Out of the past 11/13/14

1989

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board says it doesn't want the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to scale back proposed hiking and biking trails along Cape LaCroix and Walker creeks; board members say they want the trails to be constructed, even if it means detouring around the heavily commercial areas along Kingshighway to avoid having the trails cross busy intersections.

Officials and employees from Procter & Gamble provide a real boost to the Area Wide United Way campaign, donating $135,418 of the $425,000 goal.

1964

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Fire conditions are expected to near the explosive mark again today; there were 12 fires in the six-county Perryville Fire Protection District on Thursday, the largest of which was a field and woods fire near Dutchtown.

The Missourian has been told on good authority that the entrance of Arena Park, from U.S. 61 westward, is the No. 1 choice of the Navy survey team that inspected several locations in the city last week; the Navy is seeking a four- or five-acre tract upon which to build a Naval Reserve Armory.

1939

Arrangements for a full-time child welfare worker in Cape Girardeau County are approved by the County Court at Jackson; representatives of the Child Welfare Coordinating Council appear before the court with Lena Rhue, district child welfare consultant, to emphasize the need of such a worker.

The drivers and a man sitting inside a building, which one of the machines crashes into after the accident, escape injury in a collision of two motorcars on Frederick Street at Independence Street; the autos are considerably damaged, two large plate glass windows on the Frederick Street end of the Woods Building are broken and some woodwork is ruined; the building houses the Tom Summerlin beer establishment.

1914

Edward F. Regenhardt has sold one of his pretty residence lots on Fort "A" Heights to S.P. Siebert, the shoe man; Regenhardt says he will sell one more lot, and it is on North Lorimier Street, opposite the beautiful home of Charles L. Harrison.

Two trees that stood near the entrance to the area way leading from Broadway to the courthouse square between The Republican and Park Theater buildings are taken down for transplanting in the courthouse yard.

-- Sharon K. Sanders