Out of the past: March 22

1990

The Union Bus Depot at 16 N. Frederick St., has become a victim of the 21-day Greyhound bus strike; the depot, which opened in 1947, closed its doors March 15; it was the last bus depot in operation in Cape Girardeau.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has appointed local lawyer Craig Billmeyer as interim municipal judge; Billmeyer, 30, will replace Municipal Judge Edward Calvin, who has been granted an unpaid leave of absence so he can run for associate circuit judge.

1965

Cape Girardeau's Teen Town, a United Fund agency, is looking for temporary quarters; the building presently being used in the 2300 block of Themis Street is being sold, and no arrangements have been made with the new owner.

Cape Girardeau County Court signs a contract with a Joplin, Missouri, map maker to prepare a county property map; the map will be drawn by Merle Payne, using ASCS aerial photographs and the current county tax books.

1940

Capt. Irvin Throwbridge of the CCC camp at Perryville, Missouri, says the new camp to be in Jackson will be set up and ready to take up erosion-control work in the county by June 1; the camp will be near the junction of U.S. 61 and the Old Cape Road.

Construction has begun at Sikeston, Missouri, on a small brick building to house a packing plant to be owned and operated jointly by Cleo Blake and Mrs. Anton Sebek of Cape Girardeau; Blake formerly was employed by the Pipkin-Boyd-Neal Packing Co. here, and Sebek was associated with her late husband in the operation of the old Southeast Missouri Packing Co. plant, purchased two years ago by the Pipkin-Boyd-Neal interests.

1915

C.O. Dawson, the expert advertising distributor, reports that in his frequent trips over the town, he has found 63 buildings now under construction; most of them are residences.

A contract for the construction of a combination store and garage at Jackson is let by Milde Brothers to Linus Penzel, a Jackson contractor; the building will be erected on the site of the old blacksmith shop east of the courthouse in Jackson; one part of the building, to be occupied by a hardware shop both up- and downstairs, will be two stories in height, while the other half of the building will be one story, to be used as a garage.

-- Sharon K. Sanders