Out of the past 2/15/14

1989

Cape Girardeau City Councilman David Barklage is pressing for a year-long beautification effort involving a public and private partnership to enhance city parks and the community in general; he has suggested the effort could tie in with the planting of roses and other beautification projects being planned as part of Vision 2000.

An effort is being made to explore the possibility of restoring and preserving Old Lorimier Cemetery; Park Board Chairman Jim Grebing is trying to arrange a meeting of interested citizens to organize a restoration effort; the 183-year-old cemetery has been the target of repeated vandalism over the years.

1964

Gene E. Huckstep, co-proprietor of the Huckstep Body and Paint Shop, filed yesterday as a candidate for the Cape Girardeau Board of Education; two members will be elected to the board April 7.

A car is torn in half in a two-vehicle accident on Highway 61, but the drivers escape serious injury; a car driven by Leon Sander of Cape Girardeau County is taking an uphill right-hand curve, when it skids out of control on the wet pavement; coming down the hill is a car driven by Robert L. Turner of Fort Orlando, Fla.; the Turner car hits the left side of Sander's auto, which skids into the southbound lane; the force of the impact causes the front end of the Sander car to break off and travel 87 feet down the road.

1939

Hope E. Morton has sold his interest in the McCombs Furniture Co., and will enter the retail lumber and real estate business about March 1; he will erect a building and office on West Main Street on the old hotel site, across the street and west of the Wagner bakery; his interest in the furniture store was purchased in equal parts by his associates, Henry E. Boss, B.A. Meyer and J.W. McCombs.

Lloyd Thompson, who is paddling a wash tub boat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, says he plans to leave Cape Girardeau tomorrow at noon and head for Cairo, Ill., his next major stop.

1914

Mrs. L.B. Houck will be the guest speaker at the Literary Society of St. James A.M.E. Church Tuesday evening; she will show 20 picture slides and lecture on that great question, consumption.

Jesse Hawn, who has been working in a shoe factory in Milwaukee for the past year or more, arrived home yesterday for a visit with his parents; he reports that several shoe factories in Milwaukee are having a hard time with strikers, and the factory he was working for had shut down until the strike is over.

-- Sharon K. Sanders