RecordsOctober 29, 2016
Out of the past: Oct. 29
The Cape Girardeau County Commission has conducted preliminary discussions with an architect about expanding the county jail; the expansion being considered would be to the north of the jail and would provide a dormitory to house up to eight female prisoners...
1991
The Cape Girardeau County Commission has conducted preliminary discussions with an architect about expanding the county jail; the expansion being considered would be to the north of the jail and would provide a dormitory to house up to eight female prisoners.
U.S. Sen. Kit Bond says he will endorse a House-passed version of a new federal highway bill and will try to build support for the measure in the Senate; Bond says, "It is clear to me the House proposal is much better than what we got out of the Senate..."
1966
State College Homecoming activities got underway last night, when Carol Hahs, daughter of Frances Hahs of Oak Ridge, was declared the 1966 State College Homecoming Queen; the coronation took place during the intermission of the New Christy Minstrels' concert at Houck Field House.
Charles "Chuck" Ramey of Cape Girardeau designed and built a Great Pumpkin, horse-drawn coach to take children for rides at the Double J Pony Farm in Litchfield, Illinois; the ride includes a Great Pumpkin that measures nearly six feet in diameter and a witch riding a broom.
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1941
"Spanish Brown" was the name of a paint used many years ago to paint the buildings of the St. Louis waterfront and was made from clay found in Cape Girardeau County; Charles E. Peterson, senior landscape architect for the National Expansion Memorial and the National Park Service, St. Louis, was here over the weekend to learn the origin of the clay; he took about 100 pounds of it, found near Twin Trees Park, back to St. Louis for analysis.
Crowding into the Smelterville WPA recreation center, 200 persons, children and adults, take part in a Halloween program and party under the direction of Lily Martin, Ruby Mitchell and Lloyd Kelley, supervisors; guests come in costumes and masks.
1916
The Henry Lamm rally in Cape Girardeau last night was a success beyond all expectations; the courthouse was crowded to suffocation for Lamm's first speech; likewise, the Orpheum Theater was equally as packed for his second talk; Lamm is the Republican candidate for governor. It being such a beautiful day, hundreds of Cape Girardeau residents go to the woods for an outing and in quest of hickory nuts; the swamps have perhaps the greatest crop of hickory nuts ever known; the pecan crop this year is small, being less than half the average.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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