Out of the past: May 25

1991

The Cape Girardeau County Joint Veterans Council will no longer place small American flags on the graves of veterans buried in city cemeteries for Memorial Day; the council has purchased sets of flags of the five branches of the military service and the American flag, which will be raised in all of the cemeteries in Cape Girardeau on Monday.

Irvin H. Garms, a retired Cape Girardeau contractor, has been appointed to the board of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority.

1966

In answer to a local push for a redesign of the approach to the Apple Creek bridge at Old Appleton, Marvin J. Snider, chief engineer with the State Highway Department, said the department will consider additional signs in an attempt to reduce the traffic hazard at the bridge; Snider said he won't rule out the possibility of a reconstruction project for the U.S. 61 crossing of Apple Creek at some time, but for the present, attention will be given to signs.

The Jackson School Board met with architects and an elementary teachers committee last night to get preliminary planning for an elementary school addition started; using the requirements discussed, William McLaughlin and William Stein of the firm of Hanner and Bretweiser of Chester, Illinois, will prepare preliminary plans for the addition.

1941

Excavation work has been completed and workers have begun pouring concrete for an addition to the basement of the Church of God in Marble City Heights; it is the first phase of $3,000 remodeling and construction program being undertaken by the congregation; the present basement is being enlarged beneath the entire structure; to give it a depth of eight feet, the building is being raised an additional two feet.

The foundation has been completed and laying of brick on the new Maple Avenue Methodist Church building will begin next week.

1916

F.H. Law, assistant general freight agent of the Illinois Central Railroad, with headquarters in St. Louis, is in Cape Girardeau investigating the commercial activities of the place; he is here at the invitation of the city's businessmen, who are interested in getting another railroad for the town.

Twenty-four supporters of the public library found their way to the riverfront last evening and paid for an excursion aboard the steamer Cape Girardeau; the event sent $12 into the coffers of the Public Library Association, but half of that amount went right out to the steamboat company for giving the excursion; $5 more went out to pay the orchestra; in the end, the fund raiser raised only $1 to support the library.

-- Sharon K. Sanders