Out of the past: April 12

1991

The Missouri Board of Education will meet next week in Cape Girardeau, marking the first time the state board has convened here. Bekki Cook, a Cape Girardeau lawyer, has been a member of the board since September.

LaDona Henderson, who spends nearly every spare moment helping May Greene School teachers and, in turn, her children, will be one of 17 Outstanding Chapter 1 Parents in Missouri. The new honor will be given at the Chapter 1 convention April 22 and 23 in Columbia, Missouri.

1966

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education is prepared to buy the building housing Cape Skateland, a roller-skating rink on Clark Street, if legal arrangements can be made. The building, owned by Charles N. Harris, is available at a price of $65,000. The building would be used as a warehouse for school materials and supplies and to provide additional office space.

William F. Stone, superintendent of the Marquette Cement Mfg. Co., says Cape Girardeau residents should expect heavier than usual deposits of cement dust through Friday. The plant's filtering system is undergoing repairs.

1941

Prost Bus Line, which operates buses from Cape Girardeau to St. Louis over Highway 25, has taken a lease from the owner, Louis Hecht, on the garage building on South Mason Street, opposite the Frisco passenger station, and will move its terminal facilities there.

The Orpheum Theater, 615 Good Hope St., has been remodeled inside and out and will reopen Sunday and Monday, showing Henry Fonda in "The Return of Frank James" and Frank Morgan in "The Wild Man of Borneo."

1916

An order has been issued by the faculty of the Normal School that hereafter the weekly holiday will occur on Saturday instead of on Monday. The order makes Saturday the big day in Cape Girardeau, inasmuch as the public schools and all institutions close on Saturdays if at all.

Owing to the session of federal court, the two hotels in Cape Girardeau are overrun. A large number of men come down on the train from St. Louis early in the morning and are unable to get sleeping accommodations. Since the Riverview and Terminal hotels burned recently, only the Idan-Ha and St. Charles remain, but both are taxed to their capacity.

-- Sharon K. Sanders