1990

Dr. Robert Foster, executive vice president of Southeast Missouri State University, speaking at the Copper Dome Society Breakfast at the Show Me Center yesterday, announces $16.2 million has been raised so far in the university's $25 million capital fundraising campaign.

Following a colorful Southeast Missouri State University Homecoming parade, the Indians defeat Central Missouri State Mules, 21-7; at halftime, Karen Price and Colby Potts are crowned Woman and Man of the Year for 1990.

1965

City Councilman W.E. Davis has accepted a job as administrator of a Clinton, Kentucky, hospital. He plans to resign from the city council, with his vacancy likely to be filled by appointment by other members of that body.

Mrs. Alvin Kamp, county registration clerk, says about one-fifth of Cape Girardeau County's estimated 12,000 eligible voters have registered so far under a countywide voter-registration program voted into effect a year ago. Aside from registering at Kamp's office at the courthouse in Jackson, registration stations are visiting the townships for the convenience of rural voters.

1940

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Bishop John C. Broomfield of St. Louis, head of the Methodist Church in this area, leads a special dedication service in the morning for the Methodist Church here. In the afternoon, he travels to Oak Ridge, where he dedicates a new parsonage. That residence replaces one that was destroyed by fire earlier in the year.

City park commissioner Raymond E. Beckman says a shelter will be provided this winter for ducks and geese at the Fairground Park lagoon. A small building near the lake was torn down this summer, but a temporary shelter will be placed nearby for the waterfowl.

1915

Roy Clark, the 176-pound lad who played with the high-school football team last year, says an all-star grid team is being organized here; Julian Dearmont likely will coach the team, which hopes to pick up games with Sikeston and Charleston, Missouri.

The steamer Ferd Herold of the Lee Line Co. of Memphis is aground on the Chain of Rocks, between Thebes, Illinois, and Commerce, Missouri. It cannot move until some other boat comes along and pulls it off. The boat ran onto the rocks last night around 9. There is no danger of the boat sinking.

-- Sharon K. Sanders