Out of the past: Oct. 5

1991

The city of Jackson is in the dark early in the day, after lightning apparently strikes an electrical substation and Union Electric is forced to shut down a 34.5-kilovolt line providing power to the city; an unrelated and isolated power outage also occurs in Cape Girardeau.

The Downtown Merchants Association dedicates the new pavilion in the Main Street parking lot, with C.P. McGinty Jr., association president, cutting the ribbon.

1966

Members of the Boot and Shoe Workers Local 820 at Jackson, who are employed by the International Shoe Co., will meet there tomorrow night, while in Cape Girardeau, the International Shoe Workers Local 125 will convene at the same time; members of both groups will vote on the new contract offered by International; the Cape Girardeau members are employed at the Florsheim Shoe Co. factory, a subsidiary of International.

Marquette Cement Mfg. Co. executives, including the company president and three other directors, inspect the plant facilities at Cape Girardeau; the local plant is chosen as one of three or four facilities for inspection because it offers the officials an opportunity to "see the old and the new," says company vice president Charles Lane.

1941

Climaxing work that has been underway since last spring, members of the Church of God in the Marble City Heights suburb dedicate their renovated church during an all-day program; principal speaker during the day is the Rev. H.A. Wollman, an evangelist from Oklahoma; work on the church, red granite-faced on three sides, cost in the neighborhood of $4,500.

Apparently caused by spontaneous combustion, fire threatens the Superior Electric Products manufacturing plant on Independence Street at 12:30 p.m., but does only minor damage; damage is limited by the operation of a water sprinkler system in the plant.

1916

A.F. Lindsey, the Sikeston, Missouri, architect, is in Cape Girardeau en route home from Hunter, Missouri, where he was present yesterday at the letting of a contract for a new brick school building; the contract went to Louis Miller & Son of Arcadia, Missouri, at $5,799; no Cape Girardeau contractor bid on the job, but city brick will be used, as will Cape Girardeau millwork.

The old brick mansion situated in a large lot bounded by Frederick, Middle, Good Hope and Morgan Oak streets, once the scene of chivalry and the social center of Southeast Missouri, is being raze; the old house was built by Dr. Wilson Brown in 1840.

-- Sharon K. Sanders