RecordsAugust 18, 2013
Out of the past 8/18/13
A five-count lawsuit over a storm-drainage problem at the Middle and Independence streets intersection has been filed in circuit court against Cape Girardeau; plaintiffs in the suit are Cape Paint and Glass Co., Aquamsi Land Co., Henry Malone doing business as Eggimann Feed and Seed, Union Electric and others who had personal property destroyed by a May 1986 flash flood...
1988
A five-count lawsuit over a storm-drainage problem at the Middle and Independence streets intersection has been filed in circuit court against Cape Girardeau; plaintiffs in the suit are Cape Paint and Glass Co., Aquamsi Land Co., Henry Malone doing business as Eggimann Feed and Seed, Union Electric and others who had personal property destroyed by a May 1986 flash flood.
Officials with Southeast Missouri State University hope to have its power plant back in full operation this weekend, in time for the start of the fall semester Monday.
1963
Cape Bible Chapel holds its first service in the Juden School building on Cape Rock Drive in the evening; ministry is given by the men of the congregation.
Three Cape Girardeau men, bound for Canada on a fishing trip, are unhurt when their plane makes an emergency landing in a field near Moberly, Mo., and strikes a fence; O.G. Walker, president of Farmers-Planters Mutual Hail Co., Ray W. Call, president of Missouri Utilities Co., and Jack L. Oliver, attorney for the utilities firm, walk away from the damaged plane.
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1938
Walter Adams and Ben Vinyard file a petition signed by 133 Girardeans with the Missouri Highway Commission asking for the resurfacing of Highway 74 from the intersection with U.S. 61 to the Cape LaCroix Creek bridge.
George Heuer, 21, a farmer living on the Perryville Road, is nursing a sore head; yesterday, while he and his father, August Heuer, were loading livestock into a truck, he was accidentally struck by a club and was unconscious 25 minutes; in loading the cattle, a steer bolted; August Heuer threw a club he used in driving the stock, but it missed the stampeding steer and struck young Heuer in the head.
1913
Dr. C.E. Schuchert and his 26-man band, every one an artist, will begin holding an open-air concert each Wednesday evening during the rest of the season; arrangements have been made for a band stand in Courthouse Park.
W.H. White, keeper of the grounds at the Normal School, is given police powers by the city council on request of the Normal; the Normal desired that White be given authority to enforce the law on the campus.
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