1990

The city of Cape Girardeau is planning to straighten the jagged route of North Main Street near the site of the recently razed Florsheim Shoe factory; North Main now makes two 90-degree turns just south of the factory site.

FARMINGTON, Mo. -- Associate Circuit Judge James B. Penmoyer of St. Francois County has ruled against the Oak Ridge School District in a long-standing boundary dispute with the Jackson School District; the complicated, 22-page decision is being studied by lawyers on both sides of the lawsuit.

1965

The 14th annual dog show of the Southeast Missouri Kennel Club is held at the Arena Building; 659 dogs compete in the obedience trial and the show; best local in show is won by William E Busch of Cape Girardeau for the second time, with his 15-inch beagle.

Growth of the Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair will make it necessary for the first time to limit the number of entries that will be received next March from junior and senior high schools in the area.

1940

Adoption of the federal government's food stamp plan in Cape Girardeau County, which would supplant the present method of the distribution of surplus commodities and provide relief to clients with a purchasing power that would be directly relayed to merchants, is being seriously considered; the Cape County Social Security Commission has authorized its secretary-director, Mrs. Myrtle Pangburn, to ask the government to send a representative here to discuss the plan with the commission and business men.

R.P. Smith, Cape Girardeau lawyer and former city attorney, is appointed by Federal Judge George H. Moore as U.S. Commissioner for the Cape Girardeau Federal Court district, succeeding J. Henry Caruthers.

1915

St. Vincent's Council, Knights of Columbus, initiates a class of around 35 into the mysteries of the organization; the initiated live throughout Southeast Missouri; District Deputy Joseph Kane of St. Louis and his team of 15 men confer the third degree on candidates.

Five men with the Radium Iron & Lumber Co., the corporation that has acquired hundreds of acres of mineral land in Butler County in recent years, spend the day here; the team inspects the St. Vincent College farm land south of the town, as well as the old smelter plant; it is believed they will send a proposal to the Commercial Club within a week for locating an iron plant here.

-- Sharon K. Sanders