Out of the past 1/31/14

1989

James Erlacker, a certified public accountant with Kerber, Eck and Braeckel, says the Cape Girardeau municipal government is "in pretty decent financial shape"; he reported the findings of a recent audit to the city council last night.

Jackson School District voters will decide April 4 whether to enact a 78-cent tax levy increase for construction of a new elementary building and gymnasium and renovation of the existing elementary school for use by the high school.

1964

McCLURE, Ill. -- A McClure tavern, the Sahara Club, is destroyed before dawn by an explosion apparently set off by two men seen running from the building moments before the blast; it is believed nitroglycerin was used and that the bombing was professional work.

Committees were named last night to work for passage of the proposed $475,000 bond issue to establish a branch factory for Lee-Rowan Co. of St. Louis at Jackson; R.A. Fulenwider was named overall campaign chairman.

1939

After the receipt of a telegram yesterday from Barney Schucart, a shirt manufacturer, the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce has dropped its negotiations to bring a shirt factory here.

Attempting to land on a rain-soaked wheat field in the southwest part of the city late yesterday, brothers Vernon and Rudy Miserez of West Point, Neb., escaped with only slight injuries, when the running gear of the plane bogged down in the mud; the pair was attempting to land in a field just west of Houck Woods on the LeFarth farm.

1914

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- The houseboat that Dunn & Reissaus Engineering Co. of Chaffee is building at the initial end of the drainage ditch just below the Rock Levee Road and the government levee is about finished; this boat will be used as living quarters for the men operating the dredge boat and will trail along behind the ditch cutter.

I.R. Kelso announces he will accept the position offered him by the Missouri Public Utilities Co., which will mean his family's eventual removal to St. Louis to live; he has been commissioned to organize a legal and industrial department for the company.

-- Sharon K. Sanders