Out of the past: Nov. 17

1991

The Hanover Lutheran Church Family and Education Center is dedicated in the afternoon; guest preacher at the service is the Rev. James Kalthoff, president of the Missouri District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod; the 6,600-square-foot addition includes Sunday-school classrooms, a conference room, refreshment center and an enlarged foyer.

The congregation of Bloomfield Road Baptist Church celebrates 22 years of fellowship with a covered-dish dinner; a special service is presented by pastor Rick Bradley at the morning worship service.

1966

Bids for the construction of a new federal building and courthouse at Cape Girardeau will be opened by the General Services Administration on Jan. 10; the government plans to erect a two-story building on the site of the present federal building at Broadway and Fountain Street; demolition of the present building will be necessary.

Ivan McLain, elected sheriff last week to complete an unexpired term, is administered the oath of office in the afternoon at the county courthouse in Jackson and immediately appoints his Democratic opponent, Herbert Riehn, as his chief deputy.

1941

Work starts in the morning on the second development and planting plan on Highway 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson, which calls for the further development of the setting of many shrubs trees and flowers, the main idea being to introduce more color in the picture; the work is being done by the State Highway Department and is being supervised by Hillard Brewster, state landscape architect.

A representative group of Cape Girardeau men, called together at Common Pleas Courthouse by Mayor Hinkle Statler to discuss the traffic bridge situation, unanimously approves a motion the city immediately negotiate with the owners of the Mississippi River bridge for the purchase of the span.

1916

John Burkle and Frank Masterson of Cape Girardeau and C.D. Randol and George Grant of Jackson leave in the afternoon for Pemiscot County to spend a week or 10 days hunting.

Last night's library mass meeting was attended by an enthusiastic lot of citizens; after a thorough discussion of the needs of the present library and reading room, and a review of the past year's work by Helen Coerver, the librarian, it was agreed sufficient money can be raised to keep the library and reading room going for another year, or until such a time as the city can acquire a permanent library.

-- Sharon K. Sanders