Out of the past 8/8/14

1989

A request for funding for the proposed Interstate 66 project sparked a heated debate at last night's city council meeting, with the council finally tabling the matter over the objections of Mayor Gene Rhodes.

City councilman Albert M. Spradling III announces he will seek the office of mayor in Cape Girardeau; Spradling was the top vote-getter in 1988, when he was first elected to a four-year council term.

1964

While summer commencement exercises were underway at State College last evening, firemen were trying to find the source of smoke that filled one of the buildings in the small group housing complex; fire chief Carl Lewis and eight firemen went through the entire building and, after checking all possibilities, decided that is was coming from an incinerator in the building.

Absentee ballots counted yesterday pulled County Judge Alvin F. Klaus of the first district into a tie with Herbert L. Brune in the Republican election for that office; both men have 405 votes; a third candidate, C.H. Sander of Jackson, ended the count with 244 votes.

1939

Members of Cape Girardeau's Junior American Legion baseball team took third place in the state tournament at Trenton, Missouri, yesterday; they fell to Kansas City, 11-0.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Assurance that Chaffee won't lose the shoe factory it established two years ago in cooperation with the Collins-Morris Shoe Co., is given at a special meeting of workers at the armory by a Chaffee Chamber of Commerce committee, which spent the day in St. Louis conferring with operators of the closed plant; the plant here will be subleased to an as yet unnamed firm.

1914

One of the most interested readers of the war news in The Republican each day and the bulletins in the newspaper's display windows each evening is Harmon Loeffel, the concrete contractor; his aged mother and two brothers live in Germany.

Mrs. G.W. Mabrey, wife of the Haarig barber, was burned in the fire that destroyed their house and most of its contests at 422 S. Frederick St., yesterday afternoon; she spilled coal oil over a range and on her dress, which ignited; before she could remove her clothing, she had been burned painfully, if not seriously.

-- Sharon K. Sanders