Out of the past 2/21/14

1989

The Jackson Board of Aldermen on Monday night approved a budget that tops the $10 million level for the first time in the city's history; a revised pay ordinance also approved at that meeting gives city employees a 5.5 percent overall pay increase and about a 2.5 percent increase in health-insurance benefits.

Nancy Hentig Narrow of Cape Girardeau is Cape Girardeau County's newest assistant prosecutor.

1964

Cape Girardeau is one of six American cities to be selected to supply data for an international traffic study; the information compiled will be used in the Seventh International Study Week in Traffic Engineering to be held Sept. 21 through 26 in London.

Evelyn V. Carter of Cape Girardeau, the city's director of civil defense, has been named the winner of one of the George Washington awards sponsored by the Freedoms Foundation of Valley Forge, Pa.; she will receive the George Washington Honor Medal Award for her essay, "Know Your America Week."

1939

Mike Shaltupsky has purchased the two-story brick building at 411 Broadway, which is now occupied by Esicar Meat Market; the building belonged the Mueller heirs; Shaltupsky purchased it as an investment.

A force of eight WPA employees, directed by City Commissioner Frank Batchelor, began preliminary work yesterday on the storage garage project on the police headquarters lot; a fence was removed near Independence Street, so the building can be placed between a police car garage and the present storage barn at the east side of the lot.

1914

Fire destroys Centenary Methodist Church between 12:45 and 1:30 in the morning; the blaze is discovered at the earlier time, and 45 minutes later nothing remains of the interior of the imposing edifice but "the seething mass of coals in the basement"; the church board of stewards, meeting at 11 a.m., decides the congregation will rebuild as soon as possible.

Al Rice, the foreman of the Jackson creamery, and the corps of licensed butter-makers found their work sort of monotonous; so a large phonograph was set up in one corner of the creamery, and the men now churn butter and wash milk cans while listening to the warblings of Caruso and Tetrazzini.

-- Sharon K. Sanders