Out of the past 7/3/14

1989

The venerable Delta Queen races by Cape Girardeau about 2 a.m., far ahead of the newer and larger Mississippi Queen, on the final leg of the 1989 Great Steamboat Race from New Orleans to St. Louis; the race will end tomorrow, when the steamboats arrive at the finish line in front of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.

The top floor of the old Florsheim Shoe factory on North Main Street has nearly vanished, as demolition crews with D and R Demolition of Cairo, Illinois, continue the job of razing the building for the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce.

1964

Kingshighway is now being lighted at night by the beams from 130 mercury lights, stretching the 3.5 miles from the north city limits to the south city limits; the lights, mounted on ornamental concrete poles, were installed as part of the overall improvement project of the highway, which is in its latter stages.

Elimination of the existing fish population in Lake Girardeau Community Lake at Crump has been completed; this is a normal procedure before stocking a new fish.

1939

The Cape Girardeau County Court receives the highway engineer's report on the survey of a new county road connecting Hopper Road with U.S. 61 in the Cape Township Special Road District; the new road will be 1.58 miles long and will traverse the lands of William Lampe, John F. Busch, John Graden heirs, Lulu Schwab and the County Farm.

Dr. M. Marguerite Fuller, a Cape Girardeau osteopath, is in Denver to attend a two-week course at the Denver Polytechnic Post-Graduate College.

1914

A letter received by the secretary of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club from Brig. Gen. H.C. Clark, commanding officer of the Missouri National Guard troops, says that a battalion of the Sixth Regiment will be sent here to join the First Regiment in the encampment, to be held July 12 through 19; the club insisted that the Sixth be included in the order for the mobilization of troops here because it is the home regiment.

R.L. Moore of Cairo, Illinois, is working at Wassem's drugstore; he has worked in drugstores in Illmo, Chaffee, Malden and other Southeast Missouri towns; he was manager of the Pullman Theater in Chaffee for several months.

-- Sharon K. Sanders