Out of the past 7/14/13

1988

Plans are being made for a ribbon-cutting ceremony later this month to mark the opening of the new Shawnee Park footbridge over Cape LaCroix Creek.

A guesthouse for cancer patients has been established by the Regional Cancer Center; the three-bedroom house just west of the hospital was acquired by Southeast Missouri Hospital earlier this summer and has been opened as guest accommodations for patients who live considerable distances from Cape Girardeau.

1963

Newell S. Ferry, manager of the Hobby Horse in the Town Plaza Shopping Center, has announced that a Mavrokos candy shop and a Hallmark Card store will go into the former Dolly Hat Shop building, 37 N. Main St.; the new establishment, to be called The Sweet Shoppe, will have a colonial American design.

Heavy rain, in typical midsummer localized fashion, hit Cape Girardeau yesterday and today, depositing 2.93 inches in the downtown area but only 1.44 inches at the municipal airport; Jackson recorded 1.75 inches of precipitation.

1938

Within an hour after The Missourian was published yesterday, carrying a news story that 25 women employees are needed at the Superior Electric Products Co. facility, 100 women had personally or by telephone applied for jobs; by noon today, that number had risen to almost 200.

The Daughters of Isabella, an organization of Catholic women, is discussing plans to erect a monument to Hernando de Soto and his two men, who were the first white men to pass through Cape Girardeau.

1913

Sikeston, that metropolis of Scott, New Madrid and Stoddard counties, is seething with the excitement of negotiations for what will undoubtedly prove the biggest industrial enterprise in Southeast Missouri; nothing less than an automobile manufacturing plant is contemplated.

Charles Boutin, auditor and local manager of the telephone system, goes to Sedalia, Mo., to attend a meeting of telephone officials; the object of the meeting is to form a state organization of telephone officials with a view of bettering the service in the state.

-- Sharon K. Sanders