Out of the past: Jan. 29

1990

Nationally, Project Head Start is observing its 25th year of operation; in Cape Girardeau, Head Start is celebrating its move earlier this month to new quarters at the corner of Bellevue and Middle streets, the former Walther's Funeral Home.

Opponents of a plan to build a recreational lake in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties tell a Missouri Senate committee they are concerned about wording in a bill that would give a lake authority control of 5,000 feet of land around the lake; supporters contend the lake authority must have that control to assure orderly development.

1965

Water covers part of the third floor and runs through to the lower floors at the International Shoe Co., 700 N. Main St., early in the morning when a small fire sets off the sprinkler system; water damage to materials and equipment is thought to be negligible; the fire is extinguished by the time firefighters arrive.

Some concern has been expressed over the elimination of tie-downs, or iron rings, for boats on the Mississippi River front here since the completion of the floodwall; too, the stone riprap with which the area on the river side of the wall was surfaced is showing considerable signs of deterioration, being washed away by the river current.

1940

L.H. Butler has sold his grocery store at 400 S. Hanover St. to Fred Niemeier; Butler, a former city commissioner, had operated the store for 11 months; Niemeier has been conducting a tavern on Good Hope Street.

Fred L. Propst says 11 people living at his home, 917 N. Main St., are recovering from ptomaine poisoning, evidently caused by eating bad pickles; Mrs. Propst and son, Jerold, 9, were seriously poisoned, but are recovering.

1915

Curtis Curry, night watchman at the Brammer Lumber Co. plant in the north end of the city, was fired upon by a robber last night as he was making his rounds at the mill; fortunately, the bullets from the would-be assassin's gun went wild; Curry returned fire, but also missed his mark.

Henry L. Jones, Jackson's veteran druggist, who has been in business here about 40 years, dies in the evening at the age of 72; he leaves three sons, DuRee and Murray of Jackson and Harvey of Cape Girardeau; also two daughters, Nellie and Winnie, both of the home.

-- Sharon K. Sanders