from near Jackson.

1963

About 200 business and civic leaders from 12 Southeast Missouri counties attend the daylong workshop of the Missouri Community Betterment Program at the Arena building.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has given tentative approval to the use of part of Indian Park for the development of Fountain Street; the block of Fountain would remain a public street and would become a through street between William and Merriwether streets, where no through access now exists.

1938

Mayor Edward L. Drum, discussing the Cape Girardeau's civil service ordinance, reiterates what he said at a conference on the measure earlier in the week, that the state law and the local ordinance leave the way open for the city council to subject present city employees who come under the ruling to examinations on a basis much like those provided for new applicants.

E.L. Haas, president of Superior Electric Products Corp., said an effort will be made to begin manufacturing operations at its new plant in Cape Girardeau about June 1.

1913

Officials with the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad are arranging to bring the big crowds to the coming Elks convention; they have ordered a rate of 30 cents for the round trip from Jackson; a special trail will leave Jackson at 6:30 each evening of the convention; those wishing to go direct to the fairgrounds to see the big "Mexico" spectacle will be permitted to get off at West End Boulevard.

Seven new members are inducted into the Masonic Lodge: Charles Sauttens, Dr. W.N. Howard, Dr. E.G. Wilson, E.M. Carter, C.W. Hall and G.W. Vaughn of Cape Girardeau and John Craig of Illmo.

-- Sharon K. Sanders