RecordsJune 13, 2014
Out of the past 6/13/14
A Perryville, Missouri, health-care development firm is planning to open a number of group-home facilities for the mentally disabled, including Terrace Gardens of Cape Girardeau Inc.; Chateau Villas, Inc. of Perryville plans to open a facility at the southeast corner of Bellevue and Frederick streets...
1989
A Perryville, Missouri, health-care development firm is planning to open a number of group-home facilities for the mentally disabled, including Terrace Gardens of Cape Girardeau Inc.; Chateau Villas, Inc. of Perryville plans to open a facility at the southeast corner of Bellevue and Frederick streets.
Dr. Bill W. Stacy is picked to become president of a new university, California State University at San Marcos; he has been president of Southeast Missouri State University since mid-1979.
1964
Telephone customers living near Cape Girardeau and other area exchanges will be given four-party service in place of eight-party service under a change program of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. that will take more than two years to complete.
A turn to moderation, aided by a thin cloud shield from the torrid rays of the sun, helps loosen the hold of a weeklong hot spell in the Cape Girardeau area; high temperatures here for Monday through yesterday were 96, 94, 93, 94 and 95; the mercury today at 10 a.m. is a milder 82.
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1939
Enthusiasm for the American Legion's Fourth of July celebration is growing with the news that Sen. Bennett Champ Clark has accepted the Legion's invitation to speak at the event; he has been mentioned as a possible presidential candidate in 1940.
An appeal for assistance has been made to the Red Cross for the August Alkemeyer family, which lost its home in a severe wind and rainstorm which swept the Hilderbrand community Saturday; neighbors will assist in building a dwelling for the family, if a little financial assistance is given.
1914
One of the worst wrecks ever known on that line of the Frisco Railroad between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis occurs at Moccasin Springs, 12 miles north of here; a passenger train from Memphis to St. Louis is running at a lively clip, when a wheel breaks on the steel buffet car; the car is thrown from the track, pulling the day coach with it and its load of at least 75 passengers; no one is killed.
The Little River Drainage District bonds are sold; the news comes from John H. Himmelberger in Chicago that a contract has been signed for their sale, which means virtually the same thing.
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