Out of the past 6/29/09

The three incumbents on the Cape Girardeau County Board of Directors for Handicapped Facilities -- Norman Copeland, Robert Phalen and Edward Downs -- were reappointed to new three-year terms by the County Court yesterday; their terms expired at the end of June.

Wal-Mart officials confirm the company will move its Cape Girardeau store to a location near the West Park Mall before the end of the year.

50 years ago: June 29, 1959

Gordon Lynn, commercial manager for Missouri Utilities Co., completes his term as president of the Cape Girardeau Rotary Club and turns over duties of the office to John L. Blue, a member of The Missourian newspaper staff.

Michael Essner, 9, of Chaffee, Mo., escapes with only minor injuries when he is run over by a cultivator at the family farm; Essner, the son of Herbert Essner, receives a bump on the head, bruises and abrasions, but no broken bones.

75 years ago: June 29, 1934

Yesterday was the hottest day of the year, the temperature rising to 101 1/2 degrees; the night cooled slightly, and the mercury slid to 76 degrees; a break in the heat wave is expected tomorrow.

Seven hundred pounds of sugar confiscated at a liquor still in a recent federal raid has been turned over to Capt. Ernest Orchard of the Salvation Army for distribution to needy families in Cape Girardeau.

100 years ago: June 29, 1909

The new route to the south and to St. Louis, via the Cape Girardeau & Thebes Bridge Terminal and the Cotton Belt, is becoming popular; the service will do even better after the middle of July, when a regular passenger run will be put on, leaving the city at 11 a.m. and running to Kelso, Mo., where connection will be made with Cotton Belt trains to and from St. Louis and the South; the train will then return to Cape Girardeau and continue to Chester, Ill., where connections will be made with the Iron Mountain and Wabash Western, returning here at 11 p.m.

Schrader & Son have the contract for tuck-pointing the Common Pleas Courthouse; as soon as the work is finished, the old building will get a coat of paint.

-- Sharon K. Sanders