Out of the past 4/18/13

1988

Community Concerts Association, which brings music and dance entertainment to Cape Girardeau, kicks off its membership drive; scheduled for the coming season are performances by The Glenn Miller Orchestra, the New York Theatre Ballet and Hungarian Brass.

Members of the Scott City Council express concern over what one councilman calls strip annexation by Cape Girardeau into part of north Scott County; the issue arises when Cape Girardeau city councilman David Limbaugh goes before the Scott City Council as an attorney representing Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. with a request that Scott City extend a water main to its bulk terminal near Gray's Point.

1963

A long-range, $463 million plan for upgrading Missouri's secondary road system announced by the State Highway Commission will cost $4,201,000 in Cape Girardeau County; a commission study shows the county has 76 miles of substandard road out of 200 miles of farm-to-market routes; eight county bridges also were found to be inadequate.

Construction of a post office building at Bellevue and Frederick streets will displace about 74 people now living in eight houses on the site; to be razed will be the large, three-family house at the northeast corner of the intersection, the three houses eastward on Bellevue to the alley and four houses north on Frederick.

1938

The monotony of police duty is broken in the morning when a call comes into headquarters that a monkey is on the loose and is seeking refuge in the basement of the I.F. Sitze residence, 1613 Lacy St.; the small, meek monkey surrenders peacefully to patrolmen Leo B. Hill and Bruno Schultz; it is returned to a carnival company showing at Fairground Park.

A sleeping porch has been added to the residence of Frank J. Madell, 1632 Themis St., the room being 12 feet by 20 feet; C.J. Reisenbichler was the contractor.

1913

A fire broke out in the Frisco freight and passenger station at Kennett, Mo., last night, and a total loss to the building was sustained; as the town is without water, very little could be done to fight the blaze.

M. Mabrey, teacher of the old log school south of Cape Girardeau, closes out the term; fine entertainment is given by her pupils.

-- Sharon K. Sanders