Out of the past: June 7

1990

Downtown Cape Girardeau is getting a "face lift" of sorts; the Downtown Redevelopment Corp. is installing 50 new banners on light poles on Main and Spanish streets, and the blocks connecting those streets, just in time for Riverfest.

After a year's delay because of cost and bidding problems, a contract for the construction of the new Fire Station No. 2 was signed May 7; however, construction on the 6,500-square-foot structure on Mount Auburn Road has been delayed by prolonged wet weather.

1965

Members of the PEO Sisterhood from all parts of Missouri began arriving yesterday for a three-day state convention here; State College facilities are being used for convention activities.

The Cape Girardeau County Court agrees to appoint a five-man board of trustees for Shawneetown in the near future, bringing about a reactivation of incorporation of the town; Shawneetown was originally incorporated in 1877, but the incorporation lapsed through the years; the purpose for the reactivation is to prepare the town to receive CART funds from the county for street work.

1940

Casting aside his plans to seek the Republican nomination for Missouri attorney general, Cape Girardeau attorney and World War veteran J. Grant Frye announced last night at St. Louis he will be seeking his party's nomination for governor.

In keeping with its effort to provide the community with outstanding entertainment features, The Missourian has completed negotiations for bringing the Luenen Passion Play to Cape Girardeau; it will be performed at the Teachers College Auditorium on Nov. 21 through 24.

1915

At a meeting this morning, the Cape Girardeau School Board picks school janitors for the coming year: Curtis Chiles and Bern Davis at Central, Ed Schepplemann at Lorimier, J.W. Shumacher at Washington, John Schmidt at Jefferson, Jake Masters at Broadway and George Goins at Lincoln.

Dr. C.E. Schuchert and 13 of his band boys returned on the early morning train yesterday from Richmond, Virginia, where they played at the Confederate reunion last week; the rest of the musicians stopped along the way, some at Cincinnati, some at St. Louis, and five of them remained at Richmond for a visit.

-- Sharon K. Sanders