Out of the past: Feb. 12

1990

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board gives support to a swimming pool project; members emphasize that the recommendation deals strictly with the concept of a recreational pool; it doesn't address the issue of how much the city should spend for it.

Municipal judges at Cape Girardeau and Jackson have violated a state statute in hearing change of judge cases between the two cities, says Cape County Presiding Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr.; but Limbaugh says he has corrected the problem with the appointment of Bill Hopkins as an associate circuit judge to hear such cases.

1965

Suggestions for the development of Trail of Tears State Park, including the possibility of a Cherokee museum there, and general state park financing problems were discussed here yesterday by the county's new park board and Missouri's new park director, Lee C. Fine, a former resident of Cape Girardeau and New Madrid, Missouri.

The pledge class of Sigma Chi fraternity at State College will seek to undo the damage done by vandals last week to historic Cape Rock; the fraternity has offered to clean the rock, which was painted pink last weekend.

1940

PORTAGEVILLE, Mo. -- Alphonse DeLisle, 85, one of the founders of Portageville, dies at his home of pneumonia; DeLisle was born here; his parents also were natives of the community, and he and his five brothers, established the town.

J.C. Cardwell, 64, a farmer, died yesterday at his home near Dutchtown; he was born in 1865 in Smith County, Tennessee, and spent his early life in Nashville, Tennessee; he was married in 1897 to Mobry Young, and the couple moved here in 1899; five of their nine children survive: Silas Cardwell, Willie Cardwell, Eva Dunn, Alma Cato and Hattie Johnson; the funeral service will be tomorrow, and burial will be in Shady Grove Cemetery.

1915

A mass meeting of men was held at the Presbyterian church last night with a view of considering the moral conditions of Cape Girardeau; that place on Broadway that has long been a nuisance and a disgrace was given particular attention; it was agreed that an effort will be made to get city officials to clear the building and then keep them out.

President R.S. Hyer of the Methodist University at Dallas arrives in the city to visit Dr. I.L. Holt and to induce him to accept a chair in the divinity school of the university.

-- Sharon K. Sanders