Out of the past: Sept. 22

1990

With trash bags in hand, 67 volunteers hit the streets to help clean up southeast Cape Girardeau. The volunteers responded to a plea for community involvement in bettering blighted areas of the neighborhood.

Area officials are hoping a concerted highway-needs campaign will persuade the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission to endorse several regional highway projects. More than 20 elected officials and business leaders from Cape Girardeau and Scott counties met yesterday at the Drury Lodge to establish a list of priority highway projects.

1965

High winds and driving rain slash the Cape Girardeau area early in the morning, bringing down many limbs and some trees in the city and adding moisture to the already wet surface. About 100 homes in the city are without power from an hour to 90 minutes, when limbs fall across power lines in three locations.

A Cape Girardeau business building is unroofed by wind early in the day; it is the Elevated Tank and Tower Service Co., 430 Commercial St. Cletus Shirrell, who discovers the damage, reports it to Mr. and Mrs. George Sitze, the business proprietors. Winds lift the heavy roof clear of the concrete-block structure and deposit it on the company's lot.

1940

The Rev. W. Davidson McDowell, pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Ferguson, Missouri, is the guest speaker at the morning services at the Presbyterian Church in Cape Girardeau. As yet, the pulpit committee has made no definite contacts in the way of securing a replacement for the retiring pastor.

In a slugging match spiced with miscues, the Perryville (Missouri) Peppers nose out the Illmo Big Bucks, 8-7, at Illmo to spoil the locals' chances of laying claim to the Southeast Missouri baseball championship. The two teams pile up 28 hits off Paul Bray of the Bucks and Lou Weiss of the Peppers.

1915

Will Bergman returns from St. Louis, where he spent yesterday buying supplies for the big parade to be given here next Wednesday and Friday nights. J.C. Hirt, an expert at building floats, comes back with Bergmann.

A new popcorn machine in front of the Idan-ha candy kitchen is attracting much attention and patronage. It is a continuous performer, the machinery feeding the corn onto a revolving disk which, heated, pops the corn in one revolution and discharges it into a bin, where butter and salt are sprinkled on it automatically. Sam McClatchey is keeping busy dishing out the supply.

-- Sharon K. Sanders