Out of the past 9/23/13

1988

Cape Girardeau Mayor Gene Rhodes has returned from a visit to the Soviet Union; he and mayors of five other U.S. cities visited with 17 Soviet mayors last week.

The first cases of the tick-carried Lyme disease in Southeast Missouri apparently have been confirmed in the Cape Girardeau area; the presence of the disease in Missouri has prompted the Missouri Department of Health to begin a field study in the Cape Girardeau area.

1963

The east and southeast banks of the Alma Schrader School grounds, where erosion had left deep gullies, are being reshaped and will be seeded in an effort to control the flow of water; the work is being directed by the Logan Nursery and Landscape Service.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education accepts the plans of architect Fred E. Dormeyer Jr. for the renovation of the old junior high school building; the old junior high school building will be vacated this winter, when the pupils move into the new building under construction at Thilenius Street and Caruthers Avenue.

1938

BENTON, Mo. -- Scott Countians think $2 per pie is enough; a number of pie suppers are being held at rural schools, chiefly in connection with political rallies, during which pies baked by young women are auctioned off; in order that there may be no undue embarrassment for buyers, a maximum price of $2 a pie has been agreed upon.

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- A $4,000 bond issue proposal is approved in the Marble Hill school district at a special election, when 125 vote for the issue and seven against; the money will supplement assistance from the WPA and will build a modern grade school on the site of the present grade school.

1913

About 35 Methodist divines of note arrive from St. Louis on the noon train, bound for the general conference at Jackson, which begins tomorrow; Bishop E.E. Hoos is at the head of the St. Louis delegation.

John Job of near Dutchtown is probably entitled to be crowned clover king of Cape Girardeau County this year; his crop yielded 152 bushels and 25 pounds; it was threshed by A.E. Feuerhahn, who won a keg of beer from Job as a result of a wager as to the yield.

-- Sharon K. Sanders