Out of the past 7/24/14

1989

A 3.5-foot rise of the Mississippi River over the weekend allows the Delta Queen to dock here early in the morning, three days after the corporation officers had canceled the docking because of low water.

Standing up to neighborhood opposition, the city council plows ahead with two street projects; the council says it won't change the planned route of the Lexington Avenue arterial in order to bypass an existing section of Lexington; in addition, after months of debate, the council approves councilman and developer Frank Bean's plan for construction of street and drainage improvements for a residential development bordering the San Dangaro Subdivision.

1964

The first contract toward the renovation of the old junior high school is in its final stages; atop the old brick building on Pacific Street, crews of the Pyramid Roofing Co. of Sikeston, Missouri, are finishing the reroofing project; inside, maintenance staff are stripping the building, taking out lockers and tearing out 48,000 feet of wooden floors.

The American Wind Symphony, internationally known after seven years of plying the Allegheny, Monongahela, Ohio and Upper Mississippi rivers, performs from its own barge, the Point Counterpoint, at Cape Girardeau's riverfront in the evening.

1939

Mr. and Mrs. Dennis M. Scivally of Cape Girardeau departed yesterday for their delayed trip to Yellowstone National Park and other points in the West; they will be away about a month; their trip was delayed when Mrs. Scivally hurt her leg.

Lightning struck a golf course at Jackson, Mississippi, on Sunday afternoon, killing a golfer and a caddy; Wendell Black, formerly of Cape Girardeau, was knocked down by the bolt, but wasn't injured and is none the worse for the experience; Black is the Jackson Chamber of Commerce secretary.

1914

Christopher C. Freeman is a baseball magnate; he became one last night when he bought out the interest of Will Divine in the Capaha baseball club.

R.L. Ward of Caruthersville, Missouri, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress from the 14th District, speaks at the Common Pleas Courthouse in the evening; considering the extremely hot weather, a fair-sized crowd attends.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__