1989

Gasoline prices have been creeping up in the area since Easter weekend and at most major filling stations in Cape Girardeau have reached 99.9 cents per gallon for regular-leaded.

Around 300 Shawnee District Boy Scouts participate in the annual Scout-o-rama at the Arena Building; featured at the event is the Pinewood Derby race.

1964

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Bisplinghoff Funeral Home has signed an agreement to buy the Earl J. Smith Funeral Home in Oran, Mo.; Bisplinghoff directors Jack Burnett and Ollie Amick will become owners of the home as soon as payment is made and the deed transferred.

Fire destroys the front end of a bus at the Cape-St. Louis Bus Co. depot, sending one man to the hospital with burns on his face, hands and forearms; admitted to Saint Francis Hospital is Ivan Cobb, while Elmer Wagoner is treated and released; the blaze apparently starts when a spark created by a sump pump ignites gasoline in the bus's air conditioner, causing a violent explosion.

1939

Three hundred sixty-six high school girls from schools throughout the district are registered to participate in the 11th annual Play Day sponsored by the Women's Athletic Association of Teachers College; the girls are divided into teams to play club snatch, volleyball, dart baseball and relays; swimming is an attraction at the college pool in Academic Hall.

One additional name is filed for election to the Cape Girardeau School Board, making six to be listed on Tuesday's ballot; the new candidate is C.W. Bauerle; the other hopefuls are John Kraft, W.L. Pendleton, V.H. Dunham, Orren Wilson and Charles Abbott.

1914

The nine directors of the Cape Girardeau Fair and Park Association met yesterday and voted to abandon the holding of an annual fair this year; there is the possibility that it will be several years before the fair is held again, if the directors have their way in attempting to sell the fairgrounds; the board has offered the grounds to the city for $35,000.

James Poe, the 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Poe, 502 S. Frederick St., sustained a broken arm yesterday in a fall from the bicycle of Harry Bowman.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__