Out of the past: Aug. 10

1990

The Cape Girardeau bus station is again on the move; the station, currently at the Fill-Up Mart at 1101 William St., will be moved to another, as yet unknown, location; the agents operating the station have given notice it will be shut down at that location within 30 days.

SEMO District Fair officials are pleased with ticket sales for grandstand entertainment for the upcoming fair; despite the fact campaigns promoting the exposition won't begin until Aug. 20, about 1,000 tickets already have been sold, more than half for the country-rock group Kentucky Headhunters.

1965

Out-of-district students attending Cape Girardeau Public Schools will be paying more for the privilege; tuition in grades nine through 12 will rise this year to $530 per student from the $435 of last year; elementary tuition will be $415, a more modest increase from the $407 of last year.

Charles A. Hood, a building contractor and operator of a mill work and supply company, is the latest person to file as a candidate for the city council.

1940

The First Field Area office of the Corps of Engineers, in the H.-H. Building, will be closed Aug. 31, but this won't mean the transfer of the present force employed here away from Cape Girardeau; 40 to 50 men will be required to supervise about $750,000 in Mississippi River levee construction work just across the river, projects that will be started soon.

The official count of Tuesday's primary election in Cape Girardeau County gives J.B. Moore of Cape Girardeau the Democratic nomination for judge for the second district of the County Court by two votes over A.M. Schonhoff of Cape Girardeau.

1915

Two restaurants may open for business in the Main Street business district in the next few days; Vernon B. Heisler of Sikeston, Missouri, is considering a proposal to take charge of the restaurant in the Terminal Hotel building; and the Arcade shop having closed, it is said the proprietor of the Arcade saloon will open a restaurant in the vacant room next to his place.

Four young men from th Egypt Mills vicinity -- Ruddell Miller, Harlow Course, Tapley Hargis and Martin Dillingham -- left here yesterday in a covered wagon for points in Oklahoma for a few months' vacation.

-- Sharon K. Sanders