Out of the past 12/6/14

1989

The owners of 19 tracts of mostly commercial properties situated on both sides of Highway 61 west of Interstate 55 have entered into annexation contracts with the city of Jackson that require the city to provide specified utilities within three years or the tracts can be de-annexed; one engineer estimates Jackson's cost of providing water and sewers to the area at $2 million.

Cape Girardeau attorney John L. Oliver Jr., is under consideration for appointment to the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission by Gov. John Ashcroft.

1964

Cape Girardeau merchants, keeping one eye on sales figures and the other on the weather, are enjoying a brisk weekend of business, but believe the Christmas buying season is still to peak.

Thomas Groves Harris, 72, a pioneer among Dodge automobile agents and a businessman in Jackson and Cape Girardeau for 52 years, dies in the evening at a local hospital; he founded the Harris Motor Car Co. as a Dodge agency at Jackson in 1915 and established the agency in Cape Girardeau in 1917 on Broadway.

1939

A tentative location for the proposed farm-to-market road, Route K, between Cape Girardeau and Highway 25 near Gordonville, along the present Gordonville Road, has been decided upon; the route selected will be submitted to the State Highway Commission for approval.

Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Flentge, and daughters Dorothy and Gracie, have moved from 46 S. Sprigg St., to the Bern Sands residence at Hillcrest on Highway 61, having leased the place; the residence is a two-story brick with 12 rooms; the farm contains about seven acres and a barn to house seven horses, four of which are show horses belonging to the Flentge family.

1914

The B.P.O. Elks hold their annual memorial service in their lodge room in the Elks building in the afternoon; A.N. Tinsley, exalted ruler, presides.

The Baptist Church has arranged to have the old Williams livery barn removed from the lot adjoining the church; the building was sold to Will Martin for $30; he will tear the building down and clear the lot; a fence will then be placed around it and, unless the church can sell the entire property, a park will be make of the tract next spring.

-- Sharon K. Sanders