Out of the past 1/4/15

1990

The Airport Advisory Board has shot down the idea of the city farming land at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport; instead, the board has recommended that the city continue leasing the acreage to area farmers.

Cape Girardeau Public Library's new Foundation Board hopes to infuse immediate cash into the library, but officers say a tax increase is needed; while the foundation plans to raise immediate capital for the library, officers say a tax increase is essential to maintain programs at the library.

1965

Looking to the eventual linking of the present campus and the college farm in their long-range planning, State College officials have acquired additional property along North Henderson Avenue; the tracts were acquired from the Kelso estate for $82,500.

Around 300 persons turned out yesterday afternoon to watch the annual burning of the Christmas trees by the Cape Girardeau Jaycees; over 2,000 trees, stacked high, made a huge bonfire at Arena Park; the trees were collected by the Jaycees from around town.

1940

Cape Girardeau received another three inches of snow overnight, bringing the total to 12 inches of snow that has fallen in the county since Christmas; more snow appears in the prospect, as the cold wave moderates ever so slightly; there is now between 5 and 6 inches of snow on the ground.

The City Council hears a lengthy discussion of and a plea for a storm-water sewer system to serve the area near Broadway and Perry Avenue; the flooding on Broadway near the Wulfers place is serious at times after heavy downpours, and basements along Broadway often flood with rain water.

1915

Louis Hendrickson gets up in the morning to find his home, 211 Broadway, on fire and burning nicely; the blaze is in the rear part of the house breaking out from under the eaves and through the side wall, next to the Park Theater; before firefighters can quench the flames, considerable damage is done, especially to the household effects in three rooms.

At the recent landowners' meeting at Morehouse, Missouri, S.P. Reynolds of Caruthersville, Missouri, was elected to succeed himself as a member of the board of directors of the Little River Drainage District.

-- Sharon K. Sanders