Out of the past 8/9/13

1988

About 180 area residents, including a few from Cape Girardeau, sweated through a town meeting last night at a Scott City school to voice their opposition to Cape Girardeau's annexation plans.

Commissioners of the Southeast Missouri Port Authority have authorized engineer Jim Lawson to release a contractor who has brought an access road to the port up to state specifications; Kelley Construction Co. has fulfilled its contractual obligations.

1963

The general replacement and repair of concrete work at the front entrance to Central High School is scheduled to begin next week, with completion expected before school begins.

Paving on Highway 61's two new lanes in Cape Girardeau is expected to reach the 3-mile mark by the end of today, leaving about a mile of paving still today; the contractor will start reworking the major intersections at Broadway, Independence and William streets when the paving operation is completed.

1938

Circle No. 266 of Columbian Squires, junior order of Knights of Columbus, was instituted Sunday; members are Norman Robert, Wilbert Neiderkorn, John Horn, Walter J. Schlueter, Urban Dohogne, William Brooks, Elmer Compas, Victor L. Brant, Roy P. Fischer, James Shafer, Jerome Ponder, Norman Seib, Jerome Hoffman, Earl Ponder, Basil Crites, Clifford L. Hitt, Norman W. Wood, George C. Reiker, William Bertrand, Dennis Strack, Robert Sandman, James Schumacher, Robert Schumacher and Glaneer Tenkhoff.

Cape Girardeau fishermen August Flint, Jesse Wyndham and Kelly Hindman landed a 40-pound and 14 1/2-pound blue channel catfish in the Mississippi River.

1913

The Woman's League, dedicated to cleaning up Cape Girardeau, held another enthusiastic meeting last night in the Presbyterian Church; 20 new members were enrolled, giving a total enrollment of 72; the group unanimously adopted a resolution: "Resolved, that it be the sense of the Woman's League that we deeply deplore that any woman of Cape Girardeau should sign a saloon petition."

W.G. Lewis, who recently took his master's degree in physics at the University of Chicago, has been hired to succeed B.F. Shackelford at the Normal School.

-- Sharon K. Sanders