Out of the past: June 16

1990

Fireworks, mud volleyball, antique cars and a parade top the list of activities being planned for the Jackson Jaycees' annual Fourth of July celebration; helping to sponsor this year's event at the Jackson City Park will be Coca-Cola and radio station K103.

The shoreline of the lagoon in Capaha Park is lined with over 100 young anglers and their parents in the morning for the annual Breakfast Optimists Fishing Derby and the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department Youth Fishing Derby.

1965

By noon, the intensive search for 2-year-old Elizabeth Ann Gill here turns up no new information that might lead to her recovery; while 75 volunteers, mostly teens, search the land around Gill's home, 235 S. Lorimier St., six boats continue efforts along the Mississippi River. Gill, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gill, has been missing four days.

That refreshing, cool, dry, motherly breeze of the past few days has dried out fields in Cape Girardeau, and as a result, wheat harvest is going full-blast.

1940

Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Macke of Cape Girardeau have received a letter from their son, Robert, who left with his wife last February for Palembang, Sumatra, in the Dutch West Indies, where he had been assigned special work by Standard Oil Co. The couple has been advised Mrs. Macke and 11 other American women had left for home on May 21; while there was no immediate cause for alarm in the West Indies, the company thought the move prudent, following the invasion of Holland by the Germans.

A 54-inch rattlesnake was slain on the John Vangilder farm six miles northwest of Cape Girardeau on the Perryville Road yesterday by Martin Strack.

1915

The closing exercises of the senior class of St. Vincent's Young Ladies Academy were held yesterday in the school auditorium, with the Rev. T.F. Levan, C.M., D.D., offering an inspiring address. Lucile Roberts was spokesman for the class in a farewell talk.

Alvin Harnes and Elmo Kassel, who remained at Richmond, Virginia, last week when the Cape Girardeau concert band left there, arrive home in the afternoon. They played one engagement with the Richmond Blues and then visited the U.S. Navy Yards at Newport News and Norfolk, Virginia.

-- Sharon K. Sanders