Out of the past 6/19/14

1989

Installation of an elevator at Cape Girardeau Central High School is underway; workers with R.A. Schemel and Associates of Perryville, Missouri, are digging the elevator shaft, which could be completed by the beginning of the school year.

Several area businesses have contributed money toward the construction of a Youth Optimist Girls Softball League concession stand and restrooms in Arena Park; as part of its donation, McDonald Concrete Ready-Mix pours the concrete for the foundation; general contractor for the job is E.R. Thompson Construction.

1964

Traffic signals are being installed at three major Kingshighway intersections here, and the electric devices may be activated by July 10; signal installation at the Broadway, Independence Street and William Street intersections with the highway is part of a major urban project by which Kingshighway has been widened from two to four lanes.

A leakage problem in the base of the structure has kept the Courthouse Park fountain dry this summer, as the city looks for a solution to the problem.

1939

Speaking at a church men's dinner in the evening at Centenary Methodist Church, the Rt. Rev. William Scarlett of St. Louis, bishop of the Episcopal Church in Missouri, describes sore spots in Europe, with Germany the crux of the whole situation.

A retail beer vending establishment on Water Street, known as the Yellow Dog, has surrendered its beer license and closed its doors; the state liquor inspector had filed a complaint against the Yellow Dog, saying the place had permitted punch boards to be operated where beer was being sold at retail.

1914

Sturdivant Bank is having new burglar-proof doors installed on the steel-lined vault that is riveted inside two-foot brick walls; the vault is used only for safe-deposit boxes and records of the bank; the moneys of the bank are secured each night in a spherical safe sitting in the front window of the bank.

The secretary of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club receives a letter from Col. Arthur B. Donnelly, commanding officer of the First Regiment, Missouri National Guard, asking what facilities are available here for encampment for seven or eight days for 500 men.

-- Sharon K. Sanders