Out of the past 11/19/13

1988

The Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission has decided the proposed College Street corridor is the best route for a cross-town highway to a new Mississippi River bridge; some local leaders had backed an alternate route.

Response to the first national Scouting for Food campaign is viewed as monumental by those connected with the drive; one official with the Boy Scouts of America's Shawnee District estimates the city effort netted close to 25,000 pounds of food.

1963

A delegation of residents engaged members of the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday in a nearly hourlong debate on the open sewer that has been flowing through the south section of town for several weeks; the delegates complained of the health hazard and odors.

Three more days with temperatures over 40 degrees will allow painters with the Adams Building Maintenance Corp. of Chicago to complete painting the Mississippi River bridge here with brushes.

1938

The old Cape Fair will start up again either late in August or early in September of 1939, it is decreed by a small group of old-time friends of the annual event; the gradual completion of the new fairgrounds gives sufficient assurance the park will be ready for a fair next fall.

On a muddy field in front of a crowd of nearly 2,000 people, Jackson High School's football Indians defeated their ancient rivals, the Cape Girardeau Central High Tigers, 6-0, yesterday; the last time a county seat team was able to defeat Central was the last of a two-game series in 1928.

1913

The park committee of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club last night accepted an option to secure 350 acres of the St. Vincent's College farm, which will be made into a magnificent park for the city.

The boarders at the Green Tree Hotel in Haarig are awakened early in the morning by screams emanating from the kitchen; running to see what could be the matter, they find A.F. Bethel, the hotel proprietor, fighting flames from the oven of the stove; the coolheaded boarders quickly fetch blankets and sheets and smother the fire before real damage can be done.

-- Sharon K. Sanders