Out of the past 12/21/13

1988

A modified annexation plan approved by the Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday is an unacceptable counter proposal, say members of the Cape Girardeau City Council; all seven council members say Cape Girardeau city officials have reached the limit of compromise regarding efforts to resolve out of court an annexation dispute between the two towns.

Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Lt. Jonathan D. Jordan is the 1988 recipient of the Timothy J. Ruopp Memorial Award.

1963

The severe cold, coupled with the low stage of the river, stops barge traffic; the winter conditions the past three days slowly pinched down and now there is scarcely an effort to keep tows moving; river stage at Cape Girardeau in the morning is 3.4 feet.

A work by Dr. John W. Oliver, graduate of Cape State College and former head of the history department at the University of Pittsburgh, has been selected as one of 1,000 books showing the progress of the nation to be placed in the White House library; Oliver was born on a farm near Leemon on Indian Creek and is a nephew of the late Sen. R.B. Oliver; his book is "American Technology."

1938

Mayor O.T. Honey of Chaffee, Mo., is in town handing refund checks to those who subscribed to a shoe factory fund, this being the second time a 10 percent payment is made; when Chaffee got a new shoe factory and put up $53,000 in cash and labor, it was with the agreement than 10 percent of the wages of all regular employees would be withheld to reimburse those who made the factory possible.

An application for $13,000 additional funds, to represent 45 percent of the amount necessary to equip the two new buildings under construction at the Teachers College, is made to the regional office of the Public Works Administration at Omaha, Neb., by the college.

1913

"Peace Sunday" is observed at First Baptist Church; in his sermon, the Rev. F.Y. Campbell, pastor, deals with the peace propaganda, the methods of its sweep everywhere, the inadequacy of armies and navies, the economy of the movement, and a number of other subject; Campbell is a member of the Missouri Peace Society.

Mrs. Louise S. Frenzel Hemman, the oldest inhabitant of Shawnee Township, if not all of Cape Girardeau County, died at the home of her son, Gustav Hemman, near Shawneetown Friday; Hemman, who came here in 1858 from Saxony, was 91 years, 6 months and 2 days old.

-- Sharon K. Sanders