RecordsOctober 6, 2013
Out of the past 10/6/13
Faced with the loss the International Shoe Co. plant this month, Jackson got good news this week; LeeRowan Co. is adding 60,000 square feet to its operation; the expansion could create another 50 to 100 jobs within a year; RAPCO Cable and Lighting, which has expanded its facility by more than 12,000 square feet within the past year, announced it will add 40 to 50 workers to its force...
1988
Faced with the loss the International Shoe Co. plant this month, Jackson got good news this week; LeeRowan Co. is adding 60,000 square feet to its operation; the expansion could create another 50 to 100 jobs within a year; RAPCO Cable and Lighting, which has expanded its facility by more than 12,000 square feet within the past year, announced it will add 40 to 50 workers to its force.
General Sign Co. Inc., which will observe its 50th anniversary here in 1989, is recipient of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's Industry of the Year Award.
1963
The Rev. Herman Scherer of St. Louis preaches at all three morning services in Trinity Lutheran Church; he is here to assist the church in raising its portion of the $25 million "Faith Forward" budget of the Missouri Synod for 1963.
Coin collectors from six states gather at the Arena Building for the first coin show sponsored by the SEMO Coin Club; highlighting the show is the display of the McDermott Nickel, valued at $50,000.
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1938
Judge Charles H. Daues, 60, a native of Cape Girardeau and a former judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, dies at his home in St. Louis.
A malarial control crew of about 50 WPA workers will be transferred Friday to a sewer outlet reclamation job in Cape Girardeau; the stormwater outlet is between the foot of Henderson Avenue and Cape LaCroix Creek, running in a southwesterly direction from Henderson for nearly three-fourths of a mile; the system hasn't been cleaned since 1923, when it was put in.
1913
The state commission has approved the sale of the Chaffee, Mo., and Dexter, Mo., light plants to the Missouri Public Utilities Co., headquartered in Cape Girardeau.
The long struggle to re-license the Commercial Bar is apparently at an end; the bar, on the west side of Main Street near Broadway, is a landmark in Cape Girardeau; but the County Court has turned down its request for a liquor license for the third time, and it is believed this will end the Commercial; efforts of the Citizens Committee are responsible for its demise.
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