BUSINESS LINE: TIME LINE REFLECTS GROWING, CHANGING BUSINESS SCENE

1930-1939

1930 Old brewery building, at southeast corner of Morgan Oak and Middle, burned.

1930 Sturdivant Bank, 77 years on Main Street, took over Bank of Southeast Missouri and moves to H.-H. Building on Broadway.

1930 Formal opening of Kinder's Drug Store on Good Hope.

1930 Midwest Dairy absorbed Cape Milk Co.

1930 Haman's Funeral Home opened on South Sprigg.

1930 Last blacksmith shop on Broadway closed.

1930 Main Street building occupied by Clark Music Co. damaged by fire.

1930 Fire destroyed Ruehmann Hide & Fur six-story building.

1930 Idan Ha Hotel sold at foreclosure sale.

1930 Postal Telegraph & Cable Co. opened office in Marquette Hotel.

1930 Sausage room of Mueller Meat Market on Broadway destroyed by fire.

1930 Dormeyer's West Broadway pharmacy opened.

1930 Formal dedication of entry of Missouri Pacific Railroad into Cape Girardeau celebrated.

1930 W.B. Ferguson of Paragould, Ark., bought Hartner Drug Store on Broadway.

1930 Cape Coal Co. barn and four horses burned.

1930 Mehrle's Grocery and Meat Market opened at new location on Independence Street.

1930 Bryan Laundry purchased by R.E. England, E.L. Miller, and W.A. Cantrell.

1930 Telephone Co. moved into new building.

1930 James Wrecker Service started by Joe D. James Jr.

1930 Nation Bros. Auto Electric opened by Harold Nation.

1931 George A. Kassel opened photography studio on Main Street and began tintyping and making glass-plate pictures.

1931 Federal Materials Co. succeeds Edward Hely Stone Co.

1931 Gauze plant was sold.

1931 Kilgore Drug Store on Broadway was formally opened.

1931 Sugar Creek Creamery Co. moved to new plant on Sprigg Street.

1931 Moseley Jewelry Co. opened in new building.

1931 Schindler Barber Shop moved from Main Street to Broadway.

1931 Kape Karmelkorn shop opened.

1931 Gladish-Walker Furniture Co. opened.

1931 Red & White Store opened.

1932 Colonial Tavern opened.

1932 Sturdivant Bank, victim of Depression, closed; depositors received 35 cents on the dollar.

1932 Meyer Trachtenberg's new women's clothing store opened on Main Street; that night it was burglarized.

1932 Tombstone plant on West Broadway began operations.

1932 Asphalt Products plant purchased by Amiesite Co.

1932 Eat Shop reopened.

1932 Miller-Wohl Store on Main Street closed.

1932 Carron (Copy) Systems established.

1933 Hotel Marquette sold under court order.

1933 Farley Store on Main Street closed.

1933 Contract was let for construction of Montgomery Ward building on Main Street.

1933 Prohibition ended.

1933 Montgomery Ward Store opened on Main Street.

1933 Co-Op Boutique established by Elaine "Tommie" Davis, with partner Mrs. Walter Wehking.

1933 Heilig's Pharmacy, formerly City Drug Store, on Independence, opened.

1933 Aleen Vogel and Theodore Hedden opened The Bike Shop at 716 Broadway.

1933 Cape Cut Rate opened.

1934 Cape Brewery began operating with Max J. Koeck as brewmaster.

1934 Dempsey Grocery Store went out of business.

1934 St. Louis Band Instrument Co. opened music store, managed by R.F. "Peg" Meyer.

1934 Batten Furniture Co. opened.

1935 Buckner-Ragsdale Bargain Basement opened.

1935 W.F. Bergmann sold his grocery store.

1935 Front of Broadway Fruit Store was wrecked by explosion in banana-ripening compartment.

1935 Bruce Decker purchased Idan Ha Hotel.

1935 I. Ben Miller sold his dairy herd.

1935 H.H. Haas took over Oldsmobile motor agency on Broadway.

1935 Mattress plant and building on South Spanish Street burned.

1935 Rainbow Night Club opened in Idan Ha Hotel.

1935 Beard, Deevers & Estes Funeral Co. opened on South Sprigg Street.

1935 Max Wielpuetz sold his bakery to Tom Fitzgerald & Son.

1935 Calvin A. and Alvin A Werner, cousins, opened Werner's grocery.

1935 N.M. Mullen opened electrical appliance business.

1935 Maier's Auto & Home Supply started.

1936 Carlyn Nussbaum Estes became part owner in Co-Op Boutique.

1936 Old Sturdivant Bank building purchased by Maurice Bohnsack.

1936 Cape Foundry Co. plant in north Cape Girardeau made its first castings.

1936 Barn owned by Wulfers Bros. Dairy on West Broadway burned.

1936 Ruh Market opened in new home on Good Hope.

1936 Dean & Company opened.

1937 Fire swept Bartels Mercantile Co. store building at Broadway and Ellis.

1937 Bartels new store opened at 430 Broadway.

1937 Schiff's Big Shoes, 17 N. Main, opened.

1937 H.E. Drake started The Girardean newspaper.

1937 Old Miles Packing plant, idle, sold.

1937 New Florence Beauty Shoppe, 711 Broadway, opened.

1937 Central Packing Co. began operation in old Miles plant in South Cape.

1937 Buckner-Ragsdale Store reopened in remodeled and enlarged quarters.

1937 Rueseler Motor Co. opened in enlarged home on North Fountain.

1937 Fire destroyed Pollack Hide & Fur Co.'s building on Independence.

1938 Superior Electric began operation.

1938 Scott Store on Main Street closed after nine years in operation.

1938 I. Ben Miller dairy farm purchased by Dr. John Newitt of St. Louis.

1938 Woolworth Store expanded.

1938 Feinberg's Fashion Shop at 29 North Main opened.

1938 Southeast Missouri Packing Co. on Highway 61 was sold by Mrs. Anton Sebeck to the Pipkin-Boyd-Neal Packing Co. of Joplin.

1938 Elaine "Tommie" Davis and Jane Barnett became partners in Co-Op Botique.

1938 Oscar and Ruby Brown and E.D. Winstead opened GMC truck dealership and trucking company (B&W Transport) at 306 North Main.

1938 Riverside Ice plant on North Main sold to Pure Ice Co.

1938 Cape GMC Pontiac opened at 306 N. Main by Ruby and Oscar Brown and E.D. Winstead.

1938 Cavaner's Market opened.

1938 Landgraf Lumber Co. established.

1939 Walther Funeral Home reopened.

1939 J. Maple Wilson sold drug store after being in business since 1880.

1939 Old Mill Lumber Co. on North Main opened.

1939 R.B. Andrews sold his grocery, which had opened in 1906.

1939 Fire damaged Cape Rock Dairy Co. ice cream plant on South Middle.

1939 Braun Bros. Grocery Store on Good Hope swept by fire.

1939 General Sign Co. founded by Lon J. Maxey.