Out of the past: Dec. 1

1991

The Rev. Marcus Zill is guest preacher at weekend worship services at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau; Zill is director of development for the Missouri District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Three Jackson houses open for a holiday candlelight tour, including the Oliver House, Jackson's only home listed on the National Register of Historic Places; others on the tour are Trisha's Bed and Breakfast and the L.A. Goodwin home, owned by Norm and Vi Colyott.

1966

The County Court learns through an attorney general's opinion Treasurer-elect Clinton M. Wunderlich will serve a four-year term, in spite of a law that states treasurers in second-class counties are to be elected in presidential election years.

Members of the Cape Girardeau West Rotary Club are contacting merchants throughout the city for merchandise to be sold Dec. 10 and 11 at the club's first fundraising program, with a portion of the proceeds to go to the planned home-care stroke rehabilitation program of the Cape County Heart Association Chapter; the merchandise will be sold at a radio auction on station KZYM.

1941

The office of the State Department of Liquor Control for District 5, a 22-county area, has been located in Cape Girardeau, with Verne W. Baker, as district supervisor, in charge; Baker is residing at 1754 Whitener St. and may be reached there until a downtown office is opened.

H.R. DeTournay, manager of the Cape Transit Corp., asked the city council to approve the extension of service of two bus lines; the plan is to extend the Dunklin Street line west to Perry Avenue and to run the Bloomfield route west from Louisiana Avenue to the heart of the Koch suburb on Bloomfield Street.

1916

Notice of the contest of his election was served upon J.N. Hutson -- who on the face of returns was elected sheriff of Cape Girardeau County over Henry J. Brinkopf at the November election -- by Deputy Constable Willis Martin last night; the notice charges more than 100 illegal votes were cast in the election, the majority being in Klostermann precinct, at Pecan Grove and at Dutchtown.

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Goldbaum of Toledo, Ohio, are here for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Astholz, and friends.

-- Sharon K. Sanders