Out of the past 8/21/14

1989

Delta School District students have their first "holiday" of the infant school year, only the second day of classes; someone broke into the school bus garage over the weekend and stole the bus keys.

City Clerk Evelyn LeGrand is leaving city government to take a management position with a company owned by city Councilman David Barklage; she will become vice president of Hoche-Barklage, a company that owns one convenience store in Cape Girardeau and is constructing another.

1964

A Cape Girardeau man is in extremely critical condition after being struck by a freight train at the LaCruz Street crossing early in the morning; he was sitting on the east side of the tracks, his feet between the rails and his head lowered, when members of the Frisco train saw him; they blew the train whistle several times, but the man didn't move.

The E.C. Younghouse Distributing Co. was moved this week to its new home in the southern part of the city at Interstate 55 and South Sprigg Street Road; the structure it had occupied at 42 S. Plaza Way is being razed by the owner, John Popp.

1939

A temporary blacksmith shop has been established at the street department headquarters in Cape Girardeau, with the WPA furnishing the labor; the blacksmith is L.H. Dodd; the city will furnish the materials and equipment for the shop, and Dodd will work on tools and machines of both the city and WPA.

The building committee of the Presbyterian Church in Jackson has awarded the contracts for the new church to be built at the corner of East First North and North First East streets; Penzel Construction Co. will erect the stone edifice.

1914

What will probably prove to be the biggest picnic ever held here was ordered by the German-American Alliance this week; the celebration will be Sept. 6 at the old fairgrounds; the alliance boasts a membership of 150 prominent people.

Complaint has been made to the school board that gangs of beer-drinking men and women are using the public school grounds for their revelries; this week, the janitor of Lorimier School was soundly cursed when he attempted to drive a gang of these hoodlums from the grounds.

-- Sharon K. Sanders