Out of the past 7/29/14

1989

Construction of the 150-bed veterans nursing home in Cape Girardeau is about 75 percent complete, with the facility slated to open in January; under the contract, Penzel Construction Co. of Jackson has until April 23, 1990, to complete the work.

Boulevard Mobile Home Park is now Pinewood Mobile Home Park; Kevin Schumacher, and two limited partners, recently purchased the park, which was established in 1971.

1964

The new Jackson Junior High School sewer situation faced another problem last night, when the Jackson School Board learned the school contractor may prevent work on the sewer for a time; full details of the situation weren't available at the meeting; unless the situation is resolved, work on the school and the sewer could be delayed to the point it would be impossible to open the new school this fall.

A prominent Cape Girardeau businessman, Melvin D. Deneke, 53, is found dead in his home in the morning by firemen answering an alarm by a neighbor; he apparently died of smoke inhalation and heat.

1939

Mac Hunter of Cape Girardeau was elected chairman of the 10th Congressional District Young Democratic Clubs at a meeting yesterday at Charleston, Missouri.

Mayor Edward L. Drum believes the city was justified in establishing Independence Street as a through, nonstop thoroughfare; a recent traffic survey showed traffic has about doubled on Independence, helping to relieve conditions on Broadway.

1914

Another little ripple is disturbing the former equanimity existing among the school board, the contractors on the three new school buildings and the architect; the school board has learned that a secondhand boiler for the heating system has been installed in the expanded Lincoln School building, which houses the black children of the city for school work.

While swimming in the river last night just before dark, a number of boys from the south end of the city were robbed of everything they had in their pockets, and their clothes were tied in such knots that they had to carry some of them home without putting them on.

-- Sharon K. Sanders