Out of the past 6/11/09

Cape Girardeau's new riverfront park will be officially dedicated Wednesday morning; the ceremony will formally open the $100,000 concrete observation platforms on the east side of the floodwall.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee Mayor Robert Capshaw signs a lease with Thorngate Ltd. for the former Florsheim buildings and land in northern Chaffee; the agreement should bring 200 more jobs to the Chaffee Thorngate facilities over the next several months.

50 years ago: June 11, 1959

Special developments are underway at Cape Rock Village near the north side of the city and near Cape Rock; Suburban Realty Co. is owner and is headed by Dr. W.H. Whiting of Dongola, Ill., and William F. Suedekum Jr. of Cape Girardeau.

Crump was hit hard by rain last night when a steady downpour fell from 9 p.m. until about 10:30, bringing Crooked Creek out of its banks and putting the bottom lands under water; six inches of rain was reported at Crump.

75 years ago: June 11, 1934

John Carroll, 53, a farmer who lives near Fornfelt, sustains a broken left leg when he is run over by a binder at his farm; the leg is broken above the knee; his condition is not regarded as serious.

J. Henry Caruthers, a brother of W.P. Caruthers, opens a law office on the second floor of The Missourian building; he is a former prosecuting attorney of Cape Girardeau County, also was an assistant attorney general of Missouri under Jesse W. Barrett, and since 1926 has practiced law in St. Louis; he expects to open an office in Perryville, Mo., also.

100 years ago: June 11, 1909

F.E. Peas, a landscape gardener of Des Moines, Iowa, is here, having been engaged by Mercer D. Wilson to beautify his lands in the north part of Cape Girardeau; Wilson intends to plat the tract of land lying just north of the Normal School into parks and residential lots.

C.P. Sullivan, superintendent of buildings for the federal government, has arrived in Cape Girardeau and will reside in the Ponder home in the West End; Sullivan has been here most of the time for several months looking after the construction of the new federal building.

-- Sharon K. Sanders