Out of the past: July 24

1991

For the fourth time in a little more than a year, Cape Girardeau's Greyhound bus station is searching for a home; the new bus terminal, which opened just five days ago at Spanky's convenience store, 353 S. Kingshighway, closed Monday night after the agent and owner of the store, Councilman David Barklage, was notified the terminal violated city zoning regulations.

Members of the Cape Girardeau County Senior Services Board met with county commissioners last night for the first time; the board will recommend to the commission how to spend about $220,000 in funds that will be generated from a 5-cent property tax levy for programs to benefit seniors.

1966

The Rev. Fred L. Brandenburg is the new minister at Emanuel Church of Christ in Jackson; he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Bradenburg of Hermann, Missouri, and graduated June 3 from Eden Theological Seminary at Webster Groves, Missouri.

Marine 2nd Lt. Joseph L. Mirgeaux Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Mirgeaux of Cape Girardeau, was wounded Friday in South Vietnam and is reported in critical condition.

1941

An address by Dan M. Nee of Kansas City, state director of the Defense Savings Campaign in Missouri, is the highlight of the program at Houck Field Stadium in the evening; the Cape Girardeau defense rally is the first of a series planned for districts of the state.

R.E. Beckman sells his grocery store at 633 Good Hope St. to Carl Gladish and Barrett Walker; the new owners will open a furniture and supplies store there in early August; Beckman had owned the grocery 20 years.

1916

A team of mules belonging to Edward Hely and driven by Van Mitchell becomes frightened at the Frisco freight depot as the northbound train passes and runs into the rear cars of the train, injuring one of the mules, demolishing the wagon, knocking a window pane out of one car, tearing the step from another car and loosening the step on a third car; John M. Carnahan, a candidate for state senator, was standing nearby when the team started running and had to climb over a cliff of rocks to get out of the way of the frightened animals.

The first train load of watermelons shipped out of Southeast Missouri passed through Cape Girardeau last night on the way to St. Louis; the train consisted of 16 cars, four having been loaded at Morley, Missouri, and the others at Clarkton, Missouri.

-- Sharon K. Sanders