Out of the past 9/1/13

1988

Cape Girardeau city officials are considering placing a one-fourth-cent capital improvement sales tax measure on the November election ballot; the tax would pay the $8.3 million local share of the $28 million federal flood-control project for Cape LaCroix and Walker creeks.

Walther's Funeral Home, 260 N. Middle St., and Brinkopf-Howell Funeral Home, 536 Broadway, have been acquired by Ford and Sons Funeral Home; the Walther's facility will be closed, while the Brinkopf-Howell facility will be remodeled, with the name to change to Walther's-Brinkopf-Howell Funeral Home.

1963

A new Assembly of God Church is being organized in Jackson; services are being held temporarily in the home of the pastor, Charley Upchurch, on Shady Lane.

CONCEPTION, Mo. -- Patrick Wissman, O.S.B., formerly of Cape Girardeau, who has taken the name Frater Melchior, pronounces his final vows as a member of the Benedictine Abbey here; he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.L. Wissmann of Cape Girardeau Route 1.

1938

The Cape Girardeau Jaycees have proposed a program of installing adequate street markers throughout the city; the idea is to place substantial and attractive metal name plates at intersections, so that motorists and pedestrians may readily learn on which street they are traveling.

Wade Clodfelter begins his 25th year in the taxi business here; of the five who began the business together and worked together 19 years, he is the only one still at it; he operates the White Stripe Taxi, 107 Independence St.

1913

Labor Day.

President W.S. Dearmont has his whole Normal School faculty present at the city council meeting, intending to protest against the long-awaited water and light franchise ordinance; for some reason, however, Mayor F.A. Kage and the council decide to postpone the reading of the ordinance until tomorrow night.

The new Cape Girardeau-Blytheville, Ark., passenger train, which has been dubbed the "Booster" by Frisco Superintendent O.H. McCarthy, is a winner; about 150 paying passengers were on the inaugural trip south yesterday afternoon, and this morning there are about 130.