Out of the past: Sept. 11

1991

The Missouri Department of Conservation recently purchased about eight acres that will connect Cape Girardeau's Twin Trees Park to Southeast Missouri State University's Kelso Wildlife Sanctuary; the purchase of the Juden Creek Natural History Area now links the three nature areas, making a continuous wildlife preservation site within Cape Girardeau's city limits.

Hundreds of volunteers hit the streets in the morning selling a special YELL for Newspapers edition and generating excitement and awareness about literacy; all 9,000 YELL newspapers were sold, raising close to $13,000 for the Southeast Missourian's Newspaper in Education Program and the United Way's literacy programs.

1966

An all-church picnic is held by the members of the West Side Church of God beginning at noon at Capaha Park; each family brings a basket dinner, and drinks are furnished by the church; an evening vesper service also is held at the park.

Religion classes for Catholic children of St. Mary's Cathedral Parish attending public schools begin in the morning in the grade-school building; all Catholic parents who send their children to public schools are reminded they must obtain permission from the bishop of the diocese.

1941

Missouri Gov. and Mrs. Forrest C. Donnell have been invited to be the honored guests at the SEMO District Fair, which will begin next Tuesday and close the following Sunday; the new city park has taken on a fair atmosphere in a big way, as tents are going up all over the grounds, and carpenters are at work on scores of concession stands.

Bringing an end to almost a decade in which enrollments have steadily risen, practically every community in Southeast Missouri has seen a decline in the number of pupils attending schools this fall, the drop ranging from just a few to up in the hundreds; no tangible reason has been advanced for the decline, but some believe the rise in industrial employment in the cities and in centers around munitions and other defense plants has taken many families away.

1916

Sixteen workers in the car department at the Frisco shops are laid off in the afternoon for an indefinite period, and all the roundhouse workers are cut to five days a week and eight hours per day; the only reason given for the laying off of the men is to cut expenses.

The Frisco depot at Delta in the south end of the county is broken into some time in the evening, and a pouch containing registered mail and other valuables is stolen.

-- Sharon K. Sanders