Out of the past 5/22/14

1989

The Cape Girardeau and Bollinger county commissions announce the appointment of a six-member finance committee to study methods of paying for a proposed 7,700-acre recreational lake: Van Puls, David Beasley, John Hale, Don Crader and Maurice Sandfort, with Irvin Garms, a member of the lake committee, serving as liaison between the commissions.

Construction of the new, $440,000 No. 2 Fire Station on Mount Auburn Road, north of Bloomfield Road, may begin as early as July.

1964

The Cape Girardeau Police Department has been given the Walker Safety Award for enforcement of traffic laws; the award is issued yearly by the National Police Officers Association.

The lone remaining resident on the site of the new post office at Frederick and Bellevue streets says she will be moving early next week; Laura Jones, 328 N. Frederick St., has found new accommodations in Cape Girardeau; most of the houses that were on the post office site have been razed or are in the process; Jones' house and a large house two doors south remain intact; demolition is being done under contract by Henry Warfield.

1939

Wildlife conservation agents, in searching with the use of boats along the Missouri bank of the Mississippi River, have confiscated 75 fishing nets; in a recent search from Cape Girardeau to Dorena, Mississippi County, Missouri, agents seized 36 nets and liberated 200 pounds of fish; nearly all the nets were stretched near the mouths of small streams, preventing fish from moving into the streams.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The treasury department places a new post office for Cape Girardeau on its "approved" list, to be built when and if appropriations are made available by Congress.

1914

Judge Robert Love Wilson passes on to his reward early in the morning; his death is peaceful and serene, befitting the close of a long life spent in honorable duty to mankind and his family; Wilson would have been 76 years of age on Sept. 4; he is survived by his widow, two daughters, a brother and two sisters.

In the contest conducted by the Cape Girardeau School District for the killing of flies, Raymond Laughlin of Broadway School took first prize of $1, having killed 8,858.

-- Sharon K. Sanders