Out of the past 3/21/13

1988

A five year, $15.6 million capital improvements program gains approval from the Cape Girardeau City Council; projects in the program include Route K lighting, street overlay work, a new airport terminal, Lexington Avenue development and relocation fire Station No. 2 to the west side of the city.

JEFFERSON CITY -- State Rep. Mary C. Kasten files for a fourth term in the Missouri House of Representatives; Kasten represents the city of Cape Girardeau.

1963

The drinking water in Cape Girardeau began carrying fluoride in April 1955; after eight years, the program has made much progress in reducing tooth decay; Dr. Larry Lumpkin of the Dental Health Consultant's Office, State Public Health Division, is in town working with local dentists in the annual school dental survey.

The "Thanks Badge," the highest adult Girl Scout award, is presented to Mrs. Howard Davis of Perryville, Mo., at the annual Otahki Council dinner at the Arena Building; the presentation is made by Mrs. Jack L. Oliver, first vice president of the Council.

1938

Razing of the old convent building on South Spanish Street, a landmark along the Mississippi River for a half century, is scheduled to begin tomorrow; the Sisters of Loretto, owners off the structure, have contracted with L.A. Mudd to wreck it completely, fill the basement and smooth the surface; four families living in the building will be asked to leave at once.

Girardeans will go to the polls Tuesday to nominate two candidates for mayor and six for commissioner.

1913

Reports are slowly coming in of much damage being done in various points in Southeast Missouri last night's storms; as far as is known, the brunt of the storm was at Poplar Bluff, Mo., where several buildings were unroofed and a vast amount of damage done.

Free lunch hunters are asked to take notice: The bill abolishing free lunches in Missouri saloons has passed both houses of the Legislature and will be signed by the governor; "brick cheese, schwadenmachen, leberwurst, mettwurst, bologna, billy goat stew" and other dishes dear to the hungry who inhabit the poor man's clubs will soon become a thing of the past.

-- Sharon K. Sanders