BUSINESS LINE: TIME LINE REFLECTS GROWING, CHANGING BUSINESS SCENE

1920-1929

1920 Commercial Club became Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce.

1920 Tenzer Hat factory started.

1920 First woman barber in Cape Girardeau - Mrs. Dewess Pratt.

1920 Security State Bank opened.

1920 Shoe factory addition opened with dance.

1920 Western Union telegraph office moved to corner of Broadway and Spanish, Masonic building.

1920 Bierschwall Meat Market opened.

1920 Miller-Fischer Grocery started.

1920 Missourian Printing & Stationery Co. formed.

1921 Henry Sanders purchased Orpheum Theater.

1921 Doyle and Strait purchased Orpheum Theater.

1921 New Broadway Theater incorporated.

1921 Deimund's sand station established.

1921 Liberty National Life Insurance Co. bought H-H Building.

1921 Louis Kipping purchased Schuchert Opera House building.

1921 New Frisco passenger station dedicated.

1922 New Broadway Theater formally opened with showing of "The Impressario."

1922 First Kroger Store in Cape Girardeau opened on Broadway.

1922 The Morning Sun suspended operation.

1922 The Cape Sun and The Jackson Cashbook sold for $1,305.

1922 Paul Finney bought Gockel Pharmacy.

1922 Sherman Store on Broadway closed because of burglary and drop in prices after war.

1922 Buckner-Ragsdale Bargain Basement opened.

1922 Henry H. Vogelsang purchased Morrison Ice and Fuel Co., 600 block of North Main, changing its name to Riverside Ice and Fuel Co.

1922 Electric Supply Co. started.

1922 Mehrle Grocery Store opened.

1923 Farmers and Merchants Bank moved to new building at 701 Good Hope.

1923 Marquette Cement Co. took over Cape Girardeau Portland Cement Co. plant.

1923 Last of harness makers closed his shop in Cape Girardeau.

1923 Popp & Springer Realty Company formed.

1923 Cape Girardeau radio broadcasting station opened.

1924 Gift Shop purchased by Mrs. D.J. Keller and Marie Friant.

1924 Brinkopf-Howell mortuary opened.

1924 Work started on Cape Girardeau's first milk pasteurization plant.

1924 Cape Coal Co. established.

1924 A.E. Birk Plumbing started.

1924 J.C. Penney store opened.

1925 Gift Shop moved into new Missourian Building, Broadway and Lorimier.

1925 Radio station KFVS was granted Marine Licenses 1776 issued to O.C. Hirsch.

1925 Contract let for new Hecht building.

1925 A.D. Milde and John R. Hoffman began Milde-Coca-Cola Co. at 27 N. Spanish.

1925 Piggly Wiggly Store opened at 721 Broadway.

1925 Cape Girardeau Building & Loan Association moved into new building on Main Street.

1925 Missourian Printing & Stationery Co. moved into new building, 302 Broadway. The Missourian moved into new building.

1925 New Hecht Store opened.

1925 Cape Girardeau Milk Co. opened pasteurization plant.

1925 Lueders Studio started.

1926 Pure Ice Co. opened.

1926 Firm of Meyer & Suedekum changed to Sudekum & Son Hardware.

1926 Burton Building and Loan Association opened office.

1926 Miles Packing Co. plant opened.

1926 Explosion wrecked John Lando's shoe store at 623 Good Hope.

1926 New broadcasting station of Hirsch Radio and Battery Co. opened.

1927 Blue Hole Barbecue stand established by William Franz.

1927 New Hecht store formally opened on Main.

1927 Southeast Missouri Trust Co. changed its name to Bank of Southeast Missouri.

1927 Cape Silica Co. incorporated.

1927 Aladdin skydome opened.

1927 People Theatre on Independence Street opened.

1927 Cape Girardeau School of Beauty Culture founded by Goldie Watts.

1927 Lindsay W. Simmons organized First Federal Savings and Loan Association.

1927 Mrs. Ollie "Ma" Kopper closed eating house she ran for 19 years.

1928 Libson Hosiery Shop opened in St. Charles Hotel.

1928 Walther Funeral Home opened.

1928 Unnerstall Drug Store opened on South Sprigg.

1928 Shady Grove Barbecue Stand opened in South Cape.

1928 I. Ben Miller Drug Store opened on Broadway after nearly 40 years on Main Street.

1928 Addition erected to Idan Ha Hotel.

1928 New Carps Store on Broadway opened.

1928 W.G. Yardley purchased W.J. Peck Auditing Co.

1928 I. Ben Miller ice cream plant merged with Midwest Dairy Products Co.

1928 Hartner's Drug Store on Broadway opened.

1928 Leming Motor Co. purchased by Behrens & Alden.

1928 August Lang quit shoe business after 41 years.

1928 Juden Music Co. opened on Broadway.

1928 Neal's Hardware Store opened in new building.

1928 Zwick Shoe Store on Main Street started.

1928 Cape Beauty School opened.

1928 Irvin's, men's clothing store, started.

1928 Montgomery Ward Co. opened store on Broadway

1929 Talking pictures inaugurated at Broadway Theater.

1929 Alvarado filling station and restaurant opened.

1929 Wielpuetz Bakery introduced sliced bread to Cape Girardeau.

1929 Newberry Store opened.

1929 New Clemens Jewelry Store opened in St. Charles Hotel.

1929 Sturdivant Bank took over Cape Exchange Bank.

1929 Bargain basement of Bartels Mercantile Co. on Broadway established.

1929 John F. Vogelsanger, veteran Main Street hardware merchant, retired from business after 46 years.

1929 Clifton's opened.

1929 Gately's Store opened at 313 Broadway.