Out of the past 1/7/14

1989

Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois have the dubious honor of being included in the nation's first tornado watch of the new year; although no tornadoes occur in this area, there are numerous reports of heavy rain with pea- to marble-sized hail and local flash flooding.

Benjamin F. Lewis has become the second candidate to file for a position on the Cape Girardeau School Board; Lewis, a lawyer, joins William Wickham Jr. as candidates for two three-year positions that will expire on the board this year.

1964

The Cape Girardeau City Council was urged yesterday by a special steering committee to call a $1,250,000 airport bond issue election for Feb. 18; the council took no formal action, other than accepting the petitions with 1,517 signatures.

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce is selling a 4.1-acre industrial tract in South Cape Girardeau to the Kasten Clay Products Co. of Jackson, which plans to establish dock and production facilities there; in a separate but related transaction, the Kasten company is buying an adjacent tract of about two acres from Charles N. Harris.

1939

Excavation work is virtually completed and concrete is being poured for the foundation of a new building for the Standard Oil Co. on the east side of Sprigg Street, just south of Themis Street; the building will house a new gasoline filling station of the super-service type.

Six members of the newly organized Pocahontas 4-H Calf Club meet at the Dr. John N. Nevitt farm on North Sprigg Street Road to draw for Jerseys; six 2-year-old calves will be given to club members to raise; club members are Nelson and Lester Kienninger, Charles Englehardt, Charles Trickey, Dallas Bruhl and Elmer Koberl.

1914

Rudolph Crosnoe, the well-known young painter, yesterday bought a lot in the Ellis, Popp and Yount Addition in the southwest end of Cape Girardeau; this morning he has several men there digging for the cellar and foundation of his new home.

A contract is let in the morning for the construction of the big wholesale grocer house on Main Street by W.S. Albert to the Vogelsang Brothers.

__Sharon K. Sanders__