Out of the past 5/2/14

1989

Developer Jim Drury has dropped his opposition to a city of Cape Girardeau annexation plan; the move clears the way for the city to annex a 159-acre tract northeast of the Interstate 55/U.S. 61 intersection; Drury's action is the result of the city's plan to provide sewers to the northeast quadrant.

A strike by the Operating Engineers Local 513 has suspended work on the U.S. 61 widening project in Jackson.

1964

Their houses are doomed to fall before progress called a new post office at Bellevue and Frederick streets, but an elderly widow and a young woman with five children still remain for the lack of somewhere else to go; Mrs. Laura Jones has lived in her Frederick Street house for 33 years, and Mrs. Beulah Van and her children rent a house around the corner facing Bellevue.

Cape Girardeau Central High School is favorite to win its fifth straight Southeast Missouri district golf championship next week, as six schools compete at the Cape Girardeau Country Club; Central's team is composed of Jim Reynolds, Mike Long, Jim Waltz and Mike Gray.

1939

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce is focusing its immediate future efforts on securing a broom manufacturing plant for the city; a broom maker has offered to move his plant here from another city, purchase his site and build his own plant, asking the chamber for only a small amount of money to help meet the expense of moving the operation.

Mrs. Charles Wedekind has signed an agreement donating a tract lying between the pavement of U.S. 61 and the old gravel road, near the County Home, for public use; the wooded tract, which had been developed as a roadside park with the permission of Mr. Wedekind, will be known as Wedekind Park.

1914

The auditorium of Lorimier School is filled with pupils, their parents and relations from all over the country within a radius of 12 miles of Cape Girardeau to attend the rural school meeting; the morning exercises are devoted to the delivery of recitations and the holding of contests in arithmetic.

Austin A. Hope, the Civil War veteran, who has been living at the soldiers' home at Higginsville, Mo., is staying with his children in Jackson, and will remain there for some time.

-- Sharon K. Sanders