Out of the past: Sept. 24

1990

A section of Bellridge Pike connecting the Woodland Hills subdivision with the rest of the street officially opened to traffic Friday; the street was completed by Randol Farms subdivision developer David Gerlach; the project has been in the works for about two years.

About 3,000 people attended the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport's Aviation Days and Air Show yesterday, bringing the total attendance for the two-day event to 7,000; around 12,000 people had been expected to attend, but the cool, breezy weather may have kept people from turning out.

1965

JEFFERSON CITY -- Gov. Warren E. Hearnes announces he will call a special session of the Missouri Legislature for Oct. 18 to consider reapportionment of the House of Representatives; the decision to call the session follows weeks of hassle over the redistricting muddle.

Farmers in the flood-threatened lowlands south of Cape Girardeau are taking emergency steps to save their corn crops; one group is seeking to throw up a dam in a drainage ditch north of the Diversion Channel, while farmers in the Dutchtown area are working feverishly to harvest their corn before the waters rise.

1940

Revived by frequent showers, Cape Girardeau's new city park and Arena Building teem with activity, the first day of the renewed SEMO District Fair; the day is given over to the receiving and placing of exhibits, with the fair actually getting underway in grand style tomorrow, when School Day and Farm Bureau and 4-H Club Day will be observed.

Ben G. Rudert of Cape Girardeau has received notice from the U.S. Patent Office in Washington that he has been granted a patent for a new lawn edger, an implement operated by hand for trimming lawns around sidewalks.

1915

Southeast Building and Loan Association, which has been piddling along for years and years without starting a ripple on the surface of the business world, throws a big rock into the pond; E.J. Deal, president of the Southeast Missouri Trust Co., is elected association president; W.H. Stubblefield Jr., is made vice president; W.P. Oliver, treasurer, and City Collector George H. Meyer, secretary; the selection of Meyer as secretary gives the new organization a strong start.

Members of the South Cape Methodist church are trying to raise $150 with which to move the church to a better location; they have a site at Ellis and Maple streets that would be fine for the purpose, if the building can be moved.

-- Sharon K. Sanders