Out of the past: Oct. 31

1998

Maligned for much of the season, the Cape Girardeau Central defense came up big when it really mattered; the Tigers forced four turnovers and held Jackson to 124 rushing yards last night in a 22-6 win at Jackson; Central improved to 4-5 overall and 2-0 in Class 5A District 1 play; the Tigers can clinch the district championship with a win over Poplar Bluff, Missouri, next weekend; Jackson slipped to 4-5 overall and 1-1 in district competition.

Southeast Missouri State University celebrates Homecoming 1998 with a parade, a football game and a salute to an angel; the "angel", B.W. Harrison, receives the "Friend of the University" award, presented by the Southeast Missouri State University Foundation at the annual Copper Dome Society breakfast; last spring, Harrison provided an $800,000 gift to the foundation to purchase the buildings and grounds of historic St. Vincent's College in Cape Girardeau.

1973

Fewer than half the persons who are believed to be eligible for Cape Girardeau County's federal Food Stamp Program, which begins tomorrow, have applied, but more are expected to make application after the program gets underway, says Louise Wright, director of the Cape County Welfare Office; only 768 persons have thus far applied and been granted participation in the program, which replaces the commodities distribution program.

Members of the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents and other university officials discuss business at the board's first open meeting under Missouri's new "sunshine" law. Seated clockwise, beginning at left, at globe, are Martin Hecht of Cape Girardeau; Dr. W.L. Tomlinson of St. Louis; C.A. Juden of Cape Girardeau; Lindsay W. Simmons of Cape Girardeau, president; Stephen N. Limbaugh, attorney; Jack Wimp, business manager; Kay Daume, secretary; Harry L. Lottes of Perryville and, hidden behind Lottes, R.H. Swindle of Senath, Missouri. Dr. Robert Foster, dean of graduate studies, is in foreground, left.Southeast Missourian archive

Members of the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents and other university officials discuss business at the board's first open meeting under Missouri's new "sunshine" law. Seated clockwise, beginning at left, at globe, are Martin Hecht of Cape Girardeau; Dr. W.L. Tomlinson of St. Louis; C.A. Juden of Cape Girardeau; Lindsay W. Simmons of Cape Girardeau, president; Stephen N. Limbaugh, attorney; Jack Wimp, business manager; Kay Daume, secretary; Harry L. Lottes of Perryville and, hidden behind Lottes, R.H. Swindle of Senath, Missouri. Dr. Robert Foster, dean of graduate studies, is in foreground, left.Southeast Missourian archive

Another milestone in the 100th anniversary year of Southeast Missouri State University will be reached tomorrow, when the Board of Regents holds its first public session under Missouri's new open meetings law; the public isn't expected to stampede the meeting room, but representatives of Cape Girardeau's print and broadcast media will be sitting in with the regents at a regularly scheduled meeting for the first time.

1948

Protestants of Cape Girardeau and the immediate area assemble in First Baptist Church in the evening to hear the annual Reformation Day sermon; delivering the address at the community service is Dr. Frank C. Tucker, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church of St. Louis; supplementing his sermon on "The Flame of Protestantism" are two vocal soloists, as well as selections by a community choir, composed of members of Cape Girardeau's various church choirs.

Dr. A.C. Ivy, vice president of the University of Illinois, who is in Cape Girardeau to deliver the key address at the State College Diamond Jubilee, speaks to the adult classes, the three youth division and the Junior Department of Centenary Methodist Church in the morning; the program, which is open to the public, is in the church auditorium.

1923

Motor traffic south of Cape Girardeau is going by way of Chaffee, Missouri, as the bridge over the large diversion channel south of here is closed for repairs; the north end of the span is being repaired, and the bridge should be shut down only one day.

Plans for giving additional drainage relief for hundreds of acres of land in Southeast Missouri which haven't been sufficiently drained by the original project of the Little River Drainage District were submitted to a meeting of landowners in the district at Morehouse, Missouri, yesterday and were adopted by a heavy majority vote of those present; approximately 466,000 acres in six counties of Southeast Missouri will be affected by the plan.

-- Sharon K. Sanders