Out of the Past 12/10/14

1989

Sam Tanksley Trucking Inc., owned by the Harris Family Interests, will cease operations Jan. 11; more than 500 pieces of "rolling stock," including semi-tractors and trailers, will be liquidated at a public sale Jan. 11 and 12 in Oklahoma City; the firm was founded in 1958.

Residents of three apartments were forced to flee their homes overnight, when fire broke out in an apartment complex at Fruitland; the complex, a two-story, four-unit building behind the Frontier Kitchen, was heavily damaged; eight to 10 people were made homeless by the blaze.

1964

The State College is host to 31 freshman members of the state House of Representatives, who have lunch on the campus and take a tour of college property in the afternoon.

The Cape Girardeau County Court gives its full approval to the county welfare advisory committee to proceed at once with plans for a juvenile detention home in the county; such a facility will be mandatory for the county in 1967, when it becomes second class; although it isn't required now, there seems to be broad agreement that a juvenile home is needed.

1939

Plans are being completed for the construction of a basement at Hobbs Chapel, a Methodist church on Egypt Mills Road; work is to begin early in the spring.

More than 200 people are present in the afternoon when members of the Marquette Fishing Club at the cement plant dedicate their new clubhouse; talks are made by Mayor E.L. Drum, A.M. Spradling and R.C. Matthews; the attractive lodge, made chiefly of cement, has just been finished.

1914

Missouri Gov. Elliot W. Major arrives at noon from St. Louis, being met at the Frisco station by about 50 of the better-known business and professional men of the city; he is greeted first by president W.S. Dearmont of the Normal School and Louis Houck, both of whom will direct the activities arranged for the entertainment of the distinguished visitor; Major is in town to look over the Normal School.

Henry Taylor, a popular young society man who moved from here to Chaffee, Missouri, several years ago to work for the Frisco Railroad, has resigned his position there and will, in the near future, move back to Cape Girardeau with his family.

-- Sharon K. Sanders