Out of the past 9/23/14

1989

The Crossroads, a 21,000-square-foot professional office and retail shopping center, is scheduled to open here in March 1990; Judy Wilferth, who is involved with her husband in the new project, will use one-third of the space for three businesses: Children's Bazaar, Boy's Corner and Children's Bazaar Shoes.

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- PCB-contaminated oil in a road and drainage ditch adjoining the Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America compressor station is being excavated and removed in a cleanup effort; the site is about six miles east of here, along Highway 34.

1964

Officers are elected in the morning at the first session of the 54th annual meeting of the Women of the Church, Synod of Missouri, Presbyterian Church in the United States; speaker at the session is the Rev. Dr. Kenneth Phifer, professor at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Possible sites for a new federal building in Cape Girardeau will be investigated Oct. 5 through 7 by government officials, who will be seeking a location within a 30-square-block section near the downtown area; a federal appropriation bill of $273,000 for site acquisition and planning was signed into law Aug. 30 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1939

Schools in the "cotton country" of Southeast Missouri may reopen classes earlier this fall than usual, due to the fast ripening and quick-step picking of the cotton crop; while the main rush of harvest often extends into the late weeks of October, indications are that the picking this year may be largely done by the middle of October.

Arnold Roth, commander of the Louis K. Juden post of American Legion leaves in the evening for Chicago to attend the national convention of the American Legion; Joe Woods, commander of the Negro Lacey-Tyler post also departs for the convention.

1914

The muddy water in water hydrants is due to the fact that the settling basins are being given a cleaning; one basin at a time is emptied of water and given a scouring; when it is clean, the water is poured into it while the other basin is scoured.

Louis Steimle of Jackson passes through here on his way home from points in North Dakota, where he has been working with a threshing machine crew.

-- Sharon K. Sanders