Out of the past: July 11

1990

The weather man is singing the same old tune: Hot temperatures and no rain; for the third consecutive day, the mercury here climbed over the century mark yesterday, setting a new record of 101; lack of rain is hurting farmers, who earlier this wet spring couldn't get into the fields to plant; now, they are watching their fields fry.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education has agreed to spend $8,000 on a consultant, who will guide the search for a new superintendent of schools; the consultant is Dr. W. Deane Wiley, professor emeritus of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville.

1965

Annie's Place opens in the afternoon on the corner of South Sprigg and LaCruz streets; the new place is an eating shop for the Whole Truth Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Apostolic Faith and is managed by Mrs. A.M. Dorris.

The Rev. Max D. Sullivan has been sent to Cape Girardeau by the Board of American Missions, Lutheran Church in America, to organize a congregation to be affiliated with the Illinois Synod of the LCA.

1940

Authority for the Cape Girardeau Post Office to add four regular employees to the staff and to extend city carrier service to 75 additional families is granted by the post office department; three regular carriers will be added, and one more clerk will be put on duty.

During a special City Council meeting yesterday, Mayor Hinkle Statler was authorized to confer with federal postal authorities on a proposal to furnish a portion of Courthouse Park as a site for the new Federal Building and to receive in return the present federal structure at Broadway and Fountain to be made over into a modern city hall and courthouse; the city will offer whatever space would be needed in the park as a building site, exclusive of the public library plot.

1915

The controversy over the purchase of the Mertens property at the corner of Broadway and Sprigg Street has finally been settled; at a meeting of the County Court last week, a school fund loan was made to Fred Braun on the property, indicating the court has no fears of the sale of the hotel property holding good.

Mrs. Charles H. Daues and little daughter Placide arrived on the steamboat yesterday for a visit at the St. Vincent's Young Ladies Academy; her husband will be down some time this week, if his duties as city counselor for St. Louis will permit.

-- Sharon K. Sanders