Out of the past 11/23/13

1988

The Cape County Park North will be decked out for the holidays with the second annual Christmas light display; the illuminating decorations are unveiled at a lighting ceremony in the evening.

In a prepared statement, Cape Girardeau City Manager J. Ronald Fischer recommends to the City Council that joint efforts by Scott City and Cape Girardeau toward development of an area between the two cities be encouraged; he recommends the communities hold meetings to discuss the eastward extension of Nash Road and further development of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port.

1963

DALLAS, Texas -- A young man who once tried to renounce his country is charged with firing the two bullets that killed President John F. Kennedy; Lee Harvey Oswald, 24, was charged Friday night with murder.

Most Cape Girardeau business routines will cease from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday in tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy; Mayor Walter H. Ford issues a proclamation, requesting that residents of Cape Girardeau observe a moment of silence at 11 a.m. Monday, the time of the president's funeral in Washington, D.C.

1938

Farmers of the Cape Girardeau district are 100 percent ready for the revival of the Cape Fair, according to Dr. John Nevitt, who has been directing livestock improvement meetings for the First National Bank all over the county; he says when farmers get to talking, they say they would like to see the Cape Girardeau fair going once again.

The Merry Ann Sandwich Shop, 811 Broadway, has been purchased by Harry Gill of Cape Girardeau; the restaurant was opened July 1 by M.H. Williams and was recently enlarged and remodeled.

1913

The Albert Grocer Co., for many years Cape Girardeau's chief wholesale house, was sold yesterday to members of several of the largest grocer houses in St. Louis and the West; a half dozen St. Louis men are involved in the new concern, which will be called Albert-Meyer Grocer Co., and W.S. Albert and Harry Leuer will retain large interests and become officers in it.

Robert "Jack" Hoffman of Jackson is in the city on his way to Kennett, Mo., for a week's visit with his sister, Mrs. Frank Carmean.

-- Sharon K. Sanders