Out of the past: Oct. 3

1991

Beginning next week, patrons of the Cape Girardeau Public Library will be able to pick up reading material on Sunday. Limited service will be provided from noon to 4 p.m. each Sunday. The library will operate with just enough staff to check books in and out.

The 13th annual 5-H Ranch Exotic Animal Action got off to a wet but stellar start yesterday, with 800 to 900 buyers and sellers attending the first day of the four-day event near Cape Girardeau. Dave Hale, owner of 5-H Ranch, said the first day of the sale was a resounding success, despite a heavy rain shower midway through the afternoon.

1966

Employees of the shoe factories in Cape Girardeau and Jackson are at their jobs in the morning under a tentative agreement between the unions and the International Shoe Co. The agreement was reached Saturday at a meeting in St. Louis.

Forty-eight vehicles were exhibited Saturday in Cape Girardeau, when the Capaha Car Club held its first antique-car show. Two of the oldest automobiles on display were a 1904 Success owned by Reginald Gerhardt of Cape Girardeau and a 1912 Paige-Detroit owned by Cletis Barlow of Blytheville, Arkansas.

1941

The lights at Scivally Park, a popular picnic spot on Cape Rock Drive, have been turned off for the winter season, reports Dennis Scivally, engineer of the Cape Special Road District. The lights have been burning nightly throughout the warm weather.

The residents of Pocahontas and the area are getting ready for a monster celebration and barn dance for the dedication of the new gymnasium, which is to be completed before Christmas. The rafters now are being placed on the building by a WPA labor force. Native stone was used on the exterior.

1916

The Cape Girardeau City Council last night voted unanimously to set aside a mill tax out of the city's general revenue fund for the support of a Carnegie library, which the women's clubs of the city now are trying to establish. The ladies say a one-mill tax would net $2,843 annually, which would pay for the upkeep of the institution. With that amount raised for support of the library, it is thought the Carnegie library fund will grant Cape Girardeau $30,000 for the construction of a building here.

Silas Lail said he has given up the idea of opening a new saloon in Haarig for the present. He refuses to say why, after getting up his petition and having a majority of legal signers on it, he has dropped the project.

-- Sharon K. Sanders