Out of the past 5/20/14

1989

GRASSY, Mo. -- Several hundred people attend the Bluegrass Music Festival here; the event has been held annually at the Arrowhead Campground in Grassy for more than 25 years.

A special judge has been appointed to hear a mounting number of tax protests filed against the city by three Cape Girardeau businesses; Circuit Judge Fred W. Copeland of the 34th Judicial Circuit has been appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court to handle the case, which involves lawsuits filed by Midamerica Hotels Corp., RIC Inc. and West Park Bowling Lanes Inc.

1964

Earth-moving equipment begins work on the site for the Lee-Rowan Co. branch factory at Jackson after the signing of a contract and a groundbreaking ceremony yesterday; the first gold-plated shovel of dirt for the 50,000-square-foot factory was turned by Desmond Lee, president of the St. Louis firm.

Right of way has been acquired to permit the extension of South West End Boulevard from its present dead end through to Highway 74, says George Penzel, the engineer for the Cape Special Road District.

1939

Retarded by a cool, rainy season, flowers are at their best for a district flower show, which opens at Houck Field House and will continue through tomorrow; the show is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Garden Club, with the River Hills Garden Club, Rose Society, Audubon Society and others participating.

With their Scoutmaster, Ed Mammon, four members of the Boy Scout Troop III hike to the troop's cabin, Pine Crest Lodge, on Indian Creek near Neelys Landing; spending the weekend at the cabin are David Smith, Richard Neal, Elwood Mills and Albert Rieck.

1914

The Rev. James Murtaugh of St. Vincent's Church has been chosen chaplain again; this time he has been appointed to that post by the Knights of Columbus of the entire state; just days ago he was appointed chaplain of the Southeast Missouri Drummers' Association.

F.F. Braun and brother, the hustling Haarig grocers, have leased the room in the Merten's building, corner of Broadway and Sprigg Street, and are having it remodeled for a grocery store; it should open around June 1.

-- Sharon K. Sanders