Out of the past 4/18/14

1989

After a presentation by Gene Penzel yesterday, the Jackson Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a resolution to pay dues of $3,000 to join a not-for-profit corporation that will promote the Interstate 66 project and seek funding of Congress for a feasibility study; the Cape Girardeau City Council also endorsed the project, but said financial participation by the city will require further council approval.

Vernice V. Baumstark, charter president of the Saint Francis Medical Center Auxiliary, is presented the first "Vernice V. Baumstark Award" for her 30 years of work with the organization.

1964

The garden surrounding the old Greene/Nicodemus home at Themis and Fountain streets, that is being razed, will be maintained and a more formal garden will be established on the house site; First Federal Savings and Loan Association, which owns the property, will hire a gardener to maintain the garden.

Cape Girardeau's sewage disposal project, which began last summer, is in its final six to seven weeks with most of the remaining tasks classed as "odds and ends."

1939

The Mississippi River is expected reach a crest of 36 feet at Cape Girardeau on Saturday morning; the predicted crest would put water over the parkways east of the Frisco Railroad tracks from the passenger depot south and would cover the tracks on Water Street from Independence Street to the Themis Street intersection.

Explaining that he hadn't yet acquired the property, but that he was considering such a step, Colby L. Cherry, of the florist firm, received approval of the Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday to remodel the Louis Clifton property, 815 Broadway, into a florist shop.

1914

The Cape Girardeau annual fair and fall festival will be the biggest ever this fall; this was decided at a meeting of the Commercial Club last night; the agreement entered into by the Fair and Park Association directors and a special committee of the club was ratified, whereby the club agrees to make up any deficit that may arise from holding the fair, to the extent of $1,500 for actual expenses incurred.

Audria Adams of Benton, Mo., passes through Cape Girardeau on his way to Iowa, where he will be attending a linotype school.

-- Sharon K. Sanders