Out of the past: May 20

1991

Cape Girardeau County commissioners, disappointed over bids received May 2 from banks interested in being the depository for county funds the next two years, have decided to try again; the commission last week rejected the bids and will take new ones by June 6.

Unanswered questions about the extent of a Cape Girardeau contracting licensing law that is being considered prompts the city council to table final approval of the measure.

1966

Cape Girardeau County Court yesterday went on record as favoring an alteration of the Apple Creek bridge at Old Appleton and its U.S. 61 approach; the bridge and the curve just to its north have been the scene of many traffic accidents and a number of fatalities since it was built; the court pointed out that from the indicated timetable for the construction of Interstate 55, it probably will be at least eight years before the superhighway begins relieving traffic from U.S. 61.

LeRoy F. Mason, director of the Golden Eagles Marching Band, announces it has accepted invitations to appear in the halftime show of games of both the St. Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Chiefs next football season.

1941

The Missouri Utilities Co. in the future must pay the city of Cape Girardeau an annual license of $5,000 to do business instead of $1,500 per year as in the past, and the Southeast Missouri Telephone Co. must pay the city a license tax of $1,750 annually instead of $500, according to terms of ordinances adopted by the city council; the utilities ordinance also freezes for 10 years the rates the city now pays Missouri Utilities on water and electric current supplied the city by the company.

C.A. Juden has been granted a permit by the city council to construct a building on North Spanish Street to house the new A & P store; the special permit allows Juden to construct the building without a fire-prevention sprinkler system.

1916

W.L. Barrett, field agent for the Normal School, finally has decided to move his family to Cape Girardeau from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and has rented one of Dr. C.B. Ruff's new houses on North Pacific Street; Mrs. Barrett and three children and Mrs. L.B. Lightfoot, who makes her home with the Barretts, joined him in Cape Girardeau last night.

Nora Naeter and two of her star pupils -- Flora Drusch, piano and cello, and Frieda Rieck, violin -- recently were offered a contract for a tour of the country extending over a period of five months next winter by one of the best music agencies in the Midwest; because of other commitments, the trio turned down the offer.

-- Sharon K. Sanders