Out of the past: May 4

1991

Downtown merchants plan to build an open-air pavilion in the parking lot at Independence and Main streets, across from Hutson's Furniture; the project will be taken to the city council Monday for its approval.

At a press conference at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport, Gov. John Ashcroft answers questions about his opposition to the tax bill being considered in the Missouri Legislature; the visit is one of several the governor is making around the state this weekend to speak out against the legislation.

1966

Superintendent of schools Charles E. House announces classes will be held Monday for the first time in the new Hawthorn School on Hopper Road; the elementary school building essentially has been complete for several weeks, but couldn't be occupied because the sewer line to serve it still was under construction.

Landscaping to restore the Academic Hall lawn to "very near its original shape" is almost completed, said a spokesman for the State College; construction of a utilities tunnel from the power plant to the new Language Arts Building at North Pacific Street and Normal Avenue left huge mounds of earth piled in front of Academic.

1941

A number of Girardeans are attending the international convention of the Disciples of Christ in St. Louis; they include Dr. John A. Abel, pastor of the Christian Church; Dr. H.R. Bolen, Dr. R.R. Hill, Mr. and Mrs. J. Grant Frye, Mr. and Mrs. I.R. Kelso, Dennis Kelso, Richard and Robert Renfrow, Mr. and Mrs. V.H. Dunham, Mr. and Mrs. V.A. Chapman and Mrs. W.C. Brewer.

About 300 eighth-grade graduates and other pupils and teachers of rural schools were in Jackson yesterday for the annual graduating exercises and distribution of diplomas; the Rev. W.W. Stuenkel, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church at Shawneetown, delivered the graduation address.

1916

It is evident the ordinance for the extension of the city limits on the north, east and south sides will never be passed by the Cape Girardeau City Council; at its session last night, five of the eight councilmen voted to defer the third and final reading of the ordinance to an indefinite date.

At Jackson Circuit Court, Judge Frank Kelly gives an oral decision in favor of the Little River Drainage District against Cape Girardeau County in the road-cutting injunction case; he rules the temporary injunction granted in Common Pleas Court last fall should be dissolved, and the drainage district should be permitted to cut the Allenville-Zalma road, where a dredging machine has been stalled by the injunction at large expense to the district.

-- Sharon K. Sanders