Out of the past: Nov. 4

1990

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- The congregation of First Baptist Church of Marble Hill observes its 150th anniversary with a special morning service, conducted by several former pastors; the church began as Crooked Creek Baptist Church in 1840.

Voters across Missouri and the nation will go to the polls Tuesday for the 1990 general election; in Missouri, voters will be electing a state auditor, nine members of Congress, 163 members of the Missouri House, 17 state senators and hundreds of county officials; the only statewide ballot issue -- Proposition A, the Natural Streams Act -- has sparked a lot of debate.

1965

A climbing crane, special equipment needed for the high altitude construction of the State College's 12-story dormitories, is expected to begin arriving in component parts tomorrow; the crane, consisting of a vertical mast that can be raised high enough to reach the top of the buildings, will have to be assembled on the job site.

The Cape Girardeau City Council last night took the first action in exercising its option on four acres of property for a Naval Training Center, passing an ordinance whereby the city will buy the site.

1940

Cape Girardeau County, at least for its first quota Nov. 22, will have enough volunteers under the Selective Service Act to do away with the necessity of actually calling any conscripts; Allen A. Reed, chief clerk of the Cape County Draft Board, says 15 men have come to his office to ask that their names be placed at the head of the list of those who will go into military service first.

Voters of Cape Girardeau County, like millions of others in the nation, will go to the polls tomorrow to fill national, state and county offices, with indications the balloting will set a new record; highlighting the election will be the selection of president of the United States, with incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt hoping to overcome Republican rival Wendell L. Willkie for a third term in office.

1915

The County Board of Visitors, which recently inspected the county jail at Jackson and the County Poor Farm, makes its report on the latter to the County Court; the board found the farm in poor condition; the report shows conclusively the old ramshackle buildings at the farm cannot be kept sanitary.

Herman Loeffel, the concrete and street contractor, is making arrangements to go into the gravel business on a large scale; he has leased the gravel beds on Cape LaCroix Creek out on Cape-Jackson Road.

-- Sharon K. Sanders