1990

A group of Cape Girardeau residents has formed SEA (Southeast Area) Cape Cleanup Committee, with a goal of making neighborhoods in the southeast section of the city better places to live; members hope to clean up blighted neighborhoods.

In contrast to mass closings by the region's public and parochial schools Dec. 3 and 4, two Cape Girardeau schools and Southeast Missouri State University have chosen to hold classes; Notre Dame High and Trinity Lutheran schools hope to operate as usual those days, despite the prediction of a major earthquake in the region.

1965

Efforts are being made to forestall the sale of 52 acres of privately-owned land inside the Trail of Tears State Park to other private interests and to bring about the acquisition of the land by the state for park services; it is understood the potential buyer is a construction company, which would use the property for quarry purposes.

Milbert Evans, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Evans of Cape Girardeau, has returned home after spending three months in South Vietnam as a gunner on an Army helicopter; Evans earned the Air Medal, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal.

1940

They're in the Army now, those five Cape Girardeau County men who volunteered for military service rather than wait for the draft to catch up with them; departing from here on an early morning bus, Harold M. Reisenbichler and John W. Cracraft of Jackson, Harry D. Chauvin, Robert C. Henson and Cecil F. Isaac of Cape Girardeau report to Jefferson Barracks for physical examinations; they were given a send-off last night by the Jackson American Legion.

Inauguration of bus service in Cape Girardeau may be delayed until mid-January or later, because the Bee Line Co., of Danville, Illinois, has been unable to secure delivery of the new vehicles to be used.

1915

North Main Street is again getting in bad shape; D.B. Smith, manager of the shoe factory, earlier took the time to raise money from among local merchants to repair the road; it now looks like he will again have to leave his business and see that the ruts are filled and the rough places are made smooth.

The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the contention of the Little River Drainage District as to the constitutionality of the drainage law of Missouri, authorizing the board of supervisors of the district to levy a tax of 25 cents on each acre of land within the territorial limits of said district.

-- Sharon K. Sanders