Out of the past: Feb. 18

1991

More than 60 people crowd into the Jackson Board of Aldermen meeting room for a rezoning hearing about tracts of land along East Jackson Boulevard; the property extends from the Highway 25 intersection eastward to near Old Cape Road; the planning and zoning commission has recommended most of the tracts be rezoned from R-1 to C-1, with others to be rezoned from R-1 to C-2 and R-1 to R-3.

A turn-of-the-century style covered pavilion is one of the ideas suggested for a downtown Cape Girardeau project by the Downtown Merchants Association; the group raised more than $12,000 during its recent Mardi Gras-themed auction and gala.

1966

The Southeast Missourian newspaper is installing a new, $5,000 etching machine for its photoengraving process; the equipment will shorten the time required in processing commercial and newspaper engraving work from four hours to 45 minutes; it will be used in the production of advertisements, news photographs and commercial work.

Jack Gremore of Cape Girardeau reports finding a full-grown female timber wolf, which had been struck by a car and killed, on the Airport Road, 100 yards from Interstate 55.

1941

Six men, charged with violations of provision of the internal revenue laws, are arraigned before U.S. Commissioner R.P. Smith and remanded to jail in Jackson to await action of the federal grand jury; all were arrested in Mississippi County; officers told the commissioner in one instance, 150 gallons of liquor in bottles were found in a Dodge coupe one of the accused was driving near Wyatt, Missouri.

LUTESVILLE, Mo. -- Rolling up a four-to-one majority, Lutesville voters at a special election approve a proposal to issue $20,279 in bonds to match a WPA appropriation of $23,000 for the erection of a municipal water works.

1916

Both candidates for Common Pleas Court judge, Republican John A. Snider and Democrat Thomas F. Lane, are confident they will be elected Saturday at a special election; both are working on the voters in Cape Girardeau as rapidly as possible; Snider campaigns around the committeemen and other Republicans, while Lane addresses a bunch of voters at the shoe factory at noon.

Carl Jaeger, formerly a prominent merchant at Fayette, Missouri, is spending the day in Cape Girardeau investigating business conditions and may decide to locate here; Jaeger had been president of the commercial club at Fayette.

-- Sharon K. Sanders