25 years ago: Sept. 3, 1981
The Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday approved the issuance of industrial revenue bonds totaling about $2 million in accordance with a request from First National Bank; the bonds will be used to outfit the bank's new home office to be built along the planned Silver Springs Road south of Route K.
The issue of a public transit system in Cape Girardeau won't die a quiet death; at last night's city council meeting, Hilary F. Schmittzehe, executive director of VIP Industries, lobbied for a fixed-route bus system.
Labor Day.
Following the usual custom, there is a general business and industrial holiday in Cape Girardeau; banks, the post office and state offices observe the holiday, as do factories; the Knights of Columbus hold their annual Labor Day picnic on the clubhouse grounds on South Spanish Street.
Robert G. Bradey, Cape Girardeau lawyer, was selected by the Republican County Committee in a meeting at Jackson Saturday for the party nomination for judge of the Common Pleas Court; his selection followed the formal withdrawal of Judge Freeland L. Jackson.
In a determined effort to break up whisky dives and beer joints that resume operation almost as quickly as they are closed, Constable C.C. Eddlemann announces an intensive campaign against those who sell liquor in Cape Girardeau and township; Eddlemann, with the help of other law enforcement officers, will raid liquor dives systematically, whenever the slightest evidence for such a raid can be obtained.
Despite rumors to the contrary, the Eagle Packet Co. won't suspend service on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cape Girardeau; while the steamer Cape Girardeau might not come here again this season, beginning next week the steamer Golden Eagle will make two trips here weekly.
The firm of Luebers & Schumer, grocers, of South Spanish Street in Cape Girardeau, has dissolved partnership, with Schumer retaining the business.
Another valued public school teacher will soon depart Cape Girardeau; Elma Buehrmann, teacher of the third grade at Lorimier School, asks the school board to release her from her duties, so that she may go to St. Louis and accept a position offered her there.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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