Out of the past 8/7/14

1989

Beginning tomorrow, there will be no free room and board at the Cape Girardeau City Jail; from now on, municipal prisoners will start paying for their own keep; the cost of keeping prisoners at the jail will be added to the municipal fine for the offense.

The Community Counseling Center, already cramped for space in a 5-year-old building, is looking at constructing a new facility at the southeast corner of Silver Springs and Bloomfield roads; the center is currently at 24 S. Mount Auburn Road in a building leased from Saint Francis Medical Center.

1964

Cape Girardeau School District officials appear before the city council to inquire about sewer service to the proposed elementary school on Hopper Road; Public Works commissioner John A. Hayden says he believes the line will be constructed to that area before the school is finished, but suggests school officials confer with city engineer John R. Walther for further details.

Dr. Ben Morton, executive secretary of the Missouri Commission on Higher Education, is the speaker for State College's summer commencement; the college confers 165 degrees in twilight exercises on the terraces east of Academic Hall.

1939

Construction is slated to start next week on a new power line the Missouri Utilities Co. is building between Cape Girardeau and Charleston, Missouri; the first work will be done near Charleston; the project will cost approximately $132,000 and the line will be 42 miles long.

The Herculean task of moving 70,000 volumes and 50,000 pamphlets from the old library quarters in Academic Hall at the Teachers College to the new library building begins; the librarian, Sadie Kent, officially inaugurates the transfer by placing the Holy Bible on a shelf in the new building's reading room.

1914

Once more the final action on the petition to revoke an ordinance that prohibits Sunday picture shows was postponed last night by the city council; a decision is expected at the next regular council meeting Aug. 17.

A fire last night destroyed the Fuerth foundry on North Main Street, while another blaze this morning threatens the McBride Cooperage works in the far south end of the city.

-- Sharon K. Sanders