Out of the past: June 4

1990

The Southeast Missourian switches from afternoon delivery of its newspaper to morning delivery.

Downtown property owners parade before the Cape Girardeau City Council, offering conflicting views as to the best route for a downtown connection to a Mississippi River bridge and highway being planned; at issue is whether the city should pursue construction of a downtown exit that would connect with Lorimier Street or with an extension of Fountain Street.

1965

Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois were lashed overnight by curtains of rain, whipped in some localities by high winds and accompanied by electrical storm activity; at least five sightings of funnel clouds aloft -- one near Cape Girardeau and another near Perryville, Missouri -- also were reported to authorities, but none apparently touched down.

Four Montana State College chemists are in Jackson again, hoping to collect 5,000 mud daubers by the end of June; the basic purpose of the project is to identify the substance in wasp sting venom that is toxic and dangerous to humans.

1940

A delegation appeared before the city council yesterday complaining of conditions along an alley connecting Good Hope Street and Morgan Oak Street, and west of Lorimier Street; the delegation said a number of old-time lavatories and some poorly constructed cesspools are in use in the vicinity, causing a health hazard.

A shipment of 30,000 tiny bass, chiefly of the large-mouth variety, was received by truck for the Cape County Wildlife Conservation Federation yesterday and was placed in the lagoon in Fairground Park; late this autumn, the fish will be placed in Cape Girardeau County streams.

1915

A committee of the Cape Girardeau School Board is consulting representatives of school furniture manufacturers in an effort to decide which could meet the demands of the board best and at the lowest figures; the furniture to be bought is for the new central school building on Pacific Street.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Chaffee is to have a flour mill; this addition to the industries of the town was secured through the efforts of the Chaffee Commercial Club; a Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, man named Rigdon will erect the plant on a site furnished by the city.

-- Sharon K. Sanders