Out of the past: Nov. 2

1990

Sikeston, Missouri, attorney Robert A. Dempster has donated $1 million to Southeast Missouri State University to help pay the local share for a new business building. The new College of Business Administration building will be named the Robert A. Dempster Hall in recognition of the gift.

Amid academia's finest pageantry, Kala M. Stroup is formally inaugurated as Southeast Missouri State University's 14th president. Stroup becomes the first female president in the 117-year history of Southeast.

1965

The city of Cape Girardeau plans to move the location for collection of its sewer service charge from a rented office on Themis Street to the Common Pleas Courthouse; collections of the sewer bills will be made in the office occupied by the county collector, which the city will share.

Southeast Missouri lawyers were briefed yesterday on provisions of a new federal law allowing compensation for court-appointed defense attorneys in federal criminal cases. Federal Judge James H. Meredith, here to preside at the November term of U.S. District Court, called the attorneys together for a luncheon meeting to discuss the legislation.

1940

Fairground Park lagoon, used for two summers as a rearing pond for fish, may be returned in a year or two to fishing uses, says park commissioner Raymond E. Beckman. Approximately 4,000 small bass were taken from the pond Friday and placed in Little Whitewater and Big Whitewater by the County Conservation Federation. The difficulty in seining out fish from over the lagoon's deep mud is the reason fish rearing there may be stopped.

More than 3,500 people visited the Cape Girardeau plant of the Midwest Dairy Products Co., 25 S. Spanish St., during the first four days of its five-day open house.

1915

New members were elected to the Cape Girardeau Public Library board last night; they are Mesdames E.J. Dean and A.S. Duckworth, and Sam Sherman and J.H. Wells. The board hopes in the coming year to increase its financial patrons as well as acquire more books for the library.

J.E. Rigdon, owner of a laundry at Sikeston, Missouri, has contracted to buy the Cape Steam Laundry from J.H. McPherson; if the deal goes through, Rigdon will take over the property next Monday.

-- Sharon K. Sanders