Out of the past: Aug. 21

1990

Three members of the Army National Guard unit here have volunteered to be part of the biggest deployment of U.S. troops since the Vietnam War; Steve Ates and Darrell Rodenberry, both of Jackson, and John R. Brennecke of Cape Girardeau have volunteered for active duty in support of Operation Desert Shield.

Roof trusses are hoisted above the old Opera House building, 300 Broadway, as reconstruction work on the fire-gutted, 122-year-old brick building continues.

1965

Negotiations for easements for the construction of sanitary sewers to serve the new Hawthorn School on Hopper Road and a large residential area in that vicinity are in progress; it is hoped acquisition of the easements on the 18 pieces of property will be completed in about two weeks. The time element is somewhat critical, because the school will need the sewer service when it opens in mid-winter.

Clyde R. Farrow, an employee of the Cape Mfg. Co., is the 23rd candidate for the city council, having filed his affidavit with the city clerk yesterday.

1940

A fair response has come from farm owners along Gordonville Road, west from U.S. 61, to furnish right of way for improvements of the road; however, two property owners, each having a fraction of an acre that is needed, have declined to sign deeds. In the event the right of way cannot be obtained, that project will be shelved, and some other improvement project will benefit from the money set aside for the Gordonville Road work.

Geneva Trovillion, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.E. Trovillion of Cape Girardeau, who has been vacationing in Honolulu, Hawaii, has accepted a teaching position at the Punohou School, a girls' private finishing school there.

1915

The worst flood conditions the Frisco Railroad ever has encountered destroyed traffic on several lines in Missouri and Arkansas last night; at present, trains are scarcely moving, except in the case of short-line trains. One cause of the tie-up of traffic is a long slide at Rush Tower, a few miles south of the point where the Cape Girardeau line crosses the St. Louis-Springfield line; a veritable mountain of earth slid from its place and onto the track.

Because of the unusually inclement weather that prevented the Jackson Homecomers from being held Thursday and Friday, the celebration will be Monday and Tuesday of next week.

-- Sharon K. Sanders