Out of the past 7/29/13

1988

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Demolition of the nearly 50-year-old Chaffee High School gymnasium got underway this week and is expected to be completed in about two weeks; last year, Chaffee junior and senior high school students moved into a new high school building.

Drury Development Corp. has requested friendly annexation by Cape Girardeau of a planned commercial subdivision west of Interstate 55; Drury is seeking annexation of 121 acres between Route K and Bloomfield Road; the acreage is part of the former Siemers farm.

1963

Three members of the city Library Board have been reappointed to three-year terms by the city council: R.E.L. Lamkin Jr., the present chairman of the board, Mrs. James H. Finch Jr. and Vernon A. Chapman.

A legal technicality is holding up advancement of a project to construct a recreational boat harbor at Trail of Tears State Park; Joseph Jaeger Jr., director of state parks, says he believes the problem, involving the state government and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, will be worked out soon.

1938

Formal approval by the Circuit Court and the Reconstruction Finance Corp. of the sale of Sturdivant Bank property by auction in Cape Girardeau yesterday will be sought immediately; the sale of the property at Courthouse Park grossed $97,300.66.

John Martin, 55, of Illmo president of the school board in that town and prominently identified for many years in the community's civic life, dies of a heart ailment at a local hospital; Martin was general car foreman for the Cotton Belt Railroad at Illmo.

1913

At a special meeting last night, the Cape Girardeau City Council heard the final report of the water and light franchise committee; the report was read and referred to the judiciary committee for action.

Dr. J. Marshall Phillips, who has been spending several weeks with Dr. Rex E. Cunningham, has decided to make Cape Girardeau his future home; he has formed a partnership with Cunningham, and they have rented another room adjoining those in which they are now located in the Himmelberger-Harrison Building.

-- Sharon K. Sanders