The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-06-25
Ordinance Unanimously APP
proved By City Lawmakers
Calls for $4,000 Issue.
ELECTION is LIKELY
TO BE HELD IN JULY
Measure Gets Two Readings on
First Night-Reported by
Park Committee.

held, providing for the purchase of the
Fairgrounds Park, for the sum of
$4,000, and the appropriation of an
additional sum Of $1,000 to cover park
improvement and development ex-
penses. The action followed the re-
ceipt of the Park Committees report,
which recommended the purchase of
the park.
The following ordinance was pre-
pared and given its second reading,
after which it was decided to take it
up for final disposition at the next
meeting of the Council.
An ordinance declaring it necessary
to purchase land for the purpose of a
public park and to improve lots now
owned by the city so that they may be
used for park purposes and to issue
bonds for the purpose of paying for
the land purchased and for the i'm
provements to be made
Whereas, it is the opinion of the
Council of the City of Cape Girardeau,
Missouri, that the best interest would
be served by the purchase by the city
of that piece or parcel of land now
owned and used by the Cape Girardeau
Fair and Park Association, inside of
and adjoining the western limits of
this city and containing about forty
acres of land, for the purpose of own
ing and controlling the same as a pub
lie park for the use and benefit of the
inhabitants of said city.
And, whereas, it is the opinion of
the Council Of said City that a neces-
city exists for the purchase of said
land for park purposes on account of
the health, pleasure and welfare of it's
inhabitants, and that bonds be issued
for the purpose of paying for the
same and the other improvements
hereinafter set out, therefore,
Be it ordained by the Council of the
City of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, as
follows:
Section one: That the City Of Cape
Girardeau purchase from the Cape
Girardeau Fair and Park Association
the following described real estate,
situate, lying and being in the City of
Cape Girardeau and State of Missouri.
to-wit: Nearly all of Out Lot No.
thirty-nine- (39) and a small part of
Out Lot Forty (40) of a subdivision of
U. S. private Survey No 2199, situat-
ed within the corporate limits of the
City Of Cape Girardeau, in the County
of Cape Girardeau and State of Mis-
souri,, bounded and limited as follows:
On the North by the North line of Out
Lot Thirty-nine (39(, on the East by
the East line of said Out Lots, on the
South by the North line of the Cape
Girardeau and Jackson Gravel Road;
on the West by West line of said Out
Lot Thirty-nina 500 on the Perryville
Road, being the lands acquired by the
Cape Girardeau Fair and Park Asso-
citation from Robert Sturdivant and
Laura NJ Gates, Mamie NJ. Oates and
Anna G. Oates, by deeds recorded in
Book 50 at page los and Book Sc at
page 101 of the land records of Cape
Girardeau County, Missouri, and that
when so purchased the same shall be
held for park purposes.
Section two: That in full payment
for the said above described real es-
tate the said City of Cape Girardeau
pay the said Cape Girardeau Fair and
Park Association the sum of Thirty
Thousand Dollars, which said sum the
said Cape Girardeau Fair and Park
Association has agreed and does here
by agree to accept for the same.
Section three. That in addition to
the said sum of Thirty Thousand Dol
lars and the acquiring the title to the
above described real estate, it is the
opinion of the Council of the City Of
Cape \Girardeau, that it is necessary,
in order to convert the same into a
public park, to be used for the benefit
of the public, that the real estate now
owned by the said city, to-wit: Lots
Twenty-one t21) and Twenty-Five (22)
in Range GA in said city, may be i'm
proved so that they may be used as
public park by the citizens of said city.
And that that piece of parcel of land
belonging to said city and known as
Missouri Park on the plat of said city,
be improved so as to make it available
for park purposes for the use of the
citizens of the city.
And for the purposes set out in this
section, it will require an expenditure