Out of the past: Oct. 28

1991

The first mobile video camera is installed on one of the Cape Girardeau Police Department's patrol cars; the department primarily will use the camera for its weekend, driving-while-intoxicated patrol.

Prentice Robinson, education director of the Cherokee National Historical Society at Tahlequah, Oklahoma, speaks to a group at the Trail of Tears State Park Visitor Center, explaining that of the many American Indian cultures in the United States, only the Cherokee developed an alphabet and written language.

1966

The Saint Francis Hospital Lay Advisory Board met with the hospital administration Thursday to begin the work that will lead to plans and fundraising for the new hospital to be built at Gordonville and Mount Auburn roads; the authorization to proceed with planning for the new facility was given last week by the Provincial Board of the Franciscan Order.

At least 49 bands representing area schools are expected to march in the State College Homecoming parade tomorrow; 21 of the bands will march a "long route" starting at the Main Street parking lot, and 28 "short route" bands will join them at Lorimier Street and Broadway; the bands will be split into two groups because of space problems.

1941

The Cape Girardeau City Council yesterday made arrangements to furnish a $5,000 performance bond to guarantee the federal government it will raze Common Pleas Courthouse to make way for the proposed $430,000 post office building; the city will be required to start demolition within 30 days after being asked to do so.

Matine Belle LaPierre, 73, a retired school teacher, died yesterday at her home on North High Street in Jackson; she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Zephirim Maznret LaPierre; her father came from Canada to this part of the state, while her mother, Mary J. Welling, was a descendant of George Frederick Bollinger.

1916

Judge Henry Lamm of Sedalia, Missouri, candidate for governor, arrives in the morning from Poplar Bluff, Missouri, to address the voters of Jackson in the afternoon and in Cape Girardeau this evening at both the courthouse and at the Orpheum Theater.

The Lorberg Undertaking Co. receives its new, $4,000 automobile funeral car on the steamer Peoria; the hearse is the finest to be found in any city in the state south of St. Louis; the hearse had been scheduled to arrive here Friday on the steamer Cape Girardeau, but the manufacturers took it out on a test drive and didn't make it to the levee until the boat had pulled away; had it been on the boat, it would have gone down to the bottom of the river with the rest of the freight when the boat sank.

-- Sharon K. Sanders