Out of the past: Nov. 4

1991

U.S. Sen. Kit Bond and Army Corps of Engineers Col. James D. Craig are among the dignitaries who break ground for the official start of the Cape LaCroix Creek-Walker Branch flood-control project.

For the fourth time in two years, Jerriann and John Wyman are unable to persuade the Cape Girardeau City Council to grant a liquor license for a new tavern over the objections of a neighborhood church; the council, on a 4-3 vote, denies the license for the Casbah, situated to the rear of Mollie's, a tavern and restaurant the Wymans own at 627 Good Hope St.

1966

As of the first of the month, Cape Girardeau County's general revenue fund was at the lowest point it has reached in recent years, standing at $25,129; County Clerk Rusby C. Crites said at the fund's present level, it is possible the County Court may have to hold some bills in December and will definitely start 1967 with its lowest overall balance in years.

A $15,000 state grant to the city for airport purposes was delivered here yesterday; the funds will help the city construct a new 6,500-foot runway at the municipal airport.

1941

The Rev. Don E. Schooler, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, goes to St. Louis to confer with Bishop John Broomfield relative to a suggestion he become pastor of a large Methodist church in an Oklahoma college town.

D.R. Summers, who passed his 22nd year of continuous service in the Navy on Oct. 19, is here on a two-week visit with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil F. Summers and his mother, Mrs. T.J. Fitzpatrick at Charleston, Missouri; Summers was to have retired from service two years ago, but has been required to remain with the Navy for the duration of the emergency occasion by the European war.

1916

City Counselor Oscar A. Knehans has put the finishing touches on the new misdemeanor ordinance; there are about 130 sections to the ordinance, nearly every one outlining a separate offense; those offenses include sparring or boxing, loitering about depots, fast driving and leaving animals unhitched, feeding animals in streets, shooting or hunting in a cemetery, playing baseball in streets or alleys, and bathing naked in the river or public water in the city during daylight hours.

A team of horses belonging to the City Transfer Co. and hitched to a heavy dray wagon is pushed into the river head foremost at the foot of Themis Street this afternoon and drowned; the wagon had been loaded with freight brought on the steamer Peoria.

-- Sharon K. Sanders