Out of the past 5/26/14

1989

Condemnation proceedings against owners of 10 properties needed by the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department to complete the widening of U.S. 61 have been initiated in Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court; the highway is being widened from about Greenway Drive in Jackson eastward to the existing divided four lanes near Interstate 55.

The Cape Girardeau Police Department announces three promotions: Stephen C. Strong from lieutenant to captain, Randall E. Roddy from sergeant to lieutenant, and Edward A. Barker from corporal to sergeant.

1964

The City Council yesterday restated its decision not to appoint members to a housing authority until "citizens of the city manifest some kind of opinion" on the public housing issue; Citizens Committee for Public Housing had sought to persuade the council to activate the housing authority.

Gov. John M. Dalton appoints Southeast Missourians to head the State Highway Commission and the State Park system; he names his former law partner, Harold B. Treasure of Kennett, as chairman of the State Highway Commission and C.E. "Dutch" Wyatt, former football coach in the high school at Poplar Bluff and more recently county superintendent of schools in Butler County, director of parks.

1939

Major improvements are being made by the Cape Special Road District in the vicinity of Three Mile Creek and Highway 61; crews will make a fill on the south side of the highway on which the road to Kage School will be moved west of the stream, eliminating the old iron bridge across Three Mile Creek; the new fill, leading from the west end of the bridge to Highway 61, will be seven feet high.

H.O. Grauel, Teacher College professor, will return to Cape Girardeau Tuesday after a leave of absence the past two years; he has been doing work for a doctor's degree at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee.

1914

The manager of the shoe factory "is nearly up against it"; just weeks ago, the mud on North Main Street was so deep and thick that his employees had a hard time getting through; now everything in that section of town is covered with a thick layer of dust; there should be some way to have the street sprinkled with water during the dry season, inasmuch as this factory is the town's most important industry.

Common Pleas Court adjourns in the morning for the day out of respect to the memory of Judge Robert Love Wilson and of William H. Miller, both of whom have passed over the great divide since the last session of the court.

-- Sharon K. Sanders