Out of the past 11/6/14

1989

James Johannes, owner of Johannes Auto Sales in Jackson, was fed up with thefts at his business; over the weekend, he conducted surveillance at the salvage yard and caught three teenagers; Johannes tied them up and held a shotgun on them until police arrived.

Joseph D. Warren Jr., hopes the third time is a charm, while Dr. Dorothy C. Hardy is hoping for a bit of beginner's luck as they prepare to run for the Cape Girardeau City Council.

1964

With leaves tinder dry, fire broke out last night in the Juden woods near Mount Tabor Park on Bloomfield Road; the blaze spread through the park and part of the large woods; the sheriff's patrol of Cape Girardeau was called in and quickly had the blaze under control.

Topsoil to cover bare tree roots and to provide a bed for new grass seeding under the trees has been hauled to Arena Park and will be spread, probably beginning next week; natural erosion through the years has worn away the earth beneath the trees.

1939

The Cape County Rose Society carries out its first planting project in Cape Girardeau, setting 20 rose plants around the W.F.D. Batjer memorial sundial in Courthouse Park; they are the Gruss An Aachen variety, a comparatively new kind of rose.

Temperatures hit the low mark of the season in Cape Girardeau early in the morning, slipping to 28 degrees, four degrees under the freezing point; the landscape is shrouded in a heavy frost.

1914

Manning and Allen Kimmel have purchased 44 cavalry horses for the German army in the last 10 days; the average price paid was $115; Tillman Anderson, formerly of Commerce, Missouri, but now a resident of Memphis, Tennessee, is also engaged in buying horses for European cavalry armies.

The report that has been circulating that the Roberts, Johnson and Rand shoe factory here will be closed down 60 days, causing some panic among merchants, is false; plant superintendent D.B. Smith says the factory won't be shut down 60 days or even 30; it may close 10 days in December.

-- Sharon K. Sanders