Out of the past: Oct. 20

1990

A recent check of gasoline prices in the St. Louis area showed prices for unleaded regular are running an average of about $1.25.9 a gallon; that's 10 cents cheaper than the going price in Cape Girardeau.

Mabel Smith of Scott City became the first Southeast Missouri resident to become a Missouri Lotto millionaire when she won $6.76 million in the lottery yesterday.

1965

Owen's Nursery Inc. of Poplar Bluff and Kirkwood, Missouri, has started planting trees and shrubbery at the Interstate 55-Highway 74 interchange south of the Cape Girardeau city limits; the nursery has two highway beautification contracts affecting Cape and Scott counties.

New opposition to Cape Girardeau's annexation plan appears to be emerging with the filing of a petition with the city and indications legal counsel is being sought; the petition filed with the city clerk was signed by 12 residents to the southwest of the present city limits.

1940

The Rev. W.N. Ware, newly appointed pastor of Maple Avenue Methodist Church, preaches his introductory sermons at worship services in the morning and evening. The pastor and his family moved here from Creve Coeur, Missouri.

A large crowd attends the annual service at Old McKendree Chapel in the afternoon. The Rev. A.C. Johnson of Farmington, Missouri, is the guest speaker. Fred Naeter is named president of the McKendree Memorial Association for the ensuing year; other officers are R.M. McCombs, Judge Frank Kelly and John T. McNeely, vice presidents, and A.F. Deneke, secretary-treasurer.

1915

C.L. Grant, cashier of the Jackson Exchange Bank; Alvin Penzel, assistant cashier of the Cape County Savings Bank; Frank Seabaugh, cashier of the Bank of Daisy; and E.G. Schoen, cashier of the Bank of Pocahontas, are in Cape Girardeau, attending the big meeting of Group Six of the bankers of Southeast Missouri.

Otto Hanny, the former Haarig saloon man, leaves for Hot Springs, Arkansas, to spend a few weeks there for the benefit of his health. Hanny operated the Green Tree bar until a few months ago, when he retired from the business because of ill health.

-- Sharon K. Sanders