Out of the past: June 30

1991

After bottling its first soda nearly a century ago, the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Southeast Missouri, located in Jackson, has changed hands; the company, which had enjoyed local ownership since its beginning in 1894, has been sold to the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Northeast Arkansas Inc.

Shoppers anticipating the opening of the Shop 'n Save grocery store on Silver Springs Road, south of Route K, will be waiting a bit longer; instead of July, the opening will be around the last week of August or the first week of September.

1966

Papers were signed, a joke or two was cracked, and the Farmers Home Administration handed over a check for $495,000 to the Cape County Public Water Supply District No. 1 yesterday afternoon at the office of attorney Albert C. Lowes; the funds will be used to construct a public water system in northern Cape Girardeau County and southern Perry County.

Renewed licenses for 58 establishments in Cape Girardeau selling liquor and beer have been issued by the city for the fiscal year starting Friday; revenue from the license renewals totals $12,372.50; that could grow to $13,627.50, if the remaining nine existing licenses also are renewed.

1941

Continuing its torrid foray, the mercury bounds again into the high 90s for the 11th consecutive day, after reaching the season's high mark of 99 degrees Sunday afternoon; this is the 20th day in Cape Girardeau without rain of any consequence.

It is announced an added project labor appropriation of $3,000 has been approved by the WPA for finishing Giboney Street, or the final part of the South Main Street extension program; at the Missouri Pacific Railroad crossing some work is to be done, including rip-rapping and grading; gravel has been placed on most of the Giboney Street stretch, through to South Sprigg Street, where the grading already has been finished.

1916

Lawyers of the Cape Girardeau Bar Association meet in the afternoon and decide to establish a law library that would have no superior in the state; to start with, about $4,000 worth of books will be purchased; the library will be housed in a fireproof building, either the H.-H. Building or the new Buckner-Ragsdale building.

Emil Teichmann, partner of Claude Winningham for several years in the Boston Grocery at the corner of Main Street and Broadway, has purchased the half interest of Claude Winningham; at the same time, Winningham purchased the grocery department of the Nussbaum store in Haarig and will take charge Monday.

-- Sharon K. Sanders