Out of the past 8/28/14

1989

Summer vacation ends for school children in Cape Girardeau as classes resume; however, the high temperatures have caused all three Catholic schools here to announce they will dismiss early for the rest of the week.

Mohorc Tower Service in Cape Girardeau will erect a 180-foot self-supporting radio tower this week at the police station; the new tower will increase the range of communications for the department and replace several receivers currently in use.

1964

Work is going almost down to the wire to ready the new Jackson Junior High School building for the start of classes in four days; the sewer to the school was to have been connected today, but yesterday's rain delayed the work.

Masons have started laying brick on the walls of the new post office building at Frederick and Bellevue streets; the masons, employed by McMillan Co., of Memphis, Tennessee, are working on the Frederick Street side of the structure.

1939

Jackson city officials and the chairman of the Homecomers Reunion committee have been asked by the pastors of two local churches -- the Presbyterian and New McKendree Methodist -- to prevent the presentation of indecent shows and the operation of gambling devices during Homecomers this week.

Improvements of Gordonville Road, from Highway 25 to Cape Girardeau, is asked in a petition being circulated by residents along the road; it will be presented to the Cape Special Road District shortly.

1914

Not since the "farm" north of the city was closed a year ago have moral conditions in Cape Girardeau been as bad as they are now, say merchants and others in a position to observe; with the authorities taking no action in the matter, bad women are permitted to roam the streets, run wild in Courthouse Park and occupy apartments in all parts of the city.

The McMurray Construction Co., the contractors who have the job of straightening the curve in the river above the freight depot and filling in between the concrete and rock wall and the old bank, is constructing a large cofferdam at the north end of the rock wall; the dam will be filled with concrete, and the remainder of the wall from the cofferdam to the riverbank will be finished with concrete.

-- Sharon K. Sanders