1989

The future of the hospital industry was discussed last night at the Southeast Missouri Hospital Association's annual dinner meeting; the theme was sounded on several fronts, including in remarks by Charles L. Bowman, president of the Missouri Hospital Association.

It seems spring skipped over the Cape Girardeau area; yesterday's high was a record-setting 91 degrees at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport.

1964

Petitions asking the Cape Girardeau City Council to declare by ordinance a need for low-cost public housing here were submitted to the council yesterday by members of a committee working in behalf of a housing project.

Members of the city council have tentatively agreed to permit the construction of a permanent building in Arena Park about 30 feet to the east of its originally planned location; the move is intended to alleviate some of the objections to the building location that had been voiced by nearby residents.

1939

In an effort to relieve the traffic situation in the Main Street business district, those who operate stores or work in the area have agreed to refrain from parking their automobiles on the street, so as to provide more parking for shoppers.

Damp weather and the advanced age of Whitebuffalowman, grandson of Sitting Bull, discourages E.A. Milligan and his two Indian friends from camping on the Teachers College campus as intended; instead, they are doing their camping out at the Idan-Ha Hotel; Milligan and the Indians, Whitebuffalowman and Andrew Little Moon, are here from the Dakotas to put on tribal ceremonies in connection with the Midwestern Folk Drama Festival.

1914

The Bee Store has added two live, energetic young men as stockholders in the big store, having formed a stock company composed of Louis Ische, Alvin Freeman, Albert Haman and Wilson Haman.

Warren Baker receives a telegram from his son-in-law, F.E. Townsend, who was taken from a train at Aguas Calientes, Mexico, by troops of President Victoriano Huerta and imprisoned; it states that he expects to be released and will start for home immediately; Townsend is chief chemist for the American Smelting and Refining Co.

-- Sharon K. Sanders