Out of the past 7/18/13

1988

Weather forecasters say rain, and perhaps a lot of it in isolated areas, is on the way; the recent heat wave, with its 100-degree temperatures, also may be broken.

The Cape Girardeau City Council moves forward with plans to annex the Interstate 55 right-of-way; the council, which has discussed the move at length during recent weeks, wastes little time in approving the first reading of an annexation ordinance.

1963

Cape Girardeau digs and drains itself out from under mud and water after a rain storm that hit the city last night; residents throughout town report their houses and basements standing full of mud and water after the sudden, fast-falling rain.

Commissioner of Public Works John Hayden said he will ask the City Council to seek a solution to the deterioration of the blacktop surface between the railroad tracks on Independence Street; he will suggest the city persuade Missouri Pacific to repair the street, or the city close off the tracks and take its own corrective measures.

1938

With a general rain over the county and district Saturday and Sunday, prospects for bumper crops are bright; the rain was sufficient to just about "make" the corn crop, said E.T. Mallinckrodt, county extension agent.

Lou Weiss was the only member of the Capahas who didn't allow Clarence Collison of the Farmington (Mo.) Blues to strike him out in the game Friday; he managed to hit the ball three times, but never out of the infield; Clyde Schwab, Billy Crabtree and Harley Eddleman each went down swinging three times; Wally Zehnder, Joe DeLassus and Benny Brinkopf twice each, and Howard Hinton and Carl Meyer once each.

1913

A Cape Girardeau County Highway Board has been appointed to select the most practical road from Jackson, the county seat, to the county seats of adjoining counties, as provided by a recent Senate bill; the committee is composed of Louis Houck and engineer Dennis Scivally of Cape Girardeau and Roy Stephenson of New Wells.

S.C. Young of Decatur, Ill., is here visiting his mother, Mrs. Rovena Young, on Morgan Oak Street; the young man is a "tree doctor."

-- Sharon K. Sanders