Out of the past 1/19/09

25 years ago: Jan. 19, 1984

The Cape Girardeau City Council last night gave preliminary approval to the placement of four-way stop signs at Bloomfield Road and Spring Avenue, despite a city traffic study that indicated such action was unwarranted.

Local lawmakers say prospects are dim for state bond issue funding for the proposed Cape Girardeau multipurpose building and improvements to the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority during this legislative session.

50 years ago: Jan. 19, 1959

President Eisenhower's budget submitted to Congress recommends an appropriation of $157,000 for the flood-control project at Cape Girardeau; this amount will be sufficient to complete the present concrete wall from the extension of Bellevue Street to the Frisco depot.

Seaman Douglas A. McGee of Jackson returned home from Japan recently after serving a two-year tour of duty in the Navy; he and his wife are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McGee of Jackson, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Benfield of Gale, Ill.

75 years ago: Jan. 19, 1934

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Johns of Warm Springs, Ga., are guests of his aunt, Mrs. Mattie Penn, and his cousin, Mrs. Maggie Juden, in Cape Girardeau; Jones is manager of President F. D. Roosevelt's personal airport in Warm Springs.

More termite damage to the gymnasium floor at Central High School was found than had been anticipated when it was torn out Wednesday; it will have to be replaced, along with the joists laid on the concrete beneath the flooring.

100 years ago: Jan. 19, 1909

With Cape Girardeans suffering a drought because of the low stage of the river, waterworks employees are in the process of hooking up an electric pump, which will move water from the channel closer to the intake pipe along the Missouri shore; once water reaches the pipe, it will be pumped into the water plant and distributed to the city; the plan depends on boats being able to breach the ice to transport the pump to a sandbar in the river.

Joseph Job, Otto Wulfers, W.J. Hitt, A.W. Nothdurft and John R. Hoffman of Route 2 are among farmers attending the agriculture course at the Normal School.

— Sharon K. Sanders