Out of the past 9/25/14

1989

Cape Girardeau police urge motorists to be especially cautious along Kingshighway between Route K and Independence Street, where a barrier is being installed to prevent left turns into and out of the shopping center in which Schnucks, Kmart and other businesses are.

The first of four new city welcome signs is unveiled at a dedication ceremony near the Mississippi River bridge; the 8x12-foot sign features a rose design and the words: "Welcome to Cape Girardeau, City of Roses on the River."

1964

A drive by both political parties to promote voter registration and extended hours for registering has helped push the number of registered voters here to 14,324.

Area dentists, winding up their two-day meeting here, commit themselves to working for the spread of water fluoridation throughout the district; by unanimous vote, the Southeast Missouri Dental Society approves a resolution offered by Dr. Dan B. Cotner, president, calling for the society "to aid 27 communities having approved water supplies deficient in the optimum fluoride content."

1939

Two Southeast Missouri young men are among the class of 57 potential highway troopers; they are Ross D. Killgore of Sikeston, Missouri, and Irvin E. Beard of Puxico, Missouri; Gilbert M. Schupan of St. Louis, formerly of Cape Girardeau, is also in the class.

While it is generally expected a fair can be held in the fall of 1940 at the new park the city and WPA are developing on U.S. 61, the question of the government releasing the park formally to the city may cause a delay; the project has moved along slowly for nearly three years, because it is a big job and because the WPA has used it as a project on which to furnish a maximum amount of labor for men.

1914

Ella Rahmoeller, young daughter of Chris Rahmoeller, the Illmo grocer, fell out of tree at the Illmo school house Monday and broke her arm at the wrist and at the elbow; her brother, Martin, broke an arm two weeks ago.

Henry Lamprich and family, who left here a little more than a year ago for Canada, where Mr. Lamprich had secured a position with a wagon factory, have returned to Cape Girardeau and are moving into their home out on Louisiana Avenue; Lamprich says most of the factories in Canada have been shut down.

-- Sharon K. Sanders