Out of the past 10/17/14

1989

Browning-Ferris Industries Inc., a commercial trash hauler here, is urging the city to get out of the trash-collection and disposal business and instead enter into a contract with a private hauler to handle the services.

Final contracts with two firms that will help design a plan for funding a proposed $73 million recreational lake in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties should be ready later this week; the contracts are with Gilmore and Bell, which will be bond counsel, and George K. Baum Co., the bond underwriters.

1964

Today is the 20th day since rain fell in Jackson, and conditions are becoming somewhat drought-like again; while the dry conditions have been good for farmers busy picking corn and harvesting soybeans, the weather is beginning to cut the rate of growth of new pastures, fall-seeded small grains and alfalfa.

Sgt. John L. Stone, a National Guardsman from Cape Girardeau, is presented an award for "outstanding achievement" by Lt. Gen. Charles G. Dodge, commanding general of the Fifth U.S. Army, in ceremonies in St. Louis; Stone is a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 140th Infantry.

1939

One of the Frisco new streamlined locomotives pulls the southbound Frisco passenger train into Cape Girardeau from St. Louis shortly before noon; Harry Campbell of Chaffee, Missouri, is engineer in charge, and T.E. Miller, also of Chaffee, is fireman; a crowd of about 200 is on hand to see the huge 88-foot engine.

Louis Roth is planning to build a 1 1/2-story frame house in the 1600 block of Themis Street, with William Klaproth and Walter Klaproth as contractors and the Riverside Lumber Co. agent; the dwelling will cost $4,000.

1914

Ed. A. Johnston has sold his grocery store at the corner of Main Street and Broadway to H.J. Houser and W.P. Caruthers, proprietors of the Pure Food grocery on Upper Broadway; the new store will operate under the name of Houser and Caruthers.

With the coming of cold weather the past week, that second-hand boiler installed in Lincoln School was given a try-out; its radiators made an awful noise, about scaring the wits out of both teachers and pupils; a report of the recent inspection of the boiler found that the base on one of the sections is cracked and must be replaced.

-- Sharon K. Sanders