Out of the past: 10/23/14

1989

With the hiring of a new sanitation superintendent, it looks like the city of Cape Girardeau will remain in the trash business; Stuart Bean, 36, who is originally from the Festus-Crystal City, Missouri, area, worked for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources six years.

George Todt, accompanied by about 15 former employees of Lenco Inc. asks the Jackson Board of Aldermen to endorse his efforts to purchase the financially troubled manufacturing firm.

1964

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Perryville voters will go to the polls Tuesday to vote on a $550,000 bond proposal for construction of an elementary school and multipurpose building; the proposed multipurpose building would be a two-story structure with cafeteria facilities on the ground floor as well as a band and choral space on the second; the proposal also calls for an added 12 rooms for the junior high school.

Louis Kassel, president of the Municipal Band board of directors, says efforts in opposition to a move to repeal the city band tax won't be started until it is seen whether the required number of signatures on petitions are obtained; initiative petitions are in circulation asking the city council to call an election to decide on the abolition of the 3-cent municipal band levy.

1939

The Park Theater building on lower Broadway was threatened by fire Saturday night, when sawdust in a box in the orchestra pit combusted; smoke filled most of the theater, but firemen quickly extinguished the fire.

Girardeans are curious about the weather, which seems to be reversed what it should be; today's temperature reaches a summerlike 84 degrees; women are playing golf in shorts, and at Courthouse Park, caretaker Louis Brunke is watering the grass.

1914

T.J. Shorb completes the paving of two blocks of North Fountain Street in the afternoon; his men would have finished the work in the morning, but material, sand and rock, wasn't on hand.

The fine bell for the new Saint Francis Hospital is dedicated in the morning; the ceremony takes place outdoors by the south entrance to the building; it is performed by the Revs. Eberhard Pruente and Walsh, assisted by Mrs. Charles Harrison, sponsor.

-- Sharon K. Sanders