Out of the past: Nov. 26

1991

The flu virus is creeping closer to Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri; the Missouri Department of Health says the latest confirmed cases of the virus were reported in St. Louis and in Texas County, 115 miles west of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

Cape Chemical Co. has paid $470,000 in settlement for pollution of the Kem-Pest Superfund site; company owners paid $30,000 under court order for pollution cleanup and environmental damage and $440,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency to settle the company's federal legal liabilities.

1966

The widening of Broadway eastward from Highway 61 and the development of a one-way traffic system involving Broadway and Bellevue will be the next urban street project here under a new set of priorities set by the City Council; the action reverses a previous decision made by the council Friday, when it listed improvements to William and Morgan Oak as the next project.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Lon C. Bisplinghoff, 81, of Chaffee, for many years owner of undertaking establishments, dies at the Host House in Charleston, Missouri; Bisplinghoff, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Bisplinghoff, married Mamie Amick of Shell Rock, Iowa, in 1911, and they moved to Chaffee in 1916.

1941

Losing no time in its announced plan of trying to acquire the traffic bridge at Cape Girardeau, the Board of Commissioners of Alexander County, Illinois, has contracted with a Chicago bond house to negotiate the purchase of the span and take over revenue bonds to be issued in paying for it; meanwhile, a Cape Girardeau committee is headed to Toledo, Ohio, to meet with Frank J. Stranahan, head of the company that owns the Mississippi River bridge here, to ascertain whether the city might acquire the span.

The City Board of Health announces weekly immunization clinics for children of needy families to be held the five Tuesdays of December at Common Pleas Courthouse; treatments to prevent smallpox and diphtheria will be given.

1916

J.A. Rigdon returns from St. Louis, Kansas City and other points, where he purchased machinery for his new laundry, which is being built on North Sprigg Street; the concrete forms for the new building have been completed, and the brick work will be started next week; it is hoped the building will be ready for occupancy by the first of February.

Upon the arrival of the steamer Peoria from St. Louis in the morning, Capt. W.H. Leyhe states that the boat will continue in the trade between St. Louis and Commerce, Missouri, until cold weather and ice drives it into winter quarters.

-- Sharon K. Sanders