Out of the past 11/1/13

1988

Other than a few reports of egg-tossing and "tee-peeing," area authorities report a generally quiet Halloween.

There's only a sparse turnout in the evening at a town-hall meeting on the proposed flood-control tax; the proposed sales tax, to be voted on next Tuesday, would fund the city's $8 million share of the $28 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' project designed to alleviate flash flooding along Cape LaCroix and Walker creeks here.

1963

A chill, wind-driven rain last night gave the Cape Girardeau area its most moisture since Sept. 12, but the .23 of an inch of precipitation recorded here wasn't enough to snap the prolonged drought.

William S. Rader and Stanley A. Grimm announce the formation of a law partnership here; Rader is a graduate of the University of Arkansas School of Law and came here in 1959 from Blytheville, Ark., where he was in practice 10 years; Grimm graduated from the law school at the University of Missouri; he has been in Cape Girardeau since 1959.

1938

F.G. Felden of Advance, Mo., has filed for record at Jackson four oil and gas leases covering 1,260 acres in the extreme southwest corner of Cape Girardeau County, lying mostly along the Frisco railroad and Highway 25 in the Arbor community; landowners leasing their property are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bess, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Welman and Mr. and Mrs. William C. Musgraves; Felden must begin drilling operations before Aug. 1, 1939.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- A big crowd is expected at Chaffee tonight to hear Sen. Harry S. Truman deliver a political speech at the Horstman Theater.

1913

Probably another month will be needed before the new Scott County courthouse at Benton, Mo., is finally completed; the big building is impressive; the interior workmanship is unusually fine.

Capt. J.P. Lightner has surveyed and established a cemetery for the city of Illmo; it contains four acres of ground, and three more acres will be added later; the new burial ground is in the southeast corner of the Musbach farm in the southeast part of town; the first grave there is dug today for the interment of the son of J.D. Sharp.

-- Sharon K. Sanders