Out of the past 11/9/13

1988

A city flood-control sales tax easily passed and a sewer fees measure narrowly won in balloting yesterday; both city officials and tax proponents say the overwhelming approval of the flood-control tax amounts to a public mandate on the need to alleviate flooding problems in Cape Girardeau.

Carrying all but three of the 25 voting precincts in the 158th District, David Schwab won a seat in the Missouri House of Representatives by a wide margin Tuesday over Democrat Jack Litzelfelner.

1963

Dr. William O.L. Seabaugh, president of the Cape County Medical Society, says the health dangers of an open sewer running through the south part of Cape Girardeau will be investigated; the ditch begins at College and Henderson and flows into Cape LaCroix Creek north of Highway 74; the use of the open ditch is a temporary measure being employed while a grit removal station is being constructed at College and Henderson and the regular closed sewer is being tied in to the new sewer line.

Dr. D.G. Ruopp, a chiropractor, has been elected president of the Kiwanis Club for the coming year; he succeeds Clarence A. Suedekum.

1938

Mrs. Ella Wall Rodney, 85, a native and lifelong resident of Cape Girardeau and descendant of a pioneer Virginia family, died last night of bronchial pneumonia at the home of Mayor and Mrs. Edward L. Drum, Mrs. Drum being her niece.

In impressive ceremonies yesterday, cornerstones for two new Teachers College buildings were laid yesterday by high officials of the Grand Lodge of the Masonic order of Missouri and college officials; presiding at the cornerstone-layings for the new library and men's dormitories was Grand Master Henry C. Childs of Lexington, Mo.

1913

Drs. G.B. Schulz and W.E. Yount leave for Chicago to attend a clinical congress of American surgeons; Schulz will then proceed to Washington, D.C., to attend the fifth national conservation congress.

Mrs. Mary A. Naeter, mother of the publishers of The Republican newspaper, dies after a lingering illness; she was born in Covington, Ky., Oct. 4, 1838; since the close of the Civil War, she had lived in Missouri, at Shelbyville, Carrollton and Shelbina, and most recently at Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders