Out of the past: Nov. 13

1991

City and Missouri Highway and Transportation Department officials yesterday broke ground on the next segment of Cape Girardeau's $3 million Lexington Avenue arterial project; the newest segment will consist of a five-lane road and bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek between Mount Auburn Road and Lexington; also, traffic signals will be installed at the intersection of Kingshighway and Mount Auburn.

After the Missouri House reapportionment process left his hometown of Scott City split between two legislative districts, state Rep. Ollie Amick has decided to change his official residence to Benton, Missouri; that means he will be in the new 160th District, which includes the city of Sikeston, Missouri, where six-term state Rep. Dennis Ziegenhorn lives.

1966

A group of Girardeans leaves early in the day for a flight to Boston to present Cape Girardeau's case before the All-America City jury; they are Bill Royce, Ken Hayden, Don McNeely, city manager Paul Frederick, Mayor J. Ronald Fischer, John L. Blue, Harry Edwards, Allen Robinson and DuNard Cooper.

The Rev. Edward I. Jennings of East St. Louis, Illinois, is installed as the new pastor of Second Baptist Church in the afternoon; Jennings is married, and he and his wife have two sons.

1941

A petition is filed with City Clerk W.C. Kaempfer by Main Street businessmen asking the present ordinance that calls for one-hour parking on Main Street's business sector be amended to limit parking to two hours; the petitions also call for the rigid enforcement of the measure.

The routine practice of checking over the county jail each night paid dividends the other night, when Sheriff Ruben Schade discovered a prisoner had removed part of the plastering and was engaged in taking out bricks in a wall of the bastile; at the time the prisoners had been given the liberty of the "bull pen" before being locked in cells for the night.

1916

Work is started on the construction of the new laundry to be erected by J.A. Rigdon, who recently was burned out on Aquamsi Street; W.W. Taylor & Sons, contractors, will build the new, $10,000 laundry on North Sprigg Street, near the corner of Independence Street; it should be completed by Feb. 1.

Several Cape Girardeau boys, the names of whom have been obtained by authorities, Sunday set fire to Lorimier School; but for the early discovery of the flames, the building likely would have been reduced to ashes in short order.

-- Sharon K. Sanders