Out of the past: Nov. 2

1991

For the first time since 1987, the Cape Girardeau Fire Department is hiring new firefighters; an agility test is held to help narrow the field of candidates seeking three firefighter positions.

Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar opened for business in Cape Girardeau this week; the restaurant at Broadview and Route K is owned by De Stocks Number 13 Inc., and is the 14th restaurant in Missouri and Illinois for Dennis Stockard of Cape Girardeau; manager of the new restaurant is Dan Chandler.

1966

State Rep. Marvin E. Proffer, chairman of the Cape County Historical Society, receives word from Dr. Richard Brownlee, secretary of the State Historical Society of Missouri and chairman of the State Park Board's historic sites advisory committee, the committee will meet soon to consider the Bollinger Mill in Burfordville and surrounding area for historical value and the possibility of its becoming a part of the state park system.

Plans to open the second floor of the recent addition to Southeast Hospital, originally scheduled for today, has been delayed temporarily; it is planned to transfer patients from the second floor of the original building to the second floor of the addition as the first step in occupancy of the new structure.

1941

A party of seven Southeast Missourians, returning from a 10-day hunting trip in the Lake of the Woods country in Ontario, Canada, reported bagging four bear, three moose and eight deer; many ducks and geese also were killed; the hunters included John Sikes of Sikeston, Missouri; Smith Edmiston of Vanduser, Missouri; Drs. Paul Nussbaum and D.B. Elrod of Cape Girardeau, and Dr. Albert Estes of Jackson.

The Rev. H.H. McGinty, pastor of First Baptist Church, is back in his pulpit after a brief absence while at the Mayo Bros. Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota.

1916

Artie Taylor returned to Cape Girardeau from the Metropolitan Sanitarium at Wilton, New York, where he spent the past year for the benefit of his health; he is 10 pounds heavier than he has ever been in his life and said he feels stronger than he has since he left the farm about 10 years ago.

Retail merchants hear a proposition for a parade and other means of celebrating Electrical Prosperity Week, the first week of December; the main idea of the celebration is to demonstrate the many uses electricity may be put in commercial industrial life.

-- Sharon K. Sanders