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1989

Bids were opened yesterday for the Route K lighting project and were below projections; the apparent low bidder is Mac and Son Electric of Cape Girardeau, which submitted a base bid of $75,601.37.

The Shivelbine House at the corner of South Spanish and Good Hope streets has been refurbished and will house Riverside Design Gallery, an expansion of Riverside Building Supply & Home Centers; the house was constructed in 1880 for August and Amalia Frank Shivelbine.

1964

Two Memphis, Tenn., businessmen -- Theodore Dattel and Samuel Dattel -- have been awarded a Post Office Department contract to build and lease to the government Cape Girardeau's new post office building.

Cape Girardeau County's share of President Johnson's federal budget, presented today to Congress, will be $21.6 million, and about one dollar out of every five in personal income earned by county residents will go to finance it, according to estimates by the Missouri Public Expenditure Survey.

1939

Considerable interest is being shown in reports from Jefferson City, Mo., that the present liquor-control laws for the state will be rewritten; like elsewhere in Missouri, neither the wets nor the drys here are satisfied with the present setup.

Although the season for taking fur-bearing animals closed last weekend, the buying season won't close until Wednesday; A.R. Boren, who buys furs at his place on South Sprigg Street, says many hides are now being marketed.

1914

Several land deals have been made around Jackson recently, among them one between John Sadler and William Klaproth for the farm on Williams Creek out on the gravel road; but George Bingenheimer broke all records Wednesday, when he sold six acres to D.C. Hope of Shawneetown for $6,000; the land joins the city on the south and has several buildings on it.

Engineer W.C. Merritt is in Cape Girardeau to start actual work on the big contract he purchased for the digging of the channel south of town for the Little River Drainage District.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__