Out of the past: Nov. 6

1991

Voters in Cape Girardeau County on Tuesday resoundingly rejected Proposition B, the $385 million tax-and-reform measure for education; on a state level, the proposition was trounced by a margin of more than 2-1.

Local issues on the ballot yesterday met with success; Cape Girardeau voters approved new 20-year electric and gas franchises for Union Electric and the city's purchase of the water system from the utility company; Cape Girardeau County voters said "yes" to an increase in telephone bills to provide an enhanced 911 emergency-telephone service.

1966

Prince Hall Americanism Day is observed in Cape Girardeau, when Prince Hall Masons from across the state gather here to pay tribute to the memory of their namesake; Prince Hall was the founder and first black grand master of black freemasonry in America.

Nations Plymouth has moved into its new building at 722 S. Kingshighway from a structure it had occupied on Broadway, across from Houck Stadium, where the agency was established four years ago; Wayne Nations owns and operates the agency, which retails Plymouth, Mercedes and Simca automobiles.

1941

A herd of 20 sheep has been purchased by the city of Cape Girardeau and is grazing in the new city park on Highway 61; the sheep, retained in a pen part of the day, range the park the remainder of the time; the chief reason sheep were acquired is power mowers can't be had anymore, and the sheep are being used to cut the grass.

Rain, falling over a wide area during the past 24 hours and adding more water to the already swollen Mississippi River, is expected to bring the stream to flood stage, 32 feet, at Cape Girardeau in three days time.

1916

Fifteen-hundred feet of fire hose arrived here on Saturday for the city of Cape Girardeau and was taken to the fire station; it will be un-crated and installed on the new automobile firefighting apparatus as soon as it arrives; the city now has a total of 3,000 feet of hose, 2,500 of which is brand new.

William F. Baumann, Cape Girardeau's well-known cigar maker, returns home from Armstrong Springs, Arkansas, where he spent the past three weeks undergoing treatment for kidney trouble; he reports he is greatly improved.

-- Sharon K. Sanders