Out of the past: June 4

1991

The city of Cape Girardeau will ask Southeast Missouri Hospital to help fund construction work on a portion of Lacey Street near its intersection with Sunset Avenue; the streets border hospital property; Councilman Doug Richards contends the hospital created a poor sight distance traffic hazard by extending Lacey to Sunset.

A monotonous, 25-day heat wave that began in early May ended yesterday, when thunderstorms dumped heavy rains on parts of the Cape Girardeau area; frequent lightning accompanied the storms and caused power outages to about 100 customers of Union Electric Co.

1966

A spokesman for the State Highway Department says construction of Route K as an extension of William Street here isn't expected to begin until fall at the earliest and possibly not until next year; another major supplementary road project in this area, the improvement of Route V between Cape Girardeau and Egypt Mills, is slated to begin next month.

Dr. A.C. Magill of Cape Girardeau, a former member of the County Court, recalls that the court asked the State Highway Commission eight years ago to correct the dangerous highway situation at Apple Creek; the state answered that construction of Interstate 55 would relieve the situation; since that appeal, four people have been killed at or near the Apple Creek bridge; since it was constructed in 1931, it has been struck and damaged 33 times, and seven people have been killed in traffic accidents there since 1945.

1941

A new plea for the city to act to abate the smoke nuisance in Cape Girardeau has been presented to the mayor and commissioners by the city board of health; the board also has given the city a petition in which residents complained of dense smoke coming from the chimney of a laundry plant.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- More than $1,000 of a voluntary $2,500 fund being raised by the Chaffee Chamber of Commerce to aid in the rebuilding of the Elrod-Lankford Planing Mill, which was turned in last night by a corps of workers at the end of the first day of the drive; the mill burned last week.

1916

Dr. Eli J. Forsythe, well-known evangelist, opens the big revival here at the just-built tabernacle on Pacific Street to a big crowd in the morning; several churches in the city suspend services and urge parishioners to attend the revival; the afternoon meeting is only fairly well attended, but the evening meeting draws a huge throng.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- The hard hitting of Irvy Meyers turns defeat into victory, as the Capahas tie the score at 3-3 on Myers' cyclonic clout and then add one more run in the tenth inning.

-- Sharon K. Sanders