Out of the past 10/27/14

1989

The first tax increment finance district in Southeast Missouri should be in place by the end of the year; after meeting with attorneys for M&W, a German packaging plant under construction on Highway 177, and Chauncy Buchheit of Southeast Missouri Regional Planning, the Cape Girardeau County Commission yesterday unanimously approved a draft plan for the district.

Joseph Werne, a 16-year-old from Cape Girardeau, is painting a 35-foot by 25-foot map of the United States on the playground at Washington Elementary School; the artwork is part of his Eagle Scout project.

1964

On the recommendation of Commissioner Harry A. Siemers, the city council has appointed a nine-member Parks Advisory Board to be headed by Philip L. Kearney; other members are Paul L. Heye, James F. Hirsch, W. Glenn Bishop, A. Robert Pierce Jr., W.E. Walker Jr., Alvin C. Brase, Ida Daume and Gladys B. Stiver.

For a county that once placed Abraham Lincoln a poor last among four candidates for president, Cape Girardeau County in this century has proved to be a reasonably accurate barometer of the national choice for the high office; 15 times since 1904, presidents have been elected, and in 11 instances, the country's choice has also been the county's choice.

1939

Julien N. Friant, 51, dies in a hospital in Washington, D.C.; he succumbed 12 hours after he collapsed in his office in the capital, where for six years he had given his all to the Roosevelt administration, just as he had given the earlier years of his life to service of his Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri.

On Wednesday and Thursday, approximately 10,000 fish were removed from the lagoon at Fairground Park, and the job isn't nearly done; bass and bluegill were "planted" there this spring to be harvested for release into streams.

1914

A meeting of the officers and managers of the Southeast Missouri Baseball League was Sunday at the St. Charles Hotel; president S.S. Thompson and treasurer Wilson Shanks and all the managers of the six teams, with the exception of D.W. Wilks of the Caruthersville, Missouri, team, were present; all present said the league should be continued next summer.

A fair crowd of bidders attends the auction sale of lots in the new Houck additions in the far south end of the city on either side of Sprigg Street; the lots bring an average of about $220 apiece.

-- Sharon K. Sanders