Out of the past 9/1/14

1989

Speaking at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce' First Friday Coffee, Rep. Bill Emerson tells a large crowd that upgrading Highway 60 from Sikeston to Springfield, Missouri, is a "doable" project; later, Emerson leaves for Jefferson City, where he urges the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission to make Highway 60 improvements a priority.

The city of Cape Girardeau could soon be moving farther west on the west side of the Interstate 55-Highway 61 interchange; owners of 19 tracts of land, totaling 100 acres, all west of the interchange, are asking to be annexed by the city of Cape Girardeau.

1964

W.R. Withers Jr., representing the Gregg Television Service of Nashville, Tennessee, asked the City Council yesterday to grant it a franchise to provide cable television service to homes and businesses here at a monthly fee; if it were franchised, Gregg would offer 10 to 12-channel service.

Cape Girardeau voters will be asked to approve a $795,000 school bond issue Sept. 29 to finance the construction of an elementary school on Hopper Road and to complete improvements to the old Junior High School; the passage of the bond issue would involve no increase in school taxes.

1939

Charles Riemann, 17, of the Koch suburb, astride his bicycle, scanned the front page of The Southeast Missourian on Sept. 1, 1939. The early "extra" brought the newspaper's readers the first authentic word of the invasion of Poland by Germany. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

The Missourian's front-page headline screams "War Breaks!" and tells the story of Germany's invasion of Poland; the newspaper's carrier boys roll out of bed early in the morning to bring the news of the outbreak of the European war to Cape Girardeau readers; many Girardeans are roused from their slumbers with shouts of "Extra, extra. War has started."

The new grade school at Jackson, a two-story brick structure heralded as the last word in modern construction and arrangement, will be presented to the public Sunday afternoon at an informal "open house"; the new 16-room structure replaces an elementary school that has served for more than 13 years.

1914

Just as Judge R.G. Ranney of the Common Pleas Court is preparing to give a decision in the case of the fairground, Sen. T.F. Lane announces he will withdraw his submission of the case to the court and take a "non-suit'; the action takes the whole matter away from the court system.

In light of the St. Louis health officer issuing a boil water notice for that city, manager A.N. Tinsley of the Cape Girardeau water works does the same; Cape Girardeau uses practically the same quality of water that is used in St. Louis; while the St. Louis water has tested high in bacilli, tests of the water here show it in good condition; still, Tinsley decided to be cautious.

-- Sharon K. Sanders