Out of the past 9/2/13

1988

Four Cape Girardeau businessmen and the wife of the publisher of a Poplar Bluff, Mo., newspaper -- Jim Drury, Ernie Beussink, Earl Norman, Tony Stephens and Julie Wolpers -- are investors in a new bi-weekly newspaper scheduled to begin publication here next month; The Cape Girardeau News Guardian will be a free distribution newspaper, published on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.

The Cape Girardeau City Council is considering issuing $3.72 million in lease revenue bonds to finance three major capital improvement projects and replace some equipment; the bonds would finance the first phase of the Cape LaCroix trunk sewer project, construction of a solid waste transfer station and the relocation of fire station No. 2.

1963

Labor Day. The largest public celebration in Cape Girardeau is the annual picnic of the Knights of Columbus, Council 1111; the two-day event began yesterday morning on the K. of C. grounds on South Spanish Street.

Ideal weather leads holiday celebrators to fill Cape Girardeau's parks and the municipal swimming pool; at Trail of Tears State Park, 910 cars carrying an estimated 3,640 persons visit the park during the two-day holiday; 95 are campers.

1938

Some Southeast Missouri cotton farmers are plowing under their cotton so as to avoid government dale penalties and to qualify for federal cash benefit payments.

Preparations have been completed and Cape Girardeau is ready to begin welcoming delegates to the 20th annual state convention of the American Legion tonight; the convention will officially get underway early Sunday and will conclude Tuesday afternoon; along with the thousands of regular delegates to the convention will be 603 musicians, members of 15 marching units.

1913

Judge and Mrs. R.G. Ranney return from Ann Arbor, Mich., where they have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Harbison and their 11-week-old child, who is named Robert Ranney; the eminent jurist thinks the baby is just about the finest he has seen in the North.

Every white school in Cape Girardeau sees an increase in attendance, as classes for the new term begin; attendance figures are as follows: Jefferson, 335; Broadway, 374; Washington, 71; Lorimier, 187, and Lorimier High, 126; Lincoln School, the black school, sees a 29-pupil loss, from 187 last year to 158 this year.

-- Sharon K. Sanders